The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTgLLIGiIaCg.

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It is.llol/ very unhappily ascertained;that the rare,
the meritorious, the eccentric Mr. GEOltnE FREISE•
aim COOKE, path paid the debt which Nature will,
sooner or later, demand of us all, and that his func.
tions, as a man and an actor, have been abrogated
by death.
It is said that Mr. COOKE died, at New-York, in
the United States of America, on the day that he had
attained his 57th year ; and that his remains were
followed to the sepulchre; not only by his theatrical
brethren, but by many of the most respectable inha-
bitants of that city ; which was a compliment to his
memory, that his great merits might, naturally, ex-
cite, in a ruder society, than that. which constitutes
the population of that place.
The biography of Mr. Comte liath been so fre-
quently and so falsely presented to the general eye,
that we shall be somewhat brief on that head. It
has been recorded that M r. COOKE: was born in Dab-
lin, and that his father was a subaltern in the army ;
which is not true, as he was born at Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and (like the renowned Dr. Fatettum)
educated as a printer; and would, agreeably to pro-
babiiity, have been a second BASKERVILLE, if he had
not been induced to play Horatio, in Hamlet, when
the approbation that he received, so intoxicated his
young brain, that he forsook the important art of
typographic composition, to learn the art of acting,
and recite the composition of others.
His first appearance, upon a regular stage, was
successfully made at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-
market, in the character of Castaiio, for the benefit
of Mrs. M AMY, the wife of Mr. MASSEY, who
was one of the famous club of that period. called
" Choice Spirits," in association with GEORGE Amex-
DER SM. ass, NED SDUTER, HARRY 'towage, Mr.
Roos: n, &c.
From this time, Mr. COORS resolved to make act-
ing his profession, and joined, eventually, many pro-
vincial companies, in which his superiority was so
uniformly acknowledged, that in 1791, he was en-
gaged by Mr. DALY, then the Manager of the Dub-
lin Theatre, to lead the business of the Theatre at a
very considerable salary. In 1797, he was re-en-
gaged by Mr. JONES, the succeeding Manager, for a
term of three years, at an advanced salary ; on the
termination of this treaty, he was invited to Covent.
garden Theatre, by Mr. Haws, sen. where he ,
made his first appearance, on October 31, 1800, in ! i
the part of Ric/14rd the Third; and his reception STnEt lIU T STLERS.—The assurance of this class of
ex_ depredators is arrived at an unprecedented height. A
by a London audience, was so enthusiastically
G
pressed, that Mr. HARRIS not only
,increased his Gentleman was on Friday attacked by a gang of five
arranged salary, but gave him a benefit free of all of them, in Fleet-street, who robbed him of his
p
attendant expellees; nor was this generosity upon pocket-book, containing Bank-notes to a consider.
knowledge of all
would
COOKE, as it was his habitude to fill a bumper to
ask, the they are not apprehended and prosecuted
the health and felicity of that respectable Gentle-
as vagrants, and the streets thus, in great measure,
man, in those moments of intemperance, .when the
cleared of the gangs of thieves and pickpockets that
cunning of the heart bath no influence over the lan-
guage of the tongue. • . now infest them ?
To the curious reader, the following facts, blea-
k would be unnecessary, if not superfluous, to i
milted to us, may be interesting:--That vegetables
follow Mr. Cooxt, in this trifling Memoir, orer those
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paths of weakness and folly, in which, perhaps, he will grow in woollen cloth, moss, or any other in-
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delighted but too much to tread ; yet let it not be soluble media, besides soils, provided they be sop.
forgotten, that he was never betrayed into onedeed. plied with water, has been repeatedly shown since
that indicated the possession of a mean mind, and the days of Van Belmont and Boyle; bat the cape-
that his benevolence was of a marked and exemplary riments of a modern author, from their apparent
correctness, seem more highly interesting end con.
sort, for— .
—" He had a hand, open as day, ! elusive. $.046 of various plants were sovecin pare
'"Fo melcag charity." ! river sand, in litharge, in flour of sulphur,' and even
Considered as an actor, he was so unrivalled in a among metal, or common leaden shot ; and in every
very material department of the drama, that we instance nothing employed for their nourishment but
have no professor left who could equal him!—we distilled water. The plants throve, and passed
have had many (and some of them of high and de- through all the usual gradations of growth to per.
served note) who have attempted to succeed him in feet maturity. * The author then proceeded to gather
Kitely, logo, Sir Pertinax Afacsycophant, Shylock, the entire produce, the roots, stems, leaves, pods,
Stukely, Sir Giles Overreach, Ste. yet not with seeds,, &c. • These were accurately weighed, dried,
equal glory; and the first four act! of Otis Richard, and again weighed, then submitted to distillation, in-
were even superior to Mr. Kgmera.'s exertions in the ' cineration, lixiviation, and the other ordinary means
same part, although in the last Mr. Koine cer.i used in a careful analysis. Thus he obtained front
tainly towered above his less lettered rival. Indeed, i these vegetable all the materials peculiar to each In•
a more impressive evidence cannot be given, of his dividual species, precisely as if it bad been cultivated
wonderful acuteness and merit, in some particular in'a natural soil, viz• the various earths, the alkalis,
characters, than that the part of Peregrine, in the acids, metals, carbon, sulphur, phosphorus, nitro.
comedy of John Bell, which with him was such a I gen, &c. He concludes this very important paper
leading personage, bath, ever since he resigned it, ' nearly in these extraordinary words :—" Oxygen and
sunk and dwindled into something little better than ! hydrogen, with the assistance of solar light, appear
a mere field preacher, walking to and fro among the • to be the only elementary substances employed in
Dramatis Persona.. the constitution of the whole universe; and nature,
It may be almost singularly recorded of Mr. in her simple progress, works the most infinitely di.
CooKE, that he rather ravished fame than otherwise; l versified of feats v the slightest modifitsatlons itt the
as his disposition was of such nn independent cast, i Walls she enyl..ys."---See Re. h.frches sae la force
that he would never walk out of his course to court i eusimilatrice darn le ergetaux, par M. Henri Bra..
the immediate ministers of that false and blatant ' connet, Annals dI. Chimie, Fey. et Mars, 1808.—
Goddess; and, in some instances, he carried this : Extracted from Mr. i':ll;'s (Ay/nice! Cat. 449.
propensity so far, that it occasionally bordered up-1 nut ROBBERY.—We are hew to find that an
on rudeness, which created him enemies, among those occurrence has taken place which is likely to lead to
who regaisical his manners with a microscope, and his a discovery of the robbery of the Leeds mail coach.
merits with the common organs of vision ; and it was A man who keeps a toll-gate near Kettering, and
unnecessary for a nan so gifted as him to make fac- • who was seen in conversation ate public-house with
titiouc opponents by the inaccurncies of his.demean- two of the men belonging to the caravan or tilt cart,
our and expression, who might naturally-count upon which had been driving about that part of the coon-
so many as malignantly appertaining to the bright try, has been taken up on suspicion, and undergone
career of his ability. • an • examination before four Magistrates for the
How the blood mantles! how the cheek's lathed, County of Northampton. In his bed were found
To tied the Censor, less than the accas'd ! sewed up two fifty pound Bank-notes of a recent
Thus wild Presumption throas his arms iu air.
And dares the Olympian Jove, becatt,e--he date I . date, but whether they were abstracted from the
With such our poignant JOWDAS/ Was too bold, • mail, has not been ascertained. The officers are in
LEWIS too agiIe!—HCNDIMISON too cold ! - . pursuit of the guard of the Leeds mail, when for.
Hence BRAMAN'S taste, and CATAt VW/ lay, .
Provok'd the vrowling Python of the day ! ' merly robbed. This man had been discharged for
Bet Time and Trath such abloom stiaftumd, ' negligence on that occasion, and for losing his time-
And strike their ill•rais'd struetures lb the ground.
Then, who can 'scape this ordeal of Fraud, piece. It is very remarkable that the back, or brass-
While public Judgment shie v
ts, and Rate's abroad ? plate,. on which was engraven " Lds," and
Herculean Coosa was thus by. Envy clagg'di G. P. O. together with the number of the time-
Who, dinun'd in error, was-a sum berogr'd ! .
Though dark'oing clouds abscised his weak ray, piece,, had been inadvertently nailed to some part of
We trac'd his radiance e'en In his decay ! the toll-house, taken off by some person, and for-
(Thas, when is Baum' but the Thuaderer trod
warded to the General
The tulgar jerkin could not hide the God !) Post-office. It was found,
Post-offi
And, when the pride of head, and limbs, was past, ' on referring to the books, that this was the back of
Itemain'd a peerless Torso to the last! . the identical iece which had been lost oti the night
Shaw me that being who'll succeed him now! '' of the robbe near Barnet, upwards of two years
Who's nerv'd to grasp the (hymen bowl • carded guard has never been,in any re-
When he drseenord dowa the Western Wes,
And snot. fur ever, from our aching tyes, gagutr employment since his dismissal from the service
The Moses shrieked ! while Joy, by Fate's eontronl, of the Pilot-office, nor lied any visible means of sub.
Narrow'd her charm-frasght circles mod the anal!
sistence since. • He half been observed lurking about
Extract front tAs Kastsums MS.
the ale-houses several weeks, and is supposed to have
accompanied the art!
A Gnntleman, Mr. 04--=-, a resident of Portsea,
his oebmitted to Government a shell that at the im- The first transport' of Rusvtan prisoners, corapris..
hi g lOW men, Teethed the French frontiers last
Immo distance of three miles wilt explode2o.lsalls of
coolorstible matter of three Joann diameter, anti up. month. They were edited to be cosfined in the in....
tenor provinces. . ,_ :
wards of 1000 attltalit. atmi.fi stet balls: these will be.
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scattered on the horison within a circle whose Cosi Count Loottow presented lag month to itpesiiii.
meter is 1400 yards.-4119 w4iikt of flitoball elll I amity .of Parma, a collection of 9elo opals) ntswall
be upwards of Si W.', .. : v.ristiiiatbbieft:- at 50,000 livres.
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DEAL, Nov. 2.—ArrislQ and sailed for the Mir,
the Simon litylor, from 'omelets ; Heart of Ottk,
and Lord Welling-Ns, front Quebec; the two latter;
ander conroy of. his Majesty's ship ProinetUhr.
Po RTS MI! Nov. I.—Sailed the Venguer and
tincess Caroline, for off Cherborgh.
Aldred the brig Tgaemouth, Castle, from Quebec:
01.varocrm, Nov. k.—.4trirea last flight, and an.
Awed iniCawsoad Bayj the following ships from
4:imybe4 bele; pert of the Prometheus: Convoy:
Hardy, Ley Juliana,
40d- qtyitlntent.
bores, vv. 1.;--Passed by for the Ritet the
Sietirs • Taylor,. Meek, from Jamaica; and the
He art of Oak, Nicholson, from Quebec. The for.
mer wat engaged by an American privateer in let. 40.
N. long. 30. 20 W. The action lasted two haunt,
when the American was beaten off with watch do.
mage, notwithstanding she had 12 guns, and was fill
lof men. Captain Meek wis wounded in the fore.
head.

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HARWICH, Nov. g.----The homeward-bound Bahia
fleet are now passing the harbour.

SPOCTING INTELLIGENCE'.

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NE%VSI It RKF:I' THIRD OCTORER MESTIgn.
B'lON IMY AFTER THE HOUGHTON 11E.ETING,„ Note. 11,
Sweepstakes of 10gs each, for 1-yr olds. T. Y. C. tilt. 7lb. ea r&
Gen. Grosvenor's f. by Potenjay -
Mr. Udny's e. by Haphazard • - 't
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Lord Lowther's brother to Rattecup .. 4:...2
Hera he4lll:e Int t iens Ur eiVelier. i f. -Ng.
Duke of Ric.l.iii.fs tif:!paikia, tat. Slb. beat Mr. Shokaspiates
Ilydrs:,es, 7st. lib. A. F. HX!gs. 2tol on Grimalkin.
' A Subscription Handicap Plate of 501. for 3-ye olds and up.,
wards. T. Y. C.
; Mr. Farrall's Lady of the Lake, 3-yrs old, 7..1.51b. - 1
: Lord Foley's ch. c. BOdkin, 3.vri, old,. at. 31b. - 2
8 to I apt Lady of the Lake.
A Subscriptioh Plate of 501. for S-yr olds, Tat. 911). 4-y? olds,
' Bsr. 111 b. s.yr olds, 9st. 31b. &sr olds =Caged, 9st. 51b. A. F.
. Lord Lowther's Dimity, 5-yrs old 4 - 1
! Mr. Lake's Venture, 3-yrs old . - 2
Sto 1 aAst Dimity. 3to 1 asst Venture..
Mr. Goddard's Rrightonia, List. 71b. beat Mr. Fades's Acci-
dent, Ist. 1111). R. M. 50gs. Even betting on Brighton's.
Lord C. 11. Somerset's Scorpion, beat Major Wilson's Judi-
per, IVst. each. D. I. YOlp h. ft. 2tol on Scorpion.

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