The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-30 00:00:00

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The Tiligetly of Macbeth wig represented at` ids ic "
Theatre yesterday eveuine, and it is an eient that TO GE6RGE PON SON BY, CIIQ-.18. P. ,
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new and asspicious era Sit,—Thls has profedi
will become.meinorable, `from the circumstance of its . so fertile in goodworks, as to render any apology to
bc,enitiga tplaiebiliacstsitiaigghe.t_oAf
mpeer'nftormo thece i yoTtshewholly superfluous.
tMtrhse ScolDmDm°eNnscies•
Play, when Mrs. SIDDONS made her appearance, manner by which the late Mr. FEECEVAL lost
6he ' his life, that so uufortuuately deprived us of Pit seise
• was greeted with continued burst; of enthusiastic rap-
ture, by the whole audience ; and it was evident cues, and his country the irreparable loss of -that
that she felt those signs of general homage to her ta cc ardent patriotism," the " purest intentions,"
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lents most sensibly, as the tears flowed from her lities which shone so conspicuously in hie public clia.-
eyes in streams ; nor did she recover from that state : racier as a Minister, and whose situation,.it appears, .
of sorrow during the perftnanance, as every thing that not " all '
the
she said, or did, was saddened by the recollective I _ Talents" are competent to &Apply,
strikes me, Sir, as one of tisose 'momentous' lessons
truth, that she was retiring to solitude, from those '
. that forces itself irresistibly on every man, impel,
ardent friends, from whom she had so often re-
ling,.
ceived the gladdening lived of genuine approval.— I him to reflection whether he oat or not ; clearly
When Lady Macbeth had fnished her last scene, in evincing the sublime expressions of the virtuous LASI•
the fifth act, the audience mould act suffer the Hay TLEgintGu. " How much.easier it was to pull down
and the curtain vas dropped, ins
to be concluded,
than to form au Administration. Singular saudestsi
obedience to the universal desire: which was. such a
in the amiable Lord—and how deeply • I regr.t. it 13
compliment to her powers and character, as we be-
~ cllieve to be unprecedented : but ot in my power to offer a solitary' Consolation' tar
" Thus should desert be crown'd." the country or yourself, at the dreary prospect of
During the peals of tumultuous applause which . procuring a substitute. Alas ! poor •gtigland I.By s ;
succeeded her retirement to her dressing room, Mr. I what exertions will you be enabled to sustain those
CHAPNAN came upon the stage to ascertain whether violent and repeated shocks on yourcrazy Copstitu-
it Aria the desire of the whole audience, that the
. Con, rapidly declining from an excess of prosperrly
play should not be concluded • and when this desire;
14111 unequivocally understood, the curtain was again ' and g"14416.6 ?• PITT, WATTI:4I"Pv"`", Pules-
drain up, and Mrs. SWOONS was discovered sitting VAL, aril a crowd of Minor chailteters; dive fujocend
in a chair, from which she arose in a state of digni. : mirth over their bottle, enjoying their crack ! Whet
fled grief, and addressed her lamenting friends in a I may join the social worthies next would be Ilidicrik
poetical monologue, which had more strength in its ' to say.
nature; but the honourable sensibilities of her heart Geniuses like these are rare—but the lnood
matter than is usual with modern attempts of this'.
l is invaluable; and whether for carrsiiig owthe affairs
Were too powerful for the struggles of her skill, end
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or a uation, or of discovering a conspiracy—they,seill •
she became, eventually, alinost inarticutate. Upon gic-, parcely be equalled. . . .
iug her last public eintesy she bed nearly fallen atpois -It its trite remark, Sir, that great causes prqduce
the stage, from which she vas Fed of by Mr. Kos' greet men. Have those causes ceased fo olio, or
have their effects already answered thole purposes
ut.r., amidst as loud a shout of applanse as ever vi-
brated within the walls of a theatre. for which, the elect inform is, Providence sothe-
.Mrs. Si uoose first appeared in the Theatre Royal,
times interposes (and who can doubt it), either esak
Drury-lane, in 1775, under an eugagemenr made
with Mr. SiorioNs, at Cheltenham, that summer, by blessing or as a scourge' lam 110 bigot-414r likely.
the Rev. Dr. BATE DUDLEY, for his friend Mr. fastidious ; I can view men as they are—rise iteti sit
(Warrick. Her salary was 61. per week, and that without factiously abusing, or meanly daabos; their
of. Mr. STE/DONS .109: Her first appearance was ' itt
public measures or domestic virtues. To blow.. hot
Portia, in the Merchant of Venice, a character not ts
I and cold at the same time I am not up to. Such cop-
best suited to her powers ; and afterwards she Made
a more unfortunate attempt in comedy, in Mrs. ssistency I leave to the cant of faction. I think that a
COWLEY'S Runaway ; soon after vsßich her admirers li really moral character (which certainly litc:llJeses
had the mortification to see her descend, at the close ,' portion of the domestic virtues) casino!, he ilia as.
of the season, to personate the walking _Venus in the . ture of things' degenerate into aa amliti,:us puliticid
revived Pageant of the Jubilee. She. returned tp the ; _
villain. I
admit my education tuts becienstkr faulty
Bath Theatre,in 1776, and,as is well linown, return-'
ed a few years afterwards to relumihe the Londoni—time will, however, correct it. . .. s
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Theatre, with a splendour of talents which continued " Asa moral science, politics has been prudently re..."
with undiminished lustre to the present-hour. -
linquished—it has been converted, and rasa's, into
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PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 29.—Sir J. A. Woos. and 'ed for weak capacities, and more entiveniettOra our
Capt. R. CAIIFIIELL, of the Pompee and Trensen- journey throuifi this busy World. A for iliustrimie
doss:, were this morning arraigned be/ore a Cont.
'families (not exceeding thirty) bete' long* iiirfee be.
Martial, to account for their respective conduct when..
. come so eaemoured of its resourcesiesle eedece iris
in sight of the Rochefort' Squadron in January lest, .f •
the. poiditsa...beiug 41.coptial
..o.r. file Tremens ; trade totes monopoly; and to spare the ployltStoo
dissis;-aria the Divots friiite-Tn company with the' much !SOur, have generously ntanufaiturted 'fot!hern
Pompce. . . I all the ititegrity—all the wisdom—and, consequently,
Norms-mem, JIM 26.—The Theatre at this; all the virtue:—of these articles they dispose of it small
place has been abruptly closed by command of the : quantity, but under.licence, attended with Orders of
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town magistrates hi consequence of the tuottious ;Conncil so clear and explicit, that, whea'efrer tiny 'of ..
proceedings that have taken place on several susces- 1 • '
sive evenings, occasioned by, a reestest made to the ; the co-partusery drop off, no matter how, the. ptuigo-
-orchestra to play the national air of God save the :polists,who, by-the-bye, are eternally Contending for.
BREAD.—There was no Court of Aldermen-to-day.
;King. On the tune being called for, it has generally I•managing the concern, and readsoto cut one anothee's
The Lotto MAIM% after inspecting the Returns, or. ;been
accompanied with a cry of " hats oil," which 1 throats for a scramble in the profits, vista 'wee Unita'
dared it to advance Id. per peck. Quarter's Loaf, s
44 i has produced the most violent opposition. Instead i •
TW ENT Y-PENC Fs! ! 1 and come forward with their excluilve patent to ilit'n
lof complying with the request, the oppositionlsts an. i . • -. • • -,
We are authorised to assure. the Public, that the
ewer it with a cry of "Maligns be free !" and rising l nouttce his apotheosis.; and, provided he hp b.,eit
motion respecting the state of the Laes affecting the with their
hats on, place themselves in the most me- r active in adding to the general stock, a reward of
Roman Catholics, of which Marquis Wiaa.zserx • naciagattitude of defiance. This act of indecency I money, probably a monument, voted by way o' gra.
gave notice last week, will positively be made in the .. .
no f s requently led to blows, and a general contest or
House of Lords to-morrow. Rumours of an iuten. titude to the deceksed, and as a stimidus to the next
1 tumult has been the tesult. Ott Wednesday evening ;' - •
lion to postpone it to a more distant day having bee" ; last, a number of desperadoes surrounded Brigade- bold adventurer. e. •
industriously circulated, we are particularly desired yr Will you favour us, Sir, with some enplane..4a on
xajor liumplirys, on coming oak of the theatre,
to contradict them. . booted him along the streets to his quarters and ' this subject ?
.Contrive some ingenious escu,e, ale
The promised information on the subjec of the t /
—..........-. , threw a bottle in his race which cut him severely.— be possible, for levying the neat roiled sum of este
I disturbed counties, was laid before both Houses Oa
another occasion, aporty way-laid an officer of : hundred thousand pounds sterling, as a recompeece,,tot
We have now no doubt, from the course taken by : sealast
led night. Committees are to be ap- '
Secret the Yd Somerset militia iullie Park, late in the even- I
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the family of one of the partuers, because be was a.
Nlinisters, that it is their intention to suspend the ! pointed this day to examine into, and report upon R.!.
!ing, and beat him in a most inhuman manner. Sere. I
facers Corpus Act, at least in so far as respects 1 Accounts were received
yesterday, from Riattee. ;
rat I have been compelled to enter into recogeizances good father and a good husband. - lie, Sire giv . .thsk
ose counties iu the interior where disturbances . dam to the 13th instant; but the only intelligence t for their good behaviourornd two or three are bound People a little argument for their motseas2 I bur
in is the &mastic calamity of a destructive
ire of late been most conspicuous. Had they wished I contain they over to appear at the Quartet. Sessions, fur the as- stuyidly conceived thatit life-de:diet to exalt; net' to
i fire. ^' '
• adopt conciliatory measures, which alone are ln t sault committed on the officer in the Park. j debase—loot to delude and betray= motto saivfirt,bat
consequence of the Declaration revoking the A t
ilculated to allay the public ferment, they would l Orders in Council, one house iu Leeds, trading to . Gentleman of independent property, idi
res---ftg ! to revivify and invigorate those hiestimable fde•• in si
•in Abbey-row, Maryele-bone, shot Wang{ yesterday,
tae couseated to the Secret Committee about to be 1 America, bought in the market at Bradford, from , b. : whkhour ancestors bequeatlie4l with their. tifeed,7
at Id house, in a fit of despondeitcy. Two baits are
pointed, being chosen from both sides of the 13 to 4000 pieces of stuff goods; and that the same' said to have lodged in his head, which hive been ex- !vainly fancyieg they would be defeuded wiih flit saint
louse, in which case the matter would have under- day not fewer than 300 bales of goods, Find- I traded, and hopes are entertained of his ;recovery. I spirit bywhich they have been cleatted:—thrtt.sath sir..
pally, we believe, for the American market, passed. ! lion Mcr.—ln a legal sparring, the other day, ;tae,
one a fair and liberal discussion. But, instead of
along the streets of Leeds on the way to their dese- had such only, were thefitst l'i `'t'l'og i 41 .•C
":is, they have -resorted to a ballot, by which they nation. at the Bar in Dublin, between the Ex-Attorney-Gel- . gratitude'. Private exeell.T.ce,howeirei Vreinemi r ,
xhA no.
: nese% Puunerr, an thd otecent So!ieltor-Generat 4;tatni tolnittottal bows)' • and .
.111 obtain a majority to support their own views, Cotton Wool is now allowed to be freety exported 'Et ' 1 - ---reff,' that 0 , wow: mete fell yell,
/ l'dllt, the latter remar , tat some a "au". Sir that I should blush
which, they are at no pains to conceal, are decidedly in pursuance of a notice from the Board of Trade.
~, 'ought to he made for rite error of his Lzarned Friend, . I woe any !rotor' 'se cornett.
spent me for those natural qualities (for they are not
.a favour of rigorous. measures. So deeply impressed who had been much occupied of late in the Cabi-'
virtues that an Irtoptoir Indian possesses, in common
sia ia n directed by the Lords of the Committee iule(o7U n•• 146
--as Mr. WurrentAn with the unfairness of this tierqratle to acquaint yen, for the information of the Gen- stet-making employ;" to which. the former promptly
, roceeding, and of its ultimate tendency, that he cignen itnatneerese:telcianillo'elsidrtlyzilthTrao4„edertiltit ui.rlituvrielocfbatinz replied, " My Mimed Friend ought to „haee been with yourself and all the monopolise is
better informed, for he well knows that ram neither i
i'eolared it to la his intention not to attend the inst. revoking to a certain extent the Orders of the 7th. of Ja- Let me hope you are trot SO, (imply by/tilted in
'wary, 1807. and the 20th of April, 1,0.1. their I.ordsinps will ajoiner nor a turner !"
House when the lists
.for the ballot were given in, recommend that the article of Cotton IN 00l shall no longer be Speculation as to,. maintain, that oar private sitcom
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oeeause he had always seen such lists handed about excluded in the Licences permitting goods to be exported from n cannot associate with our public duties. • I ate pesi-
tnis kingdom to France Flanders and Holland. NAVAL IN7ELLIGENC.X.
teem the Ministry, and was certain that any list he I am, Sir, your viost abedie'nt bumble Servant. Old they ought; arid no man, in my Isolable ,upininti,
(staved) THOMAS LACK. . .
might give in would be over-ruled by the majority.— • PoitTeeiptren, Jiinie 99. 't can be Ugly, semi of great; wherdodkvidift lebd the
John William Buckle, lisq. &c.
What a picture does this present to rho mind of the The new "Era! The Master of the Rerels is ap- . Arrived the Amon, 74 gap, a tiew•ship, undid iwg'Srmaigsi : milder virtues7l*. his' public' &UAW: lhiqtdioq
tut 'rota thit Drass with the re/Watt/1W or the admit thiSt "*rt. it • 1011.- be . dracgit. a
extent to which parliamentary corruption has arisen I pointed by the Household, to be a Witch Judge! from Harwich, ' lO-fdrl4ll
Majesty's Ai Ps Defender Eri- I • • s- • ''' lie ' .'•
outward-bound moray ; also his
.vhen, in a measure deeply involving the personal 'rho 'flowery account of the Meeting of the Pitt
If ARMOUTH Jetts 29. ' "' • .
ton, Tremendous, sad Oberon, with a large votive _rote die ' single Instaimmt JwitersOir• Rasscsisr.,. e& the
which has appeared in the Treasury Journals, . maim
safety of every individual in the kingdom, a ma- I bosom cbarnaboblesuesticrelaxationicarried.wiCh him
has not noticed the _rocs: which took place, in cat- :
Club, .
intolhe Senate °nape* y pe
jority of the House of Commons can be pro-eat anget tor our uout d
sequence of a drunken Loyalist having called upon! Arrived yesterday the Mosquito; .'
cured, through the influence of • the" Minister, to the Loan Hien CuANCELLOR of the United Kingdom i Sailed to-day the Local gua-brig en useliswat* .
... . •righte, the lipurnari tall dila the hi dir As
support a most daring encroachment on the
theft ,of for a song, or amatory sentiment ! F./TAR:MTH, Jerre 27. ' ''' • a nation. , tliatiO his 4dipillibitrhtiipal reco!
the subject ; for we maintain, except in the case Amongst the distinguished personages, Dukes of Arrived tae Eirfressjittaqket, wills a mail from dieiviikeei, fiect one-;--not evtlna. measure; , .. , . me
.titt.t dal sla4 )11:110
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of high treason, clearly made out, no Government, &Enron° and Donstr, Earls of ALesstani,c, Bailor "Ma .
had. tawrnveu at tha latter port, aorkil° sweaws stj) nett ititdaraysiter.4l:lll.l
ebe shape, invade die Consittelioao.LiS4•3._ Ihe worn-
hel ..
WICK, TALBOT, &C. who attended
. Mr. co, es (t
however pure, o;,ght to be allowed to suspend the Express. the Hind.Revesme salter, 'from Illy4Ouiiirisisitvig ::111" otilt, erstiwittiai ...ode, apthtt.plialtyv &coition,. to
Member for Norfolk) Agricultural Meeting, last
~ cutter from a mike. , • deitit.t.-titprrosiilripetsdLtuis of Ili `public tileisev
Habeas Corpus. But when we find that this is me-
week, was the Bishop of Nonwicn ; aid it was ob.l -.7/ . f
dilated by the weakest, the most profligate, and the
served by the Temporal Peers present, that he was • 'hiveretWi orlikfie -f ' - "
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.. ' „lit t , cks, no saeleitAo, sipaut(iug
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most intolerant faction that ever possessed the confi- the first Spiritual Lord they had met on such an oe- car' dmv-n \free" the it iyee'lt"Weitrit*lf *tile ;MC ille 44114'1'Forilkatiae. o than shuns milk/
. dente of any Prince, we tremble for the conse- casion; but they earnestly hoped 'his example would sailed his majesty,. dap yak, jaraimoisitis.
iiiot . Wird for Puramouth. . - - .-• .• _ . t..,....„.,. t .
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pasta, by which thetslieben was to he completed,.
quei•ces that must follow, both to the Throne and to be followed by his Right Rev. Brethren, in their re- Arrived the 'dos armed cutter, rpm eitilas I:Ftgubtakilllt --)Y bathe ,r, rql - ePPesed Oitie I really' am iguaran4
• sbeitedpolotataliisewnsess. . „ ~ -• •_. • ..
~...,:', • ,er'• Oat 1040.1114ifit044 Ifillbiftll Illitildfirer istattaiiiii,
the People. Cau any man read the description which spective dioceses. ..
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Another Auholt Mail arrived last night, by I.
Lich we have received accountelvom St. Peters- .
:ugh to the 10th instant ; from. Berlin to the 13th;
om Gottenhergh to the 23d; from Copenhagen-to
- le 9th ; and from Vienna to the 16tb: but they do
)t furnish us with itnY thing iMportant.' A ptisate
tter, received in town from a Captain Faure, rev
cling at Stockholm, dated the nth instant; itatei,
at 44 a coutier has Just arrived in this city, with
telligence that a battle had been fought between
..ie Russians and the French, but that the particulars
.:ere not yet known." It is hardly necessary for us
la state, that ne do not attach any credit to this
Tort.

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