The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

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Minister; the Prii cc • Radcliff, ,• tow A ,
To.. sttpara 0 port sits of the dill-rats( Awls—art s
ello adorn the room; tfut that of thi, French Amens.
sad°, iiiingulady enough ab.ent, Lot& IV. havingi
as it is said, ib4nliitely:deellited to fuinicti it. in con-
sequence of his diagifisfaction at the peac.. The arms
of the differed( kingdOclis Ore ribptitsOnted 04 a small
shield attached to the costume of each Aushaisadar
but the lieui*- de.ffe, the ramthem of rhe.lj,►drbrias, 4nd
which ii common to the area of Eogleod, Prince,
Spain, rind other Sovereign*, has b.. 0 int!riably-
envied, with (treat edre, by the fe+oluti-tittry French,
and a black dub left in iii place-i
. co, join instance
of the 'tiles to is hich political aninincitie4 otiPri
impottance. fiantlionto portraits of Maria thetesa,
and het Itu‘hand PrditCis, and Joseph 11. also hang
on the *ails, once their own; dirty and neglected—
while a glittering fiill length ieprestiltatinn of his
Prussian :Viajesay, protected by a green *ilk curtain,
soccupik one end of the saloon iit all the bloomitti
dignity of a Sovereign In posse,siOn.
" As is natura'rfy often the ease Ib twins On frott-
' liens, or *Lich have been iabj.ct to Changes of mass
loss, the people of Aii•la-Chapoliell•.it many lan-
' pages, and none well. • At Cologne they speak
simply a' coarse Vulgar German. wttirh degenerated
in approachirg the 'tats of Holland ; but at A‘ hell
(the Gertnan name of the place) -bad German, bad
French, some Dutch Ind Plefoiali, and a tbilture of
the Walloon dialect, of which yob bear more at
Liege, conspire to forth a tittiel of harmonious di4
versify. If yob ask a queftioh iu French, fhb per.
son you address probably only speaks German. If
you address the next in German, he.perti4pEonwirs
in French. German is, Upon the Whale, hotierer,
the language which you are most 'tire of ending use.
lul ; and Kit: te-Grermfatiiserl condition it perrnattehti
a fe* years win probably make Ala la-Chapelle coat./
pletely Action ; and the next genera' on may kills*
man 1'
tiiie of French ai some of' the present dd of Get 4
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CURIOUS CIIANTiB.

Udw-rrnerr.—Yesterday James Ilu:hei wal
brought bef..ro Sir N. CoNAv't, upon the iidlosing
charge, made by Ce1.1)(4 D iuglas, one of the Sub.
Committee of Drury Lane Management :—The rub.
tic hate already been apprised, that Rural rliffor• ice
of opinion prevails betweeo the Sub•Comniiiiiie end
a considerable part of the Preptietors of the Tiiteres
yet the Sub-Committee have e,gageil Mr S 'phyla
Kemble as their stage manager, and are in treaty with
pogfortooto, with • view to oiled the Theatre 4i thel
usual period. In conaeqopn eof this etepf the Spe.
del Committee caused the following placettl to bd
placed contiguous to the atie-doer of Drury•land
'Theatre:--

" DIU/Rif-t** TdICITRE. —Oa the-part wf the SIRLErti
Commarrct: of the Concerns of Mutts, Wig TIM rRIL, of
whirrs Commiree I am Choi:mins. I hereby give °mire that
by a H4..401,11(1,1 of the Meeting of di: Proprietors df the' said
Theatre, held on the 31/1 dirt of July last, it was determined
that the said Theatre sho.iid Not Mt It V..OIII.NED. and
that no Contrac•it or Engagements shmild he made h). the So
Co 1114ITTEE of Management with Perfarmen„ or other Perim*,
until certain arrangement. were usade l and that such arrange-
mews have P.OT been made , on ohs weimengement or contract,
made, or which sh:ill be made hv the Mid Sri Couslrtrze,
will be V I.ID Olt EFFEC ruAL—Pearcißmaits and other
reruns concerned, are, therefore, hereby cautioned against
nuikini or entering into any such Contract dr I..np gemeati
6. 11. ROBINS, Chairman of the Select Camasitee.

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Whereupon Colonel D.tuglaa, one of the Sub-Come
mittee, 66 who ha► not 'et resigned," ordered the
man into custody, and went himself to make good his
charge.
Sir NATII NIELCONAN? nbaerT•Cile had carefully
looked at the p►inted paper, and he confessed he
could discover nothing like a libel in it; but he added,
if he could have taken a mistaken view of the cases
he saw affixed to it time name of Mr. George Rotting,
and lie knew enough of that Gentleman, to be motored
he would never disavow' any thing that had his name
attached to it; he therefore declined detaining the
maw, who, on being dismissed from the Office, went
and tog his station again near the stage,doer of
Drary-lane Theatre, exhibiting the placard as before,
In a short time afterwards Mr. G. U. Robins en.
tered the office, accompanied by Mr. Ellis, an attar.
ney, he presented himself to Sir N. Conant, and re.
quested to know the charge that had been mode
against his man ?
"he MAC:VITRA?" informed him what had passed,
and that, on seeing his name attached to the papers
he had said he had tin doubt bat that he would abide
by any consequences reselling from any thing he pub
his name to. . _

Mr. Robins bowed assent, and said, 1110 Si certainly
he should, and then left the office.
An atiempt was afterwards made by another Mem•
her of Ito Sob•Comenittee. to make it appear as a
breach of the peace, upon which the Worthy Magi•
gist rate observed, the Managers committed 'h• same
surf breach every day, by putting forth their play.
bills, which might attract a crowd as well as this bill.

On Thersday morning, at bre o'clock, the remake
of Lord Viscount Anson were removed from his
Lordship's house in St. James's•square, for interment
in the family vault in Staffordshire, attended by his
sons, the lion. Cannot and 116241tY A argom, as chief
mourners; his Lordship's brothers, cottudeutial ser-
vants,
Stmoutaa ItExcounTtn.—We are credibly in.
formed that last week the Earl of Leicester packet,
on her way from this to Milford, not far from the
Settees, struck upon a whale of rather more than or-
dinary dimensions. The meeting was attended with
little advantage to either parry ; for the monster
knocked off part of the picket's keel, but left after
him some of his skier' Within these few weeks msnr
whales, some of considerable size, have been seen its
the neighbouring bays, and even in the mouth of the
harbour. To a eertatnty, the whale, or rather the
grampus, hes before not► been seen in this neighbour.
hoed, and it is in full rectfllection that some 25 years
ago a grampus: was driven ashore at Cape Koneeot
above Passage, and fifr within our harbour.—•
Rot, from size, number, sad variety of those that
have lately been seen, we think it most reason.
able to conjecture that their appearance is conoected
with that revolution, whatever it be, in the polar seas,
that has scut ice islands to the West Indies. To as.
plore that revolution, and to acquire nautical and geo.
graphical information, G feat Britain has, with prompt
and judicious information, sent forwsrd two espied'.
Ilion', from the labours of which much utility may
proceed.—(Waterford Mirror )