The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-25 00:00:00

PREEDOM •01;' _tLECTION.

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• The 'Opposition Writers naturally Sore, from 'the
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many defeats which /.hey haye, mct with during
the late Elections, are alway.r6{F,, to vent their
spleen, by insinuating thaetifi&C,lnfluenre has
been used against their friends. WI, while they
complain of others, they conceive th'emselves to
be at liberty to employ every species of Infinenc.e,
to
„practise every artifice, and to adopt every
means, fair or foul, to attain their object. Ai, a
proof of. the_ justice of our assertion, Ive extract
the following article from a Cork Paper. It is
Eigned by Lords SHANNON,, BANDpN, BANTRY,
and BERNARD, the Bishop of Coact, and thirty of
the most respectable Gentlemen of the County of
Cork. •

" It appearing to several of the _Noblemen and
Gentlemen of Landed Interest in this County, that
an illiberal attack Las been , made on the highly
respectable Banking-house of JOSEPH PIKE, of
this City, Esq. by sending in an unusual number
of his notes for payment, and by cutting and mu-
tilating others, so as to prevent their circulation,'
and this in consequence of his having exercised his
&dive franchise, we who have hereunto sub-
scribed our names hereby declare, that if such
conduct shall be persisted in, after this publica-
tion, we are resolved ourselves, and shall direct
our agents, and receivers of our rents, not to take
in payment thereof any other than the National
Paper of this Kingdom, so as thereby to prevent
the depreciation attempted to be cast upon the
Notes of the said JOSEPH PIKE, or the prefer-
ence attempted to be given to the circulation of
other Bankers' Notes of this County and City.''

THE THEATRE.-The lively but extravagant
comedy .of The lacdnstant, was' last night repre-
sented at Drury-Lane Theatre. The part of
Young Mirabel was assumed, we can hardly say
performed, by ELLISTON, for the easy spirit and
gaiety of the part werelost in a slow, formal, deli,
berate utterance, through almost every scene that
demanded the full display of vivacity and humour.
In the scene with the. Bravoes, however, he ac-
quitted himself very well, the solemnity ,of his
utterance corresponding with the horrors of the
situation, and his agitation, beSides, under a shew
of sprightliness, was so well expressed as to excite
the sympathy of the audience in no slight degree..
Miss -BOYCE was very interesting in Oriana ; and
Mrs. EDWIN Sufficiently airy and pleasant in
Bizarre, thoagh somewhat too forcible when she
proposed an examination of Duretete. The part of
Duretete was rendered very effective by DE Calm'.
DowToN, who is always at home in the part
of a testy .old m'an,• displayed all his usual force
and humour in Old Mirabel. We see no necessity
for the adoption of the old regimentals in the
Bravoes, and it was somewhat ludicrous when
Mirabel expected the soldiers under the name of
Red Burgundy, to see them enter in Blue. The
Bravoes were in red regimentals; and therefore the
soldiers ought to have appeared so too, tor other-
\• ise the order for Red Burgundy was nugatory.—
HoweVer, the comedy altogether went off with
good effect. What renders the dress of the
Bravoes more improper is, that Mirabetaffects to
consider them as having different occupations.

The following satirical portrait of the Empress
11IAr,IA THEatEsA is taken from the very curious
and interesting Memoirs of the Margravind of
BAREITII, Princess Royal of PRUSSIA, which have
just appeared from the pen of this illustrious and
witty female :
" I saw this Princess next day; Town that if
I had been is her place I should have invented all
the etiquette and ceremony imaginable, to prevent
me from bing obliged to appear. The Empress
is of a most diminutive height, and so corpulent,
that she has the appearance. of a ball : she.' is as
ugly as it is possible to be, and destitute of every
thing like air .or gracefulness. Iler mind corre-
sponds .with her figure : she. is bigotted to excess,
and passes nights and days in her chapel'. The old
and the ugly fail generally to God's Share. •She
received me trembling, and with so disconcerted
an air, that she was' unable to say a word to me.
We seated ourselves. After preserving silence
for some time, I began conversing in French.
She answered in her 'Austrian jargon, that she
did not understand that language very well, and
would request me to speak in GTnan to her.
—Our conversation was very short. The Austrian
and the Low Saxon dialects are so differunt, that
without being accustomed to both, it is impossi-
ble to makeoneseit understood. 'This was exactly
Our case.-Weshoulo have furnished ample food for
laughter to any third person who heard our non-
sensical conversation; in which neither of us could
make ,out more than a word now and then, from
which we had to conjecture the meaning of the
rest. This Princess was sucli a slave to etiquette,
that she wont(' have believed she bad committed
the crime of high treason in conversing with one
,• in a foreign language, for she -knew Freilch.

' KEMBLE, it seems, has had a very liberal offer
from the body of Booksellers, to undertake an
edition of SHAKESPEARE. His tine dramatic li-
brary, the bent of his mind, and the course of his
studies, amply qualify him for the task, and, we
hope, he will undertake it for the honour:of him-
self, as well as of our great dramatic. Bard.
FIRE IN SHEERNESS Do ck-YARD.—Saturday
morning, about two o'clock, tide alarm-bells were
rung, in consequence of a fire being disco', erect iri
the Yard by one of the centinelsbelonging to the
battalion of detachments on duty at that fortress ;
.but owing to the alertness of the men of this bat-
talion in bringing the engines• to the spot, and
their exertions in supplying them with water,
and working them, we are happy to state, that
the fire was: got under without doing any material
injury. ,

In conscquence of the recent robberies of the
Dublin and Newry Fly, which travelled • at night,
the proprietors have determined to commence riin-
ning it in company with the Harp coach, which
starts from Newry for Dublin at five o'clock
every morning, arid from Dublin, at seven o'clock
each morning, for Newry. This regulation is to
continue until four passenger coaches (which are
in a state of forwardness) are prepared, and which
will accompany the mail between Newry and Dub-_
lin each day.