The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-04 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

Cc vrx-'e GARDF.E.L—TheOpera of Rob Rd] Mac-
gregor, derived from one of thOse popular novels,
the source of iv seems to be as difficult Co
ascertain as that of the Nik and the Niger, at-
tracted a numerous audience to this Theatre
last night:. As Mr. MACREADY is not yet for-
many reinstated at thig theatre, the part
of the hero was, as before, Assigned to Mr. YATES.
His conception of the character ivas judicious,
and his execution forcible ; and his chief
wart Wag such heroic .proportions externally,
as the imagination demandS for a character
of so bold and enterprising a description.—
Miss HALL.txhi-2, whose i'ocal poWers were
highly admired last seasimi, came forward Cn
occasion in the part of Didna frei'Mon, 'vice Mi.is
STrenrXs; Who has not yet resumed lies static!!
at this Theatre: Miss HAf.f.ANbF., we are sorry
to hea;-, has been suffering tinder severe illness,
of which traces in some dbgree remain. She,
however, acquitted herself Very ably. Her voice
has great compass, and she sings Stith taste.
When she is Mine used to the Stzige, practico,
may give her more cdufidence both in singing ana
acting. She sties well receiiied and justly ap-
plauded. The other characters wanted no ad-
vantage Of talents, as LISTON. Was the
JizrzYie, Owen, and Mrs. FAuerr
th'e ife of the itittepid and formidable hero who
gives the title to the piece. When the Opera
terinitiated: Mr: EGERTON" came for Ward to in-
foini the andierice that the Lady who lately ap-
peared with so much advantage at the New Hay-
market Theatre in the character of Belvidera
would, oft Fticlay neX't, assume the part of Mrs.
1161/e r. We gave our report of her Behthicra,
Which Sias altogether such a performance as well
entitled her to public protection and encou-
ragement:

IRYII.IIINET. - The indisposition of Miss
Count, which, as we noticed yesterday, pre-
vented her appearing on Tuesday in the admir-
rable new Comedy of Maieh-breaking, prevented
also her performing last night; and, therefo,re,
The Marriage of Figaro, which was to have been
represented, was unavoidably postponed, and
The Green Man was the substitute. However
the audience might be disappointed in one re-
spect, they were highly gratified in another, as
TERRY'S performance of the Verdant Sage, if w 2
may so style the parti may be ranked with the
best efforts of the histrionic art, with a due re-
ference to the province of the drama to which the
diameter belongs. But it would he injustice to
the Management not to add, that the play alto-
gether is supported in such a manner as might
reasonably be expected on the London boards.

we have not heard whether Mr. C. KEMBLE IS
to resume his station at Covent-Garden Theatre,
or the grounds of the difference between him and
the Managers ; but we conceive that they %%ill
not be wise in losing the support of so popub..-,.
and so able a Performer, who, in gen'eral merit
as an actor, is certainly without a competitor.

CITY of LONDON GENERAL PEN 'ION SOCIETY.
—Yesterday a public meeting of the aboVe- po-
pular Institution was held in the great roOni of the
City of London Tavern, BishopSgate-street, for
the-purpose of electing S finale and 5 fethale pen-
•sioners ; the former entitled to ,receive. 55., the
latter 35. per week, for life. Dr. RUDGF, of
Limehouse, was Unanimously called to the Chair,
and in his address stated the general intentionsof
the Institution, and the 'defined objects' of the
Meeting. They, had said Dr. lludge) a duty
to perform, plea Sing in one case, but painful in
another. They had to,place in a state of comfort
twelve individuals, who were now suffering all
the accumulated miseries of senility and poverty ;
it was on the 'other hand, painful, inasmuch as
they had to select the more fortunate objects of
their 'choice from. 46 candidates, whose several
ages individually. exceeded ,60 years, e,ighteen
above 70, and others upwards. of SO years; The
business of the meeting occupied nearly' eight
hours, and the election for the VacanCies having
been made, the 46 candidates received refresh-
ment, prepared by order of the GOvernors; half-
a-crown was given to each, and the meeting (at-
tended by upwards of 300 Ladies and (entle-
men, contributors to the ikstablishment) was dis-
solved at siv. o'clock. .

The Milan Gazette of the 18th ult. contains
an edict, by which Count Louis Porro, son of
the Marquis George Porro Lamberteughi, is re-
quired to appear within sixty days before the
Royal and Imperial Commission of Venice-, in
order to defend himself against the charge of
high treason imputed to him. Count Porro is
accused of having been a party in a plot to over-
throw the Austrian Government.
On Tuesday Baron NicoLAr came to town,
and forwarded a Russian Messenger from the
Ambassador's residence, in Harley-street, with
despatches for the Court of St. Petersburgh. In
the evening the Baron left town again,: for his
seat at Richmond.
NEWSPAPERS.-It was ascertained lately;by a
return of the Stamp Office, where the paper for
all the Journals in London and the United King-
dom is stamped, that the number in London was
300,000; in the country, 650,000 weekly : mak-
ing nearly a million weekly, and 50 millions per
annum.

.
The petrified remains of a very large marine
animal have been found in a quarry on the top of
a hill near Bromyard. They were unfortunately
removed from the quarry by the'workmen, broken
to pieces, and carried upon the roads in the
neighbourhood. Only a part of tlietn have in
consequence been preserved, yet sufficient to she nr
that the animal to which they once belonged
must have been one of .no common size. . It
ap-
pears to have lain on the surface of a freestone
' rock, and was covered, by a thick stratum of
yellowish coloured marl. Never wa: th> p tri-
factive process more complete; the different
pieces are literally. masses of stone, only distin-
guishable as the parts of an animal by the ex-
terior form.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

October 4.

. [MORNING HERALD.]
DRUSSELS, SEPT. 29.—Yesterday our Sovereign
dined. with his Belgian Majesty at the Palace of
LitCken. Three of the Royal carriarr°es-weie in
readiness at half-past three o'clock, when his
Majesty, who was dressed in the full uniform of
a' Field-Marshal, took his seat, attended by
Lord ClancartY,and the Marquis of-Conyngham.
Sir Beniamin Bloomfield, and some other Gen-
tlemen of his Majesty's suite, followed immedi-
ately after. The announcement that his Majesty
was to set-out brought together a crowd of spec-
tators; but there was no demonstration of feel-
ing on the occasion, and they hehaved with a
cold indifference, appearing as if- they were
utterly Unmindful that the greatest Monarch
in the world deigned to honour them with
his presence. The conduct of the French
was far different ; and his Majesty's recep-
tion, from Calais to Tournay, was surpassed only
by that which he experienced in Ireland. At
Tournay, which is in the Belgian territory, the
Authorities had neglected making any previous
arrangements) and the consequence was, that the
Royal suite were delayed an hour and a half
waiting for horses. An English Gentleman, who
has been a resident here for thirty years, informs
me that the Belgians detest the people of our
country. They regard us as commercial tyrants,
and say we have boUnd them in an unnatural *al-
liance with the Dutch, in order to insure more
effectually the thraldom of both countries.—
There is but one opinion here as to the sen-
timent of the inhabitants in the event of the
country being invaded by France. it is uni-
versally believed that the population would
rise to a man In favour of their late mas-
ters. • His Majesty did not return from the pa,
lace till past one o'clock this morning, and I
understand he was much pleased with the style
in which he was received there. A company of
French performers, from the principal theatre,
acted a private play for the entertainment of his
Majesty, and a.few select individuals received
invitations to attend. Sir Edmund Nagle was to
have been presented yesterday to the King of
the Netherlands, hitt was seized with a sudden
indisposition-, which prevented his joining the
-Royal party, ana the 'consequences might have
been serious-to the gallant Admiral, had it not
been for the prompt and skilful aid of Mr.
Walker, the King's Apothecary. This day
-our Sovereign will dine alone in his apartment,
and afterwards his - Majesty will honour the
theatre with his • presence. The Duchess of
Devonshire is here, and was one of the party
-yesterday at the Palace. His Majesty will
leave this city to-morrow for Waterloo, where
the troops will go through some manoeuvres re-
presenting the movements that took place on the
•day of the battle. His Majesty, on quitting•that
memorable field, will proceed to Namur, where.
he is to sleep to-morrow night, and thence con-
tinue his journey with all the rapidity that bad
horses, and still worse roads, will admit. I can
inform you as a certain fact; that he will not this
year visit either Berlin, Vienna, or Paris.

[THE TIMES.]
As the 10th October approaches, on which
day the accounts of the Michaelmas quarter must
be made up, the probable complexion of the
statements then to be published becomes a sub-
ject of natural anxiety to the fundholder. City
rumour anticipates a rise.of 300,000/. or 400,0001.
on the gross -revenue, as compared with the
corresponding quarter of 1820—an expectation
which we devoutly hope may be more than
realized : as we do likewise, that some improve-
ment in our state system of economy, long though
it has been promised, may- come at last; and
thus enable the country to take advantage of
such accidents as in themselves are favourable to
an extension of the national resources. The ex-
cise is at present assumed to be the principal field
of increase in the quarter's revenue; and Ireland,
owing to well-known circumstances, is alleged to
have
.contributed much more than her average
share. How far the aagmentation of income may
have been balanced by an unusual growth in cer-
tain branches of the expenditure—in some of the
charges, for instance, on tfie consolidated fund—
a few days more will determine. From hints
given to us, we recommend to those whose part
it is to investigate the accounts which are to be
laid before Parliament, a close and unsparing
scrutinY into all the papers and documents con-
nected with the several branches of the civil list.
Miscellaneous and extraordinary charges will, if
we mistake not, have spread themselves before
the end of the year, over a surface of more than
common magnitude.

NEW TIMES.]
Sir Robert Wilson, it seems, has written to his
constituents, informing them, that when he learnt
lie had been distrOsled from the army, he in-
stantly wrote hyne to demand a Court Martial !
If the gallant 'Knight had been born on the other
side of St. George's Channel, we could have
better understood the nature of such a proceed-
ing. When he was a half-pay officer he was not
subject to Martial Law, and now that he is no
officer at all, we humbly conceive a few legal
difficulties would present themselves in constitut-
ing a military tribunal to take cognizance of his
conduct.—We believe there is very little real
difference- of. opinion respecting Sir Robert's
conduct on the 14th of August; but any dis-
cussion of it at present would evidently be
premature. The Times has threatened us that
it shall be brought before Parliament. Per-
haps there may be some other Court which-
may have occasion to consider it previously.—
At all events, if it is to be hereafter submitted to
judicial or parliamentary investigation, that is a
conclusive reason why we should not suffer our-
selves to be enticed into a discussion which may
prejudice the question one way or the other.—
No doubt the Opposition Papers would gladly
learn, if they could, what sort !of a case is to, be
Dike out against Sir Robert, that they might an-

ticipate it.by delusive appeals to public Opinion ;
but as it is not our wish to assist them in this me-,
ritorious work, we must leave them to pur,ne
their fishing inquiries, without any hope of ob-
taining the required information, until it comes in
a shape which they may not gyeatly admire.

DTOILNING POST.]
" The Duke of York has refused to grant Sir
Robert Wilson the Court:Martial which he de-
manded." This information was given last night
with several marks of admiration and surprise,
by the very same Evening Paper which stated on
the 2,5 th ult., whilst announcing that Sir Robert
had written to the Commander-in-Chief to re-
quest a Court:Martial, that 44 upon the receipt
of an answer in the negative (which might be
expected in course), he would immediately ad-
dress a public letter to his Constituents, and take
no other public step until the meeting of Parlia-
ment." Surprise at a consummation which might
" be expected in course," is rather an unusual
feeling with those mho are accustomed to th,,.!
natural progression of causes and consequences.
However, as it would' be a hopeless task to un-
dertake to reconcile all the inconsistencies
of Radicalism with sense and reason, we shall
not attempt it, and shall at once proceed to
-examine Sir Robert's case as it now stands. If
the 44 expected negative answer" has been re-
turned by the Commander in Chief, who could
not, consistently with the rules of the service,
return any other, Sir Robert's threatened letter
to his constituents has also been written, and is
now before the public. A copy of this extraor-
dinary document, which was to satisfy the doubts
of the Electors of Southwark till Pbrliament
should do justice to the gallant Knight, will be
found in another part of our columns. It is cer-
tainly rather brief, but then it possesses the high
merit of being concise ; a merit the more to be
admired, as self is generally a subject on which
most men are apt to expatiate with compla-
cency. To Sir R. Wilson's credit be it spoken,
therefore, his letter to the Southwark Elec-
tors says nothing whatever which the ut-
most ingenuity of his most sanguine oppo-
nents can possibly construe into any thing so
egotistical as a defence. He tells his Consti-
tuents, that ".they have read his condemnation,"
an important fact, which Ministers themselves
will not dare to controvert, and which shews the
strict regard which Sir Robert Wilson pays to
truth. He then adds, that 44 he cannot suffer
another post to pass without assuring them "—of
what ?—Here the libellers of the Loyal Press,
no doubt, expected tlat he would have conde-
scended to assert his innocence. But no such
thing. Sir Robert was too clear sighted to fall
into the snare which the turn of the sentence
seemed to haVe woven for his alleged egotism. He
magnanimously rejects all that might look-like
explanation of his conduct, and the only assur-
ance which he deigns to give, is, not that he has
been unjustly dismissed, but that his " demand
for charge and trial was instantly despatched."
how prodigious must not have been the effect of
this assurance on his constituents, who had been
informed beforehand by his own friends, that trial
would be denied when asked, and who knew
that, as a military man, he, their Representative,
could not be ignorant of the inutility of his
demand ! Their admiration will have no-bounds:
For where could they find another man on
earth, who, when labouring under the disgrace
of a dismissal from the Service of his Sovereign,
and under all the imputations attendant on
such a measure, would - display so lofty a dis-
regard of personal character and public opinion,
as to reject every opportunity of clearing him-
self which lay within his grasp, in order to knock
at doors which he knew could not be opened ?
They will think that their Member is a pheno-
menon amongst men, and for once we shall not
be tempted to differ with their opinion. As a
proof of our incipient disposition to unanimity,
we shall venture to suggest to the Southwark
Elector§ the propriety of expressing the admira-
tion of the Borough to Sir Robert Wilson for the
skill with which he has contrived to write an
exculpatory letter, without introducing into it a
single word of exculpation.