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people should have a little accommodation and benevolence : and if they do make a differemoe , the poor should have the preference . It was objected to one theatre , the Pavilion , we think , in the Commercial-road , that it was chiefly frequented by pickpockets : but as the police allows these pickpockets to be at large , this
seems the next best thing to their being taken to the stationhouse . Meanwhile , honest people would know the hours in which they could walk the streets in safety . It was surely not wise in the Magistrates to forbid their going to sit out a play in peace , and scatter them over the streets to pursue their avocation . Better would it have been to have bespoke < George BarnwelP for their
edification . But this matter is too bad for jesting . Next to the universal diffusion of education , there is nothing more desirable than refining the people ' s taste in amusements . Yet there never was a tithe of the difficulty about boxing and bull-baiting , that there is about song , dance , and drama . Coarse enough , no doubt , would be the forms in which these entertainments are
provided ; but in their coarsest forms , their popularity must be a comparative good . And that admission must be taken with much restriction . The Kensington and Strand theatres might have been rational enough , even for the amusement of their worships . We never spent but one evening in the latter , and then we heard more sense , truth , and philosophy , than we have found
in all the reports of Magisterial proceedings for many a month . It is high time that this warfare against popular enjoyment should be stopped . The poor man ' s right to his part and parcel of the melody of a public-house fiddle , ought to be as sacred as that of the Peer to his Opera box , or that of the Magistrate to his piano in-his drawing-room . The suppression of harmless amusements must ever be the manufacture of immorality .
The Great Fire . —An unexpected Royal Reformer has appeared . His Majesty the Fire King , to whom Monk Lewis was whilome poet laureate , and whose visits to the two theatres , above twenty years a £ o , occasioned so many addresses , has again come down to open the two legislative Houses in person , and decree their renovation . As he graciously spared the Hall and the
Abbey , his frolic seems to be generally forgiven , especially as CcJUb $ tt aud Hume had wrought a common conviction that much legislatorial mischief was ascribable to the bad accommodations of St . Stephen ' s chapel . A different vote on Mr . Hume ' s motion might have nullified this additional instance of unavoidable
necessity being the sine yud non of improvement . The new Ho ^ isea are , it is sjaid , to stand on the old foundation ; so he it , as long as it will ' support them , provided they be themselves amended .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 816, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/70/
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