Star.
London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

HArmARKE7' THEATRE.

Mr. COATES, again made his appearance on this
stage last night, in the character of Lothario, in the
Fair•Pcnitent, and, as usual, had to encounter evety
species of indignity and outrage. The indignation
of insulted taste on this occasion was, indeed, it pos-
sible, more strongly marked than ever. • At his death
several oranges were thrown at him, and not a line
of the Lith Act could he heal d. When the time came
for him to speak the nossense he calls the Hobbies,
he was not to be found, that is, by the audience : we
suppose, friAtened by tic treatment he experienced,
and anticipating inot,, he resolved not to
venture on the stage attail. In vain vecre the calls
Inc Mr. CoAms durnlg the space of twa hours ; he
returned no more—and during that time: a scene of
riot an.l confusion prevailed, that awn threatened
. vet y sesiuus consequences.

The Play of Hamlet is getting up at Drury-L:1m!
Theatre, with great splendour : Mr. KEAN is to enact
VA. Prince of Denmark. and Mks SNiurit is to sustain
the interesting character of Ophrlia.
The Managers of Covent garden Theatre have an-
nounced the Play of Pickard the Third at their house,
with YOUNG and CONWAY This fair tivalship the
Public will always delight in, as it awakens genius
bi competition :
•.. True hope oe'er tires, but mount' with eagle's wings;
King. 1: tuAkes Gods, and tneatu-r p oNie Kiugs

After the dinner at Freemason's TaVern, on St.
David's Day, Mr. COAT/iS proposed to recite some
verses upon the divine quality of benevolence, which
was politely resisted by the Noble Chairman, Lord
Penes., upon the necessity there was of attending so
immediately to the buiness of the charity.--4 Then
as you do not approve of my speaking," replied Mr.
CAA ens, you may, perhaps, have no objection to my
ing :" upon which he wrote a draft upon his
banker for thirty guineas.
THIC, LATE Mu. WRIGHT. —This Gentleman, whose
bequests have lately attracted some curiosituvspect-
ing himself, was the son of Baton Wright,..f the Ex-
chequer, whose work upon Tenures is quoted by
Blackstone. He was himself of St. .'selm's College,
Cambridge. We have not learned that he took a
. degree there; but his respec, for that Society is ex-
pressed by his will, which adds £3OOO to their funds.
Mr. Wt ight, a younger son, was educated to the Bar ;
and, at one time, he had little more fortune than
would enable him handsomely to take his chance
there. But his property was gradually increased by
the bequests of two sisters, who made him their sole
heir, and it was already large, when an extraordi-
nary circumstance gave him the whole of the family
estate. His el.ler brother, who had been long at va-
riance with him, had resolved, after many disputes,
to exercise the power, which he had, of. leas ing the
estate (nearer to 4 than to £3OOO a•yearl to a stran-
ge*. He had a will drawn up for that purpose, and
was riding with it in his pocket to a market town to
have it attested, when he was seized by a lit, fell
from his horse, and expired. Thus Mr. Wright be-
Came a man of considerable landed estate, as well of
ready-merle). property. He then entirely relinquished
the Dar, and Went abread, where he passed great
part of his life. On his return, it did not appear that
he could expend an eighth part of his income.
• On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, an aged
man, many years a porter in the King's Printing-
office, and well known in all the public offices by the
name of Old John, received a visit from a &How of
genteel appearance, at his obscure lodging in Dew-
court, Gunpowder-alley, under pretence that he came
from a meeting of Noblemen and Gentlemen, at the
Crown and Amin r, on charitable purposes, who all
- knew)iin!, to desire his attendance up, n them with
ell the saver he lead got, and that for ten pounds he
should receive fifteen in bank notes in return. Old
John could not resist temptations so powerful—the
vanity of being introduced to great men, to whom,
from habits, Juhn is extremely partial, added to the
little stimulus of the reward proposed, quite overset
the weak intellects of the poor creature) who, after
counting his treasure to the amount if selo, which
he put into a bag, set out for the Crown and Anchor
in his best attire. His guide, instead of going to the
Tavern, stopped at the entrance of the Rainbow pub-
lic house, near Temple-bar. Into this passage he
entered, leading in the old man, desiring him to pro-
ceed to the bar of the house, and there wait till the
meeting sent a deputatien to receive him. In the
mean time the miscreant withdrew, taking away the
bag and its contents, the saving, perhaps, of sixty
years industry.

Michael algherty, Andrew MAcew, and Thomas
Butler, three desperate characters, lately made their
escape out of Aylesbury prison ; but their want of
knowledge of the town and country, caused diem
soon to be retaken, and properly secured again in the
prison. They are charged with a highway robbery,
nistopping and robbing Mx. John Ridgway, of Sken-
- 17, Bucks, in the palish of Woelverton, of upkvards
. of £lO in bank notes, &c. Mr. Ridgway was return-
ing borne frOm market on horseback, when he was
stopped and robb-d by the prisoners, barbarously ill-
treated, and left in a ditch for dead. A neighbour
and friend ofilis having followed him from the market
his attention was drawn to the ditch by the groaks of
Mr. Ridgway, whom he founded wounded and brui-
sed in a most shocking manner, and the saddle of
his horse pressed upon his face with an intent of
smothering him. His friend got him out of the
ditch, and rendered him every possible assistance,
and having learnt from Mr. Rid:vsay a description
of the robtrers, he traced and pursued them to Fiznny
Stratford, where, with proper assistance, he had
them secured, and, on searching them, the prole: ty
of which they had robbed Mr. Ridgway was found
upon ti.em.
Tuesday afternoon, saile a boy, an apprentice to
a glazier, was c'ean:ng a window of a house in the
Cowgate, gdinbuigh, he tell from a height of tour
storeys, and was kilted on the spot.
l'ut.sday last, G. Cragr,s, jua. of Easington, fal.
sner, being employed in delivering a load 01 %ilea ..t
Dale-house mill, near Staitlis, complained of a pain
in his head, and immedi.r2..ly placed his hands ou each
side of his bead, dropped down and instantly expired.
A poor woman, sitting on the outside of one of the
Hampstead coaches, became so benumbed with cyld
on her way to town, on Sunday evening, that she fell
frum her seat, near Mother Rt.ll Cap's, and broke
bath her aims.

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