The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-21 00:00:00

GENUINE REJECTED ADDRESSES.

The following Address appears in a pamphlet un-
di:l-this title, which we noticed yesterday. It is
written by'a Gentlentan whose talents as -an Artist
are justly in much estimation.—This •Address is
suppw,bd to express the opinions of the Drury-lane
Proprietors and the Compiny. -

ADDRESS,
BY WALTER HENRY WATTS.

When that appalling element, whose rage
With ruin had assant our Sister Stage,
Impartially destructive, turn'd-its course,
,And overwhelrn'd us, with resistless force,
Prostrate and- succourless—dismay'd—we lay
~,.night, that promis'd no returning day.
Bereft Of all its antient gorgeous slate,
A glooMy clines, grandly desolate, •
The Most,,lamented o'er her fallen fane,
Nor breath'd her sighs, nor shed her tears in vain:
Touch'd with her sorrows, an enlighten'd band,
(Form'cl from the boast and promise of the land)
Advaned, their renovating aid.to give, •
And bid once niore Dramatic Genius live.

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To them our early, ardent thanks are due - •
Our fond anticipations dwell on you.
For their benign, •disinterested zeal,
A reverential gratitude we feel :-
To von we turn, our hearts with hope elate,
Anil hail in you the masters of our fate.
As souse fair Paid, rear'd by parental care,
With Pious fervour pours 116- daily prayer
For those, who, guardians of her tender youth,
Her beauties cherish, and preserve tier trutt► :
But When, in swett maturity of charms,
the quitS.a mother's for a husband's arms,
A deeper, searmir interest swells her breast,
in every act, in every glance confest ;
Her -sole solicitude to win his praise—
Belov'd protector of her future days t

SiThate'er the varying images that pass
With rapid chaua o'er our theatric glass;
Whether it faitlifiilly, but darkly show.
The sad affinities of Vice and Woe,
Or brilliantly reflect, 3vithout alloy,
The splendid fo:inS of Virtue and of Joy ;
Whether with wise research,' in gust array,
historic truths it-learnedly display,
Or sportivOy across its surface flit -
The gay creations of inventive Wit ;'
To what•emotion it may e'er give birth,
Anger, or admiration tears, or mirth—
One animating motive will incite
Our zeal in the career begun to-night :
To gain that awful voice whose sound is fame,
Our single, ceaseless; honourable ann.

TILE GREAT NATIONAL THEATRE.

-ADDRESS

FOR THE ,OPENIZ,IG OF THE GREAT THF.ATEE, ST.

STEPHEN'S, INTENDED TO BE SPOKEN BY

MR IVII-Tllll-1),

-IN THE CHARACTER OF THE FIRST rußiciAN, IN " COR.IO-

LANUS."

TRANSMITTED BY STURIUS VARIUS.

" Hear ye this Triton of tke .lifingowes? Mark ye his absolute
' shall P.' .
Since we all were born equal, I boast not my station,
But you'll letrae remind you, Lord Gli-Y'S my relation! •
•
,eau not to brag 'a. the pow'r Ipos7:e.;s • '
But I'm Thury-Lane Manager, nevertheleSs!
One should not be coin that one's talents ar,?great
I claim hut—to manage the stage of the State!!

O.P.'s! we hare rattled so long in this row,
, that 'twere madness indeed to capitulate now;
We nint stand by each other, or all are undone:
Either hang we together, or hang we alone !

Then let not defeat and discouragement fret you,
But follow the pattern that Drury has set you. -
Old Diary, that always was worried and rack'd,
diAresses in law, or di:itresses in fact,
Till, like Dido, descried, she sank on a pyre, ,
And was out* the frying-pan into the fire.
There were friends, 1.-.; restore the concern in a trice,
But it was not assured to a. third of itsprice
they asked me to•take it, the smooth with the rough, •
-For they knew I had always assurance enough..
But assurance is vain withotit policy too;
So I kept the concern in the hands of a few, -
Wm will do what I like, and will like what I do.
Of old it was thought that the'props of a stage
Are the talents your skill or your luck may engage;
But I've set that ridiculous notion at rest,
And taught my Committee that cheapest is heat;
For talents, I thought, might at last he our masters,
And the prop; that I trust are the rows of pilasters.
Next, anxious to bring down all genius yet lower,
I struck from the free-list some dozens or more, •
Of authors and wits, who had freedom before.
Indeed, Mr. C—NN—S has dealt me such hits, •
That I'm rather afraid of the freedom of wits :
And freedom, although we may call it a good,
Is a matter most cursedly misunderstood.
Interpreted rightly, I take it to be
A pledge that no check shall he put up upon me,
But thai whilst I myself am indulg'd, I may still
'Pot checks upon others as much as I will.
Then follow the pattern that Drury has set,
Take me for your head, you'll be conquerors yet.
The.plan in which,pese, I so well persevere,
I'll follow in all My performances here :
I'll grasp and I'll gripe, I will squeeze and demand,
'And skin er'ry flint with a merciless hand,
Till fati,4ued indignation no longer shall rouse,
And the meni'q of freedom belost in the House :
• I'll put merit. and talent at once on the shelf,
And monopolize all things fin. you—and myself!

The circumstances attending the capture of the
brave. Count WlNzEflGEhttng, afford another ex-
ample of the cOwardly.spirit by which the French
ruffians in Moscow were actuated. WINZENGE-
RODE and an Officer of cavalry, in their eagerness
to save the further effusion of blood, or rather
from an ill-judged humanity towards -the mis-
creants who remained in the Kremlin, gallopped
forward with white
.handkerehiefs in their hands,
to beseech them to cease firing, as resistance was
vain. They were taken prisoners in the act of
waving a flag of truce !—This, however, is but a
petty atrocity, compared with those which.the
French hourly committed in Moscow.
Marshal KUTUSOW, the gallant Chief of the
Russian Armies, we understand, is in the 75th
year of Itiogige, and, has lived from his infancy in
camps. lie has lost an eye, and received musket
balls through both his cheeks, and - froth other'
wounds, in former wars, is scarcely_able to mount
his horse ; but all his bodily infirmities are com-
pensated by the greatest mental activity, and the
thoSti!unconquerable spirit. '
A young man of the name of FOWLER, nudes-
took, ybsterday morning, to go on foot from Lon-
don to Tatling. End, on.the Oxford road, and re-
turn ; the whole lifting 36 miles from the place of
starting, in six hours, for a wager of 120 guineaS.
The pe4lestrian perforMed .12 miles within the first
two hours, and increased his speed the next hour,
but he was beat at the end of the fifth hour,'hav-
ing more than eight miles to perforth. He must
have won the match but for the badness of the
roads.

LONDON : Pr:htcd by TIIONIAS WOOD, of No. 22, ,Russell-court, Brydges-street, Corent-gat
At the 6UN ekWICE,
.No. 112, 6traile., where Advertisements, tirdc)-

ADDRESS •
TO TI lE, INFIAIirrANTs _OF WESTMINSTEII;

The Provisional Committee, formed to conduct
the establishment of the Westminster Auxiliary

Bible SOciety beg leave td call the attention of
the inhabitants of Westminster to the importance
of the formation of an A6:iliaryYle Society
for that city. They think it unnecessary to en-
large upon the general merits of the British and
Foreign Bible Society,, or to point out the ad-
vantages of local societies connected-with it. The
general establishment of such societies, through-
out the country, proves the opinion entertained
by the public of their utility ; and the Committee
trust that the inhabitants of Westminster Will not
be backward in supporting the efforts which. are
making in other parts of the metropolis, and
throughout the kingdom, to promote the Univer-
sal KnoWledge of the Scriptures of Truth.
It peculiarly becomes this city, - the immediate
seat of our Government, and Legislature, to show
its sincerity in the, cause of that religion, which
is embodied in our laws, and forms the basis of
our Government ; and in no - place is such an,
establishment more. demanded by local circum-
"stances. _ _

In this part of the .metropolis_are combined acid.
brought into almost immediate contact, the most
distant orders of society, the greatest extremes of,
affluence and poverty, of dignity and depression,'
of information and of ignorance. There is con-
sequiently no place where the temptations of vice
are more powerful, or the effervescence of pas-
sions more violent and dangerous ; and none,
therefore, which more requires the influence' of.
good example, and the restraints of religion, not
only to promote huhVidual virtue and: happiness;
but to secure society from injury,
,the laws from
violation, and the public peace from outrage.
How imperfectly the -means of religious instruc-
tion have' yet been provided for this great mass
of population, nowithstanding the exertions ,of
the clergy and. different ministers, the inquiries
made by'the Committee have sufficiently. evinced.
-Among
115,449 persons, of whom 10,017 can
read , contained in 4,402 families, which haVe
been visited; only 1,62 G. bibles- were found, and of
these 283 were imperfect Or mutilated. ,
-The want of the .Scriptures among the more
indigent inhabitants does not appear to arise from
indifference, or disregard of the revealed Word
of God, but to proceed from the actual difficul-
tiesof tfieir situation ; for nearly all expressed
their. anxiety to obtain it, and many were willing
to do so by considerable sacrifices. . .
It might have been supposed, that the want of
the Scriptures in this district would have been •to
a considerable degree supplied by religious and
charitable institutions already existing and par-
ticularly by the 'Thitish and Foreign Bible Society.
It, however, appears, that among the families vi-
sited,- a very few cmly have received a bible,
either from the British and Foreign Bible So-
ciety,. or from tiny other.
This circumstance, although it chews the ne-
cessity of a local_ establishment. such as • is now
proposed, is not to be imputed to any defect' in
those excellent institutions, or to be ascribed only
to the extensive designs in- which they are 'en-.,
gaged; butin a great nicasure to the peculiar na-
ture of the population of Westminster. Tbe more
opulent 'part of its inhabitants regard it only as
a temporary residence for purposes of business or
society, which occupy their whole attention, and
are connected by all the ties of local attachment
and benevolent intercourse with ' the poorer
neighbours of their country habitations, while
they scarcely consider contiguity of residence in
town as forming any bond of mutual 'acquaint-
ance. Many of them, therefore, who are mem-
bers of the existing societies, and, exert them-
selves most laudably for the instruction of the
poor in different parts of the country, have done
little for the improvement of those of the' metro-

polls.
The Committee beg leave to express their hope, '
that these benevolent persons will not think the
claim of their poor neighbours in this
.city super-
seded by what they may have afforded elsewhere ;
and particularly that they will not withhokl the
influence-of their names and sanction from the So-
ciety, though they may think other places have
stronger claims on their liberality. This Society.
affords them an opportunity, which, to many of
them, is not likely in any other-way- to occur, of
a public and solemn, yet _unaffected declaration of
their attachment to that religion which consoles
their hearts and regulates their conduct. The ef-
fect which a general association of the inhabitants.
of Westminster, in the cause of revealed religion,
would have upon public opinion, both at home-and
abroad, is beyond calculation. The Bible Society
has already been a, great instrument in the hands
of Divine Providence in, clearing this nation from
the reproach of infidelity, which, while it- waf-ex-
ultingly charged upon it by sonic foreigners;- and
invidiously by others, was, till of late, so little
refuted by' our manners-or professions, that it
was too often admitted with shame and- sorrow,
by the most sincere and reflecting of our own
countrymen. But the Bible Society has br6ken
the spell of ill-placed basliftilneSs; and we haVe
lately-seen many of the most distinguished of- our
laity, as well as our clergy, not only liberally eon-.
tributing their substance in the •cause of the Gos-
pel, though plausible reasons were industriously
suggested to them for evasion and indifference;
but taking that share of public personal exertion
which could only be attributed to a conviction
of its divine origin and inestimable value, too firm
to be shaken by the fear of singularity or- ridi-
cule.

These exertions, however, though their effect
has been deep and .extensive, have hitherto been
scattered and divided, rather bearing the charac-
ter of effusions of individual zeal, , than of na-
•tional sentiment. But the City of Westminster
comprehends so large a proportion of whatever
is distinguished in .the nation, so general an as-
semblage of its various parts, that the union of
this City could not fail to Convey. to all parts,
of the Country, the conviction of public feel-
in or to Strike foreign nations as the col-
lected homage of Britain to her Saviour and her
God.

While those nations contemplate, the blessings
of a land preserved from ruin amidst the wreck of
so many countries, let them find cause to remark,•
that in this land,- however faulty in tnany re-
spects,-reverence for the Word of God is emi-
nently conspicuous.

The British Nation is called upon by -all - the•
blessings' it has itself enjoyed, by all the judg-
ments which are fallen upon others, to set the ex-
ample of pure religion, and genuine reformatiOn
to mankind. Let it not refuse to bear the voice
which speaketh from [leaven. Was
_there ever a
time when such an example was .more urgently
demanded, or more awfully enforeed by all the
circumstances of the world, or could it at any
other time appear with more salutaryinikence
And among the cities of Great Britain wl:icla can
take the lead its the cause of reformation with so
much efficacy, as that which has long set the ex-
ample of arts, of manners, and it is to be feared,
of vices to the rest of the nation ? -

• The corruption introduced by a great metropo-
lis has long been the subject of lamentation amorrg
moralists, but its influence will be no less power-
ful in the cause of truth and virtue. The sympa-
thiesof benevolence and the ardour of 'devotion
are not less capable of being diffused among as-.
sembled multitudes, than the contagion of vice ;
and we shall be able with
,jester confidence, to im-
plore the protection of the Almighty on our No-
bles and our Legislature, when they shall have
publicly avowed their reverence to his Word, and
their confidence in his power.

On Saturday afternoon his Royal Highness tile
Duke of CLARENCE, accompanied by Lord YAR-
MOUTH, dined at the Angel Inn, Norwich, 014-
their route from Houghton to Saxmundham,
where they will mekt the PRINCE REGENT, &c.—
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK and
CAMBRIDGE proCeeded from Houghton to Thick-
ling, to join a,shooting party at Lord StHcfmtn's.
THE RUSSIAN BOY t-1 marvellous bfiy, of tett
years of age, bath' created much astonishment
among the frequenters of the Stock Exchange,
by his wonderful_ adroitness at calculation
is a sort of. admirable Crichton, in his. way. A
bet was laid to a considerable amonitt a few d tvs
since, by a Merchant, with a Gentlethan who is
reputed tp be the first accomptant in that cele-
brated coffee-house, upon the point of figures,
and calculation, as abstruse, that it' took him one
Hour to prepare the question, which the boy im—
mediately answered in one minute: an objectiou
was taken as to the accuracy of the child's answer,,
but, after 3 very serious investigation, it'svas ad-
mitted, that the boy's answer was correct A.
great lottery contractor, who was present, iwtant-
ly gave the boy a
..guinea that was coined in' the
reign of William 111. and demanded to know
how many years,, months, and days had elapsed
"since the period of its coinage.; all which he an-
swered, promptly, to the admiration of the whole
circle, who subscribed fifty pounds as a present td
this calculating phenomenon. It seems that he
is a native of Russia, who bath been one voyage
to the United States of America,- front Whente.he,
came, at the commencement of the prt se -It re-.
grated troubles, reconiimmtled to a mere nage
Gentleman of this city ; .and it is further added,
but with what degree of truth we cannot ans \vet.,
that he can neither write or read.

Thursday,.about two O'clock, as Mr. :1--farrion,
the proprietor of the Tavistock Hotel, Covent-.
garden, was sitting down to dinner, lie was dis-.
turbed by an unusual noise made by a quantity of
'fancy pigeons be had on the top of the house.--=
On his going up stairs with his friend Mr. Downs,
he saw a hawk of extraordinary size seize upon
one of them, and fly away with it : they watched
the direction he took, and saw him alight on the
steeple of: the New Church in the Strand.--
Mr. Downs took his gun and was kindly permit-
ted by Mr. Fletcher, in the Strand, to go op the
top of the house :he fired at the hawk, and-it fell
into the church-yard. It measured three feet fri m.
the tip of one wing to the other, 22 inches from
the beak to the tip of the tail, and 16 inches in
the girth.
.A hawk paid a similar visit to the-Ta-
vistock hotel about. five years ago.