Star.
London, England, 1829-11-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sta,—lmpressed with a strong sense of gratitude to the public,
allow me to request the Immediate insertion in your paper of the
following letters addressed, with my full approbation, by Mr. Bart.
ley, the etage.manager of Cover-t garden Theatre, to Mr. Kean, as
the most correct esplanadon of the conduct of that puck:sari,
which reiderrd it necessary for me to appeal, on the put of the
proprietors of that theatre, to a legal tribunal foe redress.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
C. KIMBLE.

Theatre Royal, Covent.garden, Nov. 29.
€Olll5 UT TVS= LITTERS WSITTTM TO DI& lITAN PT Mi. ZARTUIT,
STIAMMAMAGZII OT cosine-12m10111 TRIATAL
" Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. Nov. 24.
" Mir DIAL SIII•••I was waiting with Mr. Kendal, in expectation
of eke pleasure of meeting you here as appointed at our interview
yesterday, when your latter of this morning was delivered to me.—
Dlr. Kimble requests me bossy, that be is most &oiled, to consult
your convenience ; but the nights of Monday, Wednesday, and
Mazy in next week, which you suggest for your performances,
are advertised for Bemis and Mitt 1 and I need not say to you
that our duty to the public makes may alterations mow Impossible.
As you observe that yen can play on no other nights but those you
have been accustomed to in both the London theatres, I can only
assure you, that every endeavour shall be made to comply with your
wishes. Before, however, we • say more on this point, Mr.
Kemble desires that I should remind you, in Oudot% to
the intimation which you made to me yesterday, of your
intention to enter into an engagement in London for dds season,
that there% an engagement subsisting between you and Covent-
garden which precludes your acting in I modem during
the present season, and be thinks it just to an par-
ties that this should not escape attention. It will afford Mr.
Kemble much satisfaction to accommodate circumstances to your
present vlevei, and, ddlicult as it well be at ebb advanced period of
the strewn to . make such alterations in the arrangements of the
theattm (which arrangements have been made on the faith of your
&vestment) as will enable him to do so, be is ready to eiscounter
such dificulty on your account, and with this feeling he was pre-
pared to make you an offer of an engagement for this season, had
you been able to meet him.
" As you are unwell to-day, if you will favour us with an sp.,
polemicist for to-morrow, Mr. Kembie will be happy to talk the
matter over with you. You will be kind enough to receive this
communicadon expressly *a the understanding that it is made
without prejudice to your present agreement with Covent Garden
Theatre.-pel am, Ste. (Signed) GEORGE BARTLEY.
" Edmond Kean, Esq. ice
Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, Thursday, Nov. 26.
Me seas Sin—l hoped you would before this have favoured
Mr. Kemble with an appointment, as I requested in my letter of
Tuesday, the 24th. I think he would have proposed an arrange-
ment that would bays been found satisfactory.
Pray le; me Dave the pleasure of hearing from you. I am,
Sir. &c. (Signed) GEORGE BARTLEY.
Esinnutai KARI Scc•
" 19, Charlotte-street, Portblid-place,
Sunday Morning, N0v..29.
" MT MAI Sta,—l have just learnt that you were kit night
served with the injunction restraining you from the intended viola-
tion of your engagement with Covent-garden Theatre. I have
not since seen Mr. C. Kemble ' • but am so fully in possession of
his sentiments, that though the duties of his ahead=
rendered It imperative on him, in consequence of your
total disregard of the two letters I addressed to you an
the 14th and Nth instant, to appeal to the law, that I am satisfied
be is still ready, as expreued in my letter to you of the 24th (and
to which I earnestly solicit year attention,) to encounter es your
account the Mashy I therein pointed out to you, in order to
meet your wishes for the present season • sad 1 am very conident
the santearrangement may take place, if you choose to avail your-
self of it. as would have been made known to you, bad you thought
proper to take any notice of either of those letters.
• I shall take an early opportunity this day of seeing Mr.
Keinide, and unless you ismer from me in the coarse of the morn-
* Maw contrary, you may consider that he does Dot withdraw
Min abis proposal which it was has intention to have made to
." Due I think it fair to apprise you, then knowing Mr. Kembie's
image ahligadsa to the public. I am induced to think be will
emmirmligt anglo the necessity of publishing my communications
to yen ot Oho earliest possible period. —I am, gm.
Oignad) " GEORGE BARTLEY.
• Edmund Kean, Maq. &e."
• P.B. -I have, since writing the above, seen Mr. Kemble, who
Mil approves of this letter."

Sunday the Duke led Dachas of Boccrityon Ind,
QuiapnananY atiemied Divine Service in the
church of Dalkeith. The. Rev. Dr. Cusoulet
-a tacit eloquent and impressive sermon from
chap. 11th verse. 'The colleetien, 'which was in'
-the Dalkeith Female Charity School Society, was Rhin&
• •

NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW.

The increased and Increasing interest now awakened throughout

the Country, en every topic connected with, the Eastern World,
whether as regard. the concord of Turkey by Russia—the inde-
peedence of Egypt under its present Pasba—the Steam Communi-
cation with India, by way of the Mediterranean and Red Sea—
the approach of European armies towards our Indian Possessioos
by land—or the abolition of the East India Company's exclusive
Monopoly, which will be the subject of Parliamentary discussion in
the approaching Session—km determined Mr. BticxttwH►tt ICI
commence an entirely New Series of his Periodical

with the commencement of the ensuing year,
ISSO, and to ma►e it Quarratxv, instead of Monthly,
in order that tit may admit of being conducted on the
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by giving careful, copious, and complete Analysis of the hest
Standard Works that have been already published, aid of all New
Books that may appear, the contents of which are in any degree
connected with Turkey. Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopstantia.
Persia, India, China, and the ether vast and populous regions of
the Asiatic World, as well as occasional Original Articles on Eastern
Affairs : and, more especially, a critical examination of every Pub-
lication for or against the existing Monopoly, which cramps our
intercourse with that interesting quartertif the Globe.
This new Publication will be entitled The Wawa Quarterly
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The closing Number of the existing Series will be published on
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renew 11—wh;ch will complete a work that has now extended to 23
*day° •olumes, of nearly 15,000 pages, in which is contained a
greater body of information respecting the countries of the Barg
than in any Public Journal thit has ever before I Awed from the
English Press.

In consequenceef the great distress of the operatives c.f.
Ca:lisle, agricultural produce of 067" kind has experi-
enced a- rapid decline in price within the last few weeks.
Grain is several shades lower;-butter 'B4a per lb ; pork
aid ; bacon Aid and sd; fowli 7d Mid 84 each ; geese 2s
3d to 2s Od ; turkeys 3s to 3s 6d ;. potatoes maintain their
price, as they are now almost the only article of food
which hundreds of the poor can possibly precure. We
wish the Editor of the 'Courier were kept On our pier
weavers' fare for a single week ; we sLould then hear no
more of his prosperity paragraphs ! Intellipencer,
. •At the time when Bonapavte wa-paying His addresses
to Madame Dracaena., the circumstances of both were so ex-
tremely limited, that neither of them could af rJ the expense of
keeping a carriage; ant Bonaparte, who, ever head and eats in
love, often offered his arm • to his future companion, for the pu
pose of arcempaavtas her to. their men of haulms.. On one OCCA.
slats, they had to call on 11. Ragoidesu, the blowy, one of ail
most diminutive mem I have ever seen. Itladaite Bearthasnais,
who had the greatest confidence In itagoideau, went purpostly to
him on that day to impart the determination she had come to of
marrying the young General of. Artillery, the protige of Barra/.
Josephine having entered the office of the Notary alone. left Bona.
parts behind In the study. which was occupied by tbr clerks. The
door of Raguideau's room was but half shut, so that Bonaparte
could could very distinctly bear him making the moat strenuous ef-
forts to dissuade her from contracting the match. You are
greatly in the wrong,"—said he to her-4 rest assured you will re •
pent--you are doing a foolish thing—you are going to.marry a man
who has got for his all a Cep mid s Sweed."—% Bonaparte," said.
Josephine to me-0 in adverting to former circumstances. never
axe alluded to this one ; and I firmly believed he had not beard
what Ragaideas had said. Judge, then, of nri'iuriorise, Bowl
cone, when, on the day of coronation, befog attired in his impetial
costume, be said to me—' Send immediately for R.gubleau—he
must corns instantly—l want to steak to him.' Ilaguidean W3l
promptly brought before bins, dreadfully mita:ed, and he spoke to
him thus Well, what do you think--have I not now more than
the Cap and the Sword fact is, Bonap who at the period
of our intimacy, related a variety of circumstances eosinected with
his past life, never once touched upon the little contrariety be bad
experienced, eight years before, in the study of liaguidean, and
which he appeared only to have remembered on the day of his co .
ronation.' —.llensoirs of Bourlesne.

CORN—EXCHANGE, MA 11K—L A N Nov. SO.
Having but a abort supply of ill descriptions of Grain, our
Market was extremely lively this morning ; fine santples.of Wbeat
mold freely at list Monday's paces, and a great deal of business was
transacted; in some instances, where the quality was very superior,
Is. per quarter more was obtained. Malting Barley being scarce,
fully suppotted the prices of last week. Beans and Peas of bre b
kinds were free sale, at last Monday." currency.. Oats were also
brisk sale. at Monday's quotation, the supply bt Ins unusually small.
In other articles there is no ',tendon.
Wheat. Kent & 606 711 a Pros, Grey
Suffolk. . 60s 716 Beaus, Small
Norfolk . 40a 46a Tick
Rye . . 52S 365 Oats, Potatne 251-29 s
8ar1ey,01d,201.306New,316 341 Poland . 246 28$
Malt 545 606 Feed . las 124.
Pees, White . 325 346 Flour, per sack, • • 55.' 606
Boilers . 366 366, Rapesetd 2:1. 261. per lag.
IMIPORTATIONa LAST
Wheat, English, quarters 2,332 ; kerb Oats
Do. Foreign . . 9,650 Rye, English .
Irish Ditto . . -.•••••• Do. Foreign •
Barley, British . 4,163 licar.s English
Do. Foreign . . 920 Ditto, Foreign
Irish • . —e•-••• Peas. Roglisk
Mak, English . . 2,435 Ditto Foreign •
English Oats . 2.112 Engials Flour, sacks . 4,710
Foreign Ditto . .a American diet h, brie. .
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Now. so.
CASTLE AT IaASKST.
Beasts
I Sheep and Lambs 19,683 Pip ..
Beef 36 44 to 46 Od Veal —36 1d to 4s Cd
Mutton --As 04 •4s 64 Pori 3s Od 46 Cd
Leah
Hay per load, ,C 3 Os. so alfe 10a. Clover Acnww to..ci loner.
Straw Ai los. to it 16.
• COAL MA R KRT.—Tun Day:
There was bat a moderate supply of. Coal at market to
only nine dips having arrived since Friday bst, and of thmsrossfp
Isi was front thindsrlied.. • This Cool Exchange Was Well attended
110, iserchants, and Cools were in pod demand, at an advance. Art
1,211## tile tamt Wansplut Coals much Wansit4,
lirli•ad daring the *
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LITERARY DISCOVERY.

A singular literary discovery has lately been made in
the library of a member of the Wynne family, in the entire
maau-
cript copy of one of Fletcher's most popular plays, The Humorous
I.;eutenent. We call it " the entire manuscript copy," because it
shows beyond dispute. that the printed editions, from that of 1647
downwards, ue grievously incomplete, emitting many important
.end curious passages. The manuscript is dated 1625, and it was
made by. Ralph Crane (probably some relative to Ben Jouson's
friend, Francis Crane,) and presented to Sir Eepelm Dishy, who,
it is well known, had a most remarkable collection of books, some
of which are deposited at Oxford. to this MS. it is called by the
rifle of Demetrius and Enanthe, which it originally bore', the name
being, perhaps, afterwards changed, en account of the prominence
of a principal character in the hands f a particular actor. To show
the nature of the omissions in the printed copies, we will quote two
passages in the MS. from a scene in the first act, where the Am-
bassadors from Seleucus, Lysimachus, and Ptolemy, enter. One
of them says—
. " We therefore,
As yet the Ministers of peace anifriendship,
As yet our masters' swords and angers sleeping,
MI former injuries forgot and buried,
As yet to stop that swelling tide of blood,
Oh ! mighty Sir, that, when it comes, like tempests
Broke from the raging North, beat all before 'em—
We yet crave restitution of those lands,
Those cities sack'd, those prisoners, and that prey
The soldiers, by your wiU, stand masters of," &e.
What falls from another of the Ambassadors is still better, the
following lines being only part of what are wholly left out in all
the editions
The wars are doubtful,
And on our horsemen's staves death looks as grimly. •
Who shall say whether good fortune may not yet bring to light,
As on your keen-edged swords, our darts sure pointed,
And from our sinewy bows we can raise showers
Of bloody shafts shall hide the face of heaven,
And cast is deep eclipses o'er the day,
At terrible as yours. Oar strengths are equal,
Our hopes as high and wanton • even our men
The same in labours-and in sufferance ;
Hunger they dare contemn as well as yours,
And where they find no meat, feed on their angers;
March on the edge of danger : rest and sleep,
The SOEI3 of soft and tender bodies, they
Shake off as well as yours. And wheni tir'd nature
Locks up their spirits, yet, like storms far off,
&en in their rest, they rain a warlike murmur."
Who shall say whether good fortune may not yet being to light
the manuscripts of some of Shakspeare's plays, proving that they
have been published with. equal inPelleettaa ? The Hamlet of
1603, in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, shows what
enormous absurdities were committed by transcribers of showhand
notes, taken at the play-house, in order to forestal the sale by the
real owners of the copy-right.- • .
THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD'S RENTS.
The Marquis of Stafford, who, in 1820, regulated the
rents of his English estates according to the avenge price of wheat,
still adheres to that system. thus meeting, as nearly as possible,
the exigencies of the times and the necessities. of his tenants.—
Under this atrangement, the deductioni received by his tenants
amounted in
1821 to 32 per cent - 1825 to 16 per cent. •
1822 t 0,46 ditto 1826 to 28 ditto
1825 to SS ditto 1827 to 51 ditto
1824 to 22 ditto 1828 to 26 ditto
His Lordship has, in • like manner, regulated the rents of his
Scotch estates by the average price of wool, wedders, and ewes, by
which' his tenants in the North have *received the following abalte-
menti—in
1821 to 18 per cent. 1825 10 27 per cent.
1822 to 36 ditto 1826 to 18i ditto
1823 to 40 ditto 1627 to 29j ditto
1524 to 511 ditto 1828 to 51 ditto
It is hoped that his Lordship has reaped•the fruit of this conduct,
by keeping together the capital of his tenantry, and by preserving
the land in condition. Ope important fact appears to be established
by the result of the above abatements, taking them on the general
average of the eight yeari—namely, that The value of all agricul-
tural produce hes suffered the same amount of depreciation, shew-
log that it milk have been affected by some one general cause ; and
that no .piinlculsr branch of .agricultural produce has suffered by
any circumstance applicable to itself alone.
A Paacitcli. NAILER'S ILLUSERAEION Or Aosscutroax.—The
following letter on the outgoings and receipts of farm of • 200
acres, (roma Middlesex farmer, requires no gussunent. .. •
." Sir.rTrbp situation that farmers are. pissed in at the present
time has induced me to offer alew remarks on that subject through
the means of your valuably journal, Which I think win show that
seine plan must ultimately be adopted to render them seine as-
sistancei,or.l am fearful the. consequences will be ruinous not. only.
to that class of. society, but very injurious to the litidiords, Which
will be .sego when I give you the exact expenses of 200 acres of
land, trbm Michaellnas 1826'w 1829, which I can venture to state
has beeri managed with care, perseverance, end strict economy.
The rent is not extravagant, therefore that is not the only cause of
complaint. The following is the produce of 200 acres of land ten
miles. from London, with the expenses attending the same for the
abovelirentioried time

!le:10.1 lia•fr ,Bao • 0
Tithe .. - • 70 0 0
rear Ralf l3 10 0
Highway or • °Mid
ameeksiski.••••• • 15 A.
rilluceb ROL • e •••• • • 5 7 6
Wages ..; 236 0 0
Ditto hug fl Harvest 96 0 0
Ditto for 30 0 0
Sundries
Wbeiderrisht's Bill
(annually) . 15 0 0
Blseksmhh'ido. do 15 7 0
Farrler's do. d 0..... 6 $ •
Cost of. Manure 56 17 6
c4llll for Horses 156 0 0
Seeds . • •

sift s. d.
Hay (or Market 414 0 0
Wheat " 160 0 0
Beans 155 0 0
Ckreer.... ....... 75 0 0
Class and Profit on
Stock ..... l4O 0 0
Keep of Cattle 9 9 0
Deficient . 165 14 0

i 51,117 5 0 1 £1.117 3 0
Sea is the situation of, I think I may venture to state, Almost
all (bitumen for miles round London, and different pans-of the
country. What is a person to do when he looks at the above usu.')
meat, not allowing one shilling for his • hottsekeiping expenses?-1,
Look.at dm wool and cheese trades. The farmer that 'chiefly
pends cm those articles is in as bads stare, ana, thi'Vasient in lin
better a,conditlon,,for 10 many instates they are trot able%) realise
the original cost price o( their stock u ptirchased its spring : so that
it wiffbe seen that it is not only the rent, and tithe that is requisite
to be lowered to enable the farmer W.cirry on, but they must cur-
tail their labourers to meet the,present state of things; and what
will be the consequence? Labourers will be thrown on the pad*
and of.course poors rates increase. The land will be seriously
injured from want of proper akimbo'', unless the farmer NNW
with ume redress from those who are interested in their welfare.
Trusting that will be the case tot the sake °E AU poor families de-
pending on the farmers for their support, I am Sir, yours, &c.
"Nov. 20. ".A Mama= FAusza."

•
• On Thursday, an inquest held at the Shepherd and
Flock, Colnbrook. on the body of a lose tuikaowo. about 36 years
of age, who was found on the Wargo) near Colnbreok on Tuesday
night, with a severe wound aertles his forehead, and his left arm
broken. He was dressed like a ewe:. The night was very foggy,
and it is supposed that he was run over.—Verdict, Found Dead.
Thursday night, about ten o'clock, as Mr. Simpson,
the landlord of the Cock and Hoop public-house, in Church-street.
klile-end, New-town, was on his return home, be was attacker),
near the top of Dog.tew, Betluisi green, and close by the Mile end
turnpike, by a mean, who gave him a most desperate blow with a
bludgeon on the bead. which levelled him with the earth. He then
robbed him of a valuable gold Fiench-manufactured watch, seals,

end key.
4. DIWERESSING ACCIDENT.EVERTaN, Nov. 27.
An accident of a distressing nature occurred this morning, at the
junction of Church-street and Rupert-lane, Riverton. A gig, con-
taining a gentleman and his servant, on turning the corner, where
a foundation for a new house had been recently dug, about four feet
deep, was precipitated therein, dragging with it three of the
lovely children of Dlr. and Mrs. Fleming, 'of Everton-terrace.
.One fine boy was killed on the spot, another must dangerously •
' the third, - claiming little girl, seriously injured.
vere looking into the foundation, from
farthest from the middle of the road,
I been'tefe. ' And thin very lamentable
'driving: paddy. prematurely, a hard
elan yeorig hone, The gentieman and
_ little injury. blabs* former was mush
dispatchedisis servant for medical assistance,
-- the severity of the affliction which he
. of bringing upon the parents of the in-
Chronicle.

lovely children of Blr. and D
One fine boy was killed on tl
bort, and the third, a chart
—The pour children were
that fide 61 the causeway fart
whege they ought to have her
accident bas Irises ftom
mouthed, hirpartiallp broken
bi 4 servant Massa with little
affected. and forthwith dispatch
appearing fully to appreciate th
bad been lie the means of
font sufferers.—Liverpool Cann