The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-07 00:00:00

FOR THIS SUN.

'r Between two Stools,- &c.—.V.llgar Proverb.
Me. EDITOR—The efforts of the Old Times to
'retain its ancient Patrtyis and obtain new Friends
amongst the RefiPmers have conratteiy tailed. It
Itai discovered, why it too late, the justice of the
adage above quoted. It has inspired conteloot
for its degen(rate columns L4tuungst its oid aid
Steady supporters, without having gone far
elrOtigh to ensure the confidence and stapport of
the new men. The tile is the stutn!)lin;:-block,
a name is every thing."—" Would yon, said
Zir. Shandy, have your son named Judas fl" A
Radical of 1794 would have been contaminated
by touching merely! the margin of the Tunes; it
Was interdicted—for it was Loyal. lint, it says,
fair seems to say, with Richard, " Now I sin
itu so far in sin, that sin must pluck on sin,"
knd has come to the &termination of fraternizing
'ith the Radicals, and changing the obnoxious
title for one more appropriate ; you will there-
fore, Sir, not feel much surprise when, with
!scissors in hand, hastily intending to cut up and
afford your astonished readers some &riming con-
viction of its betesy and deviation from sound
and honest principles, you are saluted with a
sight of the Radical Times ! cut in brazen charac-
ters, and substituted tot its present ambiguous
appellation. You will be still more surprised
when you bear, 11 at the first week's profit under
yes new title will be devoutly devoted to the fund
for the relief of the Sufferers by the Manchester
'Massacre, as it is emphatically called ; and still
So when they announce that all advertise.
Thetas for that and similar purposes will be in-
serted gratuitously iu the Radical Ti»tes. In the
zteatt lime, Sir, you may be assured that you
cannot 8:11;er the vanity rat the Ci,izetts concerned
i," that enlightened pablie.stion more than by an
the Civic Christening, which nothing
.hut. their extreme delicacy and blushing rno''esty
procrastina'es, by hailing it upon all proper ma-
aittns as the Radical Times.

COGNOMINATER.

SHIP NEWS.

PORTSMOUT2I, OCT. 6.--Arrived his Majesty's
*tip Owen Glendower from the Eastward ; Ra-
leigh and Spartan from Leith also the Oro.
11.1°C1C), STRICKLAND, nom the Downs for India;
Clavernur Harcourt, Wtt.som, from ditto for De-

rara ; Bacchus, WiLsoN, from ditto for :11l-
giero Chapman transport from Quebec ; and
Luronra,
ALBERT, from the Downs—the latter
has received considerable damage, in consequence
of being run foul of last night by his Majesty's
allip Raleigh off Dunnose. Passed up Channel
the Triton, MARSHALL, from Quebec.

DE") OCT. 6 —Arrived, and sailed for the
ItiNer, tile Ajax, CLARK, from Madras and the
C4i)e• Passed through the Downs his Majesty's
'hill Lee, in 48 hours, from Leith for Ports-
mouth.

MILFORD, OCT. 4.—Put in here, leaky, the
Agiticnnrt, MATulk.u, from Quebec ; she must
dischare to repair.
PNzANcE, OcT. 4.—The Dutch 74, Prince
I:rederiek, is so leaky that parties from the shore
,
"e been constantly pumping her since her arri-
The crew are very sickly. A sloop of war
is hourly expected to take her to Plymouth.

The linoksellers of Halifax, in Nova Scotia,
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‘-mtitating each other in the publication of
I,Yl`"graphical Works—two Histories of that
~r'evilite having been lately published there, with
:41 s and Hates, drawn and engraved by Artists
" that Country.

MR. KERN.--(LETTER II.)
Ma. EDITOR—Ihe more we examirte the Let-
ter obtruded upon the Public under the name of
Mr. KeAN, the mstre we must be convinced that
it could not have heen written by that Gentleman.
It is impossible that one who slims such a judi-
cious conception of the characters which he per-
forms could have produted a work marked by so
much vanity, and such weak reasoning. Rut to
proceed in my endeavours to rescue hii character
from the suspicion of arrogating such import-
ance, and acting; with sneh indiscretion. The
Author of the Letter says, in words imputed to
Mr. KLAN, " when the Theatre fell into the
hands of Mr. ELLISTON (" thing you mean"), 1

understood that he had made such arrangements

as were a virtual breach of my articles, at►d 1 was
to einbirrass an undertaking of such
riblt and importat►ce, by returning to claim their
fulfilment." Why should the Author of the Let-

ler aCCUSC Mr. KEAN of so much rtiShl)eSS as to

think of violating his brides without full Proof,
and how could he have understood, or from whon►,
that such arrangements had been n►adc. ? Would
not Mr. KHAN rattier have shewn hi► good

sense by ascertaining the fact ; but %di y should Mr.
Et.usToN he suspected of intending to violate the
existing °Motion., of the former man,gement ?
Here I must pause a moment', to notice the lofty
language imputed to kit. KEAN of " taking upon
himself the teponsibilily 01 hi eakin4 with Mr.
ausToN," that is, ....ilhdra wing from the The-
atre, Would not one suppose that the matter in
contemplation relat-d to the interest= of an Etn-
pireit It ‘youhl not have been surf:rising, had not
the tvriter been personating Mr. KEAN, It he had

introduced the couplet applied to 11r. GARIZICK•-••••

A Nation', taste dhprnd, on You,
" Prrhap- a Natio,'s virtue too "
But now Jet us comirier hat " !he virtual

brefich" of Mr. KUAN'S art.cles ‘vo,tl(l he, all
suited by the Le, ter writer. According a this

statement, MI. lisitt4 was to be " 31(vrager ou the

oir,jos ott vs ho.t, hr pkyert." Li it that
au Ac:or could have demaiided such a power, of
that, it he oasi, the regular Managers woull have
deb4sed thein-:elves so low its to concedu ! Bat
what wou!il be the natute of this rwer
the pow I 0 t cxelod ug every resp, ctabte Actor
Actress tram every .ittrt in the saint Play, lest
any of them stiou'it share in public applauge, soul, of
course, of ria•iglllog all Ihe parts to such petsons as
might ate too contemptible to a thni, of comp oison.
B. r• must be thought of who could
calmly submit to be told, as implied by such a
rry,tt•itiotl, that 'hey wanted judgment to cast
a Play theuiseives ? Tiptsc, indeed, who would
hear such 00 iuwult 1/31/olt be expected to
make any concession that on tingovetnahle
spirit could require. Mr. KEAN cannot be
the character thus represented. Did Mt.
GARRICK of Mr KENIBLE, or any other great

Actor, since the origin of the English Si.lre.
ever venture to require such a power I There, is
nothing like it tot record. The nex• grievance
which Mr. NN is male to apprehend is, that
his dame wool(' not. " continue as large in the
bills as the Committee first chose to advertize
This passage Li explessen with more cunning than
Letto-wri:ei• tins usually displayed; for it
Ite..-•113 tO throw the act a t,n t:Le Commit Lee, BA
if it bad been eolu»teercd by them, and had not
been requirt.J by Mr. KLAN ; but :net, the Letter-
writer forgets his e.intnna, and makes Mr. KEAN
COOSidet it as an essential point, on which he was
likely to insist, an] in that case that ?I r. aus-
Tote would then be forced to hreak with \fr.
Do wTON, who had in his articles stipaLated that
Mr. KEAN'S name should he Overt ized like others.
And why should Mr DoaTots, Actor of first.
rate " in his line," Hi the Letter•writer
says. assent to such an ilenlious distinction in
favour of Mr. haAN 2 \Vhatuver Dlr. KFAN's
!DAV he, they are not superior to those of
Mr. DowToN, and are by no means so general.
fi..o that Mr. Dosi,TON did not want 91101 an
invi:tiotis pre emineoce, yet he might properly
, opliose it, %sell from respect to the theatrical
pr itession io general, as to his own nit cited rank.
But tb, whole must be imaginary ; M. KEAN
never co. Id to, ee distrusted his own talents so
notch as t•J s ppose that they requ:rtat the bed-
! sleriag of large letters Btu ',low ditf,reot NMS
the pr.ctice of Mt. NEMELE. When he perfot turd
the chief part in a Play the characters were ar-
raneed in the hills according to their dramatic
rank, the King first. &c. What a modest contrast
would this exainple exhibit in favour of Mr.
KEMBLa, it it could he supposed that Mr. KHAN
had actually insisted on such a marked distinction!
It is evident, according to the Letter, that Mr.
KHAN would insist on his tight to be Manager on
the nights of his own performance, even under
the Management of Mr. ELLISTON, who has in-
curred such a risk in undertaking that Manage-
ment, hilt who, an able and experienced Actor,
was to become a mere non-entity when Mr. KEAN
peitormed. But it seams "that Mr. ELLISTON had
provided against the alternative of MrlcaaN's yield-
ing to Mr. Do wToN, or Mr. DOWTON to him," by
engaging Mr. VANDENHOFF, an Actor, whom the
Letter states to be of " the first consequence—
whose high talents deserve the first place, and
whom it would therefore be degrading to make
second to any one." But how did the engage-
ment of Mr. VANDENHOFF obviate the alterna-
tive 1 Why, because Mr. KEAN then thought that
it seas bust for him to withdraw for a time, as he
would not give up his own right, though Mr.
VANDENHOFF *vas not likely to insist on such all
invidious distinction. The Letter-writer was
certainly not aware of the compliment which he
thus paid to Mr. VANDENHOFF at the expence of
Mr• KEAN ; for if both were to be engaged, Mr.
KEAN, according to the Letter-writer, would still
insist upon his right. But, Mr. Editor, I have
taken up too much of your Paper, at a time when
the. Empire itself is likely to be involved in the
Tragedy of Rebellion, 'unless Ministers are better
Managers of a State titan the late Committee of
Old Drury were of a Theatre. 1 felt it, however,
to be incumbent on me, as a sort of duty to Mr.
KEAN, from whom the Public, as well as myslf,
have derived so RHICII pleasure, to endeavour to
prove that he could not have exacted any of the
conditions imputed to him, or have been the
wtiter of the Letter to which some blundering
friend has taken the liberty of annexing his re_
spectitble signature. CANDIDUS.

reTreri3 moieribu.s poteta.
Q. HoR. FLAC. Cann. Ode 9, Vib. 4.
Whilst talkative Drapers our woes ere recounting,
And in praise of political virtue co* warm—
Jottti MILL slily asks—" Pray, Sir ! who kept the Fountain ?
" De practice and precept at all times conform ?"
MULL-MULL:

[FOR THE SUN.]

,Arena tulit, sumtis occumbere fortis in arrnis,
Snrizeret in patriain (I;'im Catilina suain.
Anna ferux pcpulo -,uadet capienda Cynegus,4
Ipse tulus tuttnn ferre recusat onus.
Ille nefas patritt superesse superstite duxit;
I-Tic seems inculumi credidit esse mori.

41. K"WOC, Anglicd HvINT, tel rAncd I:bc loeo perinde
dogleader.

*o* As the above will affora scope for a competition among
our Poetical Correspondents, We hope that some of theth will
favour us with Translations.