The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-28 00:00:00

ENWASII LIBERTY-PRIUSII THE
TLIEJT&E!

M It. EDlTOR—Having observed it to be stated
th it the Proprietors of Guyon t.garilen Theatre have
retained the Attorney and Soleitor.Gencrals, with
3les4rs. Garrow, Court, and Alley, as Counsel to
coutLict the prosecution agaiiist the parties now
under bail or imprisonment, fur charges of riot.
ous c induct in thu said Theatre, L intreat that
my countrymen and fellow freemen will not
!et slip so momentum an occasion or defend.
T,?.; their dearest rights, by standing up in sup.
port of the unfortunate prisoners. When talents
of the first order are bought up raholesale to
strengthen a bold and desperate attack 04 04r
liberty as Britons, I trust there is not a Ma
who feels the blessing of that adored name, best
will lic prowl to step forward in aid of its
ous cause ; for be it borne in everlasting MOM,
brance, that the result •r the contest will bo GO
eoern.il precedent.....ff that day is lost, we lit is
enemy within our walls, to despoil and destroy
es at his leisure. Let not my countrymen rate
this picture as overcharged...the event will prove
its troth—indeed our pill experience is warranty
all sufficient to prove it. That it should come to
this !...that theatrical avarice and mountebank in. ,
sulcnce should be made an engine to assail the
fortress of British freedom ! us nut slumber,
hut rise as one man and break our chains on the
Nets of our oppressors.

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A BRITON.

FOR THE STATESMAN.

Mr. Eottaa..u.Pray insert the following ',A-
ter to my Country tutu.
COYLt4T-GA.RDIIN.
" Esousancs, 1 will not here remark ou the
:justice, or necessity of the item prices. I fear
that if Managers exact, you must pay them,
br leave the Play to the Si Gotiventicles, erected
to Ovaries and mossuality : but lam clear, . that the
trivate Busts aro nut sanctioned by theatrical
prescription ; that they are an encroachment upon
it public right; that they contravene the principle
Of the patios!, which coitstitutes the Theatre, and
therefore that they are illegal. Englishmen, this
is the foundation on which you may stand, and
*sett Managcn, that British spirit, moderation,
and perseveranc.e, will defeat rapacity, repress in.
buttock., and punish usurpation. Thu patent is
your gni& ; limo name, the very nature of it, pro-
tiaitit that the object for which it was granted
shall be Orin ; to who.o ?to the Public. Is it so?
! you arc excluded from 31 Boxes. The
Manager's Orders have admitted notorious ruffians;
why ? to menace youi An A•torney has been
!vistaed to prJslctite you. Thus you are abridg.
ed of a ciituniary right ; brutalizvd by pugilists ;
teited and Imprisoned ; or compelled, contrary to
the Bill of Rights, to enter into TEAT HEAVY
Sneties for your appearance. Englishmen, will
yon esuldre this ? You may approve, and disap-
prove ; you may kgally clip and hiss ; but, I
conjure you to avoid violence, political subjects,
end irr;veresid expressions of the Government.
Confine your resentment to the Managers, and
Petc will shut up the Theatre, or at least open the
rivate Boxes. Be loyal, be temperate, be firm ;
MO, that the fear of law-costs Islay not subdue
vow teal, I will ghost asypessional avid professions/
assistance to all who require It; for which, I will
neither ask nor receive any remuneration wktsu.
ever. 1 shall be in lowa about the '29th instant,
when, by advertitement, I will convene a Public
'Meeting, to consider what stops you can take to
tecoveryour right ; or how you can legallN op.
pose the sordid schemes and presumption of Ma.
stagers.
" I am, Englishmen, your faithful humble Ser.
tent,

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SOLILOQUY OF d " MANAGER IN
DISTRESS."

it !hit a *hate *hitilt I See before Ise,
The blade toward. pay hand P—Come let we grab • thee.
1 hate Mee not--sod yak I hear day min.

Art thou aot; sensible
To FeOing, as to Heeringt—dr art thou but
A Itattitpse the atind-4 filar ereotion,
Proceeding Nis the beatad—sitchia,g bra/a—
nt kiss Who cannot the New Prices crisis,
And Reser Prirah, down the throat of Bull ?
• In this sr* reading of " grab" for "clutch," we follow
--though at a respectful distatee—the Cruits of Boer-street.
Air. to w %SEND says it is ibnve ripsOrtrit—
" I ohmic Groh 'ens revs Orgy hiss."

The subscription to support the defence of those
vrho hare opposed the new prices at Cusent-Gar..
den Theatrb if very rapidly increasing.
A short time before the company left the Opera
Wiese at the Jubilee, several dashing young men
of fashion took offence at the appearance of a
r•,nstuh[. in the lobby of the Boits, and the man
was inclantly turned out of the door at the grand
.7111 rance.

An old price uniform is about to be sported by
the Opponents of Theatrical Imposition. It is
to consist of a blue coat and yellow waistcoat.
The Officers, of coarse, will seize and drag to
Bow.street 'eery one who shall commit a breach
of the peace by appearing hi this costume.
We understand that Governor Anis's opinion
nn the question of Covent Garden Theatre, is en-
tirely in favour of the Managers! f"
The daughter of a General ()Meer is said to
have eloped with Mr. G. a Comedian, froth Tun-
bridge Wells, a few days since.
Duet.s.—Yesterday a duel was fought in a field
near Bayswater, between the Hon. Mr. H. and
S. 1.. Esq. in consequence of a dispute which ori.
gitisk don the preceding day, respecting a public
appointment. They met at eight o'clok in the
morning, accompanied by Lieu tenant. Colonel L.
and Sir J. S. and after exchanging each a shot, iu
which they were both slightly wounded, the one
in his right and the other in his left arm, thoir sc-
rofula then interfering, they left the ground, and
retired to a coffee.house in Oxford-street, where
Cie %misunderstanding was amicably settled.

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To re' EDITOR 41?-rars STAT'ES-VAN.
veriettist you to insert the following, in
answer to VERITAS—Thd, Mr. Rosins who has
been of so much service to the Managers of Cu.
vent Ganlen Theatre, by accommodating them
with the use of his family and friends, to assist
nightly in fillitng their Dress Boxes,. and his nu-
merous train of clerks, porters, warehouse-
women, &c. to grace other parts of the House—
The Mr. ROBINS who has taken the trouble of '
igettiug off their Orders—(for, at the Theatre,
they now talk. of getting off Orders, as the
third.rstc Actors do, of getting of their Benefit
Tickets)-7%e Mr. Rentss who has advocated
their aime in all companies—assisted in writing
their kaisd.bills—spread their reports, and with
the help of his friend Bite Knorr, done the rest of
the dirty work of their Horse: I say, this Mr.
Romeo, is not the Mr. Rental whose name ap.
pears in the list of the Grand Jury.
The Mr. Rooms to whose name in the said
list, they have tacked Gent. is an Auctioneer en.
der the Plena, sts also is the before-mentioned
strongmen and disinterested advocate for the New
Prices sad Private Rotes, and under the same
Pinta ; though no oue, I believe, ever tackedG, nt.
to his name: The Mr. Robins, Sir, n the son and
heir of the Gent. w hose name has appeared as one of
the Grand Jury. You must know, Sir, this Gent.
and his sun are principally employed by the
Pawnbrokers. I was at the Theatre one night
last week, and I saw, amongst the young one's
party in the Dress Boxes, five Pawnbrokers,l
soma of them with their families. This, Sir, is a
fact, which, if questioned, I will prove, for I
can mention their .naases.
net. IL 0. P. AND pro P. B.

By P. B. I don't mean Pawn-Brokers, but
Private Dusts.
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IN 11157VRYOF HALF-PRICE.
TO TEE EDITOR or THE STATESMAN.

Sts—Swat years Vigo Mr. GARRICK and Mr.
at tan agreed to abolish the custom of admitting
company at half-price at a curtain period of the
performance. They for some time made demon-
strations (according to the present military phrase),
by occasionally advertising, " Nothing under
full price will be taken;" and Mr. GARRICK
carried it so far, that he acted tor full price to
the play of Illacbcth, dressed in the habit of the
times ; 'and, if my memory fail nut, without any
after-piece. Were the merit of the respective
performers to decide the question, Mr. GARRICK
wag better entitled to a guinea than Mr.
kevoLE is to a shilling, but the imposition WAS
resisted—.a row was kicked up, a few chande-
liers broken, the Theatre rendered unlit fur ser.
vice for two or three days, and Mr. GARRICK
theft appeared to desist. It was now Mr. Haano's
turn to tome forward ; accordingly the chiefs! of
Aria cer.re .1 was advertised with the offensive Notes
Rene of " Nothing under fall price." The coo.;
&upsilon of public resentment theft blued forth
wi rodoobled violence, and ten times the mischief
was dome, that had been committed at Drury-lane,
and the Theatre was silent mach longer. The
nest time it opened, whether Mr. &ARO was to
,perform or not, or whether he was called fur, 1
tM Sot recollect ; but when he appeared, he was
informed that the prosecutions which were in-
stituted against several persons must be dropped.
He declared his readiness to consent, as to himself ;
bat observed, there were other parties concerned,
for whom he had not power to act • on this he
was told to retire, but soon raters:ld, with full
powers. It was then agreed that the Theatre
should be entitled to full price, during the first
rainier of a new Pantomime, and the Proprietors
also got something more ; for it had been the
custom to take half price for the Bores, at the
end of the second act ; but that custom was now
changed to the third, according to the custom of
the Pit.
One Sunday morning, during the interregnum
at Covest.garden, I was at a friend's in Soho-
Rare, where 'sassy people of rank were present.
Mr. BRAND made his appearance, to solicit their
patronage, which was universally refuted—tet
I mlasemtsot Lord WALEINGRATI, saying, " Mr.
‘l. BEARD, Vox Populi...-Voz Dei—greater men
" than yon Woad to it ; and when I was young,
" half.a.crown was as object."
The above is written from memory. The pc-
riudical prints of the time give a more circumstan-
tial account. I will only subjoin a few 'elections
as to the kgality ad some proceedings which hare
bore hard call the present occasion.
Lord Coke, speaking of the Contemn Law,
says, " The wisdom of all the wise men in the
6 4 world, if they had met together at sac time,
" could not have equalled it." That this col°.
glum is strictly just, I will loot allirm ; but cer.
tainly the Common Law is, though now, po_durps,
rather oat sit the elbows (as Sir FRANCIS WKONO.
NEAR says of his estate), the best coat me
hose to our becks ; for statute makers have
a great affinity to tinkers, who in mantling one
halo generalty make two. Now, the Con.
mom 1,4 w is the castes of the realm, and the
custom of expressing approbation of disap.
probnallOat the Theatre is as old as the esta.
blishment of the Theatres, and ought to be ex-
crux' to the fullest extent. The audience should
not, indeed, in the law phrase, Travel out of
the record. The hissing an actress for supposed
enchastity, which I have heard, was certainly
travelling out of the Record, for that, indeed,
would in elect be almost banishiAg the female
perforators.
AN OLD BARRISTER.

Boit mo.—A MN of the name of Solomon
Purdi was killed 'Matey 'boning, in the neigh-
bourhood of liampiem, in a battle with a brick.
maker of the name of lintkinson. The combs.
tants hadi fought 40 mods, when Purdy received
a blow behind the ear, and died in less than half
an hear. The coattat originated lu a hasty dis-
puts, in which the deceased was the first ag-
gressor.

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cotnit or COu.vox COUNCIL
OF Thu
CITY OF LONDON.
—......
That the atka, supple servittly manifeited b)
the municipal Representation of the City of Lon-
' dots, during the Pat Administration, Omelet have
uacited the derision and contempt of every bide-
peodent man, was perfectly natural ; yet it is
not a little remarkable, that during all that period
the Court of Common Council was the standing ,
theme Of praise in the other public, self-consti-
tuted Assemblies of this great Citr.—The
loyal Common Council—the virtuous Corpora-
tion of Londott—eas trumpeted forth at every Ci-
vic Meeting by the satellites el the Pitt system.
—Grocers' Hall, the India noise, and though
last not least, Merebesst Taylors' Hall—have been
the successive Theatrei of commendation of the
Common Council of London. Bat no sooner are
the bonds 0 servility and dependence shaken off
by the exertions of the independent Members of
that Body, than those who were the loudest in
applauding the conduct of the Court of Com-
mon Council, are now the foremost is ex.
pressing. en utter contempt of that Court.—
The history of the proceedings of the " Ater-
rhants isnd Bankers". of Merchant Taylors'
Hall, will form a " divertissement" as amusing,
probably, to the Public, as the description of their
" Jubilee Dinner." But ef this, rerhaps-, more
hereafter. We have not, at present, time, or
space) ty enter upon the subject, and .therefore we
content ourselves with glancing, '' en passant,"
at the worthy members of this " imperium in
imperio."
We now beg to draw the attssitied of stir Read.
ers, and partidularly the Livery and Court of Coas.
aeon Council of London, to the facetious senti-
moues expressed in Dublin, at a Quarterly Assam.
bly, on the ?Ist inst. by a Coadjutor and Fellow.
labourer in the vineyard with the " Merchants
and Bankers," the truly respectable Mr. Guy-
rAun—contained in the following extract from a
Dublin Newspaper, called The Hibernian Jour.
nal :—.
" DUBLIN, OCT. 21.
66 BOA REVOLT ASSEMBLY.
" Mr. Gt ?FARO now called the attention of the
66 Corporation to a subject on which he knew
66 there would be but one opinirnx—not like the
" Corporation of London, amongst ahem were
" many JACOBIN:4 and TRAITORS !! I.—
•' Ile then moved that • (Nutlet sad loyal Address
" he presented to his Majesty, expressive of the
44 'whop which the Corperation entertained WI
A the joyfet twat et Ws being soon is the 50th '
" year of his reign ; end that a Committee of It
" euusisting of 6 Aldermen and 6 of the Com-
" teener% should prepare the same. This motion,
44 after some remarks from Mr. Menders, mina
uc
" sicked business which 44111Aest. gatimati

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scandalous libels we ever saw, is obvioos..•11110.
GltrAltD4 notoriont as he is, may halitosis' bi
considered as too coatemptible to merit the
of the Corporatists of Leaden. And we ere INL
decmi to notice this rod.ho. loyal effusion of Mi.
Gtrrtae, principally% in conseqeence of an ha.
portaat discover 7, now for the first time ennoun.
cud, and which, coming from authority so high,
must necessarily be received as truth. We allude
to the distinction between Jacobins and Traitors,
and most happy are we to find, that such a dig.
Unction is admitted to exist. Hitherto the ands.
fined term of Jacobinitin, we bad always supposed,
erroneously as it should now seem, to have in.
chided treason. But the distinction of Mr.
GIFFARD shows us that every Jacobin is not a
Traitor, and that every Trailer is net a Jaco.
bin. It would be charitable in Mr. Gteraan to
point out to us a few only of the individuals who
come under the description of either Jacobins
or Traitors in the Court of Common Council.
Dues he mean to comprehend such men as Sir %V.
CURTIS, Mf.SAMUSL DIXON, or that levy 'nous
Stationer, Mr. MAWMAN, ender either of these
twos ? Who can be allude to ? It would, we re.'
peat, be charitable, to point out to the Lively of the
city of London, the Jacobins and Traitors in the
Common Council, that due precaution only be
taken to exclude them at the approaching election
on St. Thomas's Day. Let Mr. Givearte say to
us, Mat man is a Jacobi*, and that wan is
Trailer--bet above all, let him point out the dif.
foresee between them. We are now coavincept
that Jucobinism is a less formidable stoneter kinist
we bad been taught to believe it, seeing that Mr.
GireAsto has at last made the important discovery
that there is at least **seething wurse than a JA,
cost v. Is it within Mr. GurAtto's kuowledp or
recollection that, by the conswalseeni at the names
Traitors in the Court of Cu"

of these sonic
Council of London, he is himself Guilty of Mu
prision of Treason !! !
unneensionnomeme
Tuesday months,/ Mr. LL a surgeon of his Mos
jesty's Navy, mid Lieutenaot G. a the CiWaki
met on Wimbledon COlllO9ll, to &vide as take
of honour. The Ent shots faille& in thelruilsg,
they had recourse to a second Ire, *bee Mt.
was shot dead on the spot, andet.. so b. y 1
wounded, that ud hopes are entertained re.)
cosery. The eectiods Immediatelr absomplog,
The quarrel eriglealed about a Ludy. • •

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SPAIN;
iamb.: t- i
kisUs, k':-.,•-.
isUs, Oci.. 6.--lit mead scarcely have beea
expected that a these ue Wei elhoid have pitied
bore without 'Wedelns aside idiareatiog 00010
Cakes place. Silice lid retirement a the Width
army to the (rootlets it Portugal; every thing
has bees perfectly torpid. The Junta of Vallin.
cis has lately published in Address tb tbi 'Su.
perior Government, which, it followed op by the
measures which it announces, must bring the lat-
ter to its termination, and mud establish a .pope.
ear representation, and an eiteeutive -power, in
one or few hinds. One of the Members of the
Junta of Valencia, who signs this Address, is
Jose Caro, a brother of Romans. Another
brother is the Captain-General of the Pro. . •
since, and this latter has been superseded by a
nephew of the Vice-President of the Superior
Junta, Valdes ; that is, the latter has been
named ; but it is believed that bei will not be re.
ceased at Valeucia, in which case a crisis is at
hand, gad the event is, therefore, expected with
much anxiety. The British army remains totally
inactive, and I apprehend the Marquis Wellesley
lit comple•ely sick of his Embassy. Mr. Frere is
still here; it is confidently said, the Junta has
given him some title, but the Gazelle has not yet
announced it. lii, stay for so long a time is mit.
ter of surprise. The Donegal is yet waitleg at
Cadiz. The Assembly of the Cortes is still do.
Jaye(' ; bet that eirconuitancets nit of met con.
sequence ; the people do not look to the Cortes
for the establishment of a free Government.
The Junta has declared, by • decree, that the
Assort:Ay will have nothing to du but to delibms
rate on the matters to be proposed to it. The
movement of the Spanish armies, announced tome
time ago, has turned out to be of little case.
goatee.
The French are yet at Toledo, and the head.
quarters of Eguia at Depute!. There is no eon.
cord between the Commanders. Lord Dillon's
eldest son arrived here a few days ago, with in-
tention to join the Spanish armies; he will proba.
bly have a command, after a time, as be is a Co-
lonel in the British army, of some standing, and
has the 101st vegimeot.
Notwithstanding his resignation, Garay VW
continues Prime Minister. The age ofJoseflatioe
has made him timid ; herhas in fart betrayed such
symptoms as make him no longer looked to as the
means of freedom. Infantado is considered by
some as the did of a party, but the aristeerssy
of that party is not esteemed. There Is no doubt
that a British army might be subsisted by contract.
in Spain, If the British e.oternment was responsiaL
bin at a fair price, N. pet pound for beef at the
utmost, perhaps 7fil. an pet things in pro-
portion ; wines at a very rate in the midland
Kowtows : so that those wit arc enthusiastic won..
&t-at its retirement, as ,ltlippears to them that
the linglish make a difficulty In a matter merely
petintlary. Of this facri speak - with certainty
after the best information and investigation, that
contracts inighi•be made, fur the completion of
i
which the most certain security would riit fem..--
'rho Spanish armies are certainly mud atiiiii
me
r-1 , .
• till
ti anal show to what purpose. ,---.
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Relearn by eiPtenelt Tapir of the lath hist.
that Mr. Roscoe, the celebrated Author of the
" Life of Leo the Tenth," was elected on the
sth a Correspundeot Member of the Royal testi.
tete of Amsterdam, instead of the late John de
Muller, a distingilishixl Swiss writer. It is pleas.
lag to observe, that the hostility which divides the
nations of Europe has not yet invaded the domains
of Science.
The Naval Preaeotloit,lo accented et* the Jo.
bilee, consists of •
i Atimiseis tiost-Ceettalse,
lo vise•Atestrats. ceeneaseeni.
10 neer-Admirals,
The 25 first volumes of The Armoire of the
Royal Academy itt Devlin, have Men destroyed
by lire.
Eleven Crown debtors were discharged frotn
prison on Wednesday, in addltio4 to those !ibis.
Flitted by the Society for the Relief of small
-Debtors.
All the French personages of distinction in
.Inmedon assisted on Wednestlty at Grand Mass,
eelebestimi in the Catholic Chapel, in Kingoteeer,
by the Bishop of Aire, in honour of tbe`Ju..
bilre.•
On Wedn,iday, Lord Grantley entertained
.ose Mayor and Curpbration of Geildord, at hi;
bone at IVornersh, end ordered wino and punch
ts be given to cull the inhabitants of the piltee to
drink to the health of the King and the Rea,
Fan l'y.
On Tuesday last, the following cireamstasee
happened to Mr. Simeon, of the Shield-field-mill,
near Newcastle. flaring stopped the mill tad
ascended one of the wands to adjust the sail, the
break sullenly giving way, be was carried resod
the arm of the mill fur near a quitter staa
Our. His distressing and dangerous siteadee
being perceived by the people at Pandon,, Sho.
I'lol, assistance was sturdily sent, and in ress.
taken off nithuut hatinpecatieed any In.
wy ; it we., however, a conskierphle thin .
ho recovered his recollection.
Coitoxra's hipoisits.ll4l4
ken on Theraday last, M the hoar.
tf, .blayes.buildiags, Netrigettd.o reedit
y of Penelope Matilda Sothing, erli pokes.
lieself at- alr. 'Scutt, bond on M 00417 leaf.
'Vali the yes"ipdy who eloped
ligettbd early Hit et the 114movert
a 41111#81111 ether, sad with whites As bad
linen bie dead, *beet a Bondi siella.•-•1 •
Ns iirtiareed *me to bee [rico* thlks
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went on I,
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art 107 tempest** teleeted, sad she oft a
visit at Mr. !tote's how. Sim tom lasing of •'1
Wag VI Gs Iliereber tearefai, tad re.tired to her
Amber, lama sloe *et Weed WWI viuknt
asidelip, sad who the het 'testi no Fenger be. • "
eke euelfeeled belting takeb snook.
beg bee* diveeseelate foe rease time,. and Om
WOW etas lassaiis.