Star.
London, England, 1809-12-14 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The performances at this Theatre, last night, were
the Comedy of Every Man in his Humour and the
Ballet of Oscar and Malvin.

The parts of Kitely, Matter Stephen, and Matter
Matthew, were sustained with the usual ability of the
performers.

- If the house often exhibits such aspects as it did last
night, the Managers cannot be said to have advanced
their prices to 7s. and 4s. but to have decreased them
to 3s. 6d. and 2s. Till half-price last night there were
not above two or three of the rows in the pit filled,
and even afterwards the house was not half full. The
uproar began in hisses and ironical applauses, and was
kept up by cries of " Shocking bad !" " Horrid !"
exclamations which, like the hissing and applauding,
were meant to come under the head of legitimate criti-
cism. A burst took place at the commencement of the
fifth act, which was renewed upon MuN DEN being seivnd
with a fit of sneezing, and but little of the remainder
of the comedy was distinctly heard, except two or
three of Cootie's concluding sentences. The noise in-
creased during the performance of Oscar and Malvin,
and the effect of the singing was destroyed by ren-
dering it luiicrous in the first part, and afterwards
by overwhelming it with loud vociferation ; but there
%vas no display of slacards. Three or four persons
appeared inthe pit v4ill 0. P. handkerchiefs tied round
their hats.

A man dressed in a coachman's coat and Welch
wig suffered himself to be pushed about the seats of
the pit, for the amnscrnent of his partizans, while
others exclaimed Off ! Off! and Old Prices.

Few as the O. P.'s were last night, they danced the
0. P. dance as well as could be expected from the
smallness of the set. They then gave their usual cheers
and groans, followed by a new cheer, got up expressly
for the occasion, and called " Three cheers for the
dinner to-morrow."—They then sung, and that well,
both " Gon save the King," and Rule Britannia."
During the after•piece two persons were taken
from the pit to the watch•house, where they remained
in durance vile till this morning.
The curtain dropped at a quarter past ten. The
0. P.'s, after giving their usual cheers and groans,
and having a dance, very soon retired, and the house
was cleared some time before eleven.

The LORD CsimccuLatt..has appointed HENRY
REED, of Bridgewater, in the County of Somerset,
Gentleman, to ba a Master Extraordinary in the High
Court of Chancery.

We announced in yesterday's STAR thcappoint.
ment of Sir GORE Ousetxv to be ilfehmaardar to the
Persian Ambassador. The following explanation of
the term is given in Richardson's Persian Dictionary:
" MehmJastiar—A hospitable or courteous man ; one who has
the care in inns and caravanseru of receiving and entertaining
guest‘."

When BONAPARTE was in Italy, having been irri-
tated by some instance of perfidy, he said, in a loud
and vehement tone, in a public company, "'Tis a
true proverb, G. 7 ltaliani tuAR Lzdroni" (i. c. the Ita-
lians are all plunderers). A lady had the courage to
reply, « N2n tutfi, ma BuyNJ Pitters," (not all, but a
good part).

Madame CATALAN', on Friday last, gratified the
amateurs of harmony, at Bristol, with six of her fa-
vourite Italian airs, which she executed in her own
superior and transcendant style gratis before an au-
dience of 500 of the most respectable Nobility and
Gentry of Bristol and its vicinity. The admission
tickets were half a guinea each, and the profits have
been applied to the fund for the support of the City
Infirmary. CATALAN! certainly goes to Petersburgh
in the ensuing spring. On a Gentleman's expressing
his regret that she should lately have experispced
some indignities in London and Bath, she replied,
There are in all countries good and bad people, but
in England there are less bad than any where; my
orrati•ude to it will never be shaken!"
•
An old woman, who for some years had lived a
half-starved life, lately died at her lodgings in Duke's.
court, Westminster ; where, after her decease, there
were found in an earthen put 50 guineas in gold, £3O
is silver, and a quantity of old halfpence,
SMITHFIELD-CLUB CATTLE Susw.—Yesterday after-
noon, the fat Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs intended to be
for the Prizes, began to assemble at Mr. Sad-
ler's yard, in Goswell-street ; Sir JOHN SANDERS SE-
niacin. aid Mr. WARNIINGTON, the Stewar,;s, were in
attendance, to examine the certificates of feeding, dec.
and arrange the cattle in the yard, ready for the three
Gentl2mm who are this day to examine and award
the Prizes, previous to the opening of the Shew to-
morrow morning. The Dukc of BEDFORD, the Mar-
quis of Sar.t.:nuttv, and many other distinguished
Agriculturists, have sent in stock to be shewn.

A robbery of a curious nature was on Thursday
morning dissevered at the White Hart, Bristol :
MA a room in the house but was entered, the pockets
of all the commercial ebabarsatiars examined, and the con-
tentstaken, be:ides shirts, stockings, boots, Ac. Turner,
the landlord, had taken from his pocket upwards of 7.51.
A person is in custody who had been a traveller from
a respectable house in Manchester, and who has been
supported at the White Hart, by the different com-
mercial travellers for several weeks.

Tuesday, as an infirm woman, who is upwards of
80 years of age, residing in Castle-street, Long-acre,
and 'rho has for a length of time existed upon the
charity of her friends, was passi,tg Tottenham-court-
road, a man accosted her in a familiar manner, ob-
serving he belonged to the Society at the Tabernacle,
Tottenham-co;:rt-road, that if she could raise 15s. he
could give her an order to rece;ee a legacy of two
guineas, left to objects of charity, and appointed to
meet her in the afternoon in Fulwood's-rents, Holborn.
She borrowed tie! money, and met the villair who
took her trifle of money, and gave her an order to
receive the supposed legacy, in Furnival's Inn, but
upon her application there, no such circumstance was
known.