Star.
London, England, 1809-11-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 2d battalion of the 50th Regiment moved on'
Friday last from Ospringe barracks for Shorncliffe,
and three companies of the 9th Regiment from the
same place, to join their regiment in Canterbury.—
These movements, it is understood, have been made
for the purpose of affording accommodation at Os-
pringe for the sick that have arrived in the Downs
from Walcheren.

The 2d battalion of the 10th, 2d battalion of the
14th, five companies of the Ist battalion of the 82d,
and the same number of the 51st regiments, amount-
ing in the whole to about 1800 strong, it is under-
stood, will shortly be embarked at Portsmouth, for
Walcheren.

A quantity of specie, destined for the payment of
the garrison of Walcheren, &c. was on Monday es-
corted through Canterbury, by a party of the Life
Guards, for embarkation at Deal.

THEATRE, COVENT-GARDEN.

The house was not so full last night ; but the up-
roar began with the first rising of the curtain ! and, to
the end of the performance, the province of the actor
was confined to inexplicable dumb shew. It would be
vain to record the hackneyed modes in which the dis-
approbation of the audience was expressed. Rattles,
horns, whistles, and cat-calls were as much in vogue as
on Monday night, although 0. P.'s were less numerous.
Many placards were hoisted round the pit, and the
boxes patronised them. They in general breathed a
spirit of moderation ; and there was more than one
to the following effect :
" Be silent without ;
Be noisy within;
And thin, without doubt,
John Bull will win!"
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Before the end of the second act, a respectable
tradesman, named Charles Caulfield, resident at No.
37, Foster-lane, Cheapsidc, was taken out of the pit,
and conducted to Bow-street, where he was charged
by a journeyman bell-hanger, named Cadwallader,
with disturbing the house by talking loudly, and pre- ;
venting the complainant from attending to the play..'
Mr. GRAHAM, we understand, dismissed the case on
the first blush. The brother of Mr. Caulfield was
robbed of his hat in the scuffle, and he himself had
his pocket picked of a silk handkerchief.
In the height of the tumult, the rage of the oppo-':
sitionists was so great, that two hats were thrown
from the pit into the orchestra. A clog was thrown
upon the stage ; and a penny-piece, from some part ,
of the house, struck Mr. FAWCETT on the head.

At the end of the performance four orators seve-
rally addressed themselves to the house ; two from
the boxes, and the other two from the pit. The first
Gentleman, in the boxes, with difficulty obtained a
hearing. He said, he was proud of being an English-
man—he gloried in Magna Charta and the Bill of
Rights. id) the latter an Englishman ought not to
be insulted with impunity, more particularly in a
Theatre, by hired ruffians employed by the Managers.
He then expressed his disapprobation of the private
boxes. There were many, he said, among the Pit, who
were industrious good members of society, and he knew
it was repulsive to their feelings to scereceptaclesof vice
flourishing over their heads—( loud cheerings.) He dis-
claimed any intention to offend against the laws, and
recommended his party to disperse when they left the
Theatre. He hoped that they would not conduct
themselves in a riotous manner, but confine their
opposition to those legal means which the laws of the
Theatre had tolerated for two centuries past. He
was net ashamed. he said, to stand up and to speak
his mind like an Englishman ; and, to prove the ho-
nesty of his intentions, he informed them, that his
name was Joseph Sparrow, a wine merchant, residing
in the East-India Chambers.—His speech was fol-
lowed by loud applause.
A ring was then made in the pit, and a young gen-
tleman presented himself as an orator. He made a
very emphatic appeal to the house, in order to justify
the conduct they had pursued in combating the over-
bearing and monopolizing intentions of the Managers. I
Opposition was a privilege which had been handed
down to them from their fore-fathers, and if they but
retained any of the genuine feelings of Englishmen,
they would rather die than lose a blessing to which
they owed the enjoyment of civil liberty.
Gun save Me King was then sung with great spirit,
and shortly after the people in the pit quietly left the
house. However, heedless of the advice given by the
orators, some of the O. P. gentlemen paid their visits
respectively to the different Newspaper Offices, and
evinced their wonted spit it of hostility by groaning to j
those journals which have taken an adverse part in the
contest, and cheering those %% hose statements were less ;
ohnosious.—Their nombers, however, were greatly
diminished, and as th:s mode of opposing the Mana-
gers, by distal bing the pence of the Metropolis Can-
not be cenntenanced by any person who possesses
either sense or the feelings of a Gentleman, we con-
fidently hope, tlat we shall no longer have to record
an act so degrading to its perpetrators, and so d in-
gerons in its tendene; to the quiet and welfare of the
community.

Yesterday aftermicin a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign Cilice, which continued sitting till
half-past five, at which were present the LORD CHAN•
CELLO% Earls 11.1TOCIO,T, LIVERPOOL, CANIDEM,
CHA 111,1 NI, and II Alt itow3v, Lords MULGRAVE and
PA I.M EtisTox, and the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER.
A statement of the hiss of the CuEErtm. cutter,
Lieutenant CAutieNrErt, having by some means got
into circulation, we are happy in being able to relieve
the anxiety of the relatives of those on board. The
report is totally unfounded.—Letters were received
from her five days ago, which left her well in the
Baltic, under the orders of Sir JAPeIiS SAUMAREZ.

We are grieved to state that the FOXHOUND brig of
n-ar, Capt. MACKENZIE, may certainly be considered
as lost, with all her crew : no account of her has been
received subsequent to the statement given by the ship
Watt, of Liverpool, which vessel left her in a dread-
ful gale, in great distress, on the 30th of August last,
in latitude 46. longitude 42.
The Naturalist, the Antiquary, and Connoisseur,
will learn with pleasure that the Liverpool Museum
(unquestionably the first coßection of Natural History
and Antiquities in Great Britan, perhaps in Europe)
will shortly open for public inspection in the Great
Room, No. 22, Piccitdilly.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, NOV.?.

The Marquis olLansdovme is possessed, as tenant
in common, of the estate of Beauwood, in Wiltshire,
on which there are most extensive and noble woods to
the extent, as has been supposed, of more than a mil- 1
lion of trees. Some time ago, at the instance of the
trustees, of the heirs in remainder, who complained
that waste had been committed by cutting down these
woods to the detriment of their interests, the Court
was pleased toissue an injunction prohibiting the Mar-
quis to cut down any trees, till the question founded
on the original bill had been set at rest.
Sir A. PIGOTT now applied on behalf of the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne for the removal of this injunction.
He produced a variety of affidavits from the Sur-
veyors of Woodlands, the object of which was to chew
that though the Marquis, in the space of four years,
; had cut down timber to the value of more than forty
thousand pounds, yet so extensive were the planta-
tions, that this had only thinned them, and was ne.
cessary for the growth of the younger trees. It was
also contended, that the ornamental parts of these
woods in the park surrounding the mansion, had not
received any deterioration, and that nothing had been
cut down which could be considered as ornamenral
to the grounds.
Mr. ALEXANDER was heard at some length on the
same side, and the further hearing was postponed till
to-morrow.