The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-16 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THlThale"

This lively little place of Summer entertalement
opened last •vetting, ceder very favourable as.,
epic's. The first performance was the Comedy of
Vie Poor Gentlonsan, sib the accessary attraction
of two first appearances. The fair debutante, who
Oral claims oar attention and commendation, was
Miss BLANCHARD, Who was most favourably re.
evicted its the pert of Emily Worthington. This
young Lady is eminently ettt►,.wed by were with
the graces of youth ; and though she felt the ember.
rassment of being new to the public pee, with
more than common susceptibility, gave striking
proofs of talent and cultivation. Her enunciation
is judicious and unaffected, and ebe only wants that
freedon and decision, which she will readily acquire
as she grows familiar with the stage, or rather
with the audience, on whose part there up.
:veered the strongest disposition to encourage the
development of her talents. She was received
throughout with lively interest and applause, and at
the close of the Play with reiterated expressions of
approbation from every part of the 'souse. Miss
BLANCHARD had a short time since appeared once,

and for the first time, on any stage, at Covent-gar-
den, on the benefit night of Mr. HLANCUARD, as
Miss Blandford, in Speed the Plough, and was re.
ceived with distinguished favour. The part of Ma.
pod introduced Mr. J. flussEt.t., of the Edinburgh
Theatre. Ile performed it with mucb liveliness, and
on the whole with distinguished success. He gave
the song with great effect, end was encored in it
without a dissentient voice. Mr. Jena, lobo is
without a rival in Frederick Bramble, delineated,
with his usual excellence, the spirit and vivacity of
youth, when the heart is yet ingenuous, and the ima•
ginstion on the wing. Mr. Tam was escellent in
Sir Robert Bramble, and Mr. TOZSI.Tv through not
In his element, was successul and entertaining as the
Corporal. The Comedy was followed by Blue
Devils, and .4 Day after the Weddiag.

DREADMIL A CCIDIDIT.--The minstes before foe,
o'clock yesterday afternoon, as Me. Mara, tb. ar-
chitect, accompanied by Mr. Dudley, steward or
°worse.. to Lord George Cavendish ; Mr. Seabrook,
the master carpenter, and Mr. Kin, the WOWS ;
and three plasterers, were on a lefty seeffeld, in the
Interior of Burlington.boese, examining the serried,'
mimeo, plastering round the skylights, Ake., from
the great weight on Oho scaffold, en* et -the p&p
snapped is two, and all were precipitated to the
bottom, a height of two stories, to the metre leer.
Mr. Ware received-a severe contusion es the beck
of his head, and several braises on clirkolli ports el
his body. Mr. Seabrook and Mr. Kissable reorkeil
some severe bruises ; but Mr. Dedley bad set ae lee•
tenets se trove, for in the f.ll be bad his left ke
broke. be two, close to the knee, and before he could
be estrieated from his pifnOell sitestion, s hest,'
plank fell en the brakes leg and shattered it to
pieces s he was carried to his apartatent in Bodies-
ten-hense, and surgical aid sent f.r, Oen it woe
felted eecessary to anspetate the leg above the kiss,
which be bore with great fereleede. The able three
see resolved each sworn illpiii.injetytbilssos of
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DIMS ELECTION.

[PROM Tilt ALVOLD PATZU
the hest and fury, arisiog from the bustle
and straggles of a General Election, are allayed, at-
tention *ill be directed to the approaching Congress
of Sovereigns. ft would be absurd to hope, that the
acts of this intended assembly will lacrosse either the
*spines* at the liberties of mankind. Advised, as
the Continental Monarchs are, by men, neither great
as Statesmen, tier as Philosophers, great only by
name and statitiiii receiving dignity from their Aims,
but adding no dignity hi them, fully esemplifyin the
words of the Poet,
" Naples ate Mandel stilii the elate. en Alps."
it would be irrational to expect any good from treat.
No one gathers graekli fruit thistles, nor figs from
thorns. Clinging, as these Minimal., do, to the old
routine, which they cell *goterdinenti endeavouring
to make the manners and habit. of society conform
to their opinions, they are Ming beacons of the im-
prudence of committing mighty affairs to little minds.
Though the loudest trumpeters of honourand moralgy,
they have given admirable proofs of their regard for
the one, and their love of the other. That regard for
morality most strongly appears, in the Just ail-
posal of millions of human brier, like beasts that
grne in the field ; and in the kind and paternal dis-
memberment of nations, republics, and kingdoms:
to satisfy the wanton appetites of half • score of
their fellow mortals. That love of honour finds its
proof in their bass violative of the solemn promise,
NOT TO INTIIMMS in the internal government of
France, yet attereards boldly avowing, by placing
the Bourbons on the Throne, that this pledge was a
pious fraud to cheat mankind. Afraid of the dissemi-
nation of liberal principles, terrified at the increase
of knowledge—instead of trying to conduct these
mighty causes of moral revolution through well-
formed channels, they blindly exert themselves to
raise a dam, composed of pride, self-interest, and
lasory, in the face of the torrent, to impede its
course. Instead of bailing these mighty causes, as
the precursors of just political Reform, which phi.
losophers trill direct, they load the sprit's; of
Government *lib more absurdities, es if wisdom
would always .be clouded by ignorance, and rea-
son by fully. They sharpen the teeth of the
terrible engine of oppression ; they nourish the
chicanery of their supporters; they give a stronger
tone to bigotry ; they spread corruption more
profusely ; and, for the sake of power, they add
new lairs Se old lairs, all equally unfit for the im-
proving state of society, and modified to gratify the
silly wishes of Courts. Too blind to anticipate the
future, they sleep in fancied security, whilst the
ea r hq oaks heaves beneath them, and will awake only
when the yawning guiph bids them despair. They
chalk oat lines of policy, narrow, mean, and selfish,
as if the world were still is its infancy, and had not
withdrawn the veil which covered the pretended di-
vinity of Kings. In a few, a very few short years,
the effects of their labours, and idle schemes, and holy
alliances, and sacred congresses, and legitimate asso.
elisions, will crumble into dust. Despotic Monarchs,
then so longer *sisal% in reality, will, in fiction,
simply the places of giards and ogres, to ansuse and
terrify nursery babes. The People have learnt from
history, that all the urthrsi powers and wicked privi.
lege', which d-spots enjoy, were stolen, by fraud or
by force; for force, itiey will soon discover an obsta-
cle, whir h it cannot eurmoutit, end will fled a check,
which freed cannot elode. A new era has arisen ;
instead of the dull," but proud and servile German,
the half-wags Russian, the biguttetl Spaniard, the
lay Italian, so beet to the will duty master, a new
race will arise, who will be bold in defence of their
meanest privileges, and actively alive to the public
welfare. Law will reign ; Monarchs will be mere
fiduciaries of aliens ; and, out of a !subarea policy,
ender which wretches tremble, and which knaves
sapportisocial order, due subordination, equal righti,
and equal justice will spring up, and Kings will find
their best security in the happiness of their subjects,
and their best defence in their regard. _ _

In the put Congress, the prace and welfare of
mankind were forgotten. Its aim and end were fit
only for the blackest night of ignorance, and the
half-inforeted beings who controoled the fate of na.

lions. The plunder of one great detroyer was ba-
lanced against the plunder of another t the ensue-
cessfel robber demanded a share in the spoils with his
more successful brethren : the happiness of men wee
of no estimation in the minds of the spoilers: plide,
barked by power, stole whole countries, and boasted
of it, as if crime, by wholesale, were a virtue, and
in detail only to be condemned. Sunny was tern,
asunder to increase the military ravages of Pro.sia ;
Genoa was thrown under the curse of • Piedmon-
tese Government; and fruitful Italy was added to
the slave-grounds of Vienna, where wisdom is men.
lured by genealogical trees ! The Fins were left to
groan beneath Russian scourges; Norway to mourn,
her hateful conjunction with Sweden ; and, as if
tally rode triumphantly, the C43llglPsll sanction_
ed the acquisitions of Russia in Potato], from
which she assumes a gigantic port in Europe,
to mimes her neighbours, and to disturb their
repose. A few moments rational reflection would
aspirate these ill-assorted materials, and crush this
tottering fabric to the greond. Let the People of
Europe carefully analyse the GLORY obtained from
WAR I Let them see this bane of nations, in its
horrible component parts, LUST, MIAMI:ft,
iIiTBNGE. *MILT, Milling, and Dino-
LATION Let them feel es isms, not as tigers; as
rational beings, not es idiots ; and no longer will
the game of death be played, to amuse and delight
the harpies that batten on human blood I When that
gamete no longer in fashion, the little demigods of
folly, who have been pleased with its rattle, will rise
Into mess, and men ant assume their rank in the
seateof Wog, as mortal images cif the Deity !
Nip teen has sustained more Injury than Sir Thomas
Acland, beet the injedicioesness of his friends.—
Feeaa sow of them be imbibed the political notions
whit* hive deprived him of his popularity, and con-
'libeled to his downfall: by them he was taught,
that his 11101:0111 was certain, though not a chance was
le his Weer: by their ill-timed seal, he became a
parte*, in the Coalition, the erects of which a child
might, haw foreseen. From their credulity acting
epos his lecliestion, he was often induced to be-
lief% that " to-morrow* would raise him to the
had el the Poll. SeetleiSllN nabbed, the Coal-

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