The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-04 00:00:00

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POLITICS AND THEATRICALS.
(roost • COIIaSISPONDINT.)
A non-descript at the Royal Coburg Theatre, which'
lately raked up the ashes of the greatest man Europe
• ever produced, has been noticed in the Bourbon papers.
It had previously given an unpardonable offence to an
ultra loyalist editor, 'so much so that the proprietor was
foolish enough to think it necessary to reply to a meld,
whose abuse was sufficient to eulogise any character, be it
ever so debased. When such vermin aspire to place them-
selves above the law, the law should chastise them ; and
when such miscreants creep into society,and bring up their
kinsnd bangers-on, to the trade of spies and informers
upon the public and private acts of their neighbours,
It is time they should be held up to public execration.—
When Tiberauz (tinder whose reign Christ was crucified)
swayed the Roman sceptre, his baseness, his sanguinary
government, was supported by spies and informers ; but
When Titus, eater the siege of Jerusalem, became Em-
peror, his filet Ott.was to banish all those detested cater-
pillars from the Roman teiritery, under pain of death
•if they ever returned. Such au act at present would rid
this country of thati'unta who attempt to bold the
peace and property of their neighbours in a state of
surveillance, who are eating up and undermining that
w Constitution they pretend to uphold. If the slop-penti
has been emptied on the pieces at the Coburg, some-
thinv like criticism should have accompanied the in-
virtive, which might have censured the capacity of the
Dramatist—that was not the object. Ilere, like the
patent hoults, they do not sufficiently encourage, nor
give stimulffs to talent, and too often at enormous ex-
pense, send forth molly productions, principally_ to
gratify the eye; still the legitimates, like the Rely
Alliance, suppress !Owl,' at home, and encourage vande-
listw Abroad; so it is u ills the large shops; they keep open
two months of the summer longer than they should, get
translations, dressed up in borrowed feathers, beg, bor-
row, and pirate from industry, sooner than come down
liberally to modest merit which remains in a state of
ennui, from a want of opportunity to employ it ; and
when the minor houses attempt, even by stratagem, at
the legitimate drama, law and loggerheads are called
forth to correct shat the complainants have been the
first aggressors in.
So much for Buekingham!
If the Coburn cannot boast of erudition, it abounds
i novelty. But we think the last burlesque called
to Fold Teopt, s' ould have burst and scalded the
parties for exhibiting such a burlesque upon bur-
Ips.itte, nor can we Era!: very highly of the present
boisirxae Tote, as it is called, being a solomongundy
of bits and neaps, taken from a novel called
" London." Out of this novel, 'tis said the King's
,Infer took a famous scene for his last famous Comedy.
However improper, or improbable it may be, to make
fai:en virtue lure pickpocket, and the first and only theft
her seducer's watch, still we must do Mr. H. KEMPLE
justice and congratulate him on his improvement, and
taking nature for his guide. His Willlans 'fell in a for-
mer piece, and his Reuben in this, exhibit brilliant spe-
cimens of scientific improvement. Miss WATSON merits
every praise in this, as in all other exertions, and Mr.
IiALLOT must not he liberal of this thanks to the author,
who would shoot him in one scene and bring him in
happily cured in the next, and that by the assistance of
Mr. DAVIS, a benevolent Jew, 'who, like the Green
Mau, founsla cure fur all disorders in his charity and
generosity.

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