The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-20 00:00:00

4 fest, illhele.• their dlalska lb Amp play er
4 actor ; that An jadieitture of the pit iredlieen
I ecknowledgiel and acquiesced to time immemo.
• riai ; and, as t 1 present set of actors were to
g take their fate front the public, they ware free
6 et I r ease thou as they rfresej.
Bar this time the hour of six drew nest—themi—
‘ French am! Spanish Ambassadors, with their
• Ladies, the hate Lord and Lady Gage, and Sir
Thom.. itnbitigint, a Cuminissioaer of the Ea.
cise, all appeared in tile Stage.boe together.
At that instant the curtain drew tip, and dis.
the Actors standing between two files

• of grenadier., with their bayonets fixed, and
• resting on their firelocks. At this the whole
* Pit ruse, and unanintonsly returned to the Jas.
6 lives, who rat in the middle of It, to demand
6 the reason of such arbltsary proceedings ? Tho
6 jOcliCeg either knew nothing of the soldiers
A being placed thae, ur else thought it safest to
' decisre so. At that declaration thy demanded
' of Justice Deveil (echo bad owned himself the
' commanding officer in the affair) to order them
' off the Stage; he did so immediately, and they
' disappeared. Then began the serenade, DOi only
6 col.calls, hat all the various portable &stns.
4 weals that could woke a divagreeabk noise,
!4 were brought upou Ibis occasion, sod were con.
' tumidly tatting in all parts of the hoes.; an
' attempt at speaking was ridiculous, the actors
!' retired, and they opened with a grand dance of
I' twelve men and twelve women ; but even that
' was tempered for, and they erre directly sa.
6 Inted with a bushel or two of peas, which made
'6 their capering unsafe.. After this, they at.
4 tempted to open the comedy ; but had the actor
6 the swiosof thooder, it ovoid have bees loot la
-• the confused strains from a thousand various Wes
• stremetits. Uwe at the waving Deved% hat, all
• were silent, and (stawding up oil his seat) ho
• made a proposal to the heave ele this Watts
►6 That if they persisted in the opposition, IN Mist
6 read the proclamatiou; that if they woad Ohs
• .unit the play to go on, and to he SCOW nllOllOl
6 that night, he would promise, et his hottewrlto
• lay their dislikes' and resentments Were the
• King, and he doubted not but a speedy sod
' would be put to their acting. The answer to
• this proposal was very short, and very tepees.
• site.: No treaties! Jr. t.eaties! At this the
• Justice called for candles to read theprocisma.
.11 tint., and ordered the guards to be In remlluesei
II but a geutleinan seized Mr. Detail's hand,
• stretched out for the candle ; begged of him
' to coasider what he was going to sle, for
• his own sake, for ours, fur the King's I .
• That he saw the insanithous resolution of the
6 'louse; and that the appearance of statelier, in
.1 Lb' Pit would throw 119 all into a tumult,
•MO must end with the lives of many. This
* Menem remonstrance made the Justice turn pale
6 and parlor. At this value, the actors made a
• second attempt to go on, and the uproar revived,
• which conti.teeiog some time, the Ambassadors
6 and their Ladies left the box, which oceaaloned
6 an universal buzz* (rum the whole Howe) mad
6 after calling some time for the curtain, dime it
4 fell.'
'• The glorious independent spirit as British
" audience was, perhaps, never exerted to batt'
46 purpose, nor in a hems mines than the above;
" may that august tribunal, Authors and Amore,
" ever remain the same ! Jealous of Its peony.
" live, and impatient of contempt, may k two.
" tinue to raise merit and difickstee from the
" ignoble situations too freelanced, allotted them
" by envy, prdosaice, or ignoranca"
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To the EDIWR 4 l'illi STJTSSifallf.
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Sta—Seeing in the Papers ef this day an aids.
sit of Daniel Aleaw do, in which he Mates, that
he " slid not receive orders from any penes con. 1
" nected or neterested In the property or concerns
" of the Theatre itopd, Covent.ge:den," I beg.
leave to trouble you with the following statement,
by way of e'ucielalleen.
Qn the IRh of the present month I called ea
Mr. Mendoza, nho had two half sheets of paper,
sin which DOUBLE Gauen* for admission to the
Pit were written ; each paper Calillintil about 40
of these orders. Illendoza cut of tiro, which
having indorsed with the letter D. be gave to me.
Butch Sens was in the Ilulse boasting of his et..
pluits in the Pit of the Play House on the preceding
evening—and upon a person asking him for an or.
der ? he replied, " Yes, yes, damn year eyes, if you
will fight well." One of the. orders I gave to Mr.
J.inies Powell, and alio, a note to Mendoza, fr.
gin:sting more ; the messenger who look the note
brought back one double order, which, he said,
Mendo:ainduried in his presence ; he requested
the messenger to wait the return of AU son, who
was gone Is; Me Theatre for orders. Oct young
Mende:es return, he said that he had been sup.
plied *lib orders, n hieh he had distributed as he
came along. With one of the orders given one by
Mendoza I went to the Theatre, accompanied by
a friaid, and was admitted, after the duor.kerper
hail examined the order atop thu indorsement; with
the other, Mr. Powell sod his (mod were: likewise
admitted ; and the order brought by the messen.
ger is now in Mr. Powell's possession.
I am, iir,jour's, C.
OliComptorrstrect. Od. It JOON Rf OLE IP.
P. i. The orders contained the folios/mg
words :....." Two Pit. It. Harris.... Welly."
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1 To the Roll'a It If l'Ilii: Sl4rEsx.m.

SlR—The pnf.lie nught to knew that on tEe
nights the Jewish 1(coli•k took possession of the
pit, and committed such alseatefel ()strops ow,
were prestoo.d7 mtfuered at a Imams its Strafed.
loos, where they received frets the bonds of two
Retulkis Jew ueden Sdßisteien, sign.
Urendon, and verbal oidore for their conduct ;
M feet, crders were distributed ssot web profs.
,ion, that most of the Mermen ;dying at the
itrand.lono Stairs, prorated them.
It in sai,l that thole respectable critics, in eddi.
time to fret odeoloision, received/he shifting,: epteh,
ler their leas of Ilse; the item of sere( arrive
assikeim the Theatrical Accounts would eapiejo
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