The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-01 00:00:00

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44 GRANBY, if I afforded Sir WILLIAm DRAPEG
" more occasion for defending him."
The proceedings of yesterday evening may be
*shortly thus summed tip :...The- disapprobation
was loud, violent, and increasing. The Pig,
after the second art, and the whole of the• Farce,
were inaudible. A Gentleman was dragged out of
the Pit for wearing the initials 0. P. and fining a
penny trumpet, for the perpetration of which
accumulated offence, he was ordered to find
two sureties in 401. each—and, lady, that Mr.
, CLIFFORD, the Barrister, (and other gentlemen)
having been apprehended and dragged to sow-.
street, for wearing U. P. in his hat, was
released, there being, or the Magistrate said,
NO CHARGE AGAINST HIM.
To rnE EDITOR or ME STATESMAN.
Stu--It is all very true—every word of it, as true
as the Five Books of Moses; our peoples 7ash.deres,.
re did kit k up a row, but ye varlint all paid for
it, for 1 didn't get nothing, because I tould Lyon
Levy vhy he didn't put his coat on, vhen all the
respectable peoples rash against the Managers.
Daniel Mendoza vont speak to. mc, he Silyl I
am a coward, that font fight, and that has got
no coorage; but I don't care for nobody, anti
vat speak truth, I tould him I vould suotwr id(
shoe strings on the top of the street, as b • a pick-
pocket or a fighting man, and that it :ash a tear-
rel among Cht isttans, and for shy shout) Jews
interfere.
Yoo4sotk-alky, Hnandiditeh. ISR kEI ISRAEL.
EPIGRAM.
What a foss Meek made. with old Spangle JApti,
Sliht. I knew, when he had tali one Coat to his Rack—
With his • Bird, •otd hii + 411(.1es—both ant worth a sou,r.
Ile ha.. ruin'd his fame, and ha mired the Mow
There ears eta a time, when his part he cested"kra, •
With guts, and purse mops), {Diann, n Men:
Hitt tl,,ae times are cluing ~—.laces.nort above keel—
Set r Beggar on horseback—ue'll ride h►t'ae Beta.
• King .1 oit N'S pra.,unciati. . of Beard.
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To the EDITOR of TI! STAITRS .W
SIR —lf it should prove, as you have pred;cletl,
that Messrs. Harris, Son, and Kenible, • will hod
themselves—
" Des .rle4 at their utmost need
" By those their former bounty fed."
Yet, while Dutch Sam and the rest of the Hittites
stand by them, they can never be—
" Without a friend to due elute eyes."
POP.
TVII 1M511.:4 JUBILEE.
The public, doubtless, era pretty well tired of
the minute narrative of Jubilee ent.‘ataiaments,
with which the public prints hove been co copi-
ously stuffed ; bit we cannot refrain from no.
tieing the tries neskalily of the telebratod Colonel
TNORITJNI in his ontertainthent at Kenyon House.
As Ms M _._aa MTV had entered hls 30th y. ar, the
Colonel regulated every part of the entrutainineat
by that number.
The company consistod of 50, the number of
covers was 60, the number of bottles of yin/
'drank by the company was 60--(l47ine, or
broody is, probably, an error here :
we presume the liquor to have been brandy, nut
trine, as one bottle of wine per man, wood
scarcely fill a hollow tooth of any ilidivl(l.!..! of
this jolty party)---50 bottles of ale, that 114(1 teen
I brewed in Yorkshire, 50 years ago, were also seal.
iOtaed. The dining-room was lighied by 50 lamps;
50 toasts (all loyal) were given by the Colonel ;
and thu company were compelled to l_•ar 50 song!,
To complete the whimsical eccentricity of
.thee
Dash, the Colonel dismissed hi, 49 visitants at 60
minutes past five. Th.• less white:lived neighbanis
of Kenyon-house, Icing er.• the arrival of that
lhour, wished these 50 shit:sliced /idioms 50 aliik,
distant. The Colonel, vain of this great ea.
ploit, actually ordered 50 hackney-coaches
to make the thing complete, but they, unfortu.
na'ely, could not be obtained. Why did not
the Colonel send to Thames-street, mhenco
50 carts might have been procured —or
had previous orders been given, 50 of what are
I termed the Blackheath Light Horse—those useful
animals with long oars, which usually convoy
sand to the metropolis...on these sporting tits
might the jolly set have triumphantly concluded
the Jubilee at kionyon House.
SPORTING INT?? L LtGENCE.
NEWMARKET TIIIRD OCTOBER. OR HCI.IOII-
- MEETING. HMS.
TULSDA Y, oVroaSli 31.
Suteerotlke.. of 1.4:10. each, It, ft. Twv-yr old Coats&
D. of Gralltak't
IA G. H. C,ase-santes Ilyeasa.7st7ll).
Mr. Shaltripear'e Zodiac, 94. Mb. 3
to 1 ag4t Nlilamila ; to 4 art Dram
H. Cacer-
disjAh'iFliGhiie°Filemarther°c.l,l;sie.Ptlonlin. t.;ivrbe-yr. at
IA C,.
I on Popps.
Sir C. Boanry's Fair Star, Sat. 21li. bent D. of f;roft.m's
Vaulty, Sit. Mb. Two.yr old Course, 541.-6 to son Fair
Star.
Fifty Pounds for 4-yr ails carry
.11ga feather, 3-yr old: ;tt..1,111
4-yr olds Pat. 911). 5-yr olds 954,31 b. 6-yr olds i'st. jib. a.t k
aged 9st. ROIL Clot 3M.of 9.
Mr. Van-inort's Eurteiga.4 yn old - 1
Mr. Wilsoo's b. c. Cambric, 5t yrs old -
Mr. Diturop's eb. c. kiculoplukby Stamford, .1 yrs old 3
Mr. Huwortb's b. f. Aagiollai, 3 yrs old
Mr. Kt-heroism's b. c. l'ocanum, 3smold 5
Mr. T. Sadler's b. c. Mourn, 3 yrs old . 6
I Sir .I. Sbelles's b. c. by Eagle. V yd. old dr
4 to 1 aligiindelith acid Cambric j 5 to 4 agst

CORNAXGH4NGE, Aqr. I.
The Market this day again has a short supply
of Wheat. Fine samples keep their price, but in.
ferior heavy sale, and a trifle lower. Fine Ani..-
rican exceeds our currency. Rye is chc.spci.
White Peas likewise. Barley and Malt support
their prices. In Beans, of the two kind, little
variation. Oats are in short supply, and prime
samples arc quoted rather dearer. Prices of Flour
without alteration. Fine American 58 .to 631.
pet barrel.
Whect, - - 71,4. 941. 101'. Tick Beam.
Floe ditto -- - UN. IL*. 00%,
Rye
Barl'ey, - - 1.1 4b.
Malt, - .648 1154.
W . Peas(Dnilert) Flour - - 906. 94‘
Grey Pens. - -- - 555. &c001,

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TIIEJTRICAL OPPOS.
The tenoning accounts of 'Theatrical Di4utcs
;;tits not at the preseut moment be uninteresting to
our Readers.
It appears from these statements, that it was re-
served fur Mears. fiarrix, Son, and Kemble, at
an early petite! of the 19th century, to attempt,
tir a system of violence, the annihilation of that
;14ht of censers, claimed by the Public, which,
ert u the great Garrick and other illustrious Per.
f,traiers, before whom the Corent-ganlen trio taus'
rl,tle their diminished heads, appear to have admit.
tea. We beg, however, to be distinctly understuoil,
,s, not only reprobating the violence narrated is,
the 4.. accounts, but as deprecating, in every in.
nonce, the comnsission of the slightest damage
to any part of the property el the Proprietors.
...We also trust that the bending of the knee
will never be demanded as a part of any apology
h cb may be required from an actor; for, al.
though actors live by the favour ef the public, We
see IkU good reason why they, any more than
other latlividuals, should he called upon to submit
to that species of huinillation which is unknown
in this country, with the exception of the submis-
,iuil demandesi by the Great Council of the Na.
tiuu. [To the Muuarch of these Realms we all
cheerfully bend the knee, as an acknowledgment!
of respect fur the supreme head of the station.] It
hisiseee said, that Actors, by the public exhibi-
tiuneettheir persons, arc placed in a Situation less
eattectable than 'that of other classes of society :
to this prejudice, for such we really deem it, we
raunot assent. Does not the Barrister, however
esecrable may be the case, which by the rules of
the profession, he is bound to defend, if required,
talsiblt his person, pour forth his eloquence with
rt cry oratorical gesticulation, and even sometimes
atral passions and stritiments, which may be in i
opposition to his absolute knowledge and
e onsictien. And ret the profusion of the pleader
less/snot only to wealth, but to hunuar and dig-
Hey. What is the essential difference between
the. actor, in the exhibitive of the various chit-
rac.ers he represcuts, and the lawyer i t his
eorteme of serval and wig--invariably perform.
tag the part of truth ? Now, as there art
two sidge mid two advocates of every question,
nice of them must invariably be wrong, as they
'Mena bulb, siewsfully, sustain the character of
troth.
The Actor recites that which the hearers know to
le untrue; what:the Bat rimer labours with all his
might to prove that true, which, lu many in.
stances, be knows to be otherwise. Nur is !ski'
taiumph ever so great as when he succeeds in such
east. The profession of an actor is by no
means necessarily degrading, because it has not
uuirequently Wen disgraced by the irregular cue.
duct of individuals, and it is greatly to he de.
st,il that the profession should emancipate from
Ca: prejudice el' public opinion. This, however,
eau only be eneeted by a genet-al adherence to de.
wrath, and a perseverance in that respectable de-
eseanour and propiiety of manners, by abaci'
unity very worthy and respectable performers, of
both solo, archoutsurably dbeingeiabod.
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Fringe the Annual Register, vot. a. p. 52.-
1763, January ti.. " A printed waiver was din.
pealed in the taverns, coffee-houses, &c. corn.
planting of the Managers of the Theatres refusing
aamirtauce at the end of the third act of a play for
half-ptice; and at Drury-lane Theatre, in the
tareaisg, upon drawing up of the curtain, the two
actor', who began to play, were interrupted.—
['pop this, Mr. Garrick came ore the stage and at.
tempted to speak ; but an uproar immediately bit
gait; and the ladies withdrawing, the benches
*era torn up, the glass lustres were broke and
thrown epos the stage, and a total eonfusion en-
sued, which prevented the play from going oti ;
and about nine the house was cleared, the motto
being returned. The damage was, however, re.
paired by next night, when the Managers
&aught proper to submit, and promised nut to
ens one of the actors, who refused to asklpar.
don tai his knees for something the audience
alleged against him, while he lay under their din.
pleasure."
Fes. 2i.—" A riot happened at Covent-garden;
Theatre, occasioned by a demand being made fur
full prices, throughout the whole performance ef
the opera of Artaxerxes. The mischief duet
was the greatest ever known on any occssion
the like kind, all the benches of the boxes and
pit being tore up, the glasses and' chandefers
broken, and the linings of the Loses cut to pistil.
The rashness of the rioters was so great, that they
eta away the wooden pillars between the bons,
so that, if the inside of them had not been iron,
they would have brought down the galleries upon
Mir own heads. Four persons concerned its the
riot were cuqpnitted to the Gatehouse, bat soon
after rebated, and all prose:cations against th•
rest stopt, the audience refusing to accept the
Managers' submission to the capital point io
putt, upon any other terms.—(ibid. p. 57.
From the Geltieatan's Magazine foe Janeary,
17e3:-..0 At night, whew the third maids began
at Drury-lane, the audience insisted se Britain
strike none and the Roast Beef of Oki &gland,
%flick were played accordingly. Mr. fibtlatid"
taming in to speak the Prologue to Stara, he
w..s hissed off. Mr. Garrick immediatelj came
on, but could not obtain a Waring. Aftin is cuts.
fused uproar, which lasted Mae eked. du
%hick he remained on the Aar a II Staid of
(I it may be more easily enpadeed than et
1. 0 voices calling ost...Nair Mee Ater
tailo as many others MOW 41111, fleas. MO Pit
!.r was asked from the Pit, whether he would an.
;et the questions that should he put to him ?---He
r, speeetfully asW, be would. The following pies.
Imo were then put :--.Will rot or will You nwit
give admittance for balf.pries law the third act,
except during the Ant winter of a new Panto.
mime ? Mr. Garrick wanted to explain the rat.
coos of his conduct, its asking full pikes dosing
:i.e kern run of anew Pay, but could not obtain
leave. He was rewired to give SO IRO& are.
No. After aria OW_ 'ldol b,
',reek to explain his condiegt, he OHM out It
-Abe mesh not without a editor, et kidigoatioal