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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
The Public is respectfully informed, that the
PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE
WITH THIS SEASON ;
The following Programme is therefore given, of its final ar-
rangements :

The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will
each be performed once more, viz. :
THE TWO FOSCARI, and WERNER.
THIS EVENING, MAY 25,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WILLAIOTT.
Will be performed the Comedy of

THE PROVOKED HUSBAND.After which, The Alpine Singers, and a variety of Songs, &c.
To conclude with
AMILIE.
On Monday, The Two Foscasi, with Fra Diavolo.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Unparalleled success of " Alice Gray," the deeply-wrought in-
terest, pewerfully impressive situations, and astounding ef.
fects, have elicited tumultuous plaudits of crowded houses.

THIS EVENING, MAY 25,
(sixth time) a Domestic Drama, called
ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE.
To conclude with,
CRICHTON.

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LONDON :
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 139.

What is the duty of the people at the present
crisis ? What are the circumstances which dis-
tinguish it ? We shall find in the latter the best
clue to the former. Some person recently re-
marked that the people never want leaders, but it
is very difficult to find united with them men of
rank and character, who have acquired a reputa-
tion as Statesmen, who are known to be acquainted
with the management of public affairs, and fit to
form an Administration. At present we have such
statesmen forming a Ministry, whose peculiar de-
pendence on the people may be inferred from the
fact that they are in a continual minority in the
House of Lords. They and their connections
constitute a great, but, in respect to political
power, an inferior section of the Aristocracy, who
can only compete successfully with their opponents
by the popular aid. Till a month ago, there was
a general tendency to reconciliation between these
two branches of the Aristocracy, the Whigs were
likely to be absorbed by the Tories, and it seemed
as if the people could get no political improvement
but what they could wring from the re-united body
of the Aristocracy. The growing reconciliation is
now completely sundeied ; the dispute between the
two sections of the Aristocracy—their contest for
office—is more embittered than ever, and grievous
disappointment on the one hand, and almost a
taste of political death on the other, sharpened
with personal accusations on both, have again
made the Whigs, from interest and position, the
allies of the people and the opponents of the To-
ries. It is the duty of the people to take advan-
tage of these circumstances.
Since the expulsion of JAMES 11., no Monarch
has had, either from personal talent or great posses-
sions much influence in England. The House of
Hanover was always dependent on the Aristocracy,
and never found in its own abilities the means of
emancipatio'n. Thirsting for wealth and power, our
many-headed Aristocracy has been, with the forms '
of freedom, a many and a heavy handed tyrant.
When they indolently or timidly laid aside the Ba-
rons' swords, they seized the Treasurer's staff; and
when they ceased to plunder by violence, they en-
riched themselves by taxation. The whole fiscal
arrangements of the country were made by them
and for them, and they covertly continue to levy,
by the authority of Parliament, from the citizens
and the serfs, the black mail which their ancestors
took by the 'strong hand.
Till the Reformation, the Church was a real
spiritual power ; it curbed the Aristocracy, and often
defended the people. Subsequent to the Reforma-
tion it lost its independence, and it became wholly
subservient to the Aristocracy. With it the
Church formed a close alliance, and ceased to pro-
tect the people. So much was it degraded, that
pretending to be founded on the rock of truth, and
to teach only immortal truths, it fostered, and can
now only exist by fostering, ignorance, as the hand-
maid of tyranny, and encouraged the general op-
pression, that it might share the spoil. 'Fill the
present time from the Revolution, with some ex-
ceptions, the Church and the hulk of the Aris-
tocracy, having the Monarch for their servant,
have been united to humbug the people, and keep
them in their ancient condition of vaY,alage under
another natne. Imitating the example of the Con_
tinental despots, while they pretended to make war

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