The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-15 00:00:00

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'lll6O Managers of obis Titeatre, in the plenitede of
their liberality. sod aware that high prices entitle
people to high fare, proteratein their efforts to give us
something new and amazingly attractive; sue..
f„risoately their di-lies want sadly the appea of.
f,, likens. and savour more of a beggarly French
hash, than a truly !latish Crest. The Play of
A:err°, the hipji parts of which ere „me '
entirely
of date, andiTahte-to be very little ondersiond,
was presented 164 niaht„opparently for the liote per.
pm. of making a rhsplay of Peruvian drapery, and
inhibiting Mrs. YATES in the arduous and dangerous
pert of Noire •••••6 ltbirel so tall, neither virgin nor
bride, the loving companion sf gallant Pitsrri."--
Yl• tenant sufficiently condemn the absurd* and
palpably foolish conduct of Managers now-s.days in
putting forvssid every new randidatefor popular fa.
Soar in the spry highest dope t %septa and char con of
ters of
the distrait, and thereby inakine the imperfecti
the arnbitioss performers still store ?Whit., and per.
baps everlastingly injerioss to them, for -from such
heights, " if they fall, they fall like Lifcifer, never to
vise again." Performers that might be respectable
and useful in aerondery parts, being thes placed in
stations ohne* their powers, are rendered ob.
lanzious to the pebtic eye, *hew, perhaps, their
abilities, in other circumstances, might procure
them hum, end • livelihood. But • notion
seems to have crept. into thecrise heads et tertian
branagen set day,-who hove loaded ties..
selves with obligations to , their audiervets, that
the Peblic wed be satisfied with any thing-that they
chose in pot before them, and that they have only to
sing the changes ow their favourite instruments,how.
ever inferior, *wit satisfaction be produced. A Per•
former that has excited no eatraordioary interest in
the inferior deportment., must necessarily seemed its
the big' est ; and when the experiment fails, the
Iteatiliating resPerre is adopted in the very same in.
dividual of descending the scale, till patience and the
whole round of dramatic character are ezbassted.—
Virden*, apply these observations patticularly toMrr.
YATES, hut to the econonlicai practice, we suppose we
may tall it, of some Managers, for the Lady its question
s gifted with many qoalifications for theatrical re-
presentation, and will doable.. evince them to the
entire satisfaction of the Public, when the Manager
shall be lucky enough to discover the part for which
she is best calculated. Mrs. YATILS in going this
sound, was fated to appear in Elvin', a character
certainly not well suited to her powers, and there.
fore she did not and could nut receive the award due
to her talents. We know not, even if she had sec.
ceeded in it, that it would add in the slightest de-
gree to her reputation. Elam, Core, and Rolla,
seem, in these days, to be totally divested of that
factitious grandest *kith once surrounded them.—
Perhaps it is dangerous to be candid ow such a
subject; bet whether it was from the lain,.
• of the performance, the tawdry and faded spies.
dour of Pereviats robes, the fretisency of Pagan
processions, or the injurious intervention of a dia.
content orchestra, it seemed to us that this tragic
play deserved to see the last boor of its ezistence.-
3.11 e taste which now characterises lb: management of
this unbending Theatre vas further and most coospi.
tuously displayed is serving ep to tile respectable
audience present the silly and childish nonsense of
ilerleguis Gulliver. Bat, enough of this.

MB. 011 MORT.—This faroerite Performer, who
from his abseems en Sstor'sy night from Dr urplane
Theatre, was in danger of losing some of bit pope.
latity, has, ess a circular letter, gives the followiag
esplanation:—..
“ 0a she day alluded to, at e;cht o'clock in the morning.
being our Lear earlier Moe the esatemarg period af departiag, I
kit Margate as beard the Thames swan packet, with the
SMUTS' prreitect of rearbiog loam at lewMfliss hours 'Vire say
preterite is Me Theatre meld peseible is re/viral. Bet, winds
Kora siks of Mermen, the aissehlaer, tithe vessel is which I
Mil takes my ravage ass injured by once accident, too greedy
as • rade, it the slightest assistance. and having with diScalty
reselictl sheet place /Moot a quarter before sit esi the evening,
earl d au to Utliollaas, and posted from 'beam so London with all
Iptsible es rills ism M s arrival, Worrier. being too late to pre-
yew, thero,secee,oteithat no bonbon foresight Could poolihly bore
eastiripo ed. it 'sly trains°• for ice to eaprea the deep feelings
of ri gr... with shirk ass lions iiidable shame, is deplored. and
So rely a !tit thus hood, jitio, ono g arrow rreeptioa of a candid
sate • ego, a barb I rive years elf unimpeachable devotion to soy
rob. duties ails fully
.seciiiiiineod, l as Brody convicted, to
the mow' and api•robassuo of all by whose patrooage I Immo so
Lung beets hisauored.
" I remain, 8 r, Be.
OXBERRY.

a 'Theatre R sal. ibwry-lane
SU WILY THEATRE —Mt• DIEDIN'S pen, which
• wevvr venoms idle. let night produred a nee Piece,
under the title of The Murdered Guest; or. .•hip.
wrecked im Sigh( tf Pori. The story is taken tram
Liu.sr's •ell.ltimest drama, Filial Curiosity; but
whilst all the interest of I,ILLo's May is preserved,
Ma. Mauls has succeeded in softening dose those
parts of the original which were too horrid to suit
the taste of as English audience. The Piece, as
reformed last night, is strongly east. The acting of
. 111114 I ATLAS and HUNTLEY, in the characters \
Mrs and Mr. Wilmot, was such as would not have
:ills/faced the regular Drama. The feelings of barter
sad distraction which the father and mother might be
gepposed to base- felt on discoverieg that the victim
0 their antise was their only son, were finely pour-
frayed, sad called forth the most enthusiastic op-
please from the aedience. We have no doubt the
merits of the Piece will einem it a run, mid that it
mill peeve greatly productive to the Treasury.
MA/SATZ, SETT 13..—The wit, vivacity, good
burartur„ and social Intercourse, which prevail here
this season, reminds sue of the polished circles of
early ternes—some fifteen or eighteen years ago.—
The reematat routine of amusement is kept op with
isicommost spirit and hilarity ; and the revival of the
Race., sifter a Lapse of twenty leers, is no iftewo-
Wesel le t•reof of she truth of the above °beet's.
!lens. Every good hoese is emended, mom in situ.
lions remote from the town. The Victory brought
Gown nearly one handled passengers yesterday. •
The 80th Reaime.,t are now on their march from
Colche.ina Barrack: In Manchester.
As Mr. Brown. of Cornbill, and his wife were re-
feud. gon Sends) night, Its a sig,from Woodford,
lit out half• past nine, ;bey sere stopped by awe font.
da, at the end of the pond by Whip's Cross, oho
14'. k from them about 1 Is. V. The footpads after.
• ta.rds retreated litteegb the Foot, wain!' Wei-
th.ststow.

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STATE OF IRELiND. I

We have already, in several Numbers, nude ow
this import's( topic. But it is impossible for any in'.
dependent Journal, devoted sincerely and. exclesitely
to the interests of an ill-fated end long ;won-vied
country, to do its duty to the People who. support
its claims, without bottling up incee-autly.to public
view their enaterired wrongs end intolerable suffer.
logs. It has ever been said of this unfortunate
Island, that God bad done a greet deal for it, and
man nothing at all. Yes, we have every reason to
adore, blear, and praise the Almigniy for the blew
inns se has intended us, bet his h..onty has been.
intercepted by the wicked designs of man. The
Ruler of the Universe has placed our Island he a
;climate neither exposed to'the parching beet of the
tropics, nor yet liable to the eacesiiie severity of
the northern regions—a climate which, compared to
any of the Continental climates, is certainly the
most temperate, sod every way favourable to
health; and yet those who are paid so profusely out'
of the fends of the People, by cruel, unjust, Imo
politic, and enlisters, laws, have contrived to vendee
it one of the most unwholesome countries at legal
of Europe. For, though in other countries shop
have their periodical visitations, yet they may tenting
on an abatement of their maladies at particular
seas, sod awaits are taken by their Governments te;
arrest and allay the progress of disease ; bet in Ale,
wefortenite lead of slaves, a most alarming sod de-
,isstpa lathy' contagion has been new raging foe sip
Lairds of two years without intermission, po made
et the year seeming to caste any, she slightest ante.
tiered°, or abatement ; on the contrary, the nem-
bars that are continually received late the aifferost
Itespitals prove to a demonstration, the increased and
kw:easing energy with which it prooteds like a de-
stroying angel on its devastating missies, threaten.
leg ruin and eatermioation to our already toe mi.
enable People, acid yet those unfeeling Statesmen,
who have, in great measure, been the °maim, of
this awful calamity, like unto their prototype Nero,
with silage exeltstioe and mockery, look on the
distraction which they themselves hese caused, and
will not permit their hirelings to **Hoggish the Item'
by a timely repeal of those diabolical Statetes which
teething but the worst policy colloid have suggested,
and so being but one endowed with the tool de.
raved mind, sod the most unfeeling and adamantine
Mart, would have carried into operation. And tborrah
Obey perceive the awful and appalling effects of their
wantonness, yet, do they with *mousiest obstinacy,
resist the just demand of a suffering People. We t r wet
tor countrymee will not be inattentive to their own
interests, hot let one unanimous about from one es-
tremity if the bland to the other, proclaim their'
grievances, and in a voice of thunder, demand of their'
1 creel oppressors relief from their intolerable burdens,
or command their Representatives to bed them from
the station, of which their inhamauity proves them
to be so unworthy.
We have been blessed by Providence with a use
harvest, and every prospect of attendance, and yet
our poor are its the most abject state of wretchedness.
To be sore we hear of the exportation of our linte
stock, and provisions continually, which would Lead
those not acquainted with oar internal effeitaf so,
suppose, not only the greatest abundance prevailed
in the kingdom, but that the People of such a
kingdom that would afford such abundant supplies.;
to other countries, most themselves be suifirl.
sully provided. But what is the fact? Notwitha
standing the unbounded goodness of Providence.'
man has brought us to such a state that our poor
are unable to meet the absolutely necessary calls
'of human nature. But we will be told that
the Government cannot be made answerable for the
scarcity of past seasons, and that they still most
continue to operate; but every person mast recollect
even in the very season of severity, when the alarm.
lag visitation of a famine affrighted every imagine.
lion, when we Pato cted to be reduced to the utmost
streights, when applications were made by Public
Addresses from several Cities and Counties, and
when the Independent Press, the watchful Sentinel
of the People, was incestaot in its remonstrances and
entreaties, for the preservation of human vesteitance.
and the prevention of its wanton coesumption. Every
person must recollect bow we were ittrolted by the
refusal. How the preservation of the invaluable lives
of our Coestryinen we• postponed to thetricli of the
Treasury. Anti bow oar misery was mocked by the
Government piPss, unblushingly telling that a suffi-
cient supply remained in the country, though they
were convicted of falsehood by the admission of the
foreign supplies. Were we to dwell on this frightful
topic for ever, we still could not say all that is to be
said on the sufferings of our ill-fated coentry hut
we shall never cease clanking our chains until riot-
antes are redressed, and until ample justice is done
our suffering countrymen.—(Goutdiaa.)

The preealency that exists in the Courts of TAW in
Scotland, where Counsel are permitted to abase and
vilify those who may have the misfortune to bring
actions to recover their rights, or defend themselees
against wrongs, seems to base pined considerable
ground in that country. It is a lamentable dream.
stance that Barristers will not keep within thebounds
et smeleratioe, bet will have the temerity to slander
lied abuse the opposite party, whom they know Doc
only throegb the Epee dizit of the Attorney who gives
them a brief, and who perhaps is, or may be himself,
a brin
yhce. The fact, however, is, if you will
bet pa well, yen can base any quantity of slander
nod hlackgaardisai detailed in the Scotch Courts
agaidet you oponent. A carious circumstance took
place not long since in Edinburgh, where the booby
hireling mistaking the Defendant for the Plaintiff,
opened such a torrent of illibersland unmanly invec-
tive that excited mach laughter and astisaisinent ;
it
was not mail he bad exhausted his beggarly stock of
actuality, that he discovered his mistake.
Sunday night Mr. William Roper, of Yuma's.
buildings, Alderepte-street, walking along Kent•
street. between eleven end twelve o'clock towards
the City, was attacked by a man end two women,
and robbed of his watch and some silver; he raised
an alum, and the women being porered were secoref,
the man escaped with the property. The worms
were taken before Mr. Cuatiaaas yesterday, at
Unlon-hall, they gave their names Merl Doll sad.
Mari Sias sou woo committed!