The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-20 00:00:00

TO TUB PUBLIC.

To contribute to the advantages of the comma.
pity, and to maintain the interests of the State
which gave us birth, is a ditty naturally imposed
on every intlivideel. The relaxation of thesedaties
'nay occasionally be warranted by existing circum.
stances ; but be it ever remembered, that what
might I:e termrd negligent remission in ordinary
times, bccuniks criminal neglect in the hour 1,1
difficulty. Thus the Patriot, and true lover of
his country, is ever al,•rt and at his pest. The town
has long Aitilessml thecentention betwixt the Pub.
lic and the Managers of Covent.Gattlen Theatre,
and I believe every impartial person has wished
that the pint should have been settled by mutual
concession.

A. lung as 11th contest was solely theatrical, re.
puling the prices of admission, Ac. &c. it was
no matter of national consideration—malty mu
in the metroi.ulis coal feel little interest about
the crept ; and to the public at large, residing at a
distance, it was of no consequence whatever.

I wish it could lure stopped al this point--
0o remarks vs wild then have bi•cn valli.tl fur.

To (ho result I do most seriouily beg the atten.
lion of persons of all ranks and situations ; it is
no common question—no question of any parti-
cular party, but a question deeply involving iii
its consequences the ancient and undeniable rights
of Englishmen, he their political sentiments what
they may. Let it. shortly ref! •ct on die charge
lately delivered by Mr. Justice G, us:, !hat we may
be an are of the result. The Learned Joidgo says,
that having no depositions or particular iiifure,a.
lion • before him, he could only speak to the law
on this head generally :—" Any assault ur riot,
46 tending to the destruction of the property u(
"an individual, was undoubtedly a niistle.
" meanor, and that of the lii4hest order."—Mis
may be very true-- but pause fur a moment,
and think on the lengths to attach this in.
terpretation of the law may go in the present
instance. How does the case stand ts kb respect to
the Theatre ? an inference many be drawn, that the
property of Messrs .1 la rris and Kemble is attacked,
by the disapprobation expressed in the hue*
on the nights of pet ((Alliance, many fur this MA.
son absenting themselves : but let me ask this
question—would nut their property equally suf.
ter on the failure of a new piece, brought forward
at considerable expence, and condemned the first
ni4ht, by the audience ? which is not a novel case.
But it seems a different mode of procedure is
desirable, and those who were formerly permitted
to perform to please the public, are now to he.
come masters, and act wily as pleases themselves.
.The public is reduced to a curiot, s Clikl:1111.1, either
to sutler the Managers to cram down their throats
what trash they chum's:, or incur, according to rue
charge of the Learned Jush4e, the neisalties of
a misdemeanour of the lii„thest order. God fur.
bid, that any Erill:ala Jury s tots;.l di .till a si.
milar inference ! It has been .:Ilgeo that riot has
taken pace within the Theatre ; hot this assertion
I deny—great disapprobation may, hut nothing
approaching to a ri•it...never, except from time
essifeavour of the friends of the Prvprirterl to
crag* the pee& feetog.
Now to a most important part of the subject...
massy of the individual' I now addresv, may fun
part of the Jury to (he' cases shortly coming be.
fore thein...l iiitteat their consideration to the cf.
frets likely to be produced, ultimately, to the Ht.
thou, if fear of punishment should stifle popular
feeling, in a popular eau How is a kingdom to
be really puoerful, but wider such an impulse ?
On the dissolution of Parliament, whoever has
attended au election contested, with warmth, in a
populous town or county, must hare witnessed
expreesions of aoprobatiun and disapprobatioo
carried to a considerable; extent ; candidates alter.
stately cheered or booted, a hilst /wise and Cu:IN.
sion existed ander the very e)e of the principil
Magistrate of the count) or town, esen who sr.
thug to discharge a ni,ist soleion and impoitant
duty. Is there to be found on recor.l a single in.
stance of an individual so expressing his opinion,
bei:tg arrested and committed for %taut of bail?
keen iis the House of Commons itself, the re.
simmer leaders of parties ate repeatedly cheered
with the cries of hear, hear ! st fide the orations
of those not so favoured, are often cosoleumed by
land coughs, and que.dion, pedlars. —Deily this
who can.

Principals t in three times do not stick at tri-
nes to obiaio their end It is worth risking some.
thing, to continue the Alinisters of a grrat empire ;
to establish the new prices, is important to Merirs.
Harris and Kemblo ; to hoot against the protegee
of a Minister at an eleetiuti, under the new sys-
tem, may be deemed a tint ; to speak agentst hen, a
libel ; and tube faithful to Ins eriployer,--reg.o.Liiess
of the popular feeling, may be as weeper) to a
modern Representative, as the,pieservaiion uf his
place to Mr. Brandon. In future, why may.uut
means be rankled to at elections, similar to such as
are now practised to subdue Ilium. who have as.
sertrd the rights of Englishmen at the Theatre?
To the Public, gem:rally, I address myself, but
particularly to those in the middle ranks of life, as
they must probably w ill become arbiters of the dis.
pute.— Perform your past lam the 4:lniiiiistration of
justice, acimriling to the u.'d idea of timings
o'l out that independelice whiLli has rendered
the English name renowned in every quarter of
the globe. Barter out fur orders to the Theatre,
your freedom of opinion, vie inestimable and
dear-bought right ut your ancestors. Condemn
nut to imprisonment your fellow-eitieens, to
help Messrs. Harris and Keinble out of a scrape
in which they have involved themselves, from
their on n imprudence ...you will then duo.
nuur to yourselves, and justice to posterity.
Front an

ATTENTIVE ORSLIt VElt or PASSING EVENTS.
• Yet the 'ranted Joao wems to hove some informa-
tion, m he Avert• to the cAeracter of the U. P.'s.
t The late allow th twist the too Secretaries of State.

Shipments of linens, damask, and large quanti.
tics of Irish calicoes, have talon place to Rio Ja.
neiro and Demerara, during this month, from Bel-
fast, sod also of lii,tns and calicoes to New-York,
but by no emus its such quantities its usual to the
latter place.

N.lre L INTELLIGENCE.
' Po%tsunamis, Nov. IS.—Arrived at the Motherhank the
Var, formerly a French frigate, captured in February last,
of Corfu, by the Bell. Poule, Capt. Brisbane. She sailed
from Malta on theist ult. and Gibraltar, on the ?Mt, in com-
pany with the Formidable, and la sail, for Eogland. the
parted company the same day. A report prevailed at Gi-
braltar. that the Toulon fleet had put to seat that Lord
Met had been dispersed, and that his lordship,
with several of hi- fleet, had arrived at Minorca. The Var
spok:. Sir Samuel Bond, in the Centaur, with the War•pke,
on the tth instant, in crossing the Ray, to whom she commu-
nicated the reports of the Toulon Aect being at sea.—She is
under quarantine.
Arrived the Fervent, Lieutenant Hare, from the coast of
Portugal.
Went out of harbour, the Thames frigate, Hon. Captain
Waldcgrave. 1k is ordered to take Don Andanga to Cadiz,
who is to be a emaitlerable Member of the Supreme Junta.
Captain Halliday is appointed to the Repulse, of 74 gulls,
♦ice Lege,e, -irk. The Repulse and Victorious are under or-
ders to join Lord Collingwood, and will sail when the sled
is fair.

ov. 19. Arrived the A Iphea cutter, front a min..

Sailed th • Euryalus, of 38 guns, lion. 'Captain Dendas t
Gannet and Redpole sloops of n a ; ansl I):ipper gun-brig, to
eruize at the back of the I►le of Wight.

Ftvuoirrn, Nov. IR.—Arrived yesterday the Britannia
hired armed cutter, Limit. Wilson, Commander, from Ca-
diz, which place she left on the 30th alt. with important
patches. which were feewawled last night by ogprre to
lawn. The dispatches are supposed to relate to the sailing of
the French Fleet from Toulon, which took place about the
21th ult. On the receipt of this intelligence, the Britannia
seas i muediat•lv dispatched fur England, and tie Ajar man
of war, which had just arrived at that port, sailed to join
Admiral Colliugwood's Fleet, together with r:ie Kangaroo,
and another sloop of war. There remained at Cadiz the
Atlas, Admiral Parvis's Ilag-ship; and the Donegal, which
ves.sel was waiting to bring home the Martinis of Wellesley;
the French National orig. Le Franf.tron, of IR guns, and
l& men, nut from Rent two class; h mod to fittadaloupe,
with liner, kr, capt.wed the sth io.tant roierald fri-
gate; Ow American lit-ig Luna, Andrew Saathwar., Nfaster,
from New-York, iiowri to St. Pc.bastian's, laden with cof-
fee, fee. detained by Cie Emerald frigate ; and the Little
John, Neu+, of this port, from lamer-life, with wine.
A large fleet of vessels are passing up Channel from the
WeA it a rd.

Arrived the Betsey, Curtis. ani Eliiabeth tenders, from
irelmod; t',e Gibraltar, of 80 guns, from Rochefort ; and
yr i;•lter.it t frigate from a crui.e.
S tiled the 4:41e frigate, on a cruise ; also t`te Thai 4 sin tp,
tr the Westward, supposed for the East Lithe- : and the
Orestes brig, nn a er'.l
'The French brig Fre-Aron, berme mentioned, was cap-
tured, after a chace of fifteen hears, and a rutin; az fight for a
enraiierable time, wherein she bad two men killed, and ten
wounded. The Emersld had now killed or wi united.

Dr it., Nov. 10.—Friday evening, the Royalist clamp of
war virtue(' A I ,rx. Ererelv privateer, of Miser, and she
with leer prier hat since arrived in Cie !ins rr.
Yesterday. the !loather armed ship arri•rd with enavoy
from the wer ward, c,,n of trait-ports roaster•, &c. &c
!Its Majesty's Chips Cordelia, I)nipleta, and Ultsses, have
also arrived; the Tiolphin takes covvvoy to Flu3hing, and is
ordered to sail immediately the wind ebaivar..
Yesterday pever3l transports arrived final rlitsitioe, at.d
remain in the Downs: by theta we learn, that they left that
place on the 11th inst. el which thee on attack bad beta
toady on the island by the Erenek as reported.
1 cry heavy squalls fro. the North by East.