The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-18 00:00:00

ebfrEki:O,EitbEk THEATRE.

'Tile last addiess froth,the Proprietors of ,this
atre, which, klag appeared in our Paper, pro-
mising to give the privateboxes after the preient
'night be cxNeted (01;allai the tnry of those
ho imjted.on a kill perfcirironce of th? dontraa,
vhas a deli:sive. hOpe, for as soon as t!u
curniin drew' up 'l2st right the usu,ll tumult beg-nu,
12i); increasing to the final 'cruse of
.the . per-.
formances. The play,was, The, Suspicions Husband.,
As soon as, the Ours ap-peated a roar 'of " off, off,
humble, ,Kenible," barst forth, and not a word of
the-drama was heard; • ...

• •
A Gentlernan in the' second circle of boxes ex-
hibitedh placard, inscribed, " We demand nothing
,bin the COntrad," whet, was loudly cheered, and
Which he pinned to the front of the box.. A
,per-
son in the third circle, who had just before render-
ed himself conspichous by quarrelling with two or
three Gentlemen in an adjoining boX, who had
calledior-Ketuble,' descended to the bok where: the
placard was fixed, audit having in the mean time
been thrown into the pit, he, in the most extraor-
d nary manner, climbed ove;- the front of the box,
lowered himself by the ldstre and the pillar of the
box below, jumped into the 'pit, obtained posSession
of the, placard, marched off with it out at the pit
door, and returned to his former situation in the
third circle oft boxeS.
'.The noiSe. continued -without intermission, and
. not one word of the Comedy, from beginning to
end, could be ' heard. The. cry was still lcT Kern-
hie, and he not coming forward, it .appeaed to' be
determined that no other person on the stage should
be honoured' with a hearing. The concert before
the curtain, consisting_of vociferation, roaring,.bel:
,loWing, groaning, lowing, barking, and' altnoq
every other description of noise of which the humin
organs of voice arecapable,- was kept up, wirh .a
spirit that set at utter defiance every. attemptof he
actors to be heard. The green curtain was let down
at the etid of the second act, and then it was said
that ruble was certainly coming -; but it was
merely to make preparation fOr the first scene of the
third aa, and the tumult again commenced.
During 'part of the thirdaCt, and atter the close of
it, a Gentlenian: in ono of the lower boxes On. the
King's side addressed the Pit but the noise wag.so
grea,, that it was impossible to hear a word he said.
The half-price came in, andd-there not being much
.v.lcaritspace for them, the'house became extremely
crowded,

At length, at the close of the. fourth 'acct, Mr.
.Kemble catrh, forward. There. was a loud call for
.
sileace, bat' some time elapsed before it could be
Obiaii4d. He. began by saying, "'LadieS and Gen-
tlemen, it was hoped by the Proprietors, tfrat..the
address which they had the. hon Our of making to
the Nubile this day would have been deerned satis-
factory." A great noise was again made, and some
one Called fur explanation respecting '" Nightly
twxes." A Gentleman in the Pit indicating a' wish
to address Mr. Kemble, the ,latter intreated silence,
Opt ruight.hcar what teas said to him. Afttr
silence had been again with some difficulty obtain-
el,- the Gentleman in the pit requested, in the name
of the' ;:luttii.tnee, that Mr. Kemble would explain
wirit unliit by the term " nightly boxes.-7
--
The 131 ter, atter some interruption, again-obtained
a hearing, •:,nd sa.d, " The boxes which, C
~afte the
preSent season—' A loud clamour again 'pre-
ailed, and silence was for some time called in vain.
Mr. 'Kemble at length caught an opportunity of
stating, t hat " what is meant '-by the term is, that
they will be thrown open.to: the public the same as
the a her boxes." This explanation was received
with 'old applause: The Gentleman in the pit
again addressed Mr. I(€.mble, but there' were .o
witty interruptions and so mach noise, that it was
extteniely difficult to collect what he said. The
substance; however, was, that as a given time was
now fixed by the Proprietors for the performance of
the contraCt with the - pu;)1 ie,' and as the. additional
price of admission' to the boxes h;,(1 been conceded
by the public upon th,-: express condition 'that the
private boxes should be thrown open, the Proprie-;
tors had no right to thai addition until they perforM- •
cu the eontratt ; it was therefore demanded of
them, that 'hey should again reduce the piiee oaf
admission to Olt-boxes to his, until they threw open
to the publicabe number of priva:e boxes stipulated
in 'the Contra&L A great climour.fol'rowed this ad-
.ss, and • `'Yes! yes!" "No ! no !" and
applause and hisSes were so intermingled, that it
was impossible to discover what the opinion of 'the
Majority Of the audience ready was., Mr. Ketrible,
after -waiting sortie time,' was at length, by an in-'
terval or silence, obtained with 'great ditbetiltY,ena-
bled again to proceed. ; " Ladies and Gentlemen, I
have now to intreat Om' your 610(161.1r a patient
hearing. Some persons who now compose .pait
the present audience were probably present on the
last night of the late season when I addressed the
Housc. I had then the: honour* to stale—." Here
the clamour was ,renewed with redoubled violence,
with JOud cries .of: " 'off!" and Kemble, after
waiting a short time, .bowed and withdrew.
It is scarcely povsibk to describe theuproar Which
ensued. The pit was up in arms, and the gallery,
and great part of the boxes joined in theciarneur.--,
Five or six watchmen's rattles were sprung at the
same time in the pit ; to these were.added a. post-
horn, and another 'horn in the upper boxes ; to
these again were acrted a number of shrill catcalls
and whistles ;' and to. ail this Iroise was sumadded
a continual roaring, and screaming, ancl bellowing,
and every other vocal accompaniment that:Could be
sugg'ested by the inventive ingenuity of Elie most in-
genious amateurs of noise. Con-tract ! Con-trait !
was sounded on all sides, and was danced almost
without intermission in the pit. The' filth act was
gesticulated like its predecessots and ch,sed amidst a
roar that never was exceeded by the 0. P.'s. Brun-
ten came foiwarifto armor nce the play for to-Mor-
row evening, btut was not suffered to he heard; he
moved his lips, bowed, and withdrew.

Utilike some fori,er nights no inter6l.was given
to. the, uproar. It proceeded between the Comedy
and the Pantomime with' all the
,uproar and noise
which it was possible to accumulate. S'everal pla-
cards were elevated in the pit, some of which were
thrown from -the boxes. Amongst them we no-
ticed the following inscriptions :

" LadTes aui
. ,
i!entlethen —These approved evolutions will
be 'repeated arei'yevening till
-0. P. Contrael
• Is fulfilled by Black lack.!—

This was also again exhibited after the curtain
had 'dropper; _
" The Cate for which Cowiam shed his blood, and
Weinholt lost its hat." •

„_.
Three groans for shuffling Lack.”.
" A Public Contrild made with a private determihation
not to fu.itil it.',
•

" What do yon want ?—Answer. Six Private BaXes in-
stead 'of fourteen."
•

An elegant drawing, of a gallows was also exhi-
bited, 'vitt) a figure pendant, and.an: inscription—
The end of-aeLiar." - .
: The Afterpiece was the Pantomime of ,Harlequin
and Mother Goose, which, it might haVe been
supposed, was not liable to .be. much interrupted by
the uproar hefore the curtain. Such • a supposition,
however, was proved to be very erroneous, for the
combination of noises was so powerful, that every
soun4 appertaining to the Pantomime was over-
whelmed. That the band: in the orchestra were
performing on their instruments might very rational-
ly, beconjetauted from their motions, but to hear
them 'was impossible. The signals' for changing the
sceneseither could not be heard amidst the con-
tinued uproar, or were mistaken in the confusion
that prevailed, and the most incongruous jumble of
scenery was frequently observed. Or the little
singingiand speaking 'there is in the pantomime, not
a .vestige was .heard. The most uproarious and
discordant din pervaded the'Pit, the Gallery, and se-
veral of the Boxes. In the Pit. the Contrad War-
riors icrmed their ring, scampered over the benches,
danced Con-trad, and played over again all the
0. P. gambols, with all the .accompaniments of
rattles and horns continually 'at work—" Keep
moving" was their motto, and not.a moment were
they idle:
' Amidst, th'i's. most terrific clamour the- curtain
dropped about twenty. Minutes' after ten o'clock:
„God save the King was then sung, cheers and groans
giVen, and Con-trawl again danced. A person in
one of the boxes in, the second circle on the King's
'side,- kept tip' for some time a sort of vituperative
contest with the CoutraCt Warriors in the lit, some
of whom pelted him with half-penee and penny-
pieces. The latter at length became so enraged, that
several of them stepped from' 'the Pit into the frost
boxes, for the purpose of going round to tie box in
which their assailant had taken his station. He,
hoWever,.with his friends in. the mean time with-
drew, being probably of opinion, that " the better
_part of valoUr is discretion." Tins terminated the.
fourth night's . performance of the uproar and the
performer, separated, promising to be at their posts
again to,ioorrow t'veoing.
We have hitherto refrained from offering our ad-
vice to the. Proprietors, conceiving . that their own
.good sense and a regard to their interest Would in-
duce them to adopt such _measures -as would be
likely to pacify their opponents, but the nuritber of
those opponents is so great, arid their opposition so-
violent and determined,, th4t we consider it as the
height of itnprudeLce in the former to prolong the
contest. The Proprietors have been censured for
having recognized the authority of the body with
whom they entered into the contra& at the Crown
and.Auchor Tavern. But the hostility last season
had been so long continued, -and was so little likely
in terminate in, their favour, that the compromise.
en that occasion (as the Magistracy and the Law
seemed to have lost all influence) must be consider-
ettas a matter of necessity, for otherwise no persons
but those who engaged in themmult, .or a few at-
tracted by curiosity to witness so extraordinary a
spectacle, would have attended the Theatre.—Mat-
ters are now cone to the same 'point, and a conaz•
pliance on the part of 'the Proprietors is. equally a
matter. of necessity. We therefore earnestly. exhort •
them to assent to the demands of a _party who can!.
not be resisted, lest more should be exatted. This'
assent would more properly comeforsvard in a Pub-
lic 'Address through the medium of the News-:
papers than in a speech from Mr. Kemble, as it at-,
tracts thentteotion of more than gain admission to
the Theatre. His feeling, have ben al.ready too
much outraged, and atier such a printed Addreks,
the noblest.of public entertainmeots would proceed
with due regularity, and we do;aot not that the
applause which he would receive as the bead of his
profession, and this general reception as, a, Scholar,
and Gentleman, would compensate, in a great de.7.
gree, for all the mortification which.he has expe7,
rienced as the representative of the interests of others
as wen ns of linnsell in a peril us and. hopeless
contest.

Mr. H. JOHNS TON is now periOrrning in ,Edin-
burgh, at the Theatre in Sliakespe e-square, which
,has been opened, not for regular dramas, but for the
grand Ballet. 'TatrumAN, torriatJiy of Drury-lane,
,Theafro,.is the chief vocal ferfouner at this place.
Mr, H. SinnoNs has opened a Theatre at Dun-
dee, KEMBLE is 110 A, performing,
upon kits 144 theatrical excursion, meaning shortly
to retire front the stage.
Mrs. JORDAN is at present' performing
ham, and will jirobably exeix her talents in other
Provincial Theatres belore she joins the Covent=
garden ComPany.' When thiS spirited Actress leaves
the stage, it will be a dirlichlt matter indeed to pro-
cure a rightful successor to her proper line of cha-.
maw's.

The Lisbon Papers contain accounts of the arrival
of considerable reinforcements to our army, and
the representation which is given of the state of the
Portuguese troops is: of the most favourable kind.—
The .Dario Lis bonense contains the following. ac
count of the strength of the allied armies, the num-
bers of which are truly formidable, if the di cipline
of the Portuguese may be relied on‘:,--

. .
24 Regiments of Portuguese Infantry, of 1,55,, men .
each - - - 37,001
t 2 of Cavalry, 594 each,. - - 7,128
6 Battalions ot.ChasSeuri' of 628 each, . . 3 .76. S
The Loyal Lusitanian l..egisn ,- - 2,267
4 Regiments of Artillery, of 1,2::0.men each, - 4.8c0
4 Ditto ditto, of 1,148 men each, ' 4,592

Poituguese Regulars - 5055
48 Regiments of Portuguese Militia, at ',tot each, 5:448

English Army

112,603
30,00 c.

Total - - 142,603

Ejikierj§r.

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,R 0 N GRAIIAM AND A SPECi i jUKT.
LIVERPOOL THE.ATRLE.

THE KING V. LEMON ANL) OTFIER

The Subject Was brought b4ore the CoUrt Upon ei
criminal intorthation against Mr, Ahrahim Lemon;
(the nephew of Dr. Solomori),.and four othet per:.
sous,.charging then-) with intending to injure and
poverish Mr. WM. Thomas Lewis and' LVlr. ihtmnat
Knight, .the •Man*rs of the Theatre;
•Ptid 'for that purpose conspiiiag tn.cotnpel .thetn;.uy
riotous and tumultUons proceedicgs, to admit pep=
sons to the Theatre at half-price.

The ATTORNEY-GENEitAL " o...nlyant Cockell)
stated w the Jury the nature a):1 Object of the pro- ,
secution. He observed, that the public') bid, by
designing persons, been. gross!) dda,Jed witb_respect
to the law upon the subject of the conduct:to be oti
served in Theatres and places of puolic entertain
merit. They had, he said, an uudouuted right td
eipre,s their disapprobation of a theatrical prrlorm-
'ance, or the pertormers, provided it ,was done lona
fide"and fairly; but any tumult, which w6s.tbe
re-
suit of previonS concert and coes,, nary, either ag-inst
particular •Actors or the Managers, Was an otf,:tice
of equal magnitude with thatof -conspiring ,to injure
any other in.ividual in his person or propetty. He
"DG • 01,31 - CenSVlrtKit those who had been in-Aru
in deluding the unwary, describing. them as men,
who, under the pretence of liberty, were in divest-7
clon the veriest tyrants. He pointed out, to torciuqt
language, the daager which was to he. apprehended
from a Jawless 'nob, whatever might be thesuppos-
ed cause tor exciting it ; and he cited as an. instance
the dreadful riots in the year 1780.-41 e paid a high
compliment •to Mr. Lewis, and regretted that •ttie
evening of his life,. spent in the service of thepublic;
• should have met with4he return it had. Having
stated that pdfsons bad never been, admitted:at halt-
price to the Liverpool Theatre since. its-original
• tablis-hment, and' cotani,N.ted upon the propriety of
' such an exclusion iu t liat 'populous and turbulent
town, he proceele I to detail the facts, w ic.m were
deposed to by the witnesses ; and‘cfnicludtd his aii7;
dregs, by expressing his firm peruAiou.that the ver7
dict on this occasion 'would .cOnvnice thedeltridatitsi
and the [lbite at, large, or the -iilegal.ity of that
conduct which had. called forth the present prost.
• cation. - • . -

A. vast number of witnesses were examined, who
proved a vari,:trof acts of violence; and the 'evidence.
completely impli-ated all the riuter4 name.' ins,tlid
record. • .

Mr. R.AlNE'addressi.d,th,_. Jury with great ahi:ity
on the part of the defendants. 'the scope Of his ar-;
gnment was chiefly' directed to reps l the charge of
conspiracy. '
_ _

Mr. B::ron GRAHAM was of opinion, that the evi-
dence went sufficiently to the proof of a COll Spl aey ;
but ;:s the cons'equemes of a cor.ction for that of-
f:nce, were so highly penal, he recurn:nend _A that
the count in the Inforniation for the. conJpiyacy
should be given up.
This proposition, after some discussion, was ;lci,.
ceded to- by the Attorney-General, who .observed,
that the piosecution was _not cirried on by Messrs.
Lewis and Knight,- but by. the Magistrates of • Li;
'yerpool. 4 ,
The*Defendants were then acquitted of the Coin.
spiracy, and found- Guilty of the Riot. .

THE KING V. ,CARTER.
This was a prosecution of a similar nature, and
the Defendant was.also found. guilty. • • • • 9

folloiving -Ikter gives a more particOlar ac-
count of the unhappy accident which immediately
occasioned the fall of Almeida : •

It is with the tnost unfeigned _sorrow .that I
have 'to cornmunicate•to you the fall of Almi.ida,
an event which happened in the night of 'Wednes-
day last. In the morning of the 2Gt.h. the enetuy
commenced the bombardment of this place frOm
twelve batteries, mounting, it is suppoled,,.fiftv
heavy pieces of artillery, with a propot tjOnate ri;lni-
ber of mortars and howitzers. ..He kept up,,
short intermission a vigorous and „destru4tvc fire
until the evening of the
.27th, when a shell, pene.;
traiing the principal Magazine, .a tremendous ex-,
plosion instantaneously', took plane. .I\;o,less than
500 men were killed by the accident, and, it is sup-
posed, that half that 'intact...was dreadfully,woond,"`
ed. General Cox,-, the G.ivernor, is 'among the
wounded. He.had lost an arm., and receiyedseve-
rat severe contusions ; at least, these-arg the reports'.
of
,the deserters and 0.
it is!not to be eXpeel.that
we should yet have authentic details. of the.progress
and res Ult of the siege. ..The fill of Almeida, and .
the consequent dispositions of .the enemy, rendered,
it expedient for us to put our army in motion to-
wards Celerico, where We arrived yestcrday, and
'have again established our head-quarters here. The
cavalry, still occupy Alverca, and the piqucts are
'posted at Ade Steiro. Al piluct of tne
goons fell in with a patrole of 'French .cavalry be-
tween Alverca and Pinbel, and after a smart ren-
• contre, in Which both sides displayed great dexterity
in the use of the sabre, our little party killed nine of
the enemy, wounded 'double 'the number, and put
the ,rest to flight. In their route they were greatly
annoyed. by the peasantry, who killed the Captain.
and Several of the privates.' A smart affair I; kew ise
took place on the 23d, in the neighbourhood of Sa!-
vatera, which was attended with similar success,
se-
veral of the enemy being killed, ten mei)
fifty horses. The rest of the patrole was di:per:4oj'
and, many of them killed,by the peasantry, who lie
in ambush, or hang in the rear -of the mutts and
patroling parries, and
,the -moment they Cceed iii
routing the, enemy, the peasantry obstruct his r(2-
rot in every direction, apd give no qtx,s,Otr. Thoyigh
undisciplined, they .hase reduced •Ilt&r mode of-an-
noyance to.a system, and they act in eonii•rt
great adroitness and effect.

'A farther reddaion of id. per peck in the price of
Bread was ordered to-day. The qtiartern loaf a ill
l'bursdiy be Is. 36. d.
A Gentientan, who purchaseT TWo Tickets of
No. 4,469, in the Last L'Atety, obtained Forty
Thousaod PoundS!
)

11.

i
41 0.

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_ .
ER RA T um.-- In the second Adv,ertiscinent in the third co-
1 atm of Friday's Paper, for " Bisaa Bifida" read' " Spina
Bitichi." •