The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-07 00:00:00

COMMISSION IN TRLL IG EN Cf: .

readers :
" Our costron-honse s are in a most deplorable state,
and the great majority of our deputies are well con-
yin ed 0: the fatal effects of the late prohibitory de-
CM s Yester.lay we bad a long discussion
withwh our
most influent' -1 orator, Hon M. ---, and ear
front his lips the most indignant satire against this
wretched system. As in the coming Cortes not a
fragment will remain of the present, we have no doubt
this and other absurd legislatorial measures will be
:iv. Wit-own."
THE BOA APS or REvest: e.—lt is pretty generally
understood that Lord Castlecoote and the Right lion.
Mr. Vae.t!eleur are about to retire from their situations,
as Chairmen of the Board of Customs. The Honour-
able Mr. Hewitt, it is mentioned, will, in that case,
he transferred from the. Excise Hoard to the Board of
Customs, and the Honourable Mr. Hutchinson probe•
bly assume the office of Chief Commissioner of Cos-
toms. Other and more
ve important reprleeatiorsn: in the I
Revenue D..partment ha reached ou, but we
are ituluved, for sufficient reasons, to suppress the men-
tom of them for the present. If the alterations we
have above stated take place, and no other persons be
appointed stoneressa•ily to the vacancies, it will neva-
Pion a saying of £2,000 a-year and upwards of the
public stoney.—(Dmiilia papers.)
The amusements of the Carnival on Wednesday
evening, at the English Opera House, promises to he
highly gratifying. The spacious stage of tat Theatre
ith
will be illutninated and fitted-np w the whole of
the extensive decorative scenery. Numerous bands
of music for the eveving are provided ; and from the
well known taste and judgment of Mr. Williams, there
is go doubt that the provision for the Banquet will be
equally liberal and elegant.
Saturday week a meeting took place near Tubber-
tufty, in the county of Sligo, between Major Ogilvie,
of the 4th dragoons, and Henry Peter Browne, Esq.
Captain in the South Mayo militia, when, upon an ex-
change of shots, the latter gentleman was severely
wounded in the chest. It was not deemed adviseable
to remove him far at the moment, and he lies at a vil-
lage called Curry, in the neighbourhood of the place
where the transaction occurred.
During the storm, a few days ago, the Church of
Sr. Giles, near Great Torrington, in Dorsetsbire, was
struck by lightning, which rent the tower from top to
bottom, the four pinacles were shivered in pieces, and
Inge of the stones, which weighed 33 pounds, was found
in a field at a considerable distance. The clock was
materially injuerd, but the body of the building es-
caped without any damage.
On Friday se'nnight the New Charter Preventive
cruiser fell In, off Bognor, with a smuggling smack,
belonging to the Isle of Wight. A chase-ensued :
daring which 14U tubs were thrown overboard by the
latter. These isle of Wight smacks being under very
heavy bonds, the tubs, of which their cargoes con-ist,
are slung in pairs, with weights attached, to facilitate
the sinking, in cue of pursuit.

VVIIII/11111.
EPILOGUE,
To be spoken totter all the new "pieces" to be brought out
at all the" Regrlar" Theatres in the united kiagdons, and
most especially in Los DON !!
TO RE !WORE% R% )IRA. BRA ZZ !4: ZZ Ct.
(She peeps from the stage door, and inspects the audience,
with elegant disdain.)
Rank, beauty, fashion—beavers what a crew.
Tag-rag and bobtail !! . Yes, good people—rev.
(She comes forward.)
Toy needn't clap. Think you, I'm come with smile,
And laugh, and lure, your judgments to beguile,
As Jordan did, leer tempers to amuse,
And humbly beg. Indeed, that pall ezcuse
Our author's faults. No, I assure you, RE
Cares not a rush about you, more than ws r
It is for vs and not for roe, he writes,
And ware resolved his play shall " run" tongs nights.
(Cheers. and cries Of" bravo, bravo.")
What fools were managers in former days.
To let an unpacked aedience try their plays.
Genius, indeed, might well be mosey them.
And the stage tremble at a erities pen.
Our modern Managers, a nobler way,
Secure a verdict for a modern play.
From s—s of S—et they've learned aft,
S—c packs a ---, Manager a Pit ;
With just this trying difference 'twizt the thing.
Otte packs to save, the other packs to misc.
[Thunders of applause from the gods ; a few gentle
Mates from the private boxes.]
log ray if Erotoou a, rm come to hoax,
And mock the audience with insulting jokes ;
To treat "Jens Bum." as if he were "Jack Ca(f."
And at "Jack's" patience. in my "sleeve" to laugh ;
To nose the dandies with a face of brass.
To show the graces of a quizzing glass,
To act the Bond Street banger:, and to strut.
Lisp, ogle, languish. simper, and talk--se VT !!!
[Struts. ogles. and plays the dandy. Several hisses
from the Dandies in the second circle. Satirical
coughing from the Gentlemen of the Press.;
rrn come, in fact, to show you by my airs,
How much the et: mac is beneath the Players.
To let you know, that wa4. and ONLY we.
Know what a play. (Pardonnez " Piece") should be ;
And that the TOWN'S a discontented beast,
Nay. faith. a monster, without sense or tests;
To let you know that spite of taunt arid gibe.
Review, criticise, and sit the scribbling tribe.
Persist, we will, in what THEE calltrash,"
Pun. cant, and piggery. and smut anti finsh.
Pertrist. yea. perish, brave the critic storm,
Barn, garret, workhouse, rather than Repeals ! ! !
[A violent uproar; cries of "off. off. of." She
makes signs to be heard. Proceeds unheard.
amid the tumult; when It subsides a little, the
audience hear as follows:—]
" ;)The Boles. Pit. the foot-lights. Stage. this gown
" You think's the Manager's, but it's my own ;
" A chandelier. drop curtain. stage door,
" The tops the ceouso. and the ground's the Freon.
[Pointing those things out respectively to the ron•
dience, and finishing with a most obsequious
courtesy and an ininsitabie sneer. Every ap-
pearance of a riot. Canso( • • Manager. usanager."l
¶ls this your gratitude f I say, is this
The way you thank as for our " bones," to hiss?
Oh! Shouts, rebellious. disaffeeted groans.
Unruly "orders." disobedient " bones."
How deelishly amazed will you be,
When you in Capitals to-morrow see.
By bill theatrie. on each bill-stnek wall.
At each green grocer's. cosi shed. butcher's stall,
**That all those yells and hisses are tou7:as,
And your d--mto--n " Menders of applause ! ! !
[A shower of apples and oranges. She rushes for-
ward in a 'menacing attitude.]
Nay. by yon chandelier's++ most 'eery light,
D—d shall it be I",:AVAIN to-morrow night !
[Exit in a rage.)
• Three nights is an amazing run for a modern play. The
generality of those/pang productions seldom " ran.' three
acts.
• A smack or two at ------••---is always introdneed.
as a rare offering to the Gods, or rather a noise offering !
: To insult and mimic the poor harmless Dandies, is the
very heart's blood of a Modem Epilogue. There has not
been an epilogue written these twenty years without the
words " Bond Street" in some part of it.
i "We." Th. sole business of the new Epilogue is to re-
mind the audience that gentlemen poets, geniesses, scholars.
wits. &c. can't write plays, and that nobody Can, but
vli
Placers. Sts Massagers. Scene Shifters, Lamplighters. &e.
Ike. A late lope, spokes by Miss -- at " —." told
the public in p sin "Johnny Bell" terms, that there was no
use on their annoying managers with their manescripts. for
that they only got themselves laughed at in the Green Room,
that delightful school of the muses.
11 Almost verbatim, from the exquisit Fishermae Epilogue Hut .. to the
pcere-
-
lebrated " piece," called " The n's "
formed once and an half, et Drury Lane. This divine pro-
duction was the first choice of the'dfrient successor to the
iniekat Committee.
i To lecture. say. to threaten the audience. is the fashion
now. How dare "bones" and "orders" attempt to give
their opinions.
•• The day after the most uproarious damnation of a new
"pieta." those who assisted th manedeath, behold, with the
greatest amazement. Its repeannouseed. and its suc-
cess described as " pre-evetnent and triumphant:" The
" biases and hootings." called " thunders of applause." and
the " apples and oranges,"ilaskes of universal admiration !"
t+ The fragramee of the ris is most delous.
I; A play west be dammed Wee before It will give rip the
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The following is copied from Saturday night's
I Gazette:--
4. The honour of Knighthood having, in two recent in-
stances, been surreptitiously obtained at the Levee, His
slajesty, for the purpose of effectually guarding against
all such disgraceful practices in future, has been pleased
to direct. that henceforth no person shall be presented
to His Majesty at the Levee by the Lord in Waiting, to
receive the honour of Knighthood, unlels His Majesty's
pleasure shall have been previously signified, in writing,
to the Lord in Waiting, bT one of His Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State

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ROY.IL AC-4DEMY.
—r—
On Saturday, the Royal Academicians were ho-
noured with a splendid company at dinner. prepara-
tory to the opening of their fifty-third Exhibition
this day. All the most distinguished patrons and
amateurs of the fine arts were present, and they e
pressed their warm approbation of the progressive
improvement which is evident in the various branches
of painting, drawing, and sculpture.
Although pictures iu the high style of history
are scanty iu Ibis display, yet the Exhibition will
be far mire entertaining to the pnhlic than those
of several years past, on account of the Brent num-
ber of fancy and humourons compositions. Comic
painting. and low comedy in particular, will here be
seen in the highest state of perfection. There are
also some noble Landscapes, which cannot fail of de-
lighting every eye.
The principal pictimoi of the Exhibition are the
following :
Sir Tilostas Lawaxxca, R. A.. has Portraits of her
Royal Highness the late Princess Charlotte—of the
Marquis of Londonderry —of Visconatess Pollingtos
and Child—of Lade Lois* Lambton—of the lat
ni
e
llrs. &ns
1 jamin West, Engsq., President of the Royal Acadev—of
11. Bari and Children—of Sir Humphrey bary.
President of the Boys' Society, &c.—of James Palmer,
1 El ~.?, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital.
,
T. MTOTII ARO, R. A., has The Vintage—Sancho
Pauza relating to his Master, Don Quixote. the
tion atol conversation lie had with Dulcinea; cad
Slialor•are's characters—Falstaff, As yon like it, Tem-
pest, icing Lear, and Macbeth.
H. Totoataost, It. A., exhibits, Bed Time.
H. BILK, z, K. A., has " Newstnongers," and "Geese
my Name."
IV. Mc LIRSADV. R. A.. exhibits the Careless Messes-
ger detected, a pieture full of huutonr.
W. How Aa n, R. A., l'ottage Scene; %been* from
Milton, and the House of Morpheus, from the fatuous
description by SPENCER, besides a Portrait.
Alui.....WiK..l.):B'aLElL:c:o.iviti: •
K.
R.
.. 1 ill ..N. . . Ah.a,s aa
presentsl
sa er
eg etnoelaspiunadbinoisccira:pogwerc;4atithiece:cms.
Sect, Dover from the Sea. a squally day.
Cradle, or. a present from the Grandmother. inspection. the
berland ; Morning on the coast of Kent ; and Dun.
month, Devon.
.1. Noutocove, R. A., exhibits the Burial of Edward
V. and his Brother, the Duke of York, who were mur-
dered in the Tower of London by order of Richard 111.
—The Marriage of the Duke of
York. brother of Ed-
ward V. to the Lady Anne blowbray—Young Dar'
keeping his Fathers Flock, kr.
H. Pcset.t, R. A. presents a subject similar to the
story ..f Orestes—tlle Furies in pursuit of Alcamo%
who has morlered his mother Bnphyle; Prometheoa
delivered by Hercules; and Jealousy, a sketch.
Sir Wsi. Brecon. has a Portrait of a Lady in the
character of Sp: user's Vna; Portraits of the Ea of
f
Aylesbury, Hugh Leicester, E. and " The Bird'
Nest."
W. OWEN, Esq. MA., has contributed a Portrait of
the Earl of Pembroke, anti of Collingwood Selby. Esq.
T. Pommes, Esq. R. A., has Portraits of the Right
lion. Sir W. Grant, late Master of the Rolls i • of Lady
Ilarriet Drummond and Children ; D. Rieardo,
M. P.l• Hon. J. Abercromby, Esq. M. P.; Mrs. Fitzge-
rald. &c.
M. A. SIM. R. A., exhibits Portraits of G. W. Tay-
lor. Esq. M. P. ; of Mrs. Watson Taylor ; Miss Camp-
bell; Eiw. Tunno, Esq., &c
J. Jammer, R. A., has Portraits of Miss Wilson, of
Drury-lane Theatre: Mr. Macremlv, in the character of
Mac6eth ; J. Nortlicote, EBail Grey, lac.
R. R. REINA4;LP. A. exhibits a Scene from Na-
tare, Midday—Portrait Of a Gentleman.
J. WARD, 'R. A., A Hunter, the property of E. Yeales, 11
Esq..—Portrait of a favorite Spaniel belonging to Earl
Pow's.
H.
H RatacnN, R.A.—Portraits of the Marquis of Rate,
Earl Compton, Sir John Hay, &c.
J. CONSTAIILIt, A., has Hampstead Heath—s Shower,
liarrow—Landscape, Noon.
A. B. Cu ALAN. R.A.—Le Bill—Portrait of the Duchess
of Hamilton, Ise.
O. ARNACLII, A.—The Battle of Naseby—Scene on
Woodside.
J. Maxima., R.A.—The Sacred Temple of the fiiii-
dooe—The Ruins of an Ilindoo Temple, East Indies.
A. Corlett', R.A., displays the heroic conduct of
Cromwell at the Rattle of Marston Moor.
There is a great number of clever portraits by Artists
who are not members. Some of the best of th
e fancy
subjects are—May Day. in the reign of Qaeea beth,
by C.R. lacstaz i • Vertumnus and Pomona, by Mrs. Ale.
NAY ; Hipsev Scene, Hampstead, C. Ca/MOM ; The
Drunken Smith, W.HIDI ; Romeo and Juliet, H. P.
Batocs; Cleopatrk's Arrival in Cilicia, IY. Etas; Lock
1 and Key, G. CLINT • The Green Room, M. W. Sow ;
A Mother and Child, W. Louis ; Le Mainsielmagioasie,
by F. 1.111/aLSTONIL ; impertinent Pappiesdisetrsemi by
a !donkey, E. LA NDIMIR ; The Widow's Seas rescued
from Slavery, by the Prophet Elisha, H.P. Boas; Poor
Relations, P. P. STIMMANOTT.
Mrs. Pore, has no less than four drawings is this En-
hibition, via.:—Two large Groups, varieties of Rowe.
one of them contained in an Etruscaa Vase,
drawn et
the British Museum, from one of the fiaest of Sir W.
Hamilton's collection; the other In
a R Horde&
osa. oat. ,
extraordinary large Cockseomb, done for the
tarsi Society ; and a small Tree of the doubleSasatiqua
Camellia.
Among the principal works of sculpture submiteed
lut.
this year to public inspection, are Bests of Sir W
Scott, Bart. of W. Wordsworth, Beg.. of the
of Londonderry. and the Bishop of Rochester, by .'
Cs ANTRZT, ILA. ; Ledalon and Amelia, a warble Mali
and a model for theintended Statue of B. West, Isle'
['reddest of the Borst Academy, by C. Ross,
sod Brut of Miss Wits" by W. Basses.
osorserffrommaa"lle
Mr: T. 0. Powlett's b. c. Gambler, S yes old, won the
2110 plate at Widish" on Tuesday, la two heats, besting
four others:
The first green peas exhibited is Loodos this we-
WS was on Tuesday last, the let of May.
base bees pleated
Some very fine ears of glees wheat
at Babas, seat Cblehester, and skews as a lisp-
. Ara

To Do.
To Do.

DuRLIN. M 3.—Yesterday, the Court wait opt o•
pied from ten o'clocli in the morning until rite at
night, in the trial of t:.e two wretched wo r.ru, lin!: •cif
and Ennis, for the inur,ler of 51ti,. Thompson. in Port-
lar.d-place ; they were both {wand Utility of the Mr r-
der and Robbery, and sentenced to be executed a:
Kihnsinham on the sth instant.—(lfbc account of.the
trial we niutit po►tpoue till to-morru:t•.)
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STATE OF THE WOOLLEW M.II.:FATUE:?.
[From the Leeds Mercsri.l
The follawing, is the report of the IVoollen Cloth
raided during the last year, via. from the 2Sth Mate h,
1820, to the 2Sth of March, 1S I. :as delivered by tt.e
teachers to the Magistrates, on Wednesday, the 24
instant :

NARROW CLOTHS biturn.
First Quarter Ski%
Seam/ ditto SOW
Thitd ditto V 317
Fourth ditto 2~) 336

129.979
Mllled
114,700
la,t year

Increase 9.579
BROW CLOTIIB MiII.T.RD.
First Quarter 9.4.Xlift
Second ditto 77.39.1
Third ditto 71.407
Fourth ditto 09.009

YAWL'S.

26.710
Milled last year ... ..1161,47c1

6:426.791
4.140.181
316,410

9. itl6,tas
8.406,31*

7711,909

43. 441
Increase

Tot milled this sear in lards 14.111.014
Total milled last )-eor in lards I 3.115.405

Total Increase this year is yards
From this return it appears, that the woollen goods
manafActured during the past year, exceeds the quan-
tity of the preceding year to the el lswant of 33,0;
pieces. maids' 1.116.51116/yartio.. It is proper. hos
sazehow
-
ever, to observe. -that is the Mans as* at Pooh'
freet at ilaster.lll" lbws gee Y of 81.67&
pieces, or 2.6711,1111 prds. With the forme.
year; so that tate/Joists issresseof op wards v.:
1,100,01 W ya fair, da46lol.lparison of the lw t,
the deficiency of tisitywhel tweitawaa so ceispared With
those of 1519, amounts to 48.$M Of I,PssAls;;
yards. Should the Stamping Laws Joe rsimieds theyards.
Aran
country will in future years de depriswenst Oswalt.
able information derived from the CIA,' lhort
her'i
reports, which have now been annnelly stale.
t
m
interruption, during a series of ninety-five
The shove, it will be observed, relates to,,khe state
of the Woollen manufacture in the West Wein of
Yorkshire alone. From a paper laid oft the table of
the House of Commons we are sorry to hear that
there has been a progressive decline of the value of
manufactured woollen goods sad woollen yarn. For
One year,
To the 6th Jan. 1619, the total
west red
value a 29.017.990 19 11
• 6.99906 6 0
609.164 It II

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—. -•—•••—=--- --------.
A "urea hoe bees offered et the iimessery 44 the
ghost, that has annoyed the Masses in Carcleweseeet.
in this lowa, by throwing stones, fur the last three
weellp ; and the artuourer's family having left the
depot, which is now entirely shut up, the invisible
assailing has shifted the scene of attack, and yesterday
commenced an assault on the house to which this fa-
mily has removed. in Charles-street, to the great
alarm of the neighbourhood.—lt is a disgrace to our
police that this miserable hoax is allowed to continue
to be played off so long.—(West Britoil.)
At the Circuit court of Dumfries, on Monday, James
Gordon, alias *Donald alias O'Deloali, was found
guilty of the tnurder and robbery of Jahn Elliot, a
young man of rather weak intellects, who travelled
the country with pictures and petty wares for sale.—
The evidence was wholly ciretesstantial, but cosclu-
sive. The prisoner wu in company with the de-
ceased at several farm houses and other places, in
Dumfrieehire, before the murder. Tbey were 14st
seen together on the 14th November, and on the 26th
the body of the deceased was found in a mangled
Isiate on a remote part of a farm at Eskdale moor, hat,
log apparently laid exposed to the weather several dsys.
The bead was much beaten with an iron-bound wooden
bee which he wore. The prisoner was clearly proved
is have sold the goods which were previously in the
deceased's possession, at various places, from a red box
lin which the poor boy carried tbetn, and which was
Identified in the court, and he began to
ce
offer oo the
evening of the 14th and sold them at any pri, the
bey not then being with him : and when prisonet was
takes into custody at Nairn, he gave false and contra-
dictory accounts of where he had been. He was un-
fenced to be.exectited at Dimities on the Gth of June.
He behaved most outrageously in Conrt. Haggett,
who murdered the turnkey of the Dumfries prison, is
te be tried in Edinburgh.
Coast-ExcoaNt.a, MAY 7.—The Supply of Wheat be-
ing small this morning, tine runs from Essex, Kent, and
Suffolk, sold rather freely at last Monday's price', and
superfine samples obtained an advance of full Is. per
quarter ; but there was not the least amendment in the
inferior qualities, the sale of which continues very heavy
at last week's prices. Firedalting Barley being scatie.
what few sataples appeato-day sold readily, and is
Is. per quarter dearer. Oats fully support last week's
prices, luring hail but two arrivals since Friday. White
Peas are 2s, per quarter dearer. In other articles there
is no alteration.

Wacatisti.

s. s. Small Beams •. •IS 311
11/bew. Kent, and Essex Tick ditto VI 47
New .......... Oats, Potatoe .ee tra
Oid .......... 34 82 1 Ditto, Poised lO 911
1
Sulfolk ............ 32 68 I Ditto, Feed l4 19
Old .... . ....... . Flour. Pet Sack 48 eu
Norfolk, (Old) ...... 42 601 Rapeseed. per Lest— 111 94
Rae........ .. ...... VO 30 TOMMuII.
Barley .............. 20 27 I Wheat. Anwietsran.. • . 0 U
Malt ................ 60 66 I Dantsic ............ 64 tkt
White ha 5.......... VS 31 Baltic, Red..• ..
Baum. •. ......... 36 38 ilantbro' Red • tAI irl
Gm ditt0.......... 96 VO
SISITIFIELD MAIRULT.--Thete was a goad .mpply 4,(
,all description of Cattle at Market this roar Mag. and the
prices are much the more as last Market day.
cr. sink the QIN; per Stone of Sibs.)
Beef .• • • as. fid. to 45. 81. carit.c AT WARittl.
1
Menem.. X. Bd. to 4s. 6d. I Beasts .............. IPPO
Veal .... 4s. 6d. to 6s. 61. Calves .... , . ...... .. 101
posit .• .. M.O. to bs. dd. Sheep end Lambs ....16.14u
Lam% .... tt. Oa. to Os. fld. .Pigst ............ - Au
till MASSIZT.—No alteration in the price ollley tilts
osoraing.—Straw and Claret as per our last.

tic; -lisiesty,s as spwww., ___ A
larity is tile mitt of ptiL