The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-21 00:00:00

rip gDITOR strait ST4TESMAW.
9111=-141fili dila weastinseitting Ina piddle
,eof.
feestddat ttith offload, it was -publicly stated by
a Gentleman the* Itientoit,- gat Mr. Liston bed
Mid, to • Stied eeltopeeryv that -the Managers
Covent.Gardeterhestee would hats carried. the
point of the New Prides; but for the oppedtiou
bf the blackgoofeitilkens. Nut having tke means
bf asteetaietng do-troth of-this matter through any
'private channel, I beg you will insert this in your
impartial and truly honest columns, that Mr. L.
ply babe a. opportunity of. ens weritsg it as open-
tl: acid 'kith the •laree• candour as it is now
do not whits to injure theftelingslor
interest of Fierfornier Ike ranks so deservedly
Wet in the opinion:Of the piiblic as Mr. L. ; but
. • :lee atrocious Silithfe of affected cousequesice
and base &Calained in this charge, is
• 'bra nature the present state of. theatrical
atfdts,•detqatithribe .M4O .revere aeimadversion.
Bfackgota-41 Ciii-suas,. indeed! • Were the gives
of Demtie:bar soloed but• ter one night oil all
;rout eitiseps 4requent the Theatre, Tragedy
:eight rave, and Comedy. fasdi, but there mould
be only " a .beiticarlyaccpunt of empty Boxes,"
to weep or to Mile's* did °caption. Yours,
. • IXDAGATba.•
• Alsester 194.1110.
/It thy SITArgSM AN. .
•:• • .
E!tiezo. contest betwren. the • Mansion of
t-Gardna Theatre and the Pdblk, haring
• =atefigse,particialar otteotieetai will, .I hope,
for my troubliag you with, sky oliseria.
•'. • those Meteors; and istise sibjettalt WNW btoo.
netuilUes, it will be anal slut 14r Illeto enter
hie detail.
A was one ("A0.614106 bad the hewer to in.
Arad flee mail. hotel and Whistles to support thither-
..• Won, of the Public, determined, with the *mist-,
• lops of some digit:friends; mot only is resent the
%mks of the Managers,: bat the attempts of the
ildwre-brentrics of Uow.etreet-Office, to support
Wm. Fonlottabtly-fer.(be• ,personal security of
these hireling•ruilleps,.ato elleiayit use Weeds while
the tedavetal 0' lettere) isppositien vatted, but
when it gave way to dist More Coot, determined,
bud jostifiableeepressioit of disapprobation; they
considered it as a signal of their personal emu.
city, and preceded to acts of the most flagrent
injustice. Baring been • absent from town for
'soot* days, l vies rejoiced On wny return to the
tileatre on Monday lust, to observe that the spirit
of John Mitt had noir been dornisut .fur o time;
ge salutation aid groetinei given to a Bow street
Officer in a passage to the second tier of Boma,
while attempting to lake.a‘ Gentleman kite cuvto.
. dy, will not encourage him to make another visit
to his frit:l4o .Mal-quarter.
As 'mai Astra 'aidrane;.d, and no one elutes-
stewed to contradict, . that the proceedings of the
Maiistratas 110.'434i:et have been completely
the Ertillatarti jestilled in such a conclu-
lion, and *air realidanoe he such cases a duty
they wet' themselves ; I would therefore ;thrive'
the friends of the Opposittdo to unite with, deter-
thleatioe to cheat.* the innovators of their rights;
sects proceediags I skeuld not certainly rectim.
mend could justice be otherwise obtained; of the
feilure of which we hue already had too malty
proofs to trust to that &Witte ezpostation.
am,Sirt
One of the otwoerout Family of
JOHN *MI.
1101131/211.411ffitille • A retammt Reader ',riser 'rely
tridepeeitent Paper.
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To the EDITUR of T - STATEN ALIN. .
Sia—l beg to inform you of a few things con.
. alma, with the contest. now raging leaw...vii the
Itowetl sense of a British Pu blie,snd Mountebank
***rice. Use them, it your discretion—be
lured, botievite, they are trite. • It has.not 'been
stated in any Paper of to-day (that I have seep)
how the tint.irtuoate youth was capinred who last
sight held up his watch-ribbon (with Old Priem,
ittiuted on liaJf an hour after the perfori..
Mice, was over, when the audience from the Side.
Buses had nearly dispersed, the Gendarme in I
"within came put of the second box frost Mel,
stage, and two ruffians, who had ben eyeing hits
termecinie, acid were stationed at the outside of
the Bea, rushed instantly upon him, and thrust
him through pritate dour at the cud of the
lobby; into the stage, passage. Of course he was
in nit instant eat at from his friends, and from 411
assistance. This is the erect of that system of
impiosege *Mei Ike setiandrel Press and Globe
reeommended to the Managers.
the whole of the Front Bose. were 6/led by
Ordsit, at fail rice of course; and oe admission
at halt pky, dies. was no admission to dams seats.
say,l's as some of the venal prints hays said,
that te female part of the audience was parties..
early respectable, is false. Some respectable fe-
males there were, bat the balk were not of that de.
eeription being women dressed up for the night,
Amy if totiem seemed never to have been iu a
Box befooru One enewered one (on civilly re.l
/westing her to open the dour of a Rue lehaitel
there was room) ' No, I'll be hanged np if:l
.Indeed my weeder at such *kip soon ceesed;,
when e Gentian. informed me, that a person,:
mhos he pointed out to me eci the spot, bad et),
ordersia' to him to disteibate to Me best adran.
loge. These natters, however, are trifles to the
Public. They will Aare the happiest effect in the
Treasury of the Proprietors. A ' pretty six pot%
if nt. account, truly, we shall have founded on
the profits (loss 1 should say) of this season ; but
there is a matter not to be so easily digested, I
mean the tyrannical, the unconstitutional measures
used in arresting the persons of our countrymen.
It is my present wish) Mr. Statesman, that you
would have a subscription opened by some means
50 support the caufe of British liberty; not only
by defending the unfortunates now node? bail;
but on their acquittal, retorting the commitmelit
and false imprisonment on the Magistrates or Pro,
evictors as may be. lam confident there is not
rue Briton, who would not with pleasure sub.
scabs hid pine for so noble a purpose.
itta, . • •Si •
rs Taaaff,