The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-17 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

KING'S THEATRE:—The doors of this Theatre
were not shut on Tuesday, it seems, in
quence of an execution on the premises, as stated,
but on account of tha arrears of ten nights due
to the Band: If, as reported, an offer was made
to appropriate the money taken at the doors that
bight wholly to the Orchestra+ ,we think the
Band impolitic, as well as unreasonable, in not
accepting it, as Mr. WATERS is at present on the
Continent:

Daun.*-Liici:---The second performance of
the renewed season at this Theatre, last night; was
Venice Preserved. We should have thought it
injudicious to bring thiS Tragedy forward at the
present critical period, as it contains many pas-
sages which Sedition might employ for its own
malignant purposes, and such was the case
and
night on all the philippics uttered by Pierre
other characters, against the Government and
Senate of Venice. All these passages were
loudly applauded by Radical Sympathy.—The
Manager, however, absorbed in his duty, only • -
chose the play as affording one of th'e characters' •
in the routine of Mr. .Ic.EAN's performances.
That Mr. KEAN possesseS talents we never. •
denied, and we should no doubt have ad- . •
mired them, if they had appeared without those
clap-traps as they are styled, which can only
please the ignorant million, and " make the ju-
dicious grieve." We do not indeed think that he
always chuses characters suitable to his powers
and his habits; and Jagier,'we should have .sup-
posed, would have been the last. which he iVould
have selected. We shall only say, that his
Jaffier, Which we never saw till last night, essen-
tially differs from all we have seen before,
and we may add, what QutN 'said of GARRICK
soon after he first appeared (Mr. may
well be proud of . the application) " if this
young man is right, we have all been wrong."
BOOTH. was right in his conception of Pierre,
but too boisterous and violent in expres-
sion. If he had bawled forth treason in the 'streets
of Venice, at the time of the historical action, as
he did last night in Drury-Lane Theatre, the
Plot would have been: soon discOvered,' according
to the second title of the Play; and 'Venice- have
been secure from danger. Mrs. 'WEST was a very
interesting Belvidera. There was a numerous
audience.

lIAYMARKET.—With all the counteraction of
KEAN at Drury-Lane, and all the attraction of
The Vampire at the English Opera House, the
new Comedy of Exchange no' Robberg proceeds
with unabated success at the Haymarket Theatre.

BRIGHTON, AUG. 15.--A little before twelve
o'clock yesterday, I e foßiwing ships came to an anchor
about a mile from our beach :—The Rural Sovereign yacht,
the Royal George yacht, the Prince Regent yacht, the
Liffey frigate, and the Hind sloop of war. There are also
two brigs of war, one of which is the Came!cow: Sir C.
Paget is the Commander; he has a broad pendant flying
on board his ship. Last night six or seven of his Majesty's
domestics art iced byre, together with his Majesty's plate,
&c. Last night, and this morning, 'he general opinion was,
that his Majesty would arrive here this evening Persons,
however, belonging to the Palace, have this day declared that
the King's jOuikeY has been postponed; but orders hare keen'
given to the Guards to be in attendance at the Palace-gates
this evening, at five o'clock.

Mrs. TI ELWAI.II the second Wife of the Po,.
.litical Writer, Orator, and Mender of the
Speeches of other People, when. be ought to mend
his own, is well calculated for Stage Effect, as
she performed some years ago at Covent-,Garden
Theatre.

Yesterday soon after one o'clock the Dull of
GLOUCESTER arrived at Gloucester House from
Cheltenham, we are
_happy to say, much im-
proved in his health. His Royal Highness left
Cheltenham on Tuesday, and proceeded to Ben-
son, in Oxfordshire, where his Royal Highness.
slept that night,- and left there yesterday mOrn-
ing between eight and nine.
Master. WILLIAM AUSTIN (we believe he is in
his 18th year) has been put to school at Doctor
LINDSAY'S, at Bow, as a parlour boarder.
Yesterday a large body of artillery arrived in
town from Woolwich, to form a part of the mili-
tary arrangements during the QUEEN'S trial. .The
Surrey horse-patrole are, it is said, to do daily
duty in Westminster-road ; several of them. yes-
terday took up their station in the livery stables
opposite Astley's Amphitheatre.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of NORTH-
UMBERLAND and family left their house in Saint
James's-square for Sion House. His Grace in-
tends to reside there
.during the proceedings
against her MAJESTY, and will come to town
every morning to attend his duty in the House of -
Lords)
returning, to. Sion-house every evening..
.
gr. Sheriff PARKINS this .evening will, wait on
the Duke of LEINSTER, to.,present the Petition.,
from the Freeholders of Middlesex, relative to'
the QUEEN ; and both the Sheriffs, with the City
Remembrancer, will present, through some other
- Peer, the Petition of the Corporation of London-
to the. House of Lords, against the pending Bill'
~.
of Pains and Penalties.-

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Liver
pool took place on Wednesday, when an Address
to her Majesty the QUEEN was 'proposed. , A
petition to the House of Lords, agiinst the Bill
of Pains and Penalties, has already been numeT-
ously signed. •
The following notice was 'posted up on the
door of Lincoln's Inn Hall yesterday morning,
" The LORD CUANCELLOR is prevented from sit-
ting at Lincoln's Inn this day, as he -intended."
On Tuesday se'rinight; the lion. JOHN JOCE.
LYN was unanimously elected one of the. Mpm.:
bers to represent the County of Louth in Parlia-
ment, Mr. BALFoun,having declined the contest.
The Doncaster Agricultural Society have re.-
solved in future to adapt their premiums to those
orders of the community, who cannot compete
with their more wealthy neighbours. Amongst
the company at their meeting 'last week—Earl
Fitiwilliam, the Earl of Surrey, Lord Milton,
Lord Althorpe,, Sir William Milner, Sir H. Ibbet-
sjo.np,
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Miss' L. KELLY is now. the favourite vocalist of
the 'fork and Leeds Theatres. • •

FoR THE SUN,

Mn. EDITOR,—Having read in your Paper
many just strictures on the condact of certain ne-
torionS cltaiacters' in the Opposition, who like
th4-ir departed arch Leader, contend for the sove-
rt of the-people, perhaps an historical sketch
ut that venerable body, or rather a part of it, may
zlot be unacceptable- under the title of
THE FOUR .ESTATE, OR THE SUPREMACY OF
THE RABBLE, CIVIL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS.
'chi:: estate added to the other three, make.
J.fire, „Ifords, Com Mons, and Nob, which some
~..ilth,ruen are apt to call the People, as they did
it-t tintrrter in and about Manchester; Under
Feudal system they were a little uncourte-
iy panic& villains, who, nevertheless, have
claimed a right to. watch over the other,
, which they have often been under the ne-
tt ity. of exercising by force:
Zia Itacnann the I.'s time,. so great was their
lime of religion, which they always defend, that
thq destroyed a vast number of harmless Jews,
4.t1,1 their leader FITZHERBERT, after maintaining
their rights by'rnurder and rapine; unfortunately
1054 his life at' the gallows, where. many active
and eloquent members of 'the fourth estate have
sutiered similar deaths. Under our third llEway,
it pleased God to raise up one FITZ ARNULPH,
unties whose spirited adMinistration, many houses
were pulled down in Westminster, for which he
u as hanged by Martial Law, contrary to Magna
Charta ; and as the King was treating with his
Barons, the rabble
,exerted their rights so far as
to insult the Queen, and• throw stones' at her:
L Eo WAR n 11. they' were se enraged afrainst
the two SPE,NCEIII4 that they chopped off the
bead of a worthy Bishop, and after joining the
.traitorous Lords against the King, at last de-
throned, impriSoned, and, murdered him ;
but this 'right was 'not confined to the rabble,
for out of a secret loVe 'for the - Queen;
the favourite Minister 'of the third estate, ,who
encouraged, them to that memorable deed of
blood., bud himself the hon Our of being hanged in
the subsequent reign; In the reign, of RICHARD
11. they agqin took the law into their own hands
to vindicate their ,liberties. 1-leaded by Wier
TYLER, JACK STRAW, and others, they fled to
arms, and demanded their share. of government.
In the true and undistinguishing spirit of equality,
they beheaded all the Baron's, Gentry, and
Clergy, that came in their way. They summon-
ed the King before them at Blackheath ; but he
pOlitely declining, to appear, they rushed into
London, .plundered and burnt great men's houses;
and
.murdered their tenants into the bargain; but
one of these -rabble leaders beint killed by the
Lord Mayor, their estate dwindled, and 'many of
them were afterwards choaked at • Tyburn.
-WIwn,HENRY was on Abe throne, thinking
their rights invaded, they surrounded the stan,
dard of one .CARE, and after committing all sorts
of depredations, this bold man was killed in the
field of honour, several of his followers were gib,
betted,' and the rest ran away.
•,Passing by less considerable enterprises of the '
.fourth estate, under EDWARD IV. and
.lIEN-ny
VII., and those great and good men, SulOvi, and
AVAlintcE the latter, of whom lost his life in
their cause it is obvious, that a fourth estate; has
Re-Wally been exerted among ns; time oat
mind, and made its importance known to the
other:three, Which, according- to our Statute
Book, have attempted to check their growing„
power, under 'the Sneering names of .14bands,
110erlsinen, Drazzialches, rogues and vagabonds.
Their Legislative and judiCial power is assumed',
as well 'as their executive:- Yet, while. Some per-
sons- are unwilling, to allow their authority to be
legal, the knowing ones contend that the putting
the great seal into their, hands would be for the
public good. Indeed they have not yet claimed,
like the rabble of old .Roine,. a„negatiVe on our
laws, though they controul their execution ; as
Witness the old Gin acts, the saw mills, the.
Roman Catholic Acts, and many others, down
to the late Meetings in the North under that
Reformer Orator Hunt of pious memory, who
with his colleagues, are now under punishment,
and suffering for the good old cause.
Their elevation has been owing to the squab-
bles among' the three estates,' or the opposition
Men therein, , who endeavour :to strengthen the
power of the rabble iti.order to increase their
own. Great Men, Peers, and .CommonerS, call
them together as allies in streets and fields, and
prove them to be slaves nnder oppression, not
daring to .speak but in the presence of a Magis-
trate. So much has this fourth estate been an-
noyed law, made necessary by themselves,
that•the,yhaire associated' in clubs to preserye our
Constitution on :revolution. principles, that is to
-overturn,Chnrch: and
.State, in the beautiftil. idea.
of reforrning Parliament, and usurping their We-
. tiOns. Considering; according to MILTON, SVo-
.N•cy;., LOCKE, and.nthers, that the rabble are the
:foundation , of Government, who is to dispute
their rights, though every, thing dear_ to. civilized
men is destroyed by them ? but as they are. only
the cause and not the foundation of Government,
their power :and its effects in the .handsome
manner premised, .may.be justified in distenipered
imaginations, Ivbile in the saber. 151inds of those
who are better.taughti_it may liellignified:by
the
names of TREASON and Runr44.7oN.

CLIO,

Yesterday a ballot _was taken at. the East
India House, for the election. of a Director in
_the room of Sir aavid .Scott,
,Bart 'dis-
Oa-lifted.. At six, o'clock the, ilaP'e3-werP
and.delivered td the- Scrutineers, who repOrted
the election to have falfen on Josias Du:Pre.
Mexander, Esq. The titunber's were-74r Josias
Dupre Alexaerer, `Esq. 1.05., for, Neil Benja-
,
rniu 'Fidinon,stiour, Esq. 3.2 q.,
Oti 111411( ay-: •was played a grand Cricket
uppa s II 'lt, Cpaiden, between eleven
Gentlemen of the Chislehutst Club, and eleven
of thet-Proyden- Clulhr.vhich was decided,-in
favour of the Chislebßrsla havino•s'i wickets to
,
go down. The beauty- of the situation drew an
itnnninse concourse of beauty and fashion.