The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-16 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THRATRIL

A new Musical Drama, compiled from the last sew
Scotch Novel, The Pirate, was performed last night.
The plot of the drama, is, with very slight exceptions,
the same as the novel. The language of the original is
also preserved for the most part; and the east, both in
vocal and dramatic characters, is calculated to assist its
impression. Mr. Coogan, as Captain Myeloid (the
Pirate), was highly impressive. Mr. HARLIT, as Lieu-
tenant Bower, a strange mixture of the Pirate and the
Strolling Player. was as lively as could he wished ; and
Mr. MUNDIN, as Bryce Saalesfoot (the Pedlar), though
deserving of a higher part, made as much as could be
made of that which was allotted him. Mrs. WM', in
the character of Noma, bad the only female part of any
importance as a dramatic personage, and she fulfilled it
with that mixture of energy and pathos demanded by
the situations. Madame VasTals, as Minna, sang de-
lightfully ; and Miss Dmitri+, as Brenda, was much
applauded. The dancing which is introduced had a
very good effect, and Miss Teen was, as usual, the prin-
cipal figure in the group. The scenery was beautiful,
though all the striking circumstances of the novel had
not been availed of for the purpose. The whale hunt would
have been a capital exhibition, from its novelty, but
that we suppose was beyond the machinery of the stage.
The music was fine ; and the actors both vocal and
dramatic made the most of their respective parts. The
general effect of the piece, however, was impaired by its
length, and towards the close of the performance some
opposition was manifested ; but it was announced for
repetition amidst the applauses of a great majority.

Yesterday, at thin o'clock, Mr. Wilson, M. P. for
the city of London, accompanied by a deputation of
merchants, waited upon the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, at his house in Downing-street.
The Hon. William Henry John Scott, soa of the
Earl of Eldon, bas been sworn in one of the Carsitors
for London and Middlesex, in the room of Ran-
dall, Esq. lately deceased.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESSA meeting of owners
and occupiers of land io the county of Devon, is adver-
tised to be held oo Friday next, in Exeter, for the
purpose of Petitioning Parliament on the present
alarming diet of the Landed and Agricultural In-
t . If, says The Alfred, on this occasion, the
Agriculturists who intend to meet at the Hotel, on
Friday, adopt the absurd notions of Mr. Webb Hall,
they will make themselves ridiculous. The observa-
tions of that gentleman are more like the ravings of
a maniac, than the maxims of a politician : he pro-
poses to impose 40s. a quarter on imported foreign,
wheat, and be talks of casing our burthens by this
increase of price, which is just as wise as if a person
were to place an additional weight on a sinking herel
to save it from falling. Let the Agricult ' petition
for economy in the public expenditure ; for the reduc-
tion of publie salaries ; for the annihilation of all
sinecures ; for the diminution of the iat of the
national debt : and for an essential decrease in taxation.
This would afford them real relief; but to support,
agriculture by increasing the burthens of an overbur-
thened people, is robbing Peter to pay Paul: soon
Peter would have nothing to pay, and Paul would be
like the old woman, who foolisly killed her goose that
laid golden eggs!
We bear that it is intended to celebrate the birth-
day of the Right Honourable Earl Grey, at Alnwick,
on the 13th of Much, by a public dinner.—(Durhans
Chronicle.)

r.•.lmrtherredweSM.► it *sr dock-yards are in-peeled
is the course of February ant. S I officers in
the Ordnance Department at Plymouth, had orders to
quit at Christmas. It is observable that Ministers
will give up every thing but—the army.—(West
Britons)
DuaLs.—Dentax, J♦w. 14.--A duel was fought on
Saturday. at three o'clock in the afternoon, between
Mr. O'Mears, on the half-pay establishment, attended
-by Mr. Crooke, sheen the half-pay, and Mr. *Lough-
lin, of the Treasury, attended by Mr. Dayly. On the
second firs both shots took effect. Mr. O'Meara was
struck on the side, but the rib bone offered sufficient
resistance to prevent it from entering the body; the
wound is severe however. Mr. *Loughlin was Its.
fortunate. The ball of his antagonist entered a little
below the hip bone and as not been extracted. We
state with much regret that the wound is considered
dangerous; he is attended by the Surgeon-General,
and Surgeon Kerin. Mr. O'Meara is attended by Sur-
geon Roney.
It is a lamentable circumstance, that this is the
third duel fought daring the last week, arising from
the same original cause of quarrel I The first was on
Tuesday, in the Phenix Park, between the same prin-
cipals; after exchanging shots, at fifteen paces dis-
sneers, the parties and their friends quitted the ground
without any adjustment having taken plate. At the
moment of quitting the ground, some altercation
(which at this moment we do not wish more particu-
larly to allude to) arose. which produced a meeting en
Thursday afternoon, in a field adjoining Lord Chad.-
mont's demesne, between Mr.o•Meara and Mr. Clarke,
also on the half-pay, who acted as the second of Mr.
*Loughlin in the former case, when on a discharge
of shots at ten paces, Mr. O'Meara firing in the air,
the affair was amicably adjusted.
The third duel was fought in the same place. be-
tween the original principals, with the unfortunate re—
sults already stated; they stood at the distance of
twelve paces. The same gentleman was second to Mr.
O'Meara in the three duels.
UTILITY Or ♦ LARGE ♦ND WELL ENDOWED Ecct.s.
lIIASTICAL SEMINARY !!!—The last report of the PA-
son Discipline Society informs us, that in Cambridge
Town Gaol "there is no Chapel or Chaplain, nor
does any one attend to give religious instruction: '—
What are we to think of this, in one of the places
most munificently.endowed for the study of Divinity
sod the promotion of Religion?
ACCIDENT IN HIINTINIL—J. R. Gregory, Esq. met
wit► an alarming accident oa Monday, in following
the bounds of the Farley Hunt, .Hants, in taking a
llamado°s leap which most of the field of sportsmen
refused. It was a quickeet hedge of six feet, with two
feet of ditch approaching it, and three feet on the other
side. A Mr. Corbett first cleared the leap. and Mr.
Gregory followed, when his horse's hind legs became
'angled in clearing the mood ditch, and he fell
upon his rider and caused a dangerone compound trac-
tors of his left leg. He was conveyed to a neighbour.
lag farmhouse senseless, from a contusion on the bead
also, and fears are entertained ter his safety. Mr. G.
is 60 years of age, and of corpulent habit.

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OLD BAILEY—Tsts Ammo.
ono--
Miry Termer was indi—
cted for stealing from the
penes of W. Hooly, in the parish of St. Lek*, Choi-
sea, one sovereign, and 2 half-crowns, his property.
The prosocutor, who is an Irisiwitso, staled that

on the 2nd of Jan. he went to Chelsea to receive his
pension, and afterwards went to a public-house, to get
a drip of something to drink, and got himself rather
tipsey. On leaving the house, he was met at the door
by the prisoner, who asked him if he had been to re-
ceive his pension ; be replied he bad;' she then said,
come along with me and 1 will take care of you ; she
then took him to her lodging, and they sat on the bed
together ; in a few minutes after he felt very sick, and
fell back on the bed to give himself ease, when the
prisoner put her hands in his breeches pocket, and eir-
traeted his coin—and bolted out of the room. Ha
'pursued her and seized her by the neck, when she
struck him a violent blow and scratched kis face. An
officer was called in, and found the money in her stock-
ings—Guilty.
glizabeth Daviel was indicted for stealing 17 yards
of printed cotton, value 10s., the property of David
Evans. rhe prisoner was seen snatching it from the
door of the shop (a linen-draper's); and the Jury found
her—Guilty.
COMMON SlRJlANT.—Prisoner, you have been here
before, and you ought to have taken warning. The
shopkeepers of this great metropolis must be protected.
The sentence of the Court is, that you be transported
for seven years.
Henry Heritage was indicted for embezzling 101.
the property of Wilkinson Moore, and thwarts Simmons
for advising and abetting him to commit the offence.—
The Jury found Heritage Geriky, bet there being no
evidence to affect Simmons, lie was acquitted.

SUPPOSED-MURDER OF 11 CHILD.
IT ITS MOTHER.

In our Marlborough-street report of this day will be
found a case, in which a female charged with felony
was suspected to have improperly disposed of her infant
child. The unfortunate woman, whose appearance is
very interesting, and only 22 years of age, was, about
ten months ago, seduced by a man of distinguished
family, who supported her till within the last few
months, and then abandoned her. Being advanced in
pregnancy, a friend procured her a ticket for the Lying-
in-Hospital, where she was delivered of a female child,
and on her leaving the Hospital she returned to her
former lodgings, which she had with difficulty pro-
cured, bat basing no money to pay the expenses she
had incurred, she was refused admission. She wan-
dered about for some days, and, it is feared that she
made away with her child. While the wretched wo-
man was under examinatUnz yesterday, at Marlboro'
street Office, an inquest was sitting at the Barley Mow,
Mount-street, Oros►enor.square, on the body of her
supposed child, which had been found in the basin in
Hyde Park. The body of the infant bad been examined
by two Surgeons. It is believed the child was near
a monnth old when it died. The Jury assembled last
eveniag, before J. H. Hell, Esq. Coroner, and after the
body had been viewed, the following evidence was ad-
duced :

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file. Matthew Ellis, master of the engine.boese Hyde
Park, deposed, that on Sunday last, at *boat sieves in
the forenoon, be went, as be usually did, to the glair
of the Chelsea water-works, and there saw something
floating on the water. He procured the drag, and drew
out the object that had attracted his attention, which
proved to be a female child, apparently about a month
old. He had no doubt bat the child had lived. There
were no external marks of violence on the body, nor Was
it likely there would be, if the child (as he believed) was
thrown Into the water and drowned. He was the father
of nine children; had no doubt but that the child had
been suckled for some time; it was dressed according to
the usual manner of attiring infants; there was a band-
age pinned in the customary manner round its body, and
there well no apparent disease that could have caused its
death. He firmly believed that the child had been
thrown into the water alive. If the child was a corpse,
it struck him that it would not have been thrown in the
water with any of its clothes on. The surgeons, how-
ever, could best speak to that point. The Coroner en-
quired if the Surgeons were in attendance, and was an-
swered in the negative.
Clements, an offiser of Marlborough-street, stepped
forward and gave as account of what had tranapited at
that office is the afternoon, in the case of Jane Johnson,
and said that be (the officer) bearing of a child being
found drowned, he thought it proper for him to attend
the inquest and give the information he was in posses-
sion of. The Coroner applauded him for his conduct...-
The surgeon's sot being In attendance, the Coroner said
that he having no idea this case was likely to turn oat a
murder, lie had not brought the parchment, or blank
presentment with him, and as it was likely to turn out a
very important, and probably very long enquiry, he
would adjourn to a future day, and requested that all
the evidence might be in readtness.—Adjourned.

CITY Busirms.—A Coati of Aldermen was held
yesterday, in Guildhall, which was numerously at-
tended.—The Court heard and determined the ap-
peals of persons elected to serve the offices of inquest-
men and Constable, and the Lord Mayor was requested
to issue precepts for Wardmotes to be holden for the
election of other persons in the room of those dis-
charged. The presentments of the inquests of the se-
veral Wards of nuisances, encroachments, and non-free-
men, were laid before the Court, and the Aldermen of
the respective Wards were requested to imitate into
the nuisances, See. and the Chamberlain directed to
Lawton the nes-freemen before him, and to prosecute
such as refused to take up their freedom. The peti-
tion against the return of Common Councilmen for the
Ward of Laogburn was adjourned to the nest Court.
The election of Mr. Conley, as a Common Council-
man for the Ward of Qtwenhithe, was declared void,
en account of his sot being t freeman, and the Lord
Mayor was requested to issue his precept for a Ward-
mote to be holden for the election of soother in his
room. The Comet appointed the 2d March for licensing
the several victuallers.

The number of Newspapers published in the United
Kingdom at this time. is 280, of which 57 line from
the metropolis; 130 from the peovinees of England
and Wales ; 31 from Scotland ; 54 from Ireland ; and
eight from the Islands of Jersey, tiaernsey. &c. More
than one fifth of the whole *midst* from London.
Coals Excu.snon, JAY. 16.—We have bad very little
wheat fresh in since Monday. bet 1r considerable clean.
tity of that Jay's supply remained over. chicly consist-
ing of second and inferior descriptions, for which there
was little or no demand this morning; let there is no
alteration in prices. Fine malting-Barlet.erai rather
in more demand, as well as the ordinary saiples, the
latter being in request for shipping at fresslts. to 111..
per quarter. Oats ere rather loner. in- consequence of
large arrivalr. • In Beans and Peas there ism, alteration.,

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