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'kr:dr DRIIIZT•LANE rdE4rße. TO TW F.LOTOR DIAS Sia—is I have no doubt but that the rraLlie curiosity would he gratified by an account of what that structure will be when completed, which has lately been commenced, and is now proceeding with so much activity and rapidity on the scite of ()Id Drury-lane Theatre, I have encloid for your LIR! 118 iv:curate a description of the intended build ing, as I could give from rt, Inspersiss of the model. And am, your friend and • oristaist testier, A Sea ks. THE NEt% lIFAIR E. It WWI not without good reason, thet the Com mittee on the Drury-lens concern paid many hand some comphrients to the talents of our British Artists, who submitted to their choir. the several les4ns for the construction of the new Theatre. Perhaps there never was a competition in which a greeter variety of geaiiis and ability WWI displayed, An a in which, while it 1641 the utmost ere.lit to the individual corupetitota=, and the a/dm 41 character tar excellence u, the art,, at thy slITIlt imposed upon those, who were to decade the question of prece dence, one of the most serer,' r u b that een b e um _ piled. After lunch dcliberatioo, they fired on the work of Mr. B. Wyatt, as brut &Aided is sassier the views of the Subscrthers—in uniting elegsnce with economy, and grace with ronveniency. It is this model which we are abmit to iletcrlbe, and which pre-eminently corninoes almost every adr'au►sge and comfort, which the public would require in a theatre. L► its exterttal appearauce, the new The4tre wilt be more remarkable for simplicity thin gran steur of style. The superior part, and that which will be most vi•ible from the bridges, and other quarters of the metropolis, is in the form of a 'writ. shoe. This is the great body of the bonding. and surmounts the who!e of the atidierr:v pot : causing ed the roof appears, but only a plain, looking wail with a cornice, which gives the Theatre en sir of strength and solidity, by no means inconsistent with neauty and eff-xt. The two points of this hirse :hue see, of 1:011f.e, towards Drury-lane ; and the _semicircular aspect towards Bridges-street. On this side, and inferior to the part of the buil,ling just described, is the grand tAranee to the house , as in the late Theatre. It consists, its the model, o f the following parts; but we have heard that the eulo►ude Is dependant on the state of the subscrip• violas, and if it is not filled np in a given time, must be superseded by a porch, which would be much to be lamented. as the former has a very noble and classical appearance. The model prevents this fine colunade facing Bridges-street, and resting on a series of eight beautiful columns. Its interior and apposite side offers dine doors to she company en tering the Theatre. These doors teed into a very capacious hall, where, o well as in the portico (if tine apace under the roof of the colottade may be so called), the servants belonging to the audience may attend, secured from the weather, while waitiug the . return of their employers. The ht:l is au oblong quadrangle ; the length about that of the colonade ; the breadth considerably wetter. Two columns at either end. on the right and left of the entrance, mark the entrance under arched ways, into awe caroller squire apartment% which give facility to various passages anti cornronniestions necessary to a Theatre. This termination of the two shorter aides of the square of the hall, has • very elegant and light etre( t, and contributes much to the beauty and propoction of that apartment. Immediately fronting the centre door, on enter ing the hall, in proceeding too arda the audience part of the house, is another large door, which, af ter the company has crossed, tutroduces them to • rotunda. from which the various ways of admission to whatever part of the Theatre they mean to visit, are open to their choice. This rotunda has not only an excellent effect, es imparting splendour. novelty, •ud beauty to the Theatre, but also an. ewers a most owlet and desirratile purpose. here after to he explained. It is in itself extremely !undertow, as it arcenda withoutinterruption to the roof. and is nearly as high as the main building. A dome or Clip !Ids is it. *umlaut, an 1 a fine hemi spherical leathern admit* the light. On what may be termed the first door, horisontal with the dress circle, there is a passage ItlnSling round the inside of the cupids, in which about four persons may walk abreast, sod which lead* tii the ninon. TIM, saloon is a spacious room steer the hall, soul intend. ed to Oe sorpaassag in adornment and elingsnee , It is of the some dimensions sia thesma hell ll bensq eath and correeponiliag with the two er uare apartments beide; at either rail of the boll are two similar in nee. but More ellosairstal. I. trachea ria ted to the stale the saloon ab ove, to be spprep of fruits and ether refreshments. In looking op from the flow of the rotund the a. cimpsoy peeing to and from the saloon will be 111 , ep •n the now', pasee4e. By this excellent sr veagemeut. it will he seen that the whale of Ole all he Ta rter of i.el riounds inierposed between t boars tat! t he convene in the "loon , a lim o which ever y *deli ca te fur 'windily, doceiirr. arid virtue. IMO Make el the setionplisinneot There is aw erecroien for the iilightest tots i CelimietllCllSlSO with dsnexicies, t".ough is se e•ent •Ist• of mane hots soileripenerble. pert ofh a public theatre. mare *ea m ay be desired by 'be pones csocerned. We esr.r.ot avoid here pausing on our detail, to cosign. ',date the public on the remedy thus present'!' to one of the must formidable evils attendant on the desire of modest females to enjoy the pie:mires of the drama. It has heretofore been in vain that the stage offered woral instructions and virtuous exam ples, while the lobbies through which our wives end daughters were compelled to pass, chased the best impressions from their minds, and contaminated their purity by the arose licentiousness and ribadry, from the view and hearing of which it was impossi ble to escape, and vrttn:h being only seen and heard mast have the cooler; elice of sul!yiiig the brightest virtue. Mr. Wyatt deserves and has our wmmeat se. knorol-aignient. fur his iugenuity in effecting, in a meow not only congenial with, but oroanseotal to the general design, the long wi.her for object of a separation between those dines of the vititors to a Theatre, which ought not to he intermingled; and also for the removal of the seat of noise, folly, anti confusion, from the quiet situation of the audience intent ou the enjoyment of the scene. But to re turn to description. On the right and left of the Rotunda (i.e. as yon enter) are entrances to Lobbies. somewhat similar to the square-rooms adjothing the Hall, but with this difference, that the tae of the latter is to afford passages of communication around the lower parts of the Theo.,. and of the former, to insert the stairs winch teed to all the Boxes.— From these Lobbies the stairs ascend in a tawnier not easily to he described on paper (as indeed it must be obvious to the reader, that to give a definite acid correct idea of so complex a building as a Theatre in this way, cannot but be very difficult) ; suffice it therefore to say, that whether guided along the wails in squares on each side, and ending in a landing place, or thence rising in one broad stair like an ascending arch, up the centre, to another landing piece, they are alike remarkable fur ingenuity anti beauty of construction, end for general utility. They (the stairs) are uniformly broad, capacious, and easy. They conduct to the several tiers of boxes in the most simple and convenient mode possible to be coticeived, and there can be no crowding, bustle, or iuterruption, among the company. The facility of egress and regress is astonishing, and with the breadth of the stairs, gtves a welcome assurance to an audience, that even in the unhappy event of tire, they would have time and space to escepe w.thotit injury, and almost without confusion. Indeed we may here notice, that all thr avenues amid passsges to the The Are are remarkable for spaciousness, arrangement, and conveitirency. Fur the sake of perspieui'y, we shall here briefly reed pitulate the above description of the grand entrance from Bridges-street t-Ist, The colonade • r porch ; 2d. The grand hall, with its two smaller apart ments--shove the hall, the saloon ; ad, The titian & (which separates the former front the audience part), with its side lobbies, in which are situated the stairs leading distinctly to all the tiers of boxes.—The side entrances from Russell-street and from Russell-court, have nothing particular in them, and require no description. Having, we trust, made the reader acquainted with the externals of the intended New Theatre, mud with the modes of admission.' we have now only to add an account of its internal appearance, both with respect to the stage and the eminence part. We shall begin with the pit, of which no thing occurs to us to notice, but that it is smaller than the pit of Covent-garden Theatre, and more on a level with its entrances. There are no steep steps necessary to enable the company to reach their seats. Froth the stage to the back of the dress-boxes, the space is sixteen feet less than in Covent-girden. and between box and box, across the pit. the distance is also less by seven feet. As in old Drury. there ore boxes beneath the dress circle, known (we believe) by the same of pit boxes, from their being nearly oo a level wills that part of the house. Of these the numbers are eight on each side, altinoiLth only in taw compartments, in front, somewhat in shape of Saxon arches. These ore prim; • te boxes, au4 give a light appearance to the theatre, which the almost dead wall of Covent ' rodeo denies to that house. Of the boat' there are three circles, each con sisting of i 6 baste. hi 13 compartments, ai'h the exception of so much of the upper circle, which (ents the stage; and, as in Old Drury. is inter. anted for a two shilling gallery. By this raisins, shout one-third of the upper tier is cut off from the boss, end forms a most excellent two shilling gal lery. Toe one shilling receptacle for the Gods, re• e a, o hl.s that of Covent Garden. affording a bird s eye view of the star from arches, commonly called pogrOP- holes. on the bares a very materiel improvement is made. by projecting the s uperior over the lower circles, sod ibis* giving their inmates a security long want ed against missiles from the cutleries. from which so much annoyance sod isaconveuience were fre quently experieured. The wall. of the centre tier slopes from tine projection nap to the cushion, and is nest splendidly designed and painted. This wilt give a beautiful and useommon diversity to the ap. promote of the Howe. The wall of the upper tier is painted with sauque figures. and teat of the dress circle is a moilarts ernamental style; but the whole three being &Winder. roJaesis a very ples-iog ead 'levet civet The use .f the bases is supported by twelve gilt feted coleuses. MU. iagly li g ht sad lapwing; their ptilesteli ate in the Egyptian sty le, on &vela 4 % 164 the cspibili grace. fat and nighty oruaisentol. file sides, above the 31 circle, ere dips easeilibliog Old Covent-GarderiThe etre, emirs the New Drary rendered more than com monly accessary by the grand improvement of there Was; no back-Imes, or Gasket, behind the dress circle. The company wont to frequent this part of the Theatre, sod thence contribute in no small degr'e to the noise which prevented the perfect hearing of the play io the dress-circle. will, by this tutors', he iremored to more appropriate and 'Netted re. i goons, where, as " sound ascends," their hoz will be Lem troablesorne and inconvenient. We have only to dal, -that all these tiers of boxes are free; the only private boxes being those already specified, the pit boxes. The area of the boxes is like the rosin building, in the form of a horse-shoe, but a very ' ham y amendment is introduced at the termination of the points on each side of the stage. These, in steed of being turned inwards to unite with . the nar rowed front offered by the stage, are turned with gentle aid graceful sweep in the contrary direction, so that the company in the boxes nearest the performances. have a. good a v ie w c' the actors and action, as those draw" o.ately in the centre of the house. This in beauty, .‘• In convenience, is a very great and manifest a. orciremeht. On the stage itself are four Weis ; dr.* on each side. They are initiated like the stage I axes in Old Drury ; hut, instead of the litarti boxes in the Old Theatre, on a level with - tbe dame of the stage and forming one of the three ea each side, the present model has statues on each side standing on the stage; above these are tae boxes. and over them, twards the roof, the whet surmounted by other figures. There is also a co lumn, in imitation of Oriental marble, on each side of the stags, forming altogether very classical and cheating wings to the proscenium,. We have thus described, as accurately as the 1111 h• ject permitted, the plan of the new theatre ; aim iog more, however, at the task of making ourselves understood, than at line language. It is evident, that the subject would he better understood by .a view rd• the model, than by any image that can li-! conveyed in words ; but to such as have not the power of enjoying the former, we trust our attempt will prove acceptable. We shall now conclude it by congratulating the public on the prospect of speedily enjoying the rational delights of the drama, , on the 'cite of their old favourite Drury, in a new, convenient, elegant, splendid, and appropriate house. !fthLAAD. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, DUBLIN, Noy. t 6. JUDGMENT OF THE COURT. B-4t SY NOT THE OBJEEF OF THE DELEGATE Iva sow. al Ike Feeders/toe of F. HODDLISTOI against KIRWAN and °THEM On this important question. the Cou Re, this day, after deliberating for several days. delivered its pidginerit to this expreasatent :—That the pleas should be over-ruled. and the demurrer showed. The JUDOES delivered their opinions seriatim. and decided with respect to the first plea. on the principle taken by the Attorney General—that as - between the sing and the subject no challenge to, the favour would lie, and that was had. With respect vs the second plea, the Court con curred in the distinction taken by the Counsel for the Craven. that though, in counties at large. the want of freehold was a good objection to a G ran d ! Juror, yet, that in counties of cities and corporate 1 towns, the Crown had made a freeman a Juror, and given him that son:Winn, which, in counties at large, a freeholder had der.ved from his tenure. Atroltmer-Gtecast—" Now that your Lord ships have disposed of the plea in abatement. 1 am under the necessity of applying to you to lie a day for the trial of those Tweeters. It would be de sirable that the trial should he brought on Wed nesday riext, if the Gentlemen on the other side should have no farther dilatory plea or motion." Mr. Busitowes denied that the pleas were such as the law terms (history. The Traverser' were most anxious for trial, and he had made two mo tions to prevent the postponement of it till neatTeren. However, all thought it right to suggest. that witnrsses were to be brought from distant parts of the country, sod hoped that Monday se'unight, or at sootiest Saturday next. would be fixed for the trial. After a con rrr s r firm between the Counsel on both stiles, the Court fitted the day for Thursday heat; and the Shenff, at the suggestion of the At , rornee-tienerid, was ordered. by the Court, to re turn a full Pannell. -.:. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has beta pleased, in the Same and on the behalf of His Ma jesty, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Ireland - , to proniote the Rev. George Hall, Doctor of Divinity. Provost of Trinity College. Dublin, to the Bishopric of Droops's.. in the room of Doctor Thomas Perry. late Bishop thereof. deceased.— (Ls Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also been il'essed, in the name and on the behalf of His Nlatesty, by letters patent under the Great Seal of Ireland, to constitute sod appoint the Rev. Thomas FAringtow. Doctor in Divinity. to be Provost of Trinity College. Dublin, in the room of the Hee. Dr. fl ill. prosnottsl to the Bishopric of Promo t e. --(Dub. Gas.) ' 1 Mr. Pastuld's dairy, at his house, on Ealing Common, was broken open et an early boor last . 'inorinug, by a desperate geug of thietes, villetoolt away all the butter churns, milk pails. butter milk tubs, 11 short eery th'ng belonging to the dotty, with which they got clear off. Au vipers& wa s w il t off yesterday to Dowmarstroot, to at rt newt Mr,. PF icsv AL of what had liopposerli she left town last thermos for Sahel` toiscortaio the extent of the loss. A reword boobeess offered for the soprehensism of the c015b000....06a of theta is described as hiving a whey Mimeo' booed. SttICRIP7I 6,I PAR MRS. PR' Krum i i.yD :I;.21 StrE.V '..! Losioom, NOV. 18, ISI I. The sudden and melancholy fate of Mr. Jails Randall Peckham, who . was .lately drowned in crushing from Cowes to Portsmouth, having pluu4ed me, with a family of 'seven youug children, auto a state of suffering sod embarrassment out to be dr. ecsibed; and expecting soon to give birth to at eighth auld, I have yielded to the perattatioos of toy tripods, in sdogtiug this mode of toalting toy desolate situation known to a generous and benevo lent Public ; well satisfied that ib a British bus on there needs uo stimuli* to hiamanity, whet n case. like wise is properly authenticated and known. ISroeight np with ease wad attention, the talents possess shall be exerted for my fatherless tales, when the present anguish of my mind. and my up• pro.iching.confinement will allow the to flout). In the loran time, and. for the purpose of. raisin?, • fund to whist my futitre efforts, titibserintions are most humbly solicited by the thsconeolate gd s Chancery-low. Soren* ,PEctinens The origin of..the. present &atm-tired sittionoli of this most unfortunate of mathets, will be fuu.ad au the following NARRATIVE. • )f,. Peckham was • bred a watchmaker, and earls iu life Slartied hie now afflicted and desolate Widow. To taien:s, lar which he was soon diettitgoolied, were moiled h i laud persesei - anee ; yet so simple . sod ostattrodin -were his Moms sod ttispo•itios, that be passed *rough its various to the samsnit of his prishositm, iselenvied even.- g i t a t li t t w ie lto tw esere was b a h eastpetitors ari fs; fame ' Ins the dr sastslfefool ottiklationut Ilather, a kW nectsantlara Mead wales could NI tail le madam lam to a oitmensos add 111011 tattle conned's, who havipg ant impend his moral :11*will testi,/ to the oadovielliog Miaow and pr0b41,7 Ipter:aLS traossictiima. bills eitsatioo paused woo, years of Mr. Peek. MIA Why mihost robarrasaiteati in the commercial wand nioadediesias of his connexions. Luise* 04 his pert wail the ; and he, of course, sought the mesas inteneetteg them. Amoopt other resources, he recoiketed molt property which meld oily be recovered by the In odor this eff as attested register of the death and boreal of elder krisellors Richard Peckham, the mote of s ship, who Wu tkowrood is going off to his *hail in n bun, at the wire see. suit of the year, by the same met of awideot. at the same hour and 'lace, where he himself pet silica r. (to days ago ! He was said to have beets boned tomes here in the Ink of Mold, which hos since 'been sects tallied by theCosemer`o cernlicate To Otis, place, therefore, Mr. Vedanta' west; but baring been ensuecesidol in his endeavours to *bunt the certificate, be retuned to the fonatain tun, at Wise Cowes, where lie timid a letter from bar friends, rimed the sixth, requesting hint to be au Londou by the of Oc tober, test. Os reecipetif lbs. Staff, Mr. Pedtbtal wade op hie mind, for ihr present, to relimposli hisoblect, and rehire to twos: Fur this purpose he wrist in 'meek of a boat, tad basing met Goring sad Paul, two waterown, non Lad already carried bins from Portsmouth to Cowes, he speed with them for a passage back again ni Portsmouin They set pail with • fine breeze; oltielt promised then; • speedreoovertoce to tbe other 'side. They bad reached Stokes Bay. within two miles and • half. of the .ban, and.. at that moment, Air. Peckham was relating to the stateruicq the melancholy fate of his brother, who was drmitsii near the spot on which they then were, at such *bunt the same hour of the night, whew • sea soddenly overwhelmed the boat, which instantly filled and weal down, lensing the te fied and onbappy passengers to skunk fie their lives.. JR was then about ten seckeli at aiiht. The boatised beets observed by Joseph Thomson, a sailor, who had the sight. watch no board the Kingston transport, thee at antborNst Stokes lay: AU at once he lost sight of the boat, Mil RPM • &acrimonies/ the swim of a seine in the watts, be leased ihe worst, ratted tip all Lauds, and with • magnanimity and ho smoky characteristic of 1044 seamen, they turd t h e dawger to the glory of saving a fellow creamier. 'the h e at was instantly lowered and neauned, soil a painful and torsimut remelt commenced. From the darkoess of the eight, nail the hope washy of the waves, the efforts of these brava men were cur a Meg time easeceemlut„ and they were an the puha of returning to their ship, when one of she saws, of the name of Martin, baysing to pass his hood along Wit • , genteel of the boat, felt a bawd chapel to bet, and isessiotth eactainted, * 6 Here's one of thesis,* whim Gornto the boots was, was taken on board, in estate of alanuot total inmeasi. bility. They carried his' on board the transport, erherg leap. gallant deliverers had the satisfaction to see him recovei, under the bemane attention of the Captain add ship's corn party, to whose litersonity too much praise cannot be given? Mr. John Randall Peckham, and Past, the waterloos, seers aufortanately buried is the waves. Thus perished, uodu a heavy dispeosatio• of Divine Pro. vidence, a man every way to be regretted ; and this hare been deprived of their natural and inaalitatile Proiector when she had most occasion for his writeokutted buidnea4 ha forlorn Widow, and seven belpitemoblldesa lit the odhatiou which has cams wpm Peet. ham coosiders her own fide, whirls WWI ofisfelif. consolation, to be scaled and for Wag lOW has', obtruded her sorroo• upon the Pairs Ilk Id helpless children she appeals to, she melons those wbo 416 4 blest with the means, to assist the tritons Abut of • db: 'pairing Mink, to rink her infant offspring. . The (acts of this must melancholy Cam am so recent amp well known, that its authenticity tinntal be eparetitmed. Affidavits marls by )Ite parties sawed in the Narrative ' be: fore the proper officer, may, however, be area at llifr•J Peckham 's present asylum, No. so, Cheacerrhum. • The followiag Bankers have hunnaely comeated to re ceive Subscriptwas for the benefit of the Widow, aril they will be thankfully received, and most gratefully aeldww- Ivied, by Mrs. Peckham, at No. MI, Chancery-lane Messrs. Brows, Cobb, aad Co ti 6, Lombord.street ; Maude* Barnard, and Latinadate, 56, Coraluil ; Roberts, Carta. Roberts, and Crir tie, as, Limbed cheet Fraser, Peering, Shan, Barbee, sod Cs. 7i, Cornball 6 Aosta', Maunde, sail Althea, to, tleneietta-street, Covent. garden dlitarsh, %Maid, street', Fauuderey, and Stewset, 6, Req. avers-street ; ihromersier, Ifrook:harilc,ftreenwood, and Drew,POrtkall.. Four handfed and forty-seven men of the first battalion of the celebeated 94th corp. of Riflemen; now Icing et Hythe Barracks , in Kent , are ordered I. to hold themselves in readiness for immediate ten. btu karion for Portugal. t' • Yesterday, et one o'clock, the detains of tlie little State Lottery began, when the following Ca pital Prises were sold at Stites truly fortunate OSees, 4, Coenhill, and gyCheringverose, in thirty. '.three shales:— No. I,loas ....• Prise of L 18,ovis 75 ',tar The fortunate holdets of the shares may receive their motley on drummed ; andi . the hollers of tl e shares of the few outitmiding sight Capi , als in 'Att..y chit hitished 10.1 moots, RIP IrqUe+l!li bring their shares for payment 10 4, Cornball, and. 9, Cnarlng.crossa Ap inquest was held yestirilsy by AsTsoisir GaLl, Esq. on the body of a man whe on Mwudsy fell °tittle goof of Westminster Abbey.-ailierdieto decide's:al Death. The Earl of Essex's boitee in Mat -fair, has b.-rts robbed within few days of roi , inderatale pasty. None of the lock. behingiug to die house have been beoken, but a nastier of drawers et tut. have been broke open it ill, • chissti. The whole of the property in Use Noble Earl's dtessiugh room has been carried off. s' a.