The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL.

The Public is respectfully informed, .that those celebrated
Vocalists, • MR. and MRS. WOOD, from the Theatres-
Royal Covent-garden and Drury-lane, will appear, posi-
tively FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY.
FOR THE BENEFIT OP MR. BARKER. •
THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 20th instant,-
(being the Last Night but One of the Company'sper-
forming this Season,) the performances will comme ar with
the favourite Farce of
A PLEASANT NEIGHBOUR.
Christopher Strop.. Mr. Baker. I Nancy... . Mrs. Clarke.
After which, the Grand ) . a .of
LA SONNAMMI .
Amina .... Mrs. Wood. I Elvino .. Mr. Wood.
Rodolplio.. (on this occasion).. Mr. Barker.
Mr. Baker. Liza
To be followed by
A MUSICAL MELANGE.
To conclude with the Farce of
HIDE AND SEEK.
Mr. Mordaunt..
Moses Mr. Baker.
Mrs. Mordaunt Mrs. W. 11. Bland, late Miss Fauoit.
Tickets to be had of Mr. BARKER, and at the Box-office.

Alessi()

THENTRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON

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FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. CLARKEW
On which occasion Mr. DUCRO has, in the t e somest
manner, volunteered the aid of his valuable .ry pices, and
will personate his Original Character of ,DGARD, in a
New Drama, called the IDIOT OF EIDELBURG
CASTLE. An arrangement has beedo atle with the cele-
brated Mr. 'l'. D. RICE, the Origi al Representative of
the American Plantation Negro, who will sustain his Ori-
ginal Character of JUMBO JUM, in the Drama of that
Name, written expressly for Mr. T. D. Riot:, as performed
by him in most of the principal Theatres of London, and
in the United States, with the greatest success ; in which
character he will introduce his celebrated Song of " .Thii
Crow," and, . for the first time here, the popular Comic
Song of ." Such a Gettin vp Stairs."
f lAN MONDAY NEXT, December 23,1839, the Perform-
ks awes will commence with the Comedy, written by Mr.
CowLvx, called
A BOLD STROKE FOR A HUSBAND.
Principal Characters by Mr. Stuart, Mr. Baker, Mr. Ho-
ward, Mr. Chaplin, Mr.'Webster, Mr. W. 11. Bland, Mrs.
W. H. Bland (late Miss Faucit), Mrs. Clarke, Miss Cleaver,
and Mrs. Baker. .
After which the Drama of
JUMBO JUM.
Jumbo Jinn.. (with Song?.).. Mr. T. D. Rice.
In the course of the Evening, Songs by Mr. Barker and

Miss Grant. -
Dancing,- by Mr. and-Mrs. J. Ridgway.
To conclude with the Melo - Drama of
THE IDIOT OF I-lEIDELBURG CASTLE.
Edgard..
His First Appearance at this Theatre these Five Years.

Tickets to be had of Mrs. CLARKE No. 1, Houghton-
street, Williamson-square; of Mr. atiti!:, at his Music
Warehouse, Church-street ; and of Mr. T. WILKINSON, at
the Box Office of the Theatre, of whom places may be taken
from Eleven until Three.

Ebr Litherpool Otanbarb.

IDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1839.

alluded, not long since, to the vile attempts on

the part of the Ministerial Press—or, rather, as in
strict fairness, perhaps, we ought to say, of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, which enjoyed, on that occasion, the ho-
nourable distinction of being the sole author and cir-

culator of the calumny—whereby it was sought to im-
plicate Queen Adelaide in the charge of slandering the
character of her Royal Niece who sits on the Throne
of England, and indulging,. while abroad, in ill-na-
tured remarks upon the amusements she takes pleasure
in, and the persons with whom she chiefly associates.
But the writer of this despicable article knew per-
fectly well that such an assertion, if made only in ge-
neral terms, would be treated in the way it deserved,
and rejected by everybody but a jaundiced Whig-Ra-
dical as a nauseous falsehood. It was thought, there-
fore, advisable to give plausibility to the story, by add-
ing circumstances of time and place, in order that the
charge might seem to be a well-authenticated piece of
information, and not the foul offspring of the brain of
some low scribbler—who was ready, at any moment, to
draw upon his invention for his facts, provided he were
wal paid for the lies he put into circulation.
It was accordingly confidently stated that her Ma-

jesty the Queen Dowager had, while she was at Lis-
bon, in the House of the Duke of Pahnella, taken the
opportunity of gratifying her malice against Queen
Victoria by unkind sarcasms and sneers upon her con-
duct, and that the Duke of Pahnella was the person
to whom these communications were made. This
falsehood of the Morning Chronicle was copied into
some of the continental journals, and at last met the
eye of the Duke of Palmella, who immediately ad-
dressed the following letter to the editor of the Diario
do Governo, a Lisbon paper, which was therein inserted
on the loth instant :

" Sir,—An assertion, as extraordinary as it is false, in
which my name is compromised, as also those of two high
personages (both of them deserving the greatest respect,) was
published on one of the last days of the last month in the
211Orning Chronicle, and copied from that paper into others,
both in London and Paris. Those journals to which I allude
declare, that when Her Majesty Queen Adelaide was at this
Court she entered into conversation with me and with other
persons, in the course of which she used expressions of cen-
sure towards her august niece, the reigning Queen of Eng-
land. As such an imputation, in the highest degree injuri-
ous to the high personage to whom it is attributed, is not
only false, but without the smallest shade of foundation, I
have thought it my duty to take such means as offer them-
selves to me to contradict it without delay in the face of the

Portuguese public, and to declare it calumnious, before the
contradiction can appear in the English journals, to which I
am going to address it.—" I am, &c.,

" DUKE DE PALMELLA

' Lisbon, Dec. 9, 1839."

So much for the veracity of the Morning Chronicle

The fact is, the Ministerial journals being driven from
pillar to post when they venture to meet the Conserva-
tives in argument, are obliged to prop uP their sinking
cause by the most barefaced calumnies against their
opponents—and hope, by the most brazen lying, (we
use strong terms advisedly for the writers richly de-
serve them,) to damage the cause of the Conservatives
with the nation. For instance, it has been reiterated,
over and over again, that if Sir Robert Peel Ne ere in
power, his party would employ some court physician
to administer poison to her Majesty, and actually take
away her life. This lie was intended for coarse appe-
tites ; and, provided it were swallowed by some of
them—though, perhaps, the lowest and most brutal of
the miserable Irish—it was sufficient for the purposes
of faction. It might tend to make the Conservatives
unpopular. But some stomachs would reject this
poison, and therefore a less offensive compound
was prepared for more fastidious palates. The
Conservatives are engaged in a deep-laid conspi-

animus. It is the same as that which made the Morn.

racy against her Majesty's Crown, and to dethrone her
and make Ernest of Hanover King of Great Britain is
the darling object of their policy. So runs the charge
of High Treason against the Duke of Wellington and
Sir Robert Peel, and the speeches of Messrs. Bradshaw
and Roby are taken as the overt acts whereby the
traitorous compassing of these treason-plotters is to
be proved. Do the Downing-street writers really be-
lieve that the English and Scotch nations are as gulli-
ble as the Irish, that they venture to palm such absur-
dities on the public ? But the attempt reveals the

ing Chronicle attack Lord Cadogan and the Canterbury
dragoons, when the charges alleged were altogether
disproved ; and as that which led the Observer to pub-
lish " authenticated opinions " of Sir Robert Peel,
which the Right Honourable Baronet, in its next
Sunday impression, absolutely denied. Really these
Government prints ought to have some regard for the
decency of the, press, and not continue to make it the
vehicle of unadulterated falsehood, and a bye-word
amongst men of honour and integrity.

We have been sorry to observe in the French jour-
nal, for some time past, a growing jealousy and dis-
like of England. The tone adopted by many of the
writers would—if reciprocated on this side the Chan-
nel—justify that opinion, so unworthy of the two most
highly civilized nations of Europe, that an Englishman
and a Frenchman must necessarily hate each other.
During the war such a feeling was perhaps excusable,
and at that time a better reason could be given on our
part than the vulgar one ascribed to our brave sailors,
who hated the French because they ate frogs and wore
wooden shoes. But, now that the animosities of that

long contest have died away, and but a scanty remnant
of the gallant men in both nations who took part in it
remains, it does seem strange that French writers
should be found eager to make, after a lapse of five
and twenty years, the events of the last war an occa-
sion for unprovoked attacks on the British nation.
So far as we can see, these attacks are all on one
side. We know of no journal, of the slightest influ-
ence, which seeks to exasperate the French by ill-
natured anecdotes and sneering ridicule directed
against that people; and on every public occasion we
have treated them with the most marked respect and
consideration. Witness our reception of Soult last
year. But there is a soreness in the public mind of