The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-24 00:00:00

SIAM' S•ESSIONa. OCT. 2.3.

This day the trial of henry Marshall, alias Moare, whose
case some time ago excited so much interest at Union-Hall
Office, came on. He is a young man of prepossessing appear-
ance, and not more than 18 years of age. It will be recollected
that he endeavoured to pass for the sort of a gentleman of high
rank anti fortune. He was tried for stealing a pistol.
Thomas Reed', constable of Clapham, stated, that on Tues•
day, the 4th of September, the prisoner was brought to the
Clapham watch-house, and left alone for a few hours locked up
in a room where there were several muskets and pistols loaded.
The respectable appearance of the prisoner prevented all sus-
picion, and he was next day taken to Union-Hall on a charge.
Afterwards a pistol was shown to witness at the office, or
which pistol he was responsible as constable of the watch-
house. The prisoner said, on being charged with the robbery,
that he did not take it for the purpose of stealing it, but for the
purpose of shooting himself.
It appeared from the evidence of Hall and another officer,
that on the day after the prisoner was committed for not pay-
ing a hackney coachman his fare, he wais locked up in the
strong room at Union-hall with two felons, and the report of a
pistol was heard and a smoke issued from that room. The
. pistol was taken out of the hands of one of the felons, who said
he had got it from Marshall. The two felons had been so
strictly searched, that it was impossible they could have taken
in the pistol with them.
The prisoner denied that he had stolen the pistol. The Jury
found him Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said, he understood that Hall had inquir-
ed into the history of the prisoner, which it might be necessary
to hear publicly.
Hall said the prisoner's character was perhaps of one of the
worst that had ever come before the Court. So far from being
the son of a gentleman of rank, he was the son of a butler, and
his mother was a poor washerwoman, who with difficulty sup-
:ported herself. 7he prisoner was her only son, and his habits
from his earliest years had been most depraved, his propensity
to thieving being quite incorrigible. Before he was 13 years old
.he was sentenced to be transported for seven years, but his sen-
tence having been commuted to imprisonment at the Peniten-
aiary, he got out upon the public after a confinement of five
years and a half. His first act, after passing the prison-door,
was to go and rate his mother, from whom he stole five of her
;customer's shirts, and he had packed up 14 more to carry away.
lie was not long in finding companions of his own stamp, with
whom there was reason to believe he concerted an attack upon
a house at Clapham Common. From the Common, where
he did not meet his friends, he was driven off by a coachman,
.who lodged him in the watchhouse for not paying his fare, and
in that watchhouse he had stolen the pistol. Had the prisoner
been acquitted on the present charge, his mother determined to
prosecute him, to save him from the gallows.
A note was handed to the Chairman from the Governor of
the Penitentiary: It stated that the prisoner, who had been
liberated but a week before he was taken into custody, was the
worst of 1,800 prisoners whom the Governor had under his care.
The CHAIRMAN said that he was sorry the law did not en-
able him to secure the prisoner for life. Particular care should
he taken that he should not again go into the Penitentiary,
however.
I Sentence— Trausportatibn for seven years.
The prisoner, who during the trial had conducted himself
with the greatest humility, after the sentence smiled conternp.
:thously towards the Court.

,• The confusion among the gamblers at the
'west end of the-town is indescribable. If any
unusual noise is heard in the street while they
are at play, they scamper out of the room, and
hide themselves in the coal.hole, closets, and
other places, while some of the worthy fraternity
have a general scramble for the cash, get it after-
wards who can.
ACCIDENT AT THE SURREY, THEATRE.--Yes-
terday evening, as Mr. CARNEGY was standing
on his bead on the top of a spear, eight feet high,
he unfortunately lost his balance, and was pre-
cipitated with great violence on the stage, though
he had done the same feat the preceding evening
with perfect facility. •A e are happy. to State that
the injury received was not equal to the alarm
which it excited, though Mr. CARNEGY received
some severe bruises.
Signor RAFFAELLE GARGUILLI, of Naples, the
restorer of ancient vases in the Museo Borbonico,
has been fortunate enough to discover a cement
to be used in repairing those antique remains,
which, through the carelessness of the workmen,
out of the ground. Neither fire nor
or from other causes, are broken into fragments
when dug
water are necessary in applying it,and, when
applied, it resists heat and humidity, and unites
the parts so firmly, that the vase or other article
re-acquires its ring on being sounded.

REVIEW OF THE STAGE.

ORIGIN OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE, &c.

The very scarce tract, intituled," Roscius An-
glicanus ; or, an Historical Review of the Stage,"
written by Old DOWNES, prompter to Sir WIL-
LIAM D'ATENANT'S Company, at the Lincoln's
Inn-fields Theatre in 1662, gives the following
curious account of the London Playhouses before
the Civil Wars, and of the foundation and ori-
ginal Company at Drury-lane Theatre :

" In the reign of Charles the First there were six play-houses
allowed in town—the Blackfriars Company, his Majesty's Ser-
vants—the Bull, in St. John's-street—another in Salisbury-court
—another called the Fortune—another at the Globe--and the
sixth at the Cockpit in Drury-lane *, all of which continued
acting till the beginning of the Civil Wars. The scattered rem-
nant of several of these houses, upon King Charles's Restoration,
formed a Company, who again acted at the Bull, and built
them a new house in Gibbon's Tennis-court, Clare-market ;
in which two places they continued acting all 1660, 1661, 1662,
and part of 1663. In this time they built them a new Theatre
in Drury-lane : Mr. Thomas Killigrew gaining a patent from
the King, in order to create them the King's Servants ; and
from that time they called themselves his Majesty's Company
of Comedians, in Drury-lane, whose names were Mr. Theo-
philius Bird, Mr. Hart, Mr. Mohun, Mr. Lacy, Mr. Burt,
Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Clun, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Robert Shatte-
rell, Mr. William Shatterell, Mr: Duke, Mr. Hancock, Mr.
Kynastonc Mr. Wintersel, Mr. Bateman, and Mr. Blagden."

It appears from this list of Drury-lane players,
that all the performers who had acted before the
Civil Wars were selected to complete the com-
pany; and Kynaston taken from the company
that acted under Rhodes, the bookseller, at the
Cockpit, Drury-lane. Almost all of them are ,
mentioned as of sterling merit : 'cYintersel origi-
nally belonged to the private house, in Salisbury-
court, and is mentioned in the Key to the Re-
hearsal as a very judicious actor; Cartwright
was of the same company as Wintersel. He was
the donor,at his death,of a valuable collection of
plays and MSS. to Dulwich College. Hart was
apprentice to Robinson (of whom an account may
be seen in ilialane's *pendia to Johnson and
Steevens's Shakspeare.) He acted women's parts
when a boy. Mohun was brought up under Ro-
binson, as Hart and others were. In his youth
he acted Bellemonte, in Love's Cruelty, which
part he retained after the Restoration. Burt
was an apprentice to Shanke, and acted, in
his youth, women's parts. This seems to have
been the practice of the old actors to initiate
their apprentices in the women's characters.
Langbaine speaks of Lacy as of the most perfect
comic actor of his time ; be was one of the re-
cruits which they engaged in the King's company,
for there is no trace of his having ever acted be-
fore the Restoration. He wrote three plays, and
died about the year 1684. To these were after•
wards added the celebrated Joe Haines, Griffin,
Goodman, and the following females : Mrs.
Carey, Mrs. Anne Marshall, Mrs. Eastland, Mrs.
Weaver, Mrs. Uphill, Mrs. Knep, and Madam
Hughes. t " The company thus complete, they
opened the new Theatre, in Drury-lane, on
Thursday in Easter-week, being the Bth day of
April, 1663, with the Humorous Lieutenant,which
comedy was acted for twelve days successively."
After specifying the principal plays acted
during a number of years, and the performers in
them,he adds further as to this Theatre—" These
and many others were acted by the old company
at the Theatre Royal, from the time that they
began till the patent -descended to Mr. Charles
Killigrew, ,which, in 1682, he joined to Dr.
D'Avenant'S patent, whose company acted then
at Dorset Garden, which, upon the union of the
two companies, were created the King's Com-
pany, and have ever since performed at the
Theatre in Drury-lane, under the name of his
Majesty's Servants.' "
Of the origin of the Dorset Garden Company
labove alluded to, he gives the following account:
rl—" In the year 1659, General Monk, marching
then his army out of Scotland to London, Mr.
Rhodes, a bookseller, being wardrobe keeper
formerly (as I am informed) to King Charles
the First's company of commedians in Black-
friars, getting- a licence from the then governing
State, fitted up a house for acting, called the
Cockpit, in Drury-lane, and in a short time com-
pleted a company consisting of Mr. Betterton,
Sheppy, Lovel, Lilliston, Underhill, Turner,
Dixon, and Noxes ; and the following, who com-
monly acted women's parts :--Mr. Kynaston,,
James Nokes, Angel, Wm. Betterton, Mosley,l
and Floid. These performed a number ofl
plays there with considerable success, until
Sir W. D'Avenant got a patent, creating Mr.
Betterton and all the rest of Rhodes's, company
the King's servants, to serve his, Royal High-
ness the Duke of York, at the theatre in Lincoln's
Inn-fields; when his company being afterwards
completed by other additions, Sir William, in
order to prepare plays to open his theatre, it be-
ing then building in Lincoln's-inn-fields, rehears-
ed the first and second parts of the Siege of
Rhodes, and the Wits, at Apothecaries' Hall ;
and in spring, 166'2, opened his house with the
said plays, having new scenes and decorations,
being the first that were introduced (on a public
theatre) in England."
After several years, and that a great many
successful plays had been performed here, a differ-
ence happening between the patentees and the
chief actors—as Mr. Betterton, Mrs. Bracegirdle,
' and Mrs. Barry, the latter complaining of oppres-
sion from the former, they, for redress, appealed
'to the Lord Chamberlain,who, espousing the cause
of the actors, with the assistance of Sir R. Howard
finding their complaints just, procured from King
William a separate licence for Mr. Congreve, and

* In Randolph's " Muses' Looking Glass," (1630), in a
humorous dialogue between Bird, a featherman, and Mrs.
Flowerdew, wife to a haberdasher of small wares, two of the
sanctified fraternity, who have brought feathers and pins for the
Blackfriars"rheatre, the latter repeats the substance of a prayer
made by one of their preachers, which thus enumerates the
playhouses mentioned :

." That the Globe,
'Wherein (quoth he) reigns a whole world of vice,
Had been consumed; the Phoenix burnt to ashes ;
! The Fortune, whipt for a blind whore ; Blackfriars !
He wonders how it 'scaped demolishing.
I' th' time of Reformation ; lastly, he wished
i The Bull might crosse the Thames to the Bear Gardens,
And there be soundly baited."
t These following came into the company afterwards :
Mrs. Boutell, Mrs. Ellen Gwyn, Mrs. James, Mrs. Rebecca
Marshall, Mrs. Rutter, Mrs. Verjttice, and Mrs. ,Knight.

nelf
the performers just mentioned to set uP jal
company, calling it the New Theatre in ;"tv
coin's Inn-fields; and the house being bailtir°of
a tennis court, they opened it the last daYinve
April, 1695, with a new comedy called
for Love, which took twelve days successica':i
About the end of 1704, Mr. Betterton assign t,
his licence and his whole company over to Cate
Vanbrugg, to act under him at the theatre i°',l
Haymarket, which was opened the 9th of P.'_;
1765, and continued playing until the follow,
year, when by agreement with Mr. Sivinohan,e
the concurrence of the Lord Chamberlain'"
transferred and invested his licence and gove7;
ment of the theatre to Mr. Swinny, who br°ubger
with him from Mr. Rich—Messrs. Was, Cibyirs!
Mills, Johnson, Keene, Norris, Fairbank,
old
Oldfield, and others, and united them to therbig
company : Mr. Betterton and Mr. linydenries
being the only remains of the Duke of 1"-
ctobe r
servants, from 1662 until the union in o
1706.

iiminnommaiNZEIMMIIINNO
LORD NeLsorr.—Among the n sces
amorous e 4
brilliant exploits of the late war, none exceeng
in its consequences, or is more cherished °ll°-
the.°.o
our countrymen with fervent zeal, than
morable victory of Trafalgar. By that de
and
battle the navy of France was annihilated;
though we had to deplore the loss of Eneitnory
Hero, the importance of that glorious slicibst
in some measure blunted the Viet. or
would otherwise have overwhelmed the o:4•
tion by the death of the immortal rig'"oo,
—ln commemoration of that event, °white
nual public dinner is held at the, ;'tl
Hart, Wigmore-street ; and on Mocusaii t
of
anniversary of the never-to-be-forgotten
October was celebrated by a numerous 3';;;s,
This festival was held under the immediiii—,aie
tronage of the late Marquis of Hertfoenn the
annually sent a second course of game. 'aeco•
present occasion the room was elegantly por'
rated with laurels and evergreens ;_
trait of the Hero, exquisitely painted 11."i;bile
was suspended over the President's chair ,
no les%
at the end of the room a bast of theel
celebrated Wellington was conspicuenSA, the
vated—both 'crowned with laurel. Aihte; or
usual loyal teats, " The Memory of i",i-poce;
mortal Nelson " was drank in solemn 5%1; oss
and when " The Duke of Wellington toast,
given by the Chair, as the succeeding Cow
the applause was nearly overwhelming--lbueofis
pany joining in the national anthem 01,'"trioeS
strike home, as applicable to the two it'os,:s
preservers of their country. The dinner ifse
cellent, and the conviviality of the Meet`%cel'
kept up to a late hour, supported by soleke ffig'
lent singing from Messrs. Saunders, sing, of
Numerous emblematical designs of brii"—coce'
tions decorated the walls ; and while thel
onr
pany were celebrating the achievements 0. se
brave countrymen, they felt themoti.
sehe°n
rounded by men who had nobly done their
5 baCitl
On Monday evening a travellei on 1161. as at,
on his way from Edinburgh to Perth, vfrib
tacked by three fellows, a few miles So oases
Kinross, near the junction of the. "-00
ferry and Bruntisland roads. One of hio
grasped the bridle of his horse, orderil re'
to deliver up his money, to which 114.01
plied by a smart stroke across the 11 sow
face with a stout switch. The suddeue:ssadisb
pain of the blow made the man re..„1111,10S
his hold, when the traveller spurred ors 'other
followed very close for a short distance 11%e loSs
of the gang. He escaped, however, Wit,h,c, se°
of his hat, which had fallen off in the ""i50151
meeting soon afterwards with some Ps trace!
he returned with them to the spot, but esir
could be found either of the hat or efider
bers. This attack had been made !hilly Abet
cumstances of great audacity. It was jar,.
six o'clock, and the evening by
no corer
a carriage had passed only a few minutes withers
and a carriers cart and other vehicles were bee
hecl „ it
a very short distance.--A poor men „ gsfle
attacked the evening before by; hj sattilien theitt
is supposed, but let off without njurY tr,,tijorg
found he had nothing to lose.-('
Courant, Oct. 21.)

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COAL-MARKET, OCT. 237 Price44lo
Ships at Market. Ships sold 41s 9a,,,t 41.
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6 Sunderland - - -

BIRTHS.
Yesterday, Mrs. Henry Douglas, of a ditughtf eart. giCegn'
On the 22d instant, at Brighton, the lady e' Istif of
of a daughter. ,ier, , th...e,
Yesterday, in Great George-street., Westinilic:aatigilw..
Astley Cooper, Esq., of Cheverella, Herat 13' -
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MARRIED. ,Eyrry, Peg,411,--
On Tuesday, at High liTycivoimbe, Bucks, .".„...' dirt' -
of Jeffery-terrace, Kentish-t n, to Elizabe`"? - , ft.aage:k
of Richard Gellett, Esq. oft e ormer place', D.doro •-• se
On the 21st instant, Henry, second son 01..-1,400.10000.
Esq., of Clapham-common, to Mary, the
Robert Podmore, of Clayton Priory, 10 .7-11 Oil
Esq. ..ffieent pof
On Wednesday, the 16th instant, at Gretna-pc'tht cp_oi •
Fraser, Esq. town clerk of Great Grimsby/till. gaseare.
Lincoln, and' of London, solicitor, to At ID,- YOllO7-argc*
:Norfolk-street, Strand,'London, and of Bove,,r`elwalk. of PI,
At Aberdeen, on the 17th instant, A101911,,;";r,.. Xaue,:aveer,-
, advocate in Aberdeen, to Jcssy Stewart,of
tte'pec"" notgaroo,145:000!:
late Capt. Arthur Dingwall Fordyce,
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On the 20th of August, at Leeds; JosePueb. tie
manufacturer, at the Bank, to Illargstel St°l coptintore,4,,,44
however, doomed to the long enjoyment °.,,d,110!"-,Et, Oct,
tress, for she almost immediately sickened' "-00011113"
the same church on the 18th of the followilt ivi,loocu "pet
as it was, it had sweets sufficient to caul the
of iloodid7,
of her affections once more to encounter. ~114100100- "tato
he having been apin married at the Parl3" übleSSea 11°
last:, to Grace Boys, after having lived 01
during the protracted period oflone month.
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