The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-17 00:00:00

TO THE EDI TOR.

SIR—As I see my namententioned in your Paper,
as well as several others, as having been at Covent-
garden on Friday night, and what happened there
(respealing myself) tuis-stated in all, I trust to your
usual candour to insert.the fa& as it was ::---
I went into the pit at the beginning of the faree,
and remained till it was over.. When the farce
was concluded, .a man in the boxes, dreised
like a Gentleman, vociferated, " Turn out Berke-
-leY Craven,"• which he repeated
.about twenty
.Mimes. As no other person seemed to have the
.same obje:iion to me that he, had, I requested
to cove and do it himself; on which (for an
instant)
he was quiet, but soon repeated the same
orY, " Turn oet
near as could Berkeley Craven." I then went as
, and inquired the cause of his appa-
rent enmity; here plied, " y
self :"ou have disgraced your-
their gave him the lie dired.---" You lie,"
(I must confess) by no means a polite phrase;
but when a man is somewhat stinted for time and,
a patient hearing, it certainly saves a world or;
troubl,-.
A Gentleman standing behind me (whom I did
nor-know) said there-was a paragraph in the P.aper's
of Friday,. insinuatingl had dragged a man to Bow-
street the night before: J had 'not the pleasure of
reading Friday's-pap y
e'r; but assere eti that I never
cae'(l legaliiiterference to stifle any .man's free
'pinion, or ever- was, at the Office in Bow,street in
the course of my life. If the Proprietors Of Cevens-
garden have been forced to call in legal aid to pro-
ted their property, I. am Sorry, both for the cause
and the effect.
To the tearing of placards I readily plead guilty ;
leo to the Theatre to hear the play ; and, surely,
lif one man has a right to ere& a placard to create a
oistuthatve*,"another man has a'right to pull'it down,
preyent the wished- todisturbance being-created.
opinion on Li' • suhydft cannot be of any conse-
quence to the public • but '
7 as my*namc has been is
mentioned in most of the S7it daaers, I avow
• that (since CATALAN/. -11 y pp ,
the accounts of the_
,As (bur
Peen withdrawn, and
.
_Ast.bmitted . a _MIJSt
respectable Committee) ',heartily wish the Proprie-
tors.every possible success. I am, sir, with many apologies.for taking up so-much , your obedient humble servant; 0 your time,
.
BERKELEY CRAWL*,
Newmarket, Sunday, Oct. 15.

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TneLYCEIIM.—Krs. POWgLL made her first :ap-
pearance last,night at this place in . the chara6ter oft
2frirs.Thilier. She was very well received, and sup-
ported the part with considerable merit. In the
last '.scene she displayed great tenderness. Mr.
ItAI7MOND also madehis first appearanCe in the part
Of The Stranger, which lie sustained in a very.re-
respe&able manner, particularly in the last scene.
Excepting the hutuourous ••manner in which
MATHEWS represented the whimsical char:i6ter Of
Peter,. there,was nothitig in the rest of the.aeting
that requiresobservation..
Mrs. MOUNTAIN and Mr. BRA HAM are engaged to
sing, at Dublin, upon very liberal terms, for about
,three weeks, fot4 which place they will start in a few
days. They are not expeeled-in London again till
the middle of November. •

EXTRAORDINARY CIIACE.-01) Saturday last a
whimsical scene took place in Hyde Park, occa-
sioned by the sudden appearance, of a hare, between
the Serpentine River and the, Barracks. As soon as
the animal appeared, a general shout took place
among the persons who were parading on the walk.
Immediately all ranks joined in the dace, and fol-
lowed poor puss, who finding a retreat impossible,
..took to the river, and swam with great rapidity.
But the alarmspread to 018 other side"; and before
she came near the shore, numbers were ready to
receive her. At length being afraid to attempt a
landing, and almost exhausted by terror and fatigue,
she Seemed to be drowning, when a boy dashed in
and seized her. A Gentleman immediately
her from pain by released
killing her, red' 'givingthe
boy;
half a crown, bore away his pri. he Chace was
worthy the pencil of a ROWLANDSON or GritaAy,
for old and
,young, beaux and belles, as if by a con-
tagioils impulse, started forward as soon as the.un-
fortunate animal appeared, arkl a vast crowd col-
leaed frOm all quarters; who eagerly joined in the
Sport; jostling and tumbling in their efforts to be first
in the pursuit.
The 32d, or Cornwall Regiment, have nobly sup-
ported their high charthet in the Expedition to
the Scheldt. A letter from an Officer now in
Walcheren; assures us, that General Sir :,EYRE
coorE, among many other cotnplinients beStowed
upon, this fine regiment, publicly declared, that he
always slept soundly- when the 32d had the ad-
vanced posts in front 'of his quarters."