Star.
London, England, 1821-05-15 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Last night her MAJESTY paid this Theatre a visit,
for which, as being quite•unexpected, both Mr. &-
LISTON and the audience were, of course, unprepared.
She came attended by Lord and Lady Hoot), and a
youth, who was understood to he Master AUSTIN.--.
Her MAJESTY, on entering the House, ttiok her seat
in the box immediately opposite to the Kiwo's, and
some moments elapsed before she was recognized.—
Her MAJESTY looked in good health, and her dress
• was peculiarly elegant. . She wore a robe of figured
satin, confined by a pink sash ; and her head-dress
was a white satin hat, turned up with pink, and de-
corated with three ostrich feathers. As soon as the
audience understood she was present, a simultaneous
burst of applause was heard from all tarts of the
House, and her MAJESTY came forward and acknow-
-1....1ged, in the most condescending manner, the fer-
vent reception she experienced. Cries of " GOD save
the Queen" were now reiterated with a veheMent voci-
feration which it would be impossible to describe;
but it appeared that the singers were not in attend-
ance, and t:.e consequence was, that the two first
Acts of Marino Mimi, the Play announced for the
night, passed off in dumb shew, amidst groans, hoWl-
ings, hisses, and all the other impediments that in-
dignant resentment could offer. At length Mr. EL-
LISTON came Toward, and, , bowing to the audience,
addressed them in the following terms:
" LAMS AND Giorrt.rsnut—l am the Lessee of this Thea-
tre • it is therefore sufficient that I ask and know your corn-
:m;(ls, in order •to obey t:), in. What would you desire?—
(Loud cries ‘2l* Tke Queen ! t,e Qufewn—What am Ito Under-
stand by ' The Queen ?'—(. wont Gad slue the Queen.)—l
speak with due respect to all who are present, and 1 hope for
your indulgence under the arduous eircuinstanees in which I am
placed. All the singers are not present.—(A voice, Then let
us hAve the tune from those who are present.')—l promise you
that, before the Afterpiece commences, the national air shall
be sung."
T; ts last words were followed by repeated shouts
of " I;ravor and the remainder of the Play was suf-
fered to proceed, without further intertuption.—
Gioviamti in London- was the Entertainment, and im-
mediately on the rising of the curtain, the Doge of
Venice (Mr. CoorElt), on whose neck the axe of the
executioner was supposed to have fallen the moment,
before, was seen, With his wife Angiolina (Mts. \VEST),
joining imps and furies in singing " GOD save the
King, or GOD save the Queen," as the audience
wished to have it. The performers, however, appealed
both out of tune and out of temper ; for never did any
group of singers acquit themselves with less satis-
faction to those who heard them. Her MAJESTY'
stood up during the time this unimpressive tribute
was paid to her, bowed repeatedly to the audience.
In a-short time after the commencement of the After-
piece, her MAJESTY reiired, and was received with
loud cheers by the populace w ithout.

The Camel bury Theatre had a brilliant audience
on Tuesday evening last, to nitness the amateur per-
formance of ROBERT FOOTE, Etg.'and Major LIAR?,
in the characters of Leon and the Copper Captain, in
the Comedy of Yule a Wife and hare a IVO:. The
receipts of the house have been appiopriated to a
charitable purpose. _ _

. .
Bow mum—Yesterday Mr. Glossop, of the Co-
burg Theatre, apreared to answer to a charge of as-
-sault, preferred against him by Mr. Winston, Acting
Manager of Drury-Lane Theatre. The assault arose
our of a 'circumstance that occurred upon the visit of
the KING to Daily-Lane Theatre on Wednesday
evening. Mr. Glossop attended his MAJESTY to the
Theatre, and a man in livery, who was understood
to be his servant, was admitted into the lobby lead-
ing to the Royal box. Mr. Win•ton, shortly before
his !MAJESTY was about to leave the Theatre, asked
him, " Who are you, Sir?" To which the man re-
plied, that he was Mr. Glossop's servant, and upon
that Mr. Winston called out to some of the servants
of the Theatre, " Turn this lamplighter's boy out;"
and he was ejected from the Theatre. The matter
being communicated to Mr. Glossop, he, on the fol-
lowing day attended at the Theatre door, furnished
with a horsewhip, and when Mr: Winston made his
ppearance in the street., demanded an instant apology.
This was warmly refused. Mr. Glossop then corn-
nienced an attack with his whip upon the shoulders
of Mr. Winston. The latter threw up his stick to
ward off the blows; but Mr. Glossop knocked it.
from his hand, and then putting himself in attitude
a-la-Cribb; compelled Mr. Winston to retreat within
the stage door. Mr. Glossop then informed him that
hesshould take the same liberty with his person when-
ever he met him, and went away. Mr. Winston now
stated the particulars of the assault upon oath ; when
Mr. Glossop, in rather a warm address to the Ma-
gistrate said, that the term lamplighter was intended
to apply to him; and the treatment altogether that
his servant met with, was meant as a personal insult
to himself. After a conversation between the parties,
of great length, in which therewas much warmth dis-
played, Mr. BIRNI e said, that a breach of the peace
having been proved, his province was merely to di-
rects that the defendant should give bail to keep the
jeace, and to appear at the Sessions. Mr. Glossop
immediately entered into the securities required, and
was discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREETe—ELOPEMENT. A farmer
residing in the neighbourhood of Sevenoaks, Kent,
applied at this °Kee yesterday, to learn how to re-
cover lost property, which he had traced in the per-
son of his wile, who had left him with four young
children. Site left her home on Friday night last,
after dark, and he had traced her to the Elephant
and Castle, and from thence to Pimlico, where she
was living with a man of the name of George, who
lodged in his house lately when superintending some
works going on in Kent. He had seen hisfini/ rib,
who said she was very comfortable, and did not in-
_ tend to return to Kent. George said she had come
to him of her own accord, and he did nut want her
to remain there. The husband was informed that
such a woman was not worth reclaiming, but his re-
medy was by an action for Grim. Con. •
A CAUTION TO GOLDSMITUS AND OTIIENSA
number of persons are now about town for the pur-
pose of entrapping the unwary shopkeeper, by pur-
chasing gold mourning rings without the duty mark
in them, wheieby the seller becomes liable to the pe-
nalty of LSO, by an Act passed in the 24th Geo. 111.
• cap. 53, for every mourning ring he sells without
being duly stamped at Goldsmiths Hall.

LAS► INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 14.
SMITH *ND OTHERS V. FAGG.

This was an action on the case against the defend-
ant, a stage-coach master, to recover the value of a
parcel booked at his office, the Bell Cid Crown, Hol-
born, by Messrs. Rogers and Co. bankers, of London,
to go by the Southampton mail, containing satisfied
notes of the plaintiffs, who are bankers at Christ-
' church, and which parcel was lost through the alleged
negligence of the defendant's servants. At the trial,
before the Lord Chief Justice, at the London Sittings
after last Term, the plaintiffs had a verdict for £lO5O,
the amount of the notes lost, and repaid by their
agents.—:-The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now moved for
a rule to shew ,cause why the verdict should not be
set aside and a new trial granted, and he made two
' points :--l. That the plaintiffs were not entitled to
recover against the defendant in consequence of the
negligence of their agents, the London bankers, in
not intimating the value of the parcel in question, so
that means might have been adopted by the defend-
ant to' take special care to ensure its safe delivery;
and, 2. That there was gross negligence in the Lon-
don bankers in paying the notes the very next day
,after they were lost. The parcel had been booked
by the Southampton mail-coach, but in consequence
of coming too late to the office, had been sent by the
post-coach, both of which coaches go from the de-
fendant's house, and it was suspected to have been
stolen by a pirson who got into the latter vehicle.—
The Coutur, under the circumstances stated, thought
the case deserved further consideration, and granted
a rule to shew cause.