Star. — London, England, 1818-09-03 00:00:00

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CU E,RrititiIRECTORS *date UNIT . cnmplisbie, because I will not Icy trust. lam conflient ! sedan/NM* Ilihe lii • tvgmr of .V.ERCHAATS rf ENGLAND, trail/se this Age me reliever this Th em distress t and, if, on ex- I Male/ Rifhilehrt ix tke $.44;1* WINES, do hereby said Ntice, pedigree it deem, I Wee another limest, perhaps more certain; i tesWeerefertiellililine That a General Court of the said Coke, will be held at bat which I arraeziously'struggling to avoid.; but if the Twat- ferilnpSof of -y es wit sury be not relieved, by the one- item or the other, as the spirit es reudirmaird their Douse in Leadenhall-nrcet, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th Tneese of this great property, i int that I shall betrty my. tstessi mr.iggpinien„. . . rated, April, 1819, for the Election of SIX DIRECTORS for Four tree, if Ide net recommend the dome to be closed. On sup- the oisselatinomieel I Tears. , • •• • JO:Sill DART, Secretary. pressing Orders, there can be no isbension of playing to city nal be st= empty bemire, th e idle plea for MtMli ; and Mr. Rrtm, credit for my ---. • _ - -T • Ka , 0 1 .. p di 11( 4 7 / 7 , 4 W.,. it 4w • A idt*lf -- • - 1 ,41•03.14-1 a)tr* l----- 2 ._~ LW]; Szymnikrptc by the woillessgilitellog; kid the %whisper'sld Oases peeeplavietly effective for the gesedhl have etentlibeiti4 . to the regrow** aI sir Aelisisment , I "time little *het I state, that to roniered into the esiollagliseint ode GOMM with *Mager of 'Olll6 l -4Mire ireermlelibli—witt , more determined reedier unertllss avallhble f Kara I have done;--my ill ',lad wyknevrtedge, are all at state; wild A be, that-whit een be done for our press* i stssoptod with vigour and assiduity. Allowitig ate my Prilatotleits. Flying at the slim, time a pro•perstill Maw 10 thew, &proceed to answer the material points at your lour, Tjesdbill, f Priam will be advertised ii‘ , the WS dr o;a u birreviN tesara lle4 4l4. lllll**llipvi thr itad vr sold the the prov T e n u eat ou re v i o n u tt ra h bi evenag. e ; tae lass heavily withistraclus comfort of a Newspaper : I mn.wory was wet before acquiseted with this, as I should have Jere sip wig the *ammo of sending you one daily —as, also, a plarbille • Whirrupoot to the puy-list, It must necessarily, in a nadood 7ltestre, be IWory—et mum be otherwise; but, compare& ii the Yet yusti_itinust, proportionably, be less; Demise 'fdP • tsidess MAIN dancers snibbi singers, you have, in ex:sliesple, WOW and earke tidiest, appraised by the town, and capable of supporting Why, deparunew of the Drama. In fact, the a& madams, dill. wildkisend strength of professional merit, have glvonvlte.llagildidivaeit a new character without which aid, our gesspeetud e slims most have Isom drea my ssod baptism As to itos i lbesamitsolik iset, in sty *Mon, *Bigwig the Drain: a 112114x.raile, Or sod ticular reqeest of several di we, the highlr.itneressinst and Men/soca will be performed durday. F.ATRE,(ASTLEY'S), ITEZEIDOE. Royal 1/I;balessn the Panel Nee of Yoae. :NING will be presedtet questrian Boriettaicalled ND THE ASCOT JOCKTES. ih start for a Sweepstakes, to be times round the Course, (being It Hat. Avery.—. Also the Troop of T oline Exercises, particularly by • Mr. Siomar.— Inimitable Peer . W. Davis, jun.—Mademoiselle c ientific and elegant performances ademoiwlle Nina Ferzi—The whole hlelo-drama of IR, THE FATAL GLEN. it.—A Private Box may be had from Ten till Three. _ plea . le‘Mriamfi Mr. Dutton, &c. mist heartily despise an au dience that will only come to hear their .invalitable !actin:es to thrworld, because they can come for nothing. Let us, titer ' in Litt manner, despise an audience so collected , as we o u g ht to do.' I will answer for Mr. Ii.EAIeS., Mr. Dowscus, and Mr. MUNl tirlt'lOttraction being undiminished; and unequivocally contend, Idrat die attraction of their able lectures was never endangered bat by these gratuitous admissions, and that, if they are under valisd, it has only been by this degrading peschze. But let va s for a nseenost, pause to ezarnioe, what visitors, contribute to fill the House, babies money mere and order betters. The news paper privileges, *calculated at the enormous sum of 136601. per ann.—the free Use of the Theatre—the old Theatre privi-7•ges, and the subscribers to the new Theatre-the fired privileges of the Pariarraarst and contingent bones. several classes of theisseelves, form a very considerable, a very large audience.' and we know ..rfr wareettrres,•tbat di:sides" ii.ntant DRURYLLANE THEATRE. - io Bvo. price S. 6d. :NT DE LAS CASAS, the apolson. Communicated by blmselfo— Correvrodenee with Lucien Ponapano, , Lowe; including the Narrative of NI e a St. Helena, their manner of Hein* experienced ; to which et added, a Leti Lord Hatboro, writtenlfrorn Frank. Colburn, Condnibotreet. pall a Trintispiece, price only es. ;IA , or TIETANIA : aik on Searchers. Or THE CLOTH. Stocltdale, 41, Pall-Nlall. 19th Edition, with coloured Plates, lades and Artifices of Gamblers Pigeons—Fashion—To , Nighc .— am--aad Ton. Lribeilhbed sith The two last are not yt.t ready. , One thick Wale, 12nr. 61. ed. bound, ',HETORIC and POLITE Ll 'rebel:ding the Principles of Ista► ins of Taste and Crkisciara; with tronviov Awn two:matt. ' Illustrated selected chiefly fr-ns the Bums ;hools and private. Teachers, \N DER J M 1 MO .N 7. Ips. and Editor of a new and iraproveSt Useful Kuowledge, acc. Sec. Whittaker (late 1.3V1 andWhittakei) One Volume, 12mo. the Second ice 4s. 6d. __ATOR ; or, EXERCISES Ir :tically arranged ; from which S;udents erg wo:d with propriety ; be' taught Vl to spralc with ACCOIACY OF INFLEc the most difficult specimens of English \MEE WRIGHT, Philosophy of Elocution. B. Whittaker (late Law and Whit- - First Edition.--." We are so much maagernent (titbits Work, whith is truly seies that we desire to offer the Author our best sldiriesstly express the oath:esti* with - Wori."—Critical Nee lOW* • - I day was published, I. Gs. hoards with Plates by Sowerby, IYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY ;' tITH, F.L.S. Vicar of Bcthersden, in tto of Marr, Yorkshire. of Four Books, arising, out of a very )ject. The first book treats of the ex ; the second of the internal structure, third of the constituent principles of m-ains an explication Of the phezio- Ad death. Baldwin, Cradock. and Joy. I,ES FOR YOUNG PERSONS. day was published, bound, the Eighth Edition of WEEK ; or, Hints on the Im ; ear.taininz original Tales Aneedoten History, &c. designed for Tales, Instruc- Youth. PEACOCK. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ; Law and Ind Co. J. Richardson, J. Harris. Dar and Sherwood art CO. published, of the same Author, tor; or, Th.: Adventures of Two Chil .hLit.3ll3l.M.l. Third Edition, price Face: x Anegoriz.-31 TAU. Designed Imtruction o Yout2. &•eond cr. Ti.es and Dramas f x ttis Amuse- Yeul. lc two vols. t2mo. tas.bottod. 963 3 * eleiialec t o: thr t .ca Theatre 4..11..,!1),;ina of Moo • 'C' s, - I, :l'ri"w il {' l dTll3;l, I°%-- SM TM 'MITI e g VES ; St` their •"- "11-3c:0...7c5r and 1) on sENT EVE! g r ad C:nnic rll AIiLY .1 N lA . Ponies wil rem four ti h . 4, mile, ea L F, NIANSOIP,) e by M ‘...e,a Growl Traitre •••• t Com ic Song, by , by Mr. ‘ 3 e . T .Tro l‘ r ic lirmlei b' r x r den " ,:,•ed by ), a r4".tit-t. popular M gInOCK ; ht •••• vice ~_Tsitioa fn 7 '7r-- . b e pub — Cl shod, II goiRS of fonf o • el of Napoleon • • kis Seam Correspc hr Er Hudson Low; ra and Residence at St t they expo vim* IF kot Las Colas to Lot • bged for 11 , 07 ki was published, wa Esear a BT ONE 01 Ibir.ted for J. J. St b e b a d, Igt ikon ;;1 3 Y • . Tut Garrns—A:heed ; ;.ir ihi• some Author, I ;,r e ,—Nlodern Beat Plato vice 65. each. rots publlsbed, i Price 61 ' GRA)I7.IR. of RH Tam; RE; compri a,.1 Sty!: ; the element Sal of Cantos v isit& Ey-unfits* et to MI Use of School ALEXANI 41 Treatise on Maps. Lin..a.r. of Adams's ir 1 3. and W. B. NI in • Edition, pri; tiLkliOOL OR. vjano, th•oreticall {,7. ZliVilate Seer/ nintiiiie voice, and tt ac Y mint to the . 1 61.. Ey /AM lathar of the P 1`"s1 Is G. and W. 13 -i, A ATOtuis-lane. B ases i a :i o us bf the int the smassernern Si iurlazipis, that we cannot rag k ,et h st ?mud thin lois day Iw' Vnli. km. un . .e SI • SfSTEM by the Rev. P t, and Perpetual Curate 1.7 rac Work COOlll3 of divi,ion of the swirl ie mecum of plots; I MOM , of plants; the t • ; and the fourth con ot rentable life and • Hinted for Rai INSTRUCTIVE. T AL This da le. Pm.% price sa. I VISIT FOR A a ronement of Time; in Neural and Moral I x..id Amusement Y By LL leidon: Printed for 13, :ie. ' Leeman ant ad Co. R. Hunter, to Dr whom also are Ambrose and Eleatu irrned on an us i•. Knight or the ni Amusement and pticc ss. bound. him* Labours ; edlnstruetiom cr I BOOK-11E111.'il ;z:t ds/ was TREATISE 4 %the Use of 4s•rst.- 1 one In: I/o tsk ey clthen 31t , 1 1 6 4 fir. o ths to Sloe Its fur coh. dir64ol Anchor, Notti ci lAntlm; PAW far C•o• Law r.VA's.itti; By wham als.) ar: Arithmetic; adapte xt piny to the • 4 . 72 , crd la a oew me , Example:on Lau:re Fire Classes of - , • l3 n . yrice 4s. hour .1 hey to the obese Tiblea of A r i t b,„ i ROMA TIC SO •1. riinvertiOn Of a !maims to the big: Meer& llrai • a =fteable pert L C-;•;ou AniitepticL' ir; lief in Head -ache i•lmifenbint in crowd ! re i 6 theskk.. Itcou Inibm and s The Aromatic F 'kir , to liot eb b , l '''' de deraty• As, h; •••••':A ;resold ,order tl ?Rid to o b serve, as r of Messrs. Iluer 1.:4 wholesale and r; in I teasPT.* 24. NI, el Silver, oin k kLacr'a Cain r;sr ••i, 1416 6t9ppi NG AND ARITHIIIiTIC 1: prict! 4s. bound, the Second Erfatlv hurrov :I, of iN BOOK-KEEPING, adapted • TO TILE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Srit—l could accuse myself of 'nothing less than absolute disrespect to the memory of my lamented Father;did I longer withhold a confutation of the calumnies that have so insidiously been attempted to be stampt upon his name—first , by the insinuations that were thrown out with respeck to Orders, at the last General Meeting of the P4oprietors of Drury-, lane Theatre pilth Ult.), from which I was compelled to be absenCon private business; andosiecondlt; by a tater, signed ." Pith/ius,"• in a Morning Paper of Tuesday last, the tons paragraph of elich runs thus, " My. nAiiiims'a'ne.erte.W the stage manafenaeut tinder the dircetioti of th?Rub-eommittee, for 4400 per annum, a Ilenent, and a privilege of ftve rcr rent. upon all receipts above .50,000; to have no Orders beyond his personal .privileges, and no inter. ference in the purchase of stores. It is certain that Mr. RAY MOND did not confine hinist.lf to his own privileges in issuing Orders. The abuse of hi, oilikeial advantages in this respect, was the subject of deserved complaint on the part °Eche Committee, and they Hand it necessary to adopt the most rirrous mea sures, in order to put an immediate stop to it. But the manage ment of Mr. RAYMMiII was suddenly terminated by his death towards the end of October, and respect for his private virtues should induce us to consign his frailties to the tomb where he Dow sleeps." If, Sir, you All do me the favour to ir.sert the ac companying Copies of Letters, it is needless for me to enter fartrier into detail ; they are quite relevant .to the subject, and will clearly elucidate the matter timer discussion. You will be pleased to bear in mind, that The As mixer 6 a literal transcript of the original, without ad dition, abbreviation, or embellishment. However diffidern I may feel, in thus bringing myself before the Public, I conceive it a duty incum bent on me: I say uaty, because it is in rescuing from slander the memory of one whose name, whenever coupled with that of Drury-lane Theatre, recalls to mind circumstances the most heart-rending, which must still be fresh in the recollection of his friends and the Public at large ; and however repugnant it may be to my wishes, to pluck one bright laurel from the brow o!" Pat!iika," who has displayed such extraordinary powers in epistolary writing, and so little compunction in vilifying the dead; still, I must say, in answer to what he has adduced, that his asser tions are at once unmanly, ungenerous, and unfounded. alit niger est, hunt to Romane cacao. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant. .JAMRS GRANT RAYMOND. "taut, August 51, tails. (COPY.) Dean Sta— T • wrote yesterday, requesting you would furnish Mr. Eantr with the Prompter's correct copy of the twister Prestoe, that it may be forthwith printed for the use of the 'lle acre. I have not seen a Play-bill or a Newspaper since left town; hut Mr. Lana informs me that he has left you with your hands full—l hope, of Mexicos and Potosis, so very neet..ei y to the support of our establishments.--The principal object of my now ~*'tint to• you is, the already enormity of our pay lies, which the receipts are not competent to support, with other un avoidable demands, unless the receipts increase; and all our boasted economy, by ihe discharge of stagers and dancers, has .virtually merged in the increase of the pay lists, as they begin pier to operate. With one pay list I had, in fact, little or nothing to do, as you well know. I was not once consulted as to any of the new engagements, except Miss Ceare's. In looking at it now, it perhaps, too late to be useful; but I think there are many performers on the lists absolutely unnecessary and useless, and I must twat earnestly entreat of you to induce as many as you can of this description, which you must know better than myself not to be wanted, to go into the country for air and peer cite; and in particular, I most anxiously request that you will not engage any other performer whatsoever, unless of the superlative order of KTAN, DOWTON, Mu :meat, and O'NEILL until they can be provided for by absences and d i schar g es. The present scale of receipts cannot pay them, and the Treasury is already so in. volved by anticipations, that I do not feel justified in further aid, and will not undertake to pay additional performers otherwise than on the priaciples before mentioned. Therefore, if any new engagement be thouglat advisable for the interests of the Theatre, it must be submitted to the Committee, and Acting Trustee, as to the means of payment, for mature deliberation, that if the re columendation be not accompanied by the means of payment from absences and discharges, the Committee may bef.tlly awale, cf what means they may possess to meet the additional demand. It is a state of misery to me to go to the Treasury, when so crippled as not to be couspenot to meet just demands, and no Member of the Committee can know and ferlthis as I do. Many portions of out receipts, from necessity, are already hypothecated to partial purposes, and, unddr these circumstances, an over whelming Pay List, such as our's,is death to the Theatre, as you perfectly well know, while uo tradesman will longer give us any credit, without a personal guarantee.—So much as to our finances. My next object relates to Orders, as they are denominated. My opinion, of which you are fully apprised, decidedly and une qtuvocally, is, to abolish the practice of issuing them for ever, as worse than unnecessary, and operatively ruinous to the Theatre. —Alleged custom is no justifiable excuse for vicious practices, and ought never to be suffered I. extinguish goad sense. I have' never altered my opinion on this point, but for the better, in strengthening. it by. I:peels:ice, information, and reflection.-- Lest year, my efforts, by regulations, which I introduced, had nearly put an end to this pernicioni practice, and those Reguis dons ere still in forte. Ile the result what it may, it cannot ' Plinzipla on winch soy opinion is founded, of the 1 mischief resulting from the practice, and as I s ee, b y the nightly 'returns,. that. out of a house distressingly crowded, which by calculation, 11811 paid for would yield mere than X 560, and that we do'not recelWe one half of that sum, it is more than high tit/ 1 9 t 9 adopt other Principles, and to resort to Use CoMmittee's wholesome regulations, as deliberately and speeibt.4 l Y laid dewa yea; . Thew, like all other regv.:..tions in force, were deliberately passel in full Committee, and I know and have the decided sentientr.ts of some of my colleagues, not only that those regidations must be enforced, but that Orders, Ile." r.erally speaking should be fur ever abolished. I urgently re-I quoted of Mr. LAMBE to speak to you, most particularly on this subject. I am again awakened to its pressing importance by ,the iotolvect condition of the T:easury, which must betal lievC.l by some means or other ; and if we cannot effect end otherwise than by resorting to extremes, to extremes we must inevitably resort. I hare, therefore, written to the only member of the Committee, ucw in town, to recommend, as my decided and inn opinion, that the Secretary be directed offi cially to furnish you with the regulations of last year on this subject of Orders, and fist they be rigidly enforced, be the cor.sequence what it may.‘ As before staeed, I have the seats • This was not meant in an individual sense, but for general o b serva nce throughout the Thertre. i.. a. L: : containing Two Sets of Booka by mil:le-Entry. and two Outline Sets to ttly - .1. To which is added, A ram;HAT rat aa Notes usad In Commerce By Robert Goodacre, Master of Stan dogbam. Baldwin, Cradock,antl Jog ; Longman .taker; and R. Saunders. re yulAistted, by the Lune Author, 1 red to ...aerunt (Lasses or Learners, but use of large School's. In Three Parts. :ntr, aq3 onlleezed with Tumorous subjects. With an Appeortil, can t Rceal,:tulatory Exerciies. The Pith Tnird 11. ed. bound rice IS. 6d. per dozen. YIRI of VINEG AR, (the ur.d broil:lit by his surtesare iglie.t p , :rf':.cahm) continues to be prepared itY. , ..... 4 ouirocturin:Citemistt,Mauchel t s . fans. a Liquor is a corikound of hie,hly , with the moat pleasant Aromatics 'yid plingegt thlintr adapts it for agora- Faiatings, &c.; and rendars it peels& dc. or heated morns, aril in the chid apatt amters ct s, also, the spread of ulcerated i - itft Semi,: Fevers, andall other inftetious Dis- F.:iirtt of Vinegar may be export ed Without where it is found partimlarly grate toweyer, many ipin ions and inLtior prepai- M.• zame arid similar mato% the public are niche nal y proof of genuine, that the irv, lifar.chster, are engraved en the stainp• sil by licylcy and Blew', Cockapnr-street, London 4w .. .14r/sad by the Froprietors), is Wig re may be had, .6r i ain. 1.k401 , Cry.tal, &c. cistu Macnato, in bottles at 'l3. gd. Ind was, at 'ILO& well; tlitir a+oll bviPS on 'toldl~dcaayreffnomennme menresenisomen benehes. Mittel we add, the pit, the prima facie evidence ee good or bad Rouse the g illeries, and the average box receipts (paltry as they are for such a company of collective faculty), the further apprehension of empty benches, if at any time inferring a depreciation of merit in the performers, • which I flatly deny, becomes a mocker; of reason and the proof of the folly of willing deceit. lam certain Mr. Intv. roe, Mr. MUNDLX, as well as Mr. Kress and almost ever,- individual of the whole Company ,attached to the Theatre, superior to whice, in splendid talents, no Companywas ever assembled under the same management, ' must, on reflection, one and all despise an audience of Order bearers, such as I must ever consider such an audience to be far the just appreciation of the performer's merits. On the same principle, in a certain Assembly not far from the Theatre, paid oratory is as much despised, by every independent mind, as a beggar's brawling song. I - low, I repeat, with such tribes, such multitudes of privileged orders, constantly attending and seldom absent from the Theatre, can we for a moment listen to the deg radin g doctrine of empty' benches, as a justifiable plea for issuing any orders? I detest the very sound of such insulting nonsense, and whenever I hear it from persons connected with the Theatre, I have been taught to suspect imposition and deceit. But I feel it to be dishonour able ; and, if I cannot counsel and act with honour, I will not counsel nor act at all. The Committee have an important trust committed to their immediate charge, by a large and respect able Joint Stock Company of Proprtators, for which, and to whom, the Committee, and they alone, are responsible ; and they have no justification in pursuing measures which glaringly ope rate the certain breach of their trust. 'These and similar rea sonings command my mind, and tame to a prompt derision the Committee must. Uwe fail of success, let it be prominently seen, and testified by notoriety, that failure has nut proceeded from any disregard to honour and fidelity in the diligent dis charge of our trust. The general bOdy of Proprietors under stand all theatrical points as well as ourselves ; much better than any knowledge 1 pretend to possess, as my own originally. They have spoken to us too unequivocally not to have demanded this species of reform, while they have openly deprecated the impo sition which a crowded audience of orders exhibits, in direct contradiction and condemnation of our reasons, why they con not have a dividend. I abhor and deprecate all concealment, and attempt. no rfeception, and all temporary expedients as dis honourable ; and opprobrious imp,utation ought no more to at tach to the policy of a Theatre than . the unfounded discredit, which, by pre meditated artifice, has been studiously attempted to be stamped on the pecuniary eoncerns of all Theatres, as a desperate, ruinous speculation, and wanton sacrifice of property. Such imputations in both cases, false and defamatory, can argue only immoral and indiscreet mananement in conducting the Cancetn. Morality is the foundation of all Theatres; and prudent ma nagement under her auspicious banners, confidently promises to ensure fair remunerative profit, as much, at the least, as any other pecuniary speculation ; and I have no hesitation in saying, that the failire in Theatre concerns cannot be attributed to the original principles of the Institution. They are " gcnnine,pure, aid undefiled," and can never fail but from the contamination of corrupt prattler." The Drarna, skilfully conducted, =viciously assures remune rating returns, to its advocates, and supporters, in money, and s l what is more valuable ard worthy it's standard, in mental gra-1 tification. It is one of the most interesting schools of instrue then for the inculcation of useful rules and wholesome reflections for human conduct. It creates " disgust to vice, hatred for clime, and contempt for folly: and, while it excites compassion) for misery, it promotes social affection, prolifically engenders generous sentiments, and tends, extensively, to polish manners." And, from this department of poetry, the individual cannot fall to derive instruction, " who never imbibed a moral from a pa rent, a maxim from a tutor, or a rule of deportment from so-, ciety ;" in as pleasant, but in n more virtuous and dignified mode than the Philosophers of the ancient schools vainly con templated, for the benefit of mankind, " that Rulers of States should imbibe wisdom and humanity with their wine." For the brilliant and successful display of all these inestime ble beer...hes of this moral Institution, Drury-lane singularly and happily possesses a competent Establishment of the ablest Pro fessors of the Histrionic Art, whose intrinsic merits have most justly acquired the unreserved applause of the Public ;—ard, ii their transcendent qualifications will not (-ono:mild eediences rempetent to meet the moderate support of do. No.tional School, fur the protection of private virtue and plielie morals, by pure and spontaneous return for the invaluable benefits which society must derive from a shrine of virtuous and e xhilarating display so celebrated, this splendid Theatre, so anxiously and rapidly rebuilt, under the powerful and enthusiastic impulse of affection, which the music of the artist's instruments sonorously chanted in harmonious unison to the daily impatience of public feeling to its completion for their reception. It has been kept open too long, b' years, a lready; nearly half a million of money bas been, vainly and improvidently, invested in a magnificent fabric, highly honourable to the promoters, and truly creditable to the metropolis, of a great, powerful, and opulent nation, but ruin -1 ous to the generous Subscribers • and we cannot too soon so lemnly immolate the inimit a ble p roduction of The VicQl fyr &ate dal in the sacred tointe of its lamented Author, whose irrepaee ble loss, but yesterday, intuitively obliviated all Parry distinc -1 tion, that the remains of ibis intniortal genius were soured by illustrious I'rinces, Statesundi and Nobility, Friends land Opponents—self invited! in solemn attendance to his sepal chre—so that it may lest ruly said, Mature spontaneously mourned, and a whole nation emulously ettested her grief !—l,ike the co lehrated Author, his celebrated work of enchantment, 7Vie for Scandal, must rest front its labours :—but both will live till time shall be no more. Of our splendid Fotablishment, and all her irirreneonclieg vi prom faculties, you, dear bir, are the Chief Officer of die Corn rnittee cf Management under the Act of the Lied lawn.: and. for myself, I meet rely on your own professed clessicel talents for the tineley of attractun to the Public co-extensive with the meant at out: disposal. I have been led into this long discussion, I hardly know bow. but such as it is, I scud it. Dear Sir, your's truly, Litge Hrinti4m Oct. 14, 1817. P. Moose. J. G. ltaymondrEsq. Malrager, Drury-lane Theatre, London. TIIE ANSWER. mimrvontemessrmesomose _ _ Part dime, whb leafo regard to tsembeesi, levella-garde! - 'steeds as by st least fifty, in the various departments; need sorely if Mr. HAILItIi, who, with nearly fifty years' etperitece u a Proprietor, shall consider that extra number absolutely ne- CCSVIry, we deserve some praise fey maintaining an elual eh,. ratter with a letter number. You root have heard it ehreada and been told it in private, that your Company of lest year teas nut a fit on for lerury-I met—ye:lr lotaas told it-e-mehlic opinion proclaimed it—and has net this evil heen reetediedeby the most 'prudent and skilful means--by discharging the utelest, and, with their pay, substituting the valuable wad effective? Etceptiag two who are bound by articles, and are rattly worth nothing, deciere e most solemnly, you hove not asuperlitenis being on the laitabliahment; nay, two females are absolutely wowed :—one in youthful, Sentimental Comedy, wad ohe in Tragedy—such as Mrs. litany Semmes, fur the pasd•osonas, &C. Sec.-1 have betore me at this moment a Cast-book of Geamee'a, eon t airtieg a list of the Company during the peeled Itinesor was a member of his 'Thetere, and with his then comparatief.y small 'Theatre, being one-third less in magnitude than the present, the numbers and pay-lists exceed our's considerably at the patient moment. I mention this merely as a proof to bear nut the opi nion I have so forcibly given, that we heve no more in number than are absolutely ueeessary. Ilicu pee, ecied GARRICC far in thia respect ; because his pride and glory rested oat Sptctacle and Pantomime (the curse of Theatres!) Th.: old Theatres, under the management of those men, held at the utmost, about £ 400 ; and it is well known, bet-emelt is recorded, that The CnritIISAJ Tale, Conlon, and othet.SPectacks of this kind, cost from #l,OOO to .£3,C! oin beineine out—yet they paid the Mr nagets, and gratified the town. Geamor paid to a Wirc-dancs r: and a few French Dancers, more in one part of the Season. that is, from Christmas onward, than the pay of one quarter of our present Company fer the whole Season. The evil of the present day is the enormous size of our National Theatres—the curs d monopeliling magnitude of them-where all pleasure of seeing and hcariug is destroyed in the vast space between the Auditor sad Perfortner—widela makes forced acting unnatural, and na tural acting insipid. The protest evil is in maintaining the ener- Mous size of our present Theatres, rot in peeing the Col-merles —I mean the increased quantity of materiel :—timber, canvas, iron, paint, light, ornammt, and additional labour •--self of the present expense was swed in the old Theatres, which constitmed &great part of former gain. I need Oct mention ibia, yeu mutt 4howar it well; but it is an evil whith,"erldi us, can only be de- Mired, not remedied, while our Tjr:etres retain their prasert I overwhelming magnitude. I caatrest the present and former periods, in order to banish from year mind altegether the idea, that we have mulct-wary numbers: believe ma, I should be the first to point out the speediest remedy, if such were the case; but when I state, that in Snattereat's Monty the Sali, now in rehearsal, there are nn 1-ass than thirty mile characters, me; as sertioos will be borne out by their validity. It is tante, that while we are performhm a Comedy, the Tragic and Operatic Performets cannot be employed, and the same argument Wel hold good with the Comedians.whale we exhibit the contrary armies of the Drama ; but as we must vary oar exhibidoes, every person in the body cotporme 'rest here their alterrent round of empltement. I needed tee the elution you have far voured me with, relative to the emeagetnect of any additiimal' Performer. r 1 1 4,2 I know nay duty too well, to resume that power without the concurrence and approval of the Committee. It is my task only an recatumend, and tender their sanction; afterwards to engage, if it should he considered necessary. It is my disposition and pride to guard the property, not waste it; and I can with confidence declare, that since I have been entrusted with the direction of it, ta rn at penny c oe d used ititheer are absolute flefeittillOr an Article obtained Withollt my witnessing its appropriation ; and as I am tolerably well ac quainted with the rant value of the articles wanted fur the use of a Theatre, I consider my judement of considerable import to such a property, and shall conthrue my watchful observance of the expenditure. I Pete, et this season of the per, few can obtain temporary Country Eogagementa, so as to relieve the Treasury in the way of swing.—Hows has been shsent since the opening, and will not return tiii the first of next month.—Mies Sox eavam.r will be at Bath from the thirl of next month till Christmas.—These are windfalls in the way you wish, and I shall not miss the op. portunity, should it occur, to indulge others if offers be made to seduce them from town —thet is, if we do not immedi ttely want their services.—Miss Br:O.NT is an acquisition to us, as, without her, we could not have pa - termed a single Deers —consequently the Great National House would have lost its balance Its cum. parison with its neighbour.. Iler reception was excellent ; not from partial friends, but from every part, of the house.' and the musical Professors consider her of high value to us. I have plenty of business in hand—we must have no idle hours here ; from ten till four is occupied in rehearsals—the interim from four till de planning,—and from that hour till half after eleven, in performiee,—and, from eight till ter in the morning, iseumweying, plotting, elec. This, you will say, is a tolerable ' l 4l y duty. . 1 now proceed to answer what to be the most particua ' hr part of your letter, namely, Orrve e . arg l am sorry that fur rhr firstlime we must diifer widely in our opinion on this subject. It has been my good fortune, during my summer attendance end duty at the Tiseatre, to have had your fall and friendly eon. CUITeliCe in every chile; I suggested for the improvement, ere dice and character of the Theatre; asokhowever we may dither in one point I trust it will not distoth.a n y goad opinion you m ay entertain pf my zeal, OCT change the beli tf you have in my promptitude to labour assiduously for the interest and peon perity of the Establishment; and I shall-petered the same undisguised freedom I have hitherto assumed on other material 'natters of dieciission, where you have yieldedeo what you have liberally termed my more experienced judgment in theatri cal affeire . , During the many converettions I had with Mr. LAX", on the subject of my undertaliee, the management, and when I a^-coed to his request, I never varied from my determination on this scars ; which was, to have a discretionery power of writing or ders, and to be responsible to the Commfotee for the exercise of that power. ')'his wets acceded to; I clalt'n it as my agreement, and you will find it recorded in the last Antites of a full Com mittee, in the very wurds I have now made use of, when I en tered upon my official duty. How, then, my dear Sir, am loi -st the - ens • dement, to abstain freer' (Corr.) Sunday, Ott. 14 , 1817. 1 consider your order at the presets. ...... rt, - Dana SlX— This being a holiday , and having a pause from ' wr iting any, alter exereishig the power voted to me for toe !pare duty, and a little from the pain of an enormou s blister on my of sit weeks, during which time 700 lave almost bean a daily breast, I embrace the opportunity of reply in g to y our latter on Ivisitor in the Theatrlr, without stating otte objection to the fer the burin's% of our great Establishment. While attempting to : tiler resolution of the l'ommittLe ? Cat I consider this order, pea - fiant this task, I hope you will do me the justice, should toy issued during your vy s erhort abwace fro town, in any other opinion differ width twin four's on w ine koints, to helm% L I „kin than that dite.i aceirsktion of ini m totukat,in the Ybyse 8, i . , c i 1$ • ~..:. I t 11 it l , . i . . , i 1 (. 1 I. i ~) . , ~. . 4 1 , ' 4, 1 ) . 1 . i , , i ; ~ 1 • 41 ....., i 'I , 8 1 t 1 i I I i r k 1 , ) I . , , 0,