The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-27 00:00:00

tinted nightly from that time to laugh at the al
surd coostruetioa of the House—the ridicule'

perseverance of the Nommen—the ■ukwar
deportment of the inhabitants of the Prim
Boxes...and the lying @mounts that arc diur.
rally published by the futile, hireling, purchased
Journals of the Proprietors. The sanctic
of the Managers to indulge in laughter, was. in
troth, fortunate...for had even J nay llnenshend
commanded a rigidity of our risible muscles,
obedience bad been impossible. " Laugh 'her,
yam can" was gravel, applauded by the order/p
in the Boxes; but two or three invalid soldiers in
uniform, the Hibernian Ladies of Covent-Gar.
den Market, the Firemen, Watermen, and Po.
lice-Officers in the rit, were, at times, ob.
streperuusly vociferous in their plaudits. The
curtain dropped amidst the usual roar. In dm
course of the Piece, the Police Officers snap..
pert two persons who dared to express their
disapprobation, and hurried them off so suddculy,
that the company had not time to interfere.
At the commencement of the "Jabi:ce," which
followed, we counted the Pit several times, but
could never get to 200. The activity of Profc3.
sor Brandon, au far from diminishing, appears
to have increased. lie seems, in truth, to liav-• ac.
quired no inconsiderable twis fur this net.: brand.
of the prqession. in the course of the evening .
Perry, the fireinan,struck a young man, who its, t't ti
to, and reduced the petulance of Mr. Peris to so.
bee reason, by ■ very decent drubbing. It %s
think, highly probable that the company in the
pit will eventually feel themselves constrained t:i
resist en masse the presence A* any persons
by the Broprietors, whether Constable:,
Officers, Firemen, ur Professors.
Of all the insults that have yet been offered to
the town, this same Jubilee is, perhaps, the great.
cit. To give appearance to a inure natural
Commerce, a number of persons attended her cm.
blematical car, arra} ed in their ordinary dresses of
lamp-lighlers, turpenter., blacksmiths, au,:
other artisans. Of these persons, ur of their oc-
cupations, we beg nut to be understood as speak-
ing or thinking disrespectfully—it is of the Mt.
augers we mean to express our contempt, (or in,
troducing them, thus injudiciously, before ths.
Public. As well, and as consistently, might
be introduced a woman of couciiion at thy
:cash tub, to convey the idea of distress
—as artificers in their dresses of daily la-
bour, to curroburoto the effect of emblems of
Cua►tncrcr, metaphorically introduced with thu
ear. The inscriptions of the banners we enume-
rated yesterday, wit!; the omission of Jiff i3pru-
detect., followed, must rithen:ousle, b)• two
men bearing each an opened batik. We last
night examined, ssitli serupti!uus attentio❑,
the various hamlets, conceit lag that, in thu
first representation, we had overlooked, nut
only one impudent, but very recent trans.
action, which the Ilas.l-qmin Claricr had coen.,
pared with the fields ut Cr-,;:ryr and 4gincourt.
Now, AS the day on which the Jubilee was cow-
memurated, happened to be that of St.Cs ipion,
un which day was (ought the •famuus battle of
4gincourt, we sat in momentary expectation of
seeing " though last not least," conspicuous