The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-26 00:00:00

CorgNZaARDRN THP4IVIE.

Comfit Eves Comedy of tow fie Love Ins tea
vived at this Thoatre last night, and so far as the col•
loquy is involved, it certainly is a drama of primary
merit, and looks among the majority of (Jar modern
productions like a giant among petit mailres, because
it possesses great strength, though very little of torn..
pa tative politeness.
Mr. F.tercrrr enacted Foresight, Ind though ho
marked the general outline of the character with pre•
etslon, yet we thought him in some Instances imper.
feet, particularly when he laughed at the repetition of
the verses which implied the probability of his own
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AA Add if his head he laid In grolfdi
We made if it be fruitful found.
Mr. C. KEstet.t (who is one of the host revte§otitvi
tires of a Gentleman upon the stage) played Valentines
and very much cannot be done with Valentine by any
professor.
The nautical character of Bees *as sustained by
Mr. Emsitir, but not with his accustomed discrimina.•
tion. He had the fault which path appertained to all
the scenic mufflers of this part that we have 'eels
since the days of Mr. YATEs, nudely, he was a little
too coarse. It should be recollected that he is the
son of a Baronet, and though such a person may be •
tinctured, and influenced, with marine phraseology,
yet even that win never absorb, altogether, the origi-
nal features and traces of a man well borne

Mrs. H. JOHNSTON was lively and genteel in An•
gclicts, and the other characters were tolerably well
managed.
The Burletta of Midas went off with an increasing '
pplAuse.

Ltssrost, it seems, does, " not feel himself at home"
in Midas, and wishes to resign the character into the
hands of f Awcrrr, and the Public will probably be
St/enema FOR Yeese.—The difficulty, at times,
of procuring yeast, particularly in places remote i gratified by the change.
from breweries, must render a substitute desirable ; ; Mrs. ionto.in is about t 6 return to town, after
and the following, we are assured, by persons who 1 reaping a most abundant Theatrical Harvest at Ply.
have frequently used it, answers, is bread making, mouth, &c.
every purpose, as fully as the best yeast :—(The I It is understood that the Ilayetatitet Theatre will
ounce of the best hops, boiled for letlf an hour in a . close for the season the evening before the openlog of-
gallon of water, which, when strained from the New Drury.
hops, is to have half a pound of flour well mixed On the 12th inst. a robbery of bank-notes to a
with it—the whole to be put in a bottle or keg, to ! large amount seas committed in Dublin, attended by
be kept for three days, after which it will be fit for ithe following very singular circumstanee attend[
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use. The same proportion to a given quantity of • pears that between the hours of 11 and 12 at night
flour as is used for the real yeast will be sufficient for . a prostitute was accosted in College-green, by a per-
fermentation. A few potatoes, meshed with the . son having the dress of a gentleman, and somewhat
dough, renders the bread lighter. By reducing the : intoxicated, who took her to a house of ill.fame in
ingredients to a proportionate degree, any smaller ; Tucker's-row, when, steer drinking some punch, she
quantity wished for may be made. It will keep for i contrived to pick his coat pockets of 1,9001. in sin-
e month in cool weather. . gle notes of 1001. contained in a small envelope.—
On the morning afterwards she first went to her fa.
A singular circumstance lately happened at the pa-
rish church of Donington, in Lincolnshire, where the ' ther, to whom she gave one of the notes; she next
Minister generally gives a lecture on a week-day . repaired to the house of ore Casey, A meal.man, in
evening :--A poor girl, about IQ years of age, took . King.street, to whom she entrusted another to pro..
a seat in one of the pews atom., where, instead of cure change, but from whom she then concealed, the
engaging in the service, she paid extent of her booty ; and finally to a Mr. Lynch, ins her devotions to
Morpheus, and was left unobserved by the congrega. Stephen's-green, with whom she hadefermerly lived,
time Awaking front her slumbers about midnight, . and committed to his care two more of the notes, un.
extremely frightened at her situation, she endeavoured der a promise of getting ellen, for theft. Mr.
to make her escape through the windows. Her '
Lynch counted the remaining property in her pots
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.session, hut incautiously permitted her to retain ite
screams alarmed a Gentleman in the neighbourhood,
determined, however, to disclose the transact-10u in.
who sent for the clerk to see what hobgoblin had
gratings of • stantly and take advice how he should act; with thiil
taken possession of the sanctuary. The
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the lock, and the heavy door on its hinges, thunder-
Intention he repaired to the banking-house whose
ing through the vaulted arches, and the ghostly
ap. . name appeared to the notes, where be was desired to
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pearance of Roger, increased the screams arrange the best means of securing the delinquent on
reen's and fears
'of the miserable captive to such a degree, that it was her return, that the property might in the first in.
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i with difficulty she could be take'', in her rapid flight stance be recovered far the owner. Upon this he
through various parts of the building, till at letteth had an intercourse with Casey, to whom he commie,
i she was brought out lacerated with broken glass, and Ideated ail he knew, and agreed with him that-b 1
; otherwise much injured by the fright. , case the women should call on the latter first, she
Thursday evening Adkins, one of the Bow-street should be detained, and immediate notice given to
Mr. Lynch; this agreement, it appears, Casey, very,
Officers, arrived in town from Sherries% with Morris
Fitzgerald, alias De 3fedie, the man who has con-arrs soon after conceived the intention of violating, and
feared having been guilty of the murder of the M
tuntiug the transaction to his own advantage, in cone
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cer, he was in so violent a state that it was found s. and Williamson.. When delivertel to the above offi- • federacy with one M'Lin, a next door neighbour;
for, on the return of the woman, she was decoyed in
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necessary to lash him down hand anti foot, and in . to the house of a Mr. Smith, and under pretence of
that manner he was brought oe in the Admiral's getting chance for the notes, they got possession at
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!Tender to the Tower, where he was put into a 'the entire, and then threatened her with a certain
1 hackney-coach and conveyed to the House of Cor-
rection, Cold Ruth-Aelds, raving the whole wayin
; punishment for the crime, turned her out, with an
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iii.ounction to fly•, this she did for a few hours, but
the most incoherent manner about the murders, and ; afterwards gave herself up, and disclosed the whole
threatening those about him. It appears that a few ; facts here detailed. Casey and M'Lin are both in
days ago he entered as a landsman on board the ! custody, but the most extraordinary circumstance in
Tender, at the Tower, from wheucc be was sent to 1 the whole case is, that no person has yet come for-
-1 the Ceres, at the Sore, where he had been a very 'ward to claim the property.
short time before he 'hewed the most violent %yelp- 1 One night this week, as a respectable tradesman,
I toms of madness, and for some days previous to his . who rev des in Bedfordbury, was returning home,
removal from the ship, had refused to take any sus-
; he was attacked about ten o'clock at night, by font
tenance. Once on his passage op the river he asked . footpads, in Rose-street, Coventsgarden, who robbed
for a little water, and since he has been in the house I him of his watch, and afterwards made their escape.
of Correction he has eitt.n part of a loaf, though he Mraeceeous ESCAPE.—A few days ago, as an un.
continues in the same violent paroxysm of rage, so ; loaded cart (the driver being criminally riding upon.
that it ii at present impossible to collect any thing ra-,i it) was passing near the top of the SAO hies, near
tional from him, nor is it yet ascertained whether it !Nottingham, one of the wheels was absolutely ie
really proceeds from madness, or is assumed. , .1 the act of rolling upon the breast of a child, which
Avery numerous and respectable meeting of Ladies - had just thin.bapeened- to fall down; hat two gen.
and Gentiernau was held at the Booth.hall, in . dealers, wen were passing by at the bistare, de.v to
Gloucester, oe Thursday last, Sir G. 0. Paul, Bart. .the assistance of ,the child ; for while one of t e w
in the chair; when sue Auxiliary. Bible Society.
.forseiled the'horse's heed, the other applied his whole
that city and comity was established ; the Dukesiof ''strength to,the obtruding wheel, and thee rewired the
Norfolk and Beaufort an appoksted Preoidentia , .llttle innocent from an otherwise immediate death.
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