"_Cause of Justice._--John Bull _versus_ John Kemble--verdict for the plaintiff." A large coffin with the inscription, "Here lies the body of New Prices, who died of the _whooping_-cough, Sept. 23, 1809, aged six days." The instant the performances began, the audience, who had been previously sitting with their faces to the stage, as audiences generally do, wheeled round to a man, and turned their backs upon it. When they concluded, which, in consequence of the fearful uproar, was frequently as early as half-past nine o'clock, they united in singing a parody on "God save the King," of which the first verse ran thus:-- "God save great Johnny Bull, Long live our noble Bull, God save John Bull! Send him victorious, Loud and uproarious, With lungs like Boreas; God save John Bull!" Then followed the O. P. dance and a variety of speeches, and then the rioters would quietly disperse. The opinions of the press being, as a matter of course, divided on every question, were necessarily divided upon this. The _Times_ and _Post_ supported the new system; in consequence of which a placard was exhibited from the pit every evening for at least a week, with the inscription, "The Times and Post are bought and sold, By Kemble's pride and Kemble's gold." The _Chronicle_, on the other hand, took up the opposite side of the question, and supported the O. P. rioters with great fervour and constancy. In its columns one of the most popular of the numerous squibs on the subject appeared, which is here inserted. It may be necessary to premise that "Jack," was John Kemble; that the "Cat" was Madame Catalani, then engaged at Covent Garden Theatre, and who was much opposed at that time, in consequence of her being a foreigner; and that the "boxes" were the new private boxes, among the great objects of popular execration. "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. "This is the House that Jack built. "These are the boxes, let to the great, that visit the house that Jack built. "These are the pigeon-holes, over the boxes, let to the great, that visit the house that Jack built. "This is the Cat, engaged to squall, to the poor in the pigeon-holes, over the boxes, let to the great, that visit the house that Jack built. "This is John Bull, with a bugle-horn, that hissed the Cat, engaged to squall, to the poor in the pigeon-holes, over the boxes, let to the great, that visit the house that Jack built. "This is the thief-taker, shaven and shorn, That took up John Bull, with his bugle-horn, who hissed the Cat, engaged to squall, to the poor in the pigeon-holes, over the boxes, let to the great, that visit the house that Jack built.