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

COVENT GARDEN TIIEATRE.

At last the dawn of common sense begins .to
break in upon the proceedings of the jadiciuur
Managers of this Theatre.
.Fhe Bruisers, the Rudians, and even the Fire.
men of the House, have lost their relisli for the
Pit. As Dutch Sam and his friends Obsermik
66 What .can sie do without room to square
4‘ make play?" We had not a doubt . that the.
public would at length be beaten (as the
Muscovites, under the Great Prue, were by
the Swedes, commanded by the iron-headed,
Citant.s the Twelfth) into experience.—" Ben
" is to the hesiths of my masters in the art of
l‘ war," said the Czar Permit to the Swedish
Generals taken at the battle of Pultowe. The,
numerical superiority of the Russians was, from
that clay, judiciously applied. Just so the public
in the Pit, which the people no longer suffer is
few ruffians to traverse, and pick oat their sic.
dm,. The repetition of that practice is no longer
feasible..-for the mere weight of three or four
hundred 0. P.'s, pressing in the direction of the
Orchestra, would, without any other effort, de.
feat all the tricks and shifts of scientific brutality.
The Managers have so much common sense, as-to
see Os in its true light—and we conjecture that
the system of coercion, at least with respect to
the Pit, is abandonaJ. Nut so in the Bodes
yet, though there it will not be long found comm.
Went to maintain it.
Absat the conclusion of the first act of The
Mon of the World, the performance was inter.
rupted by the usual demonstrations of disappro.
bation, which, in the second mid third acts, in.
creased. In the. fourth , act, a placard was exhi.
Ilited in the. Pit, the tenor of which was, " that
a the Public had a right to express their Giiproba.
44 lion or disapprobation;" *hid), being thrown"
-
lip to • boa in the second tics on the Prior-0511de,-
vas pinked by a Gentleman to.tho front. By the
dilecifthia, • second placard wassuspetsded,the Par•
port Of which was tit caution both Mr. K tat eLe *fie
the audience againat placing reliance ea the "rottell
Pinti."Far tw enti minutes those placards hang side
by side, in the molt fr)enilly. maener, At length a
person made a Snitch at the placard, and a geni.ral
fight casual, in which the aggressor was in immi.
neht danger of teteiviug p eonge &dirt to visit
the Pit by the shiniest route—happily he recover.
ed his poise--the box was soots emptied of the
Company, who by the help of a pussti ut On fLar
finny,. adjourned to
' BOW-STREET,
Where the ease was opened by a pertoi, who
stated his name to be Janes Osborne, residing in
AldersgAte-street, and by profession a builder....
The Gent!eman who had dared to display these
banners of inutiuous " insubordination," was w
Mr. Junes, L respectable haberdasher in the City.
Mr. Jones was charged by Oshorue, with haying
hissed sou hooted, to the great aisnoyance of the
delicate feelings of the said Osborne, to which
crime he hhd superadiled that n:,)st heinous (mei
of exhibiting two placards--their injir,nruttori
tendency could only he de3crlbed from mentory-s
as they were redeced to shreds in the conflict.
Henry Bennett, 34, Carey-street, profession
not stated, confirmed the testimony of Osborit*
which he corroborated by his opinion, that the
sibillation and hooting of Mr. lunch were clearly
the result of a general rod determined disappro.
bation. Mr. Jones admitted the exhibition of tiro
placards, and that be hissed; but se far from bar.
ing created a slut, by assaulting any person, he
himself had been assaulted, of which he bore
marks in the face.
Mr. cstauAst declined taking any cognizance of
the summits, but on the first Jtargc, which the
Defendant had admitted, he said Mr. Junes
mutt find bail, which itnusediattly produs-itig, he
was discharged.

Mr. WIENTIOLT.
Whilels discussion was before the Magistrote
at Bow.street, the !It bad nearly fled, and there
was no longer that vacuum which had been su ri.
sib's; is the Dress Buxot in the early part of the
erasing. in one of those Macs appeared Mr.
Wigwams.; with 0 P, " initials hateful," coo.
spicuonsly displayed. Now the presenceof this
gentlemen in the Theatre is particularly obnoxious
to Professor Brandon, which Is not a little extra-
ordinary, as Mr. Wienbult is what is •termed
spangle costumer.-.in other words, he dig.
horses a seven-shillings piece fur &dilation—

something of a novelty; by the bye, In the present
circumstances of the Theatre. Mr. WIZNICOLT
did nut take any pail in the opposition, further
than the dispia, of this hatefnl ensign of insu-
bordination. Ihe curiosity of many of the dis-
hsterested well-wishers of the House," drew a
crowd to the door of the Box, amongst whum
•Iva perceiveu Bennett, Cies Atsfahams, Hewetsoe,
Gibbons, and many other stem/sir supporta* of
At length armed 41111e:tor, BRAIDOS
himself—who appeared to Attu been sacrificing to
the Jelly God," as his routine' was. more than
the Professor was, in fact, obalreporous.
44 We must have him out (meaning Mr. W.) by
ri; exclaimed the Proft:saor repeatedly.
{ At length the company, disturbed by the dhw.
dotty behaviour of ti:e Professor, who had in.,
traded himself into the Box, unanimously decided
that it was expedient to expel thesaid Professor...
which decision was carried into immediate emu-
tiun.
Oscar and Malvina was gesticulated, as,hereto.
fore, amidst the harmony ofthe Pit and Boxes, and
the curtain dropped)amitht ih usual roar.
Several solos were then performed by the com-
pany in the Pit ; amongst 'Hach, " God save the
King," and "1L k Britannia," were not for..
gotten. Numerous placards ~ere displayed—the
most nrdicable was the following :...

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pinned un the (runt of
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from the ditties of his esti,
lily to call himself an Aril
Ave &et ten inches high-, c
well-kanwn by the nick-arm
well as hi% principke savour dare
and smetters come very
bid on w ben be wit Int

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dor: }ic is about Illft. Years of fte,
or a yen dark camp !tide, sal is
sue of black Jack ; Polars* er
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