The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-25 00:00:00

corENT-GARDE A? THEATRE.

We will not indulge s dosibi of the strict
performance of the arrangement made on
day ; and therefore must impute the oinissioti this
day of the promised declaration in the Public
Priuts, that the 'mother of tha l'firate Bower
shall be reditc:Al to PEN, to ao:ne acciiental
.A.:4 UK.
. Such declaration we, therefore, presume will
appear to-morrow morning.
On the subject of Mr. Iliandon's reet,lration,
his frieusis are somewhat premsture. A Gi•niln.
man, of the name of _Nunez, was by
Messrs. Cox and Greenwood ; and another Gen-
tleman nay, in like manner, dismissed by Messrs.
Cadet! and !Mies, r,r having expressi•J tliiippro_
Nation at the Theatre. The restoraam of Mr.
Brandon would be iteetncd A more proper subject
er public consideration, after those Gentlease's
should have been restored to their situations.

Weshould hope that Mr. Gibbons (commonly
called long), Mr. Jew Bennett, the celebrittst
Mr. Carpenter, Moses Braham !Tart, and many
other dramatic, Gentlenset:, who have performed
coespieumes parts iii the contest, will not be per-
mitted nightly to infest the lobbies of the Theatre
on free acisnissi,n,. The Public are as desirous
of forgetting, u of forgiving, which will, hoe _
evert be utterly impossible au long as threw ind:si..
duals shall continue to offend their sight.

'fbe Erile atid TORS Thumb were pederast&
with applause on Saturday night.

TO TILE EDIT IR OP 7714 STATESM.4.V.

SlR—Permit so to cougratulate you on the
complete success which has croirnetl your exer-
tions in the cause of the PtibLe ; to yun and to
you only are we indebted fur our etuancipatiun.
from theatrical bondage.
How are we to account, Sir, tot the contlua.
of aa your Brother.Juurnalists, in abastioniog
at r. moment when " the evidence of facts"
proved, that we stood most in need of their easist-
ante, and on the only point too, of any iroport_
once, st the commencement of the contest ? For,
as to the prices of admission, they alone %would
have produced a war of shoe bt.t for
'lke award of arbietaters, in whos• nomination
the Peblic had 'no voice. 'When, hones-or, two
of his Majesty's Counsel, lei ned io law, and
three of his liege Citizens, learned in arithmetic,
pledged their words, that the owners of a Ilit.•tit
had ;Ascii upon it a remmteration or s:c and a
quarter per cent. only, Mi. Bull was instantly
,astotindod, and as instantly exclaimed, " credat
Jssclerus itpclla, non ego." Front which of these
briefs think you, Sir, did these learned Gentlemen
discover a solitary instence of a patentee vending
his commodity at a profit of 81 per cent.? Did it
occur to them that Messrs. Moulton and Watt were
contending for 64 per tent. when one of their
Counsel, the late Mr. Serieant Adair, received,
with his brief, a fee of one thousand guineas, to
defend their patent? Mr. Bull's Vredillity is cer-
tainly great ; but the age of miracles is past.
With a sufficient assurance fur the publicity of
the twenty.two Boxes, their late Keeper will, j
hope, be re-invested with the Keys of Office; fur
the Public having forgiven the Master, who is
one-hundred-fold more culpable than his Ser-
vant, it would really be not only ungenerous, lint
unjust, not to pardon the latter. That Brain lr,n
ha• acted with " a Zeal without Knowledge,"
his Employers have abundant cause to regret ;
for had the knowledge of this IVarrior beets
equal to his seal, he would have declined bring_
ing certain captiver within his camp, and the coil.
test might not have had so early t;Trnination.
Inner Temple, LW. ?S. PHILO•ROSCIUi.