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London, England, 1813-08-27 00:00:00

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koAiITHEON THRATItiI.
hibinisoltOUGH4TßlnT.--;..Some performers of the
Pantheon Theatre appeared at this Office, to answer
the charge preferred against them lfy Mr. Martin,
for having performed theatrical pieces without licence.
Sitting Magistrates, Messrs. Conant and Baker.
The first information was against a Mr. Chambers,
but it was proved that Mr. Chambers's name was
not William Chambers, as stated in the information,
but Abraham Aronex Chambers; this information
was consequently not proceeded on.
The information against another of the performers
(Mr. Hill) was then read, setting forth, that John
H;11, of the parish of St. James, in the liberty of I
Westminster, without letters patent from his Majesty
or any of his predecessors, without authority or li-
cit ce from the present or any other Lord Chamber-
Lin. had performed for lucre and reward, on the 29th
of July, 1813, at the Pantheon Theatre, in the parish
of St. James, the part of Lord William, in the Haun-
ted Tower, contrary to the Statute in that case provi-
ded, whereby £5O were forfeited, for which William
Martin, the info! mans, sued, as weU for himself as for
the poor of the said parish.
Mr. POOLEY, on behalf of the informer, after re-
marking that the information was at the instance of
the Lord Chamberlain, to put a stop to the perfor-
mances at the Pantheon, called as a witness Mark
LonsJale. .
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The witness having been sworn, stated, that on
the 29i1i of July he went to the Pantheon Theatre,
and paid three shillings for admission into the Pit.
The piece was the Haunted Tower, an Opera. Mr.
Hill played the part of Lord William ; the piece
was performed in the same way as at the regular
theatres, except that a piano forte continued jingling
all the time the performers were speak:Lig; this music
was not set to the dialogue, but seemed to be corn-
posed exttmpore by the performer, who amused him-
self at the same time by looking about and talking
to the persons about him.
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY, (the Counsel for the
defendant.)
He lived in Wych-street, Drury-lane, and was em-
ployed about the Lyceum Theatre. He was direc-
ted to go to Mr. Martin by Mr. Raymond ; he was
to have no part of the penalties, nor would accept of
any ; he came there out of duty to his employers,
because it was necessary some one should come ; he
went to the Pantheon, because it was understood to
be Mr. Raymond's wish that some one should go ;
he was not a performer; he took a book and fol-
lowed the performers; Mr. Raymond did not furnish
it; the performance was not recitative, as at Sadler's
Wells.

Mr. Mash, First Clerk of the Chamberlain's Of-
fice, was called and sworn; who stated that no licence
had been *ranted by the Lord Chamberlain to the
Nan►heon Theatre.

Mr. ALLEY contended, that it was necessary► to
produce the books in which the entries of licences
were made, to prove that none had been granted.
This objection, however, was waived.
On cross-examination by Mr. ALLEY, Mr. Mash
stated; That another person, besides Mr. Cundy, had
applied for a licence for the Pantheon 1 heatre ; but
the Magistrates objected to the question who that per-
son was, as quite irrelevant.
Mr. Nodder proved that the Pantheon was in St.
James's parish.

The evidence on the part of the informer having
been gone through,
Mr. ALLEY contended, that not even a prima facie
case was made out against his client. It was essen-
tial, to bring his client within the penalties oldie 10th
of Geo. 2. that it should be proved that he had acted
for 4g lucre and gain, benefit or reward."
Mr. PooLiv contended, that the receipt of money
at the door was prima facie evidence.
Mr. ALLEY persisted that this proof was not suffi-
cient : it only proved the offence against the proprie-
tor. If would he !wow on such a proof to found a
conviction of Mr. Raymond, if the Lyceum ptrfor-
mances were proved to be ill-gal, (as perhaps they
• would be) ; it was proper to convict Mr: Cundy on
it,- but was Ito proof-against any performer. Many
persons performed without Reward—noz;ously to the
public—among others, Mr. Coates, who, according
to the doctrine laid down by his Learned Friend,
might be convicted, if acting at an unlicensed theatre.
Both the Sitting Magistrates thought that there
was prima fade evidence that the persons who minis.
tered the entertainment received the money taken at
the door.

Mr. ALLEY contended, that there was a general
but gross misunderstanding as to the power of the
Lord Chamberlain under the Act of 10th Geo. IL
This Officer had no power over the place (except
merely a co-ordinate power with the Magistrates of
licensing), but merely over the thing acted. The
Magistrates, he contended, by the 26th of George
the Ild. had a power of licensing, and such a licence
the Pantheon possessed. To intepret the Act under
which alone the Chamberlain could claim power,
it was only necessary to recur to the history of the
time at which it was enacted, when the Ministry
' were so lampooned on the. stage, in the productions
of Gay and others, that they were obliged to get an
Act passed, by which the Chamberlain's power was
extended, by subjecting to his review all pieces in-
tended for musical representation, while the consi-
deration of the fitness of the place was left to the
Magistrates. Indeed, the Lord Chamberlain had

never interfered with the Theatres around the Metro-
polis, or with those in the country so far as the place
was concerned, but as to the thing: performed, he
had interfered at times in places so distant as York.
In an instance related in six term reports, the Cham-
berlain interfered to put down some tumbling at Bir-
mingham—but the King's Bench decided it not to
be a Theatrical performance, and the tumbling con-
tinued in spite of him. If the Chamberlain had a
power over the place in which it was performed, he
might have suppressed it by taking away the licence,
but there was not a single instance to be found of the
interference of the Chamberlain, except in London or
Westminster. It a power over the place was intended
to be given by the Legislature, why did they not
give a power of examining the place, as they had of
examining the pieces to be performed ? On this point,
and on the insufficiency of the proof that the defen-
dant acted for lucre or reward, Mr. Alley rested the
defence, and produced in evidence the licence from
the Magistrates at the quarter sessions, " for singing,

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to have been •Cominitted ; t ititiesses hat live
given any information there to him, or since Mai
time; of what they had then stated against the ;xi.;
soner. A few days previous to their coming to thit
office, to eihibit their complaint against the prisoner,
he met the witnesses, when they demanded some
wages of him in the street, and violently assaulted
him, for which he had them taken before the
.Lord
Mayor, when hisiLordshiP made them sensible of the
impropriety of 'their conduct, but liberated them on
their promising not to.be guilty of the like again :
this time tf.ey did not say any thing about the charge
which' they had now made.
! A Gentleman preseln, who had been in India;
stated, that the Lascars had a partienl ir way of
putting on their turbans, which exonerated them from
the obligations of an oath. He had been present in
, Courts in India when some of them had been dem.
ted at it. He also stated that an oath ohght to be
administered to these men with their feet bare, agree-
ably to the custom of their country.
Mr. GOULD, the Agent of the East India C•im-
pany for taking care of the Lascars in this country,
st..ted, that an investigation had been gomg on, by
the Solicitor to the Company, fur three weeks past by
order of the Company, respecting the conduct 01 the
Officers on board the. J4V3. Whq had not made his
Report yet ; but he did not believe that any thing
had come out which amounted to any thing like
murder, but he believed that there had been sme
cruelty exercised.
Mr. JoNEs, Solicitor, attended on the part of the
Admiralty.

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liincitit, iiiti other public ettertainikati at the BIN
kind."
Mr. POOLIY said, that the Lotd Chainberlain had
froth time immemorial, exercised power over the The-
atrical performances in the place where the Court was
held, and this power was confirmed and increased by
the Act of 10. G. 11. and several subsequent statutes.
As to the Act 25. G. 11. in which there was an ex-
ceptionin favour of the power of the Lord Chamber-
lain-it was meant merely to. repress places where
dancing and music only was exhibited. Indeed,
though Mr. Alley thought the licence of the Magis-
trates sufficient, Mr. Hill was of another Opinion, and
his recitation was interrupted by the notes of a piano.
Messrs. CONANT and BAKER were of opinion, that
the power of the Magistrates only extended to the
licensing of music and dancing, and accordingly con-
victed Mr. Hill in the penalty of 850. •
Mr. Hill was also convicted in two other penalties
of £5O each, on the same evidence, for having per-
formed the part of Orlando in The Cabinet, on the 26th
of July, and the part of Mr:Meath, in The Beggar':
Oftera,on the 6th of August.
Mr. ALLZY gave notice of an intention to appeal to
the Quarter Sessions.
Mr. Joseph Bishop was also proceeded against on
three informations, for having performed at the same
place, arc. on the 26th of July, Mantelin, in The Ca-
binet ; on the 29th July, Edward, in The Hawsted
Tower; on the 6th of August, Mat o' the Mint, in
The Beggar': Opera ; and was convicted on the same
evidence as above, in three penalties of 850 each.
Mr. ALLEY put in the same defence for the defen-
dant, and gave notice of his intention to appeal to the
Quarter Sessions.
In the course of his cross.examination on thebthird
information against Mr. Hill, Lonsdale stated that he
was repaid the money he had paid at the door of the
Pantheon at the treasury of the Lyceum, on the order
of Mr. Arnold, he (Lonsdale) having represented to
Mr. Arnold that he could not be ~ out of pocket."
Mr. POOLEY said, that if the performances were not
stopped, many more informations would be filed
against the performers.
A Mr. Jones, or Jonas, another of the performers,
was expected to appear to be proceeded against as a
vagrant, but he did not appear, and it was proved
that the summons was not served on him.
• CHARGE OF MURDER.
• Bow-STREET.-Tuesday, Pearkes, the officer, ap-
apprehended in Paradise-row, Blackwall, near the
East India Docks, 'graham Reeve, the Second
Mate of the East India Company's ship the Java,
charged on suspicion of the wilful murder of a man
called Rarnsame, a Lascar, upon the high seas, rs ith-
in the jurisdiction of the English Court of Admiralty.
-The investigation of the above charge has been
brought forward at this office, through the inter-
ference of a Serang, or Boatswain, belonging to the
East India Company's ship called the Cttffnells, of the
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name of Hassan, who has a knowledge of the English Mumma.- Friday, the 6lr instant, a barbarous
language, and can speak it tolerably well. Meeting
of G
murder was committed on the ht of Martin Cusack,
landree, in the parish of Tol:a, its tie coutoy of
with a number of the crew o: the Company's ship the
Java, at the East India Company's house in Ratcliffe• Ennis, .by Darby Reddan and Micliad kedeldn, brat erg,
highway, where they are all taken care of, who in-
residing in the same place. About sevat o'cl ck on
formed him that several of their countrymen had been
the evening of the 6:h, they entered the garde, w' •?re
Cusack, the deceased, was at his work during the
murdered in the Java,on their voyage from India to
England, he conducted his informants and the wit.
nes,es to this office. day, and violently attacked him with a spade andpitchfork, and, alter inflicting a number of wounds
Yesterday Mr. Abraham Reeve, the Mate, was
and fracturing his skull, they fled, leaving lint apps_
placed at the bar, and a full investigation of the cir-
was a melancholy spectator of his father's- murder,
nesses had been previously taken in writing, and were
rently dead. His son, a lad about 13 years old, who
Magistrate. The informations of the different wit-
cumstances took place before Mr. READ, the itting
would have suffered the same fate, were he not pre-
read over by Mr. STAFFORD, the Chief Clerk.
served by the libel-A protection of a woman, who
spread herself over him, when she saw the ruTans
with boundless rage approach him. The decease 1
Hassan, the Serang or Boatiwain, who is a Maho-
metan, attended, and acted as an interpreter to the
was immediately taken into his own linos , where he
witnesses, who are Lascars, for which purpose he WAS Is
lingered a few days and expired. In the mean time
sworn on the A lcoran.
It appeared from the evidence of a man called his murderers absconded. Darby Reddan is about
Gullamall and several other Lascars that the five feet five inches high, and '24 years of age, brown
y, , y
hair, and large whiskers; Michael Reddan ab.tur five
agreed wiLli the Captain of the East India Company's
'Feet two inches high, and 26 years ot Ice, fair hair,
ship the Java, to come to England. About twenty
moons since, when they were near Calcutta, in the and light complexion.
Saugar Roads, at which time Captain Denison, who An application having been made for permission
to receive on board an American cartel,at L. I
commanded the Java, and all the first-rate Officers, tverpoo ,
were on shore, when the command of the vessel de. all Americans who may have regular passports, and
volved upon the prisoner, and he ordered some work
all British subjects who may have business in America,
I
to he done, and among those ordered to work was the the following answer was returned by order of the
deceased, Ramsame, who excused himself horn work. Secarra KY of STATE for the Home Department:
tszttnit,Nteasvtit the arrdival ov the
ing, by saying he was very unwell, and had not (Corr.) .. Wurrauscr., Aug. 14, its.
acipStrao-f 107
letterdirert ,edd.
the
11.0,
trhdissilDmou i ll to ackniAtre :ge dad
strength sufficient to work. The prisoner then struck
the deceased several violent blows on his face, head, Robert Buyrnsrcartel at Liveerplool,
sides, and breast, knocked him down, and gave him itig,.pleTuisals;soonstrautre her
iti to return
letter,tti tAhantie
:hei cadvimi tuhzan7:,:!red,hutitar:
'.several blows on the head with a handspike while he
company it will shew on vi hat ground the carrel was roam d to
was lying on the deck, from whence the deceased
come to this country; from which you trust a .imi' c indulgence
never moved, he not having strength sufficient. will be granted to the ship on her re i urn voyage, n.rn 4T' to take
It was about ten o'clock in the morning when the as passengers all Americans who may hove regnia,- ~,,
deceased was beat and knocked down. He was not also any British subject (except a mechanic) whose conPcerns may
aßnuirtnos aucqrtuealintot you,
ret,,
return
hattopezwissylonhw ill be On
moved from the deck, and it was supposed he was not cal` him to the United States.
able to move himself. In the course of the day, some
Robert
tsoners as shall have been du'y
P7Cdrie:ronvtefbrnermeetnetperaoLdnot
acsopnassesentngtoeras',lrhoarandy
thAenice.ne.ne‘an
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ch
water, cattle, and rice, were offered, but he declined fAormtehrniecraßenpu
taking either, or any thing else, as he was very sick, Icthiteizßenristisreksi
ist
iascht osruyh.eexcptslarat resident explanation sihr.tallt
I,
ehave been
and he was so much hurt on his breast, which pre-
given of the
vented him from eating. Previous to the crew going Unfired States
to bed, one of them covered the deceased over with a i u For the same reasonj
the British Government cannot permit
any P.ritish subjects to proceed in the cartel to th: Un.ted &atm;
reantronanoef 131;
blanket, on the deck. On the following morning, the
t as they may be thereby exposed to the same measure of severity.
same man who put the blanket on him went to take
~ I am, &c. (Aigned) " 1. riecitievr.4
it off, and found the deceased was dead. A mark aC. §uracs, Esq. St. Mildred's-court."
was then observed on his forehead from a blow, and
SMITHFiELD MARKET, AUGUST 27.
several bruises on his right side. On the prisoner dis-
PIR ,TON[ OF Sib. TO SINK TM! orrm.
6,4 40.
covering that the deceased was dead, he ordered the Beef Ss ad to 6s Sd I Veal Es 04 to. 7, Si!
body to be thrown overboard. The man the prisoner Mutton Si Sd to 7s Od Pork 6s 0.1 to 74 64
Lamb 6s cad co 7s 6d.
told to throw it overboard refused, and in consequence
the prisoner threw the body overboard himself. The Beasts, about 740--Sheep and Lainbe.
Glues, 260-pigs, 260
deceased had been unwell, but was considered to be
CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, AUGUST 27.
getting better, and w expected to he well in the Tg•
Our Wheat 'trade continues exceedingly dull-having a very
at s
course of a few days, and that he would not have large quantity at market, and scarcely a buyer appears. Iris
forced
Monday, so little business is done; but Where the sales are
died had it not been for the blows, in the opinion of impossible to quote the pr vise reduction that has tak-n place
the witnesses. There was no D. tenor on board at the
leowiehrerperitcsesnomostusnts b.doisubsniotte I to.-In Peas,
time. The deceased was in good health when he Beacn.' muchaodß Rye,
came on board the Java, and continued so for about at a trifling decline. ln other articles th:rl. eis no. alteration.
oterationff.skirir'
a fortnight; during the time he was in good health, English. I Foreign.
Wheat, Kent and Else:, 90s. What, Amencan 0.. 00. •
he did his work very well-the same as other men:
112 s. per quarter.. per quarter.
All the provocation the deceased gave the ptisoner r,
Ditto, Fulfolk, Sus. It Os. Ditto, Dantxic I 03s. 1152.
when he beat him was, that he would do his work as Ditto, Norfolk, Obi. 9JS. Ditto, Baltic rte-I Sea. SS&
well as any other man when he was better, or able. Rye 465. 525. . Ditto, Hainhre' or
, Barley 375. 41a. .Fine 425. 4.55. Bremen, 065. sue.
A variety otother circumstances were stated.
i Malt, 1:14s 945.
Rye, Brabant Red S6s. nit
Mr. POOLEY, the Barrister, attended for the prisoner, ' hits •P. -70 s. 745. New, It
and stated, that an Officer of the Java was then in! 76,. so,. ' By ' 51.1
racy. 401.4.15. .
Lincolnshire, and solicited a further investigatiog Grey, ditto, 565. soi. . Oats, Brew,
when that Officer could attend, and who would be ; 01l Beasis,636. uos. Oats, Fred,
Tick• do. sgs. els. Fine 00s. Oos. I White Peas, 70s. 744.
able to explain all that bad been said against the psi-;pane
Potatoes 311 s. 425. Grey Ditto, Os. Ole,
soner. ' Ditto, Poland, 30s, 335.- 'mall s"..asis,
Captain Derarsotr, of the Jaia, stated, that they Ditto, Feed, too. stis. tick Beans.
weniin Ogee ports in India alter the murder was said am elirs For Safils 950. 10" Alankla Roar, Me Se 4114,,

UNioN -HALL—A baker residing in the Borough,
Who asivertizt-s to :Al bread lid. per loaf ander the
assiie price, was. -summoned before Mr. BINNIZ, on
an information charging him with exposing to sale
thirteen quartern and fifteen half quartern loaves, de.
ficient in weight 37 ounces, he was fined £5.25. 6a.
and the bread sent to a charitable institution.
A second shop, belonging to the same person, was
also visited in the course of the day by the officers,
and eleven quartern, eleven half quartern, and two
two-penny loaves were seized, deficient in weight 39
ounces. He was, on this information, fined £5.75.
fid. and the bread forfeited.

The Magistrate animadverted in severe terms on
the conduct of the defendant, and those, who like him,
endeavoured to injure the fair trader by pretending to
undersell him, whilst, in fact, they were only defrau-
ding the consumer, end declared, that in fu•ure when.
ever any such were twilight befine him he would in-
dict the heaviest penalty which the law would autho.
iz: his doing.
Another baker was brought lip by Heddington,
one of the ale conners of Christchurch pI: is!), on an
information (1141)4111g him widi having expo,ed to
sale eleven cilia, tern anal ten half (pine. n loaves,
deficient in weight thirty onnces. He was fined 44
ss. and the bread forfeited.

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