The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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NEWMARKKT FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1519.
• TUVIDAY, OCT. 5.
The Garden Slakes of 100 gs each. T.M.M.
Ld Exeter's Advance, Bst. 121 b ' 1
Xtr. Lake's [Leifer Racon, 7st. 511,. „. 2
11r, Charlton' Strephoo, 7st. 71b...• 3
t. tiViy's Corinne, ist. 101 b.
'qr. Thornhill's Ringleader, ist. 1 i lb.
4to 1 agst Adeance--.', to 2on Roger Bacon-3 to I agst. Co-
ritinc-5 to 2 agst Ringleader.
Ile St. Leger Stakes or 25gs each, for three-yr-olds colts,
Bst. 711,. fillies, Sst. 41b. D.I.
P. of Portland's c. Tiresias, by Soothsayer, out of Pledge 1
VE• Lake's b. c. Banker, by Smolensk°, out of Quail .... 2
4'4. Cioddard's b. c. Sir Topaz, by Scud, out. of Topaz •... 3
•ragist started—Seventeen pd —The Judge placed but three.
2 to I on enresias.
(Third and Last Year )—One-third of a Subscription of 2 sgt
• each, for four yr•old colts, Bst. 101 b. fillies, Sat. 711,. 11,1.--
Bona fide the property of Subscribers. (20 Subscribers).
1-4! G. H. Cavendish's b. c, Allegro • 1
1.)• of Portland's br. c. Screw 2
.
&Ir. Lake's ch. c. Roger Bacon
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5 to 2 on Allegro.
The Doncaster St. Leger was decided in favour of Antonio.

TAB 'lmeaTag.—We have the pleasure to an-
Ltounce another ovei flowing audience at Drury-
ane Theatre last night, and we sincerely hope
Tthat it indicates a continued current of success,
he. first piece was the Opera of The Devil's
bioritige, Which had been very popular • at the
4,011414 h Opera. House. BRAHAM, OD his en-
trance as Count Benno, was received with universal
2"11 .reiteratud applause. His voice is actually
amore powerful than ever. He exerted himself
lii.lll admirable spit it and had several encores.
.1%, CAtiew also received a vity flattering
!len
Tbe. and sung with great sweetness and
~81". Rosalvina. Mr. ....nomesoN, who first ap—
Feared as John Dory,,.oh Monday,. displayed
nrietY of. talents by. (14 spirited performance
T7il s° different a part as that of Baron Toraldi.
1,-"iAttLey, OXBEINZ Y, Mrs. BLAND, and Miss
4"LLY, were all !along props to the.pieee, which
'tent off -with great eclat. A general spirit of
Pleasure seemed to percale the audience, and the
galleries " governed their roaring throats, and
grumbled" approbation.
lENotrsu Ilouse.—On Sunday an ele-
tant entertainment was- given by the principal
!"formers of thi's Theatre to Mr. Aatioho, their.
,!sPected Manager, and several of his flit:rids.
The company, consisting of about thirty Gentle-
Men, feat down to dinner in the srlooti at six
o'clock ; Mr. Aataot..o took the Chair, and Mr.
_li.attLay, as Stage Manager, was the Vice-Pre-
nt
Bid
I'l4 e"'• After the cloth was removed, '' Non
DomiNE" was sung by the vocalists of the
veatre in a very fine style. The dinner and
Ines were of the most excellent description.
114 CEASE ErritaoaniNatnr.—On Wednesday last,
tia;" Union, coach was
g•oing from Skipton to Ken-
, ,a hare jumped from a hedge into the turnpike-
%:',l4. about a mile from Skipton. The coachman
"P all halloo ! The hare kept the road, and the
tin it 4ePt the coach in full speed after the animal,
i"011110 a house in the village of Conistone,
n which norn
4111,1
1, as Slur (the guard), caught it, and
vsrds Presented it to r. Gartonh, Esq. •

POETRY.

THE trot' l' FOR ALL AGES.
ts one, who tells the Talc of 7Vutlip
Never to age, nor oft to youth ;
But smooths the wrinkles of the brow,
More than resemblance Will allow;
Impartini-ro " lack lustre eyes,"
A splendour, that will all surprise,
Save the original, Wiru sees,
Os thinks, they yet have power to please:
lAises with Skill the sunken cheeks,
Reproves their hue, their texture sleeks;
Then pales the blusheS of the nose,
And colones pimples like the rose :
On 3hribelil lips imlianting smiles,
The foldings of the chin beguiles,
Till, lost in pleasing lines, they float
In Beauty's curve along the throat :
And, fur the lean and wither'd chest,
The swelling bosom stands contest;
In all the glow of youthful charms,
It seems to beat with love's alarms.

'Tis thus his pencil, gliding o'er
The rugged features of three-score,
And tracing hack the steps of time,
Gives us the picture of our prime;
'lino changes upon had complexions,
And makes them pure by apt reflexions;
While for the locks of red, or snow,
Golden or auburn a iaglets flow,

! Lawrence, Philips, Bcechey, Shire
•
Or first, or last, you all agree
To make ns—what we Wisu To BE,
ESTHER EVERGREEN.

kOlt 1 HE

MR. KEAN.
MR. EDITOR---As you seem, in general, to be
rupartial in your remarks on theatrical subjects,
and not Ito be the servile instrument of Managers,
1 be leave to submit to you a tew observations
on the extratirdinaly Letter, declaredly from Mr.
KHAN, which I saw in your paper and the other
public Journals of yesterday. I premise that 1
cannot consider the Letter as Mr. KRAN'S compo-
sition, but rather as chat of some unskilful friend,
or perhaps of the Editor of the Paper in which it
first appeared, written under the supposition that
a Letter from so popular a character Might natu-
rally draw attention to his Journal. I am the
more inclined to form such a notion, hecatke it is
obvious that the Editor has exalted his own opi-
nion into the voice of the Public. The Miter
.proceeds to make sir. K aAN say that he had in-
tended to depart for America, and should trot de-
serve the praises of the Editor, if he had trot
learned, through him, that " the Public were dis-
satisfied" with that intention, and therefore that
he b4ll felintiniS bed it. The Letter-wiiier teaches
Mr. KHAN folly to repay all the Editor's Praise in
thus rendering his Joornal the vehicle of p iblic
opinion, or represetos Mr. KEAN as rasher too
apt to give credit to flattery. The opinion of a j
Weekly Paper the voice of the Public !! Such is
the first bold assertifth the Writer corn- l
pliments the Paper. The tl,'tit.o- then makes Mr.
KEAN violate truth, as well as modesty, so fat as
to say that he " never appeared before the Pon-
•lic that he was not received with acclamation."
Surely the Writer can know nothing of 'he poidie
feelings on account of Mr. BUCK 'S
Play, and
was riot present at the representation of the ill-
treated Drama of Miss PORTER, d Lady whose
talents and virtues are the subject Of esteem and
admiratiou with all who have read her Works and
are .acquainted with her personal merit. As 10
the praise whit h the Writer instructs Mr. KEAN to
bestow on the PUBLIC, that is but an act of com-
mon policy, as the omission would have been folly
in the extreme Well then, the " delightful satis-
faction," or satisfactory delight, of ouryiug the
is ill of the Public, that is, the opinion of the
Weekly Editor, induces Mr. KEAN, according to
the Writer of the Letter, to think of adhering
to a compact into which he had solemnly
entered. This " delightful satisfaction" did not,
as the Letter-writer says, operate upon Mr. KHAN
before he had read the remarks' of the Editor in
his Weekly Journal. What a powerful stimulus
to grateful recollection is Newspape.i panegyric !
Now we come to the reasons which the Letter
says induced Mr. KEAN to-think of going to Ame-
rica ;n violation of his engagement. " For the
last two years his situation at the Theatre had
been highly embarrassiog."-.--What were the ent-
harassments 'l' Did ire not play what be pleased ?
Did he oat refaie what ire disliked ? Did be not
obtain leave 'of absence when be thought proper,
that be might reap a harvest elsewhere ? Mr.
KEAN is then made to say, " that even the Press
attached blame to him for occurrences which be
could neither see nor avoid," What were those
occurrences ? 'The Press has a right to demand
an explanation, since a charge of ignorant and il-
liberal censure is brought against it.' Mr. KRAN
is made to decline entering into particulars on the
score of delicacy, yet it seems that the all-knowing
Editor was aware that he had been " an innocent
sufferer upon occasions in which be should have
been held bla,meless." If so let the occasions be
unfolded, that his character may receive due re-
paration. The subject, Mr. Editor, grows upon
me, and as I am fearful of engrossing too much
of your Paper at once, I shall, with your permis-
sion, reserve any farther remarks that may occur
to me for a second letter, not doubting that you
will readily afford room for the viodication of
an Actor, in his absence, whose cause seems to be
brought into hazard, and whose character may,
consequently, be injured, by the officious zeal of
an injudicious Advocate.

CANDID US.

Piazza Coffer-House, Oct. 5.

A plittut Naval Youth on the coast of Kent,
who had a few days since provided himself with
a post-chaise and tour, to go off with an interest-
kg and pretty little girl, was most cruelly d;s-
appointed, by the incautious conduct of a female
servant, who snffrred the juvenile hero's letter to
fall into the hands of the young Lady's Go-
verness; and thus were his ,hopes of happi►►ess
blighted for ever. The young Lady's parents
were absent: Both parties were, we understand,
under serenteen

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR—It is certainly one of the strongest
delusions whic4ske world has ever witnessed, that
so noisnisersiiiiilerl Corporations should think and
act so idly and yhievously respecting the late
proceedings at Manehester. It may, indeed, be
partly owing to the. misrepresentations of some
seditious Newipitpers, or to the audacity of Fac-
tion; or to the foolishness of well-meaning per-
sons who reason inaccurately, Hod act weakly.
Theie is not any point more clearly established
than this ; that great bodies of individuals having
no special interest, meeting together for the
avower) purpose of general Reform, (and this is
the avowed object of all the Radical Reformers)
are guilty of High Treason. The Meeting at
Manchester, on the 16th of Angtist, of forty thou-
sand persons, with the avowed purpose of effect-
ing a generia end ; namely, the Reformation of the
Commons House of Parliament, was guilty of
high Treason. In short, it is agreed by all the
great lawyers; that every assembly of great bodies
of people, with the intention of Reforming the
Constitution and the Law, is an overt act of
levying war against the King, his Crown, and
dignity. The lare.t and tile best writer on this
subject, is the late Mr. Justice Foster, in his
IVork on the Crown Law. it would be boyish
to quote 'cases ou points so plain,, but some of the
Citizens, of London have resolved, that the people
hare re Tight to meet ; yes, for a laufed purpose;
but not for an unlawful purptise. What the as-
sembled multitude avowed as their object, of Re-
forming the Parliament, evinced that their design
WAS unlawful : the resolve then of the said Citi-
zens of London is futile. But, some of the Citi-
zens of Norwich have resolved, that the people
have a right to Petition. So they have, if they
conform to the Act of Parliament for preventing
tumulthous Petitions. We thus see, that the said
Citizens of Norwich resolve what is not to their
purpose. It such Resolutions had been formed
before the Grand Jury of Lancashire Iran indict-
ed Hoot and others, and the Judge of Assize had
declared that they were charged with a very great
crime, the Citizens of London and Norwich
might have pleaded well-meaning ignorance for
their excuse. But, having made and pUblislied
those foolish resolves after the indictment of the
Jury, and the opinion of the Judge, the Citizens
of London and Norwich became highly criminal
themselves ; inasmuch as they did what in them
lay to obstruct or pervert the criminal justice of
the Country.
But it may row be asked whose duty it was to
Finest the Traitors who assembled at Manchester,
for the deliberate purpose of Reforming Parlia-
ment ? The Law-will answer that it was every
man's (boy to arrest them in obstruction of their
purpose, and in delivering them to justice. In
this case, however, the Magistrates of the district,
having already decided that such •an assembly,
collected from many towns, for such purpose, was
illegal and traiteroos, had also determined to ar-
rest the Leaders, and to disperse the Assembly.
The Magistrates were, undoubtedly, the fittest,
as they acted with most deliberation ; and the
Soldiel, were the fittest persons to be called upon,
as part of the posse comitatus, since they are -the
most disciplined. Ihe Law always adopts the•
most appropriate means for the end, and justifies
the instruments of its own choice, 'as the.most
worthy of its protection. Such is the doctrine
which the Law Writers inculcate on this bead of
the inquiry. It has been holden by all the Judges,
that it is lawful for the whole of the King's sub-
jects to arne theniselves, without any Special Coln-
mission for so doing, in order to suppress a Riot.
Or a Rebellion ; and the great Meeting at Mall-
Chester was an inchoate Rebellion.

IVe maynoW perceive how unfit are the speeches
of Mr. Harmer, who has repeatedly said before
the Coroner, that the Yeomanry who aided on
that occasion at Manchester, were guilty of mur-
der, as several deaths ensued in arresting the
riotous Traitors ; or it is absurd to say that the
same Law which commands the aid of the posse
comitatus, will not justify all those who act in
obedience to its dictates.'

Such, then, are the doctrines of the Law,
strengthened as they are by the Indictments of
the Grand Jury. and by the Declaration of the
Assize Judge: Upon what principles, then, are
Meetings of various persons held, to confound
those doctrines of the Law, to over-rule the In•
dictments of the Grand Jury, and to, set at naught
the opinion of the Judge ? The answer must be,
upon no known maxim of the Constitution. Are
such Meetings warranted by Law I The answer
must be, that the ends of those Meetings are un-
warranted by Law ; their objects are unconstitu-'
and their practical effects are obstructive
of Justice. Upou every view, then, of stub
Meetings of Persons, and of Corporations, their
proceedings appear to be unwarrantable, and their
intentions to be illegal.

Upon what authority, therefore, do• Magistrates
countenance such. Meetings, by grantiug permis-
sion to meet They are told bat the People have
a right to meet. For a legal purpose, they may
meet : lint, not for ends which ate extra• judicial,
illegal, and unw‘rrantable. The very first ques-
tion Which a Magistrate ought to ask the per.
sons ,who apply to him for calling a Meeting,
ought to be, what are your intentions ?• As the
answer to such an cm-pity, upon this occasion,
must disclose pprposes most illegal and un-
warrantable, it becomes the duty of the Ma-
gistrate, 'not only to refuse his assent to the
calling of such a Meeting, but to bind the per-
sons who appear most active in such measures
of agitation, to their good behaviour.

Such persons, who-thus solicit such Meetings,
are plainly agitators, that disturb the Peace of
die Community. Now, the duty of every Ma-
gistrate requires him to preserve the Peace : and
of course, the Law allows to every such Ma-
gistrate the discretion of binding such agitators to
their good behaviour. Among the tbutishun
CHUSeS for which such 'persons may 1.4 e boom; to
their good behaviour, one is, " it a .person has
been guilty of exciting the people to disobedience
to the Law :" " It one person lk its wait, to
hinder another from corning to a Court of
Justice :"--jitt author or publisher of an obscene

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or blasphemous book" may alsf
good behaviour.

It may be now asked, what' ir :the= eitv:

which surety may be req !iie.l of sveh
which every sahject has a right to tittiV? Peike,
in the general, may b considered as the very op,
posite of war, .or strife; Hod partictdirly, under
our Constitution, peace signifies a quiet and in-
offensive carriage towards the King and his peo.
ple:—The peace of the King, under the Statute
of the 6th, Richard 11. is that peace, and se-
curity, both for lite, and goods, wkich the King
promises to all his Subjects, or others, who are
taken to his protection. Btu what security, or
what peace, can be enjoyed in such a Country
as this, during such a moment, when half a dozen
busy persons, (and what town has not halt a
dozen bu.iy•bodies), may demand a Meeting, to
consider bow best, to pervert, or prevent, the
criminal justice of the Nation !
Lincolncs-Intr, Oct. I) 1819.

C. G.