The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-05 00:00:00

snows r) Free diens donensals. Challeams, it is analingt To the EDITOR of TILE ST'dTEEM.4N.
that oar Inevitable rubs newt tie assetplewee of returning I -.utonss-
to the old priees.--(s No, an, so, sot Hoar M6a / Hear Mos? (The following sensible and spirited Letter was
ire has Mori sts bog swag* ! w ought to kw king ) delivered to us yesterday, at an hour, unfur-
-1 beg yoo, Indies and tleedessos, to beer ow patiatlywhilel tanately, too late for iusertion.]
&Awe fa yea. that If we toad possibly "re et the ell. SIR—I feel a strong interest in the issue of the
Priers, we weeld d.rit with pleasure.--(' OA, Mk tit obescane-
contest, between the Public and the Proprietors of
• ! What's to *sew you r loose *potion, hi canon de. contest,
New Theatre, and am solicitous, through the
colons pesdemissaist.) I throw myself open year nuseeer.
medium of the ugly independent Paper I can find
Ladies mad Gaileseseu, when I ak of you a patient beads&
In London, to make a few observations on a
--(‘ Hear Mos ! hoer ktos.r) I throw invself open the mediae
subject, which seems at this moment (us:mount-.
of the Reese.—)' Brame ! Memo ist • s hear Miss r) wheai
sole whether there biome Cesarean 'otitis House who thinks able as is the fact) to agitate this mighty nietropo.
ek wage by which we are owe to lose three-quarter, per lie, more than even the momentous, awful sus.
*att. epos a capital Is a trade which ere ean carry 00.—(' 0, pcnse respecting the result of the conferences at
8041; pa rap row property for tale, if postfind year ALTEN eu *en.
Cleartni e Using can. Snow t Skeet r) when I address the If, u has been stated, by the Proprietors and
mast adigittened nod liberal Audience In the world, ($ Too their Committee, no more than 64 per Cent. has
de eon bees U.') I reel confident that this plea will be suffi- been produced at a medium on their capital fur
diet. when I 'bras myself on its enadithr, and declare, that the last sin years—why did they not announce
lathing but absolute necessity has drivels us to the unpleasant that fact to the public previous to the erec..
liik of this advance." (• That rill *ever de, yen must cease tion of the present building—so inconsistent,
dews this appeal to oar modem- It alt can! lit won't de: ) according to their own statesnent, with their
After the retirement of Mr. ICEstat.c, the an- former profits, and present finances? The high
dience were addressed by— price of every description of materials, is gni-
Mr. O'R Et LLY.—This Gm:denote observed, that if the Re- versa Ily known and admitted—why then had
port alluded to by Mr. KausLE were in be attended to, the the Proprietors the arrogant presumption to
New Prices were really too little, and the Ittoprietort should incur the enorm otts expense of 150,0001. in the new
ask wire. Frost this Report, it would WM. that poor Mr. erection, before they had submitted their situation
K snake and his partners weve engaged lea had "realist**. and their plan to the public, whose sentiaients
He wallieeetts theeef•res that they did sat exPeert a willing' and feelings on the subject might have thus been
sea to ere is or—if in, he rather thought they would tied correctly ascertained before any steps had been
money hidden, eves ern the Old Priem But, no doubt, taken ? To private Bores, under sow dream.
their Wettings* under tech disadvantages, posereded en- stances, or under any qualifibetion, the public
tinily trout a Mire to serve the whoa Mr. Kee- would, and ought to have objected—they are
*Le seas es simnel, sossieue to please nay abet actor.—
To be serious, brisever, he chi not give any of the corps they will eeelitatte to
correct in their objection
welch tredit Are sincerity, as& be conceived drat meet wise object,
and the inhabii..ets of those disgraceful
was made *bon theft ails they dewned—They appeared reetsses will never be exempt from the contempt,
to bin to be over talked of, over thought of. sod consider- and perhaps insult, of the audience. To these
ably over paid. It was haderable to his mad that, a huh. i nests of exclusive ease and privileged voluptuous-
gallant conkers of liberal education and sentiments were fight. nest, the comfort and convenience of every part
ing the battles of their country for 5 and is. a da%, 50and he. of the house (except the Pit), have been tron-
a night should be gi vett to a meiotic [applause.] Redid not with! nutty, imprudently, and foolishly sacrificed, and
to &wad • the stage below it, prnper level, but be tharight it I yet the Preprieturs have the matchless et.
was raised too high in this country, nod be begged Eagli.lanea frontery to insist on an advance of prices.
is etwitter, that the freest nation ufnutinity last it• rreed.,,,,
end ilideprodelece by intending 1041 omen to Theatricals. The r $
merle when a person went to the Theatre,
recollection of this einsaistanceshuald strike the public with and paid only six shillings, he might be so accom.
Peculiar forces PartirularlY la the present ethic of wort& moduted as to enjoy, in comfort, the en tertain-
tio meth fur politico sail theatrical. , now he begged to say a ,„
Word abets ssonds. Het egged the audience to look at the ,155.-A., of the place, such as they =ere. But now,
private hoses -the sort of compaav they he hl (there were te- when nothing less than gold obtains admission to
neat nre._...orious women quite coaspienous), and to consider the the Buses so
apartments nonesed to ante. Ile did not know that the pa- far from meeting with the sect's-
teat of the Nl:maKer4 evaded them to interfere with other tinned accommodation, you arc thrust Into dark,
pieces of nrcoruntodatitni aui amusement to town. [Lough- gloomy, and contracted cavities, where you can
tar and apples*.] neither see, nor be seen—as to comfort, you
With respect to The se 4Llt. he observed that his
calculation was careen. in inagers had got rid of her might be as comfortably seated in time stocks as ip
as they desired. Hot it was remarkable, that even when the the fourth tier—and of the Pigeon-hale Ilexes, which
Theatre was to be miblert to her great salary, Mr. Rene Le are on ts level with that contracted PANTHEON
stated the prospective profits of the Theatre at five per rem.
yet aow that her salary was dune n say. :Hr. Rev c'S emit- termed the Upper Gallery—it may, without much
nillseoadadakti these profits /Doty at 3; per cruet. Tius con- exaggeration, be asserted, that a man would be
trust belt* It to the Public to eoesider. almost as comfortable in the pillory.
This gentleman was followed by Mr. Savae E. The true interests of the Proprietors are, au
The audience, although as vociferous u any we immediate reduction to the old prices—and a pro.
ever heard, nod more apparently Meetly to its mire to the public to throw down the privileged
purpose, was yet so little disposed to mischief, inclosure of insolent wealth and secret voluptu.
that a person who appeared to be in the act of de- ousness—at the termination of the annual engage.
facing some of the ornamental paintings in front meta of the present atrugant incumbents ; some
of the boxes, was immediately compelled by the of whom are City Issushronms, sprung from Mr.
audience to desist. The audience then dispersed. Pi'th's hot-bed of loans, corruption, bribery,
The malcontents are something dramatic in their peculation, and speculation. Throw down the
operations. Like Hamlet, if they are mad, inciostsre—for
64 ikon's method in their madness." " To this you most none at last."
The constant practice of the company in the The Proprietors may swagger and bully, and
Pit was to stand up with their hats on during threaten, and prpduce their certjficate (as you
the performance, and to resume their seats and have happily termed it), and bring in the Officers
be uncovered when the act closeal. Several con. lof Bow-street, the Constables, anti even the
tests and gauges took place in the Boxes anti Guards—brit if a proper spirit be but ahewn,
Pit, particularly in the former, *here, in some they must submit to the judgment of their old and
instances, blows, and in others, cards were ex- only friend amid benefactor, Jou BULLI ant an
changed. old-fashioned member of that worthy gentleman's
The house was completely filled at the end family, and write not from personal pecuniary
of the first act; and several hundreds after that considerations—they tome, are wholly indifferent.
period applied in rain for admission. When • I write as I feel, for that public, of which I form
46 God Save the King" was played by the or. a part. I am an Engl.sh:nan of the old school ;
cheitra, the whole of the company ruse and tea_ I l abhor alt privileged distinctions in any place of
tified their loyalty by the must enthusiastic accla- public amusement ; and have more than once felt
nations. f the conscious pride of an Englishman, in sitting

We have forborne to describe the eery general
salutations with which the curs of the Company ,
in the Private Boxes were :ratified, by a variety
of expressive set..iments, from the other parts of
the Rouse expressions were used indicative of the ,
poartble scenes in those private recesses, which,
whatever might be thought, we greatly lamented
to hear—hut from nhieh we are convinced the
company who think proper to frequent them,
must never hope to be exempt. Joni BULL
will express his opinions, our can it be surpris-
ing that if the idea suggested be coarse, those
opinions should be expressed in correspondent lan.
language. To the private Boxes Joust Bora. has
three objections—First,That unN individualshould
enjoy an exclusive Privilege to comfort and ac.
commodation of any kind at a public Patent Tless.
Ire. Next, that the possibility of such privacies
being occasionally converted to purposes incon.
sistent with morality, renders the toleration of
private Duxes inconsistent nith public decency.
And lastly, that, to thegratification of thirty fami•
lies, the accommodation and comfort of every
other family in England have, to • certain de.
pee, been sacrced. The latter of these <skive.
(ions is now irrensediabk—but fur the two for.
met there is an obvious remedy. The hostility
of the spectators has hitherto been more power.
fully directed against the Nero Prises, than
against the private Boxes—but the antipathy, the
hatred of the public at large against this deputa.
Lion of monopoly, by monopolists—although not
yet so loudly expressed, has taken mach deeper
root, and, we vesture to predict, will never
.be
eradicated.
We really hope that the Proprietor will at
length sec their tree interests. With respect to
the certificate and the account, we shall only at
present ask the Proprietors (and, like Mr.Didler,
merely for information) at what period the inte.
nit un the 15,0001. borrotted, and which forms
a part of their present capital, ceases ? Fur
be it known to the mask at large, that the
conditions em which that sum of 75,0001. was
lent—were /km admissioas and interest at bye
per Cent. to the lenders fur a give* number of
yean-.--st the **Oration of which the interest
ceases, sod the whole 75,0001. becomes the pro-
peril it Me Preprietors!! !
48 TOM or tsars Ma as& Basest."

at the Theatre on the very same spot where, on
the preceding evening, I saw the• King of Eng-
land seated, amidst his subjects.-1 ain, Sir, an
admirer of your independence, and owe who has
au inconsiderable
STAKF. IN THE HEDGE.
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To THE EDI7I) it or Ilia STATESMAN.
SIR—As an observ:•r of the point at issue be.
tween the Covent-Gaiden Managers, and the Pub-
lic, allow me to con/noisiest(' my sentiments. I
must premise, that I sincerely wish to see a gene.
rid pacification, and the Theatre restored to its
proper influence in society. In various cousins.
nies, of late, I have beard it much dwelt upon,
that the respectability of the Investigating Com.
mittee is such, that nu appeal ought to lie from its
decision. For that decision I core not one far.
thing. It is impossible to allow the proposition
in the extent it seems to bear. I will, for argu-
ment's sake, admit all the individuals who com.
pose it to be immaculate; but let us not forget
that they were appointed by the Managerr, nor to
ask, who sanctioned it on behalf of the Public ?
The result of their investigatio.l was obvious from
the muasesit they were appointed, and it is equally
so, that the Public both can and will, not only
appeal from it, but I trust rouse up a proper spi.
rit, and not suffer those who exist upon their
bounty, and who, however they may be puffed up
in their own conceits, are only servants, arro.
gently to raise the standard of defiance against
those whom they ought to treat with the greatest
respect and gratitude.
I am, Sir, yout's obediently,
Oct. 4, 18u9.

Sutctut.—A Gentleman of the name of
liard, formerly a trader of note to Russia, put a
period to his existence on Tuesday last, at his
house, No. 4, York-row, St. George's. The
unfortunate Gentleman, who was nearly GO years
of age, had for several weeks laboured under a
depression of spirits, bordering on derangement,
arising from the loss of an only daughter, who
was killed by a fall out of a chaise a month ago.
The deceased was foam' with his throat cut in his
bod.room. Ne had effected his purpose with a
razor, and a Coroner's Jury brought Is a verdict
of