The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-04-29 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. ROSE present:A a Petition, signed by about 11,000
joorneymeo art cers, in and about Liodon. Westminster, and
the vicinity, praying that tbe Act of the sth of Elisabeth, for
preventing-any perms from eserelsiog a trade, ooeupation, ac.
wao may not have served an apprenticeship thereto of seven
year, he enforced.—Ordered to Hem the table.
Mr. FINLAY presented a Petition from Glasgow, praying
that, in the Renewal of the East India Company s Charter,
provision should be made for sectirimr to the Church of Scot-
land the liberty of sending out to India, Licentiates of that
Church.
General FERGUSSON presented two Petitions, of a similar
nature, from the Gnat)! of Fife.
Sir THOS. ACKLAND presented a Petition, on the same
subject, from. Plymouth.
A Oa the motion of. Sir S. ROMILLY, the Return to the Ad-
dress to the Priace Regent, for the Number of Persons coo-.
'jai(' and sentenced to Capital Punishment, voted some time
ago, ssas ordered to be made forthwith.
Mr. TIERNEY presented a Petition from Tinnioghans, in
Devonshire, against the catholic Claims. The Petition stated,
that the persons io whose behalf it was presented, resided &hoot
V.,30 miles west of the Metropolis ; that they were bred up prin-
cipally in the farming line, sod, though they were good judges
cf sheep and oxen, did net prot!ss to he mulcts skilled in matters
of State. They therefore left such subjects to limitless. House,
trusting to their wisdom that in any measure which they adopted,
they would take care that no opportuoky should be adopted for
the lotroductiou of the Pope or the Pretender.
Mr. TIERN El observed, that from the reading of this Peti-
tion the House couldnot fail to see in what manner Petitions
against the Catholic Claims were obtained.—Ordered to lie on
the table.
DEVON RATE BILL.

Alse mode& for the esioad reading of the Devoe Rate Bill,
f:o. POLE moved that the Bill be read a secoud time this
month.

some couveriation the House divided,
For the Amendment
Apitut it

l!kjorily against the Bill
THIRD THEATRE.

Lord O.;SULSTON having moved the second
'ing of the Bill for erecting S third regular Theatre
metropolis.
. WHITBREAD opposed it. He conceived
the building of Drury-lane Theatre had taken
.tile only foundation on which the necessity of
present measure was founded. So much were the
r promoters of the present measure satisfied of
fact, that the delay in the. rebuilding of Drury-
Theatre %as at one time the principal reason
by them as to the propriety, if not the 'neces-
for the erection of a new Theatre; and, so
tiiified were they at that time that three regular
tres were not necessary, that they had actually
lilting to treat for the very site on which
-lane Theatre was•now erected. IIu(Mr.W.)
forward on this occasion not to protect a mo-
v, but to save the existing Theatres, and the
thentlemen who now sought leave to erect au
Aortal Theatre, from ruin. The Muse would
probably he surprised to learn that there were not
'wo Theatres °Wilt' the Melmull4 Jut that
‘verelaniTly Seven Theatres, three or four -of

for the representation of the regular Dramt.—
die night Might be seen in London Douglas,
.Richard the Third, and the Honey Noun, all excel-
. acted •, was this? then, 'any thing like a strict
ipoly 1 ThiActors of the present day,whom the
Lord talked sofas if they were a degraded race,
on the contrary? such as Mr. Garrick would
been content to select from and of whom
ould have been happy to be at the head.—
Joble Lord talked of misunderstood'economy in
COnduct of the' Drury-lane Theatre. This he
. W.) denied. There Was in no part of that
;tabishoient'any thing like frugality or illiberality.
• object in that concern had been to do justice to
proprietors, to the performers, and to the pub.
And without economy that could not be done.
one night, he recollected—pt the Opera Houses
perfnemance of the Opera of fleuripo ; at Co-
vent-garden Mrs. JOrrian sustaining a srst-rate cha.
; and at Drury-lane, Mr. Braham appearing
musksl piece—yet, at not • one of those places
there any thing like a. crowded House. This, he
thought, afforded a proof that the play-going popn•
on of the metropolis was not so increased as to
luiee an additional Theatre. The Hon. Gentle.
. than primeeded to make a few reinewks on the
Aims places which report had assigned for the site
the new Theatre ; bet he enutd not see -that'any
then. ware very taely to afford sl eery lartiplay7
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