The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

bstxr-LANE THEATRICAL RIND.

The aosivereary dialler of this laudable establishment took
plum yesterday at the Freematioes• Thera. Hi. Royal
Highgate the Duke of York was le the Chair, .epported os
the right by the Spanish Ambestadoe, sod on the left by the
Srl Yarmouth. Amongst the company we abo obeerved
thejloo. George Lsattla,Sl.e. Mr. Caleraft, M.P..Mr. Laois.
M.P. Hie 'Mee. Deegan Kiunaird, Sir C. Flower. Ste.
Mee the cloth walk removed Non Noble Domaine was
sok with gnat effect by the prefessioaal Gentlemen present.
be ROYAL CHAIIeMAN thee proposed she health of
" The King," which mei &sok with four times four, and
'midst a leash of applause.—" The Army." Seleg—"How
men*. um Roo Slat soWiersbe."—" The Navy." Soug—
"Rale AMOS mop

LIM 1411111101/TH said, the dety devoltred upon hint of
Homulmellts liemotley the health of the Duke of York.
is !Loyal some ..r so well humus fee many years as
the firm soppoolir of the Feed, that it would he superfluous
to ester 6 I 6 as oulogiest upon his merits. He should cas-
ket himself with expressing a wish, is which he was Mite
IS shosid he cordially joistel by the nseetiso, that the illus-
trious Doke might for many years cootiese is ill that sta-
tism upon which he conferred as much bosom..

The ROYAL CHAIRMAN retursed thanks, anal said he
was glad to see se large and resperlable a meeting, which
enabled him to hope that they should, its the course of the
evening, hear • very favourable report from the Treasurer.
" Success to the Drury.lare Theatrical Feed."
Mr. KEAN said it was his duly, as Master of the Corpo-
ration, to return thanks to his Royal Hothouse and the meet-
ing. His beset was overflowing with isvoestioos for bless-
ings and prosperity tot the beads of their gerierees benefit..
tors. That meeting had ambled the childless of the stage to
pan another not uncomfortable year; and on their behalf he
most say, that they had sever for • moment forsoitos their
debt of grafitude. They were taught that the virtues of the
Sovereign were the beet ialseritsmee of the Meyer, and they
bailed with grateful exultation, is She person of their gra-
cious Sovereign, the patron cad protector of their Feed.
The same of She Duke of York was also cherished with de-
votion, woe was it ever mentioned in the families of those
who were so deeply indebted to that assembly but as that
of She (rind of the poor player, c who struts sod frets his
botir up*, the stage." Siete the last anniversary they had
to moors the lees of some of their most liberal iiessefactors,
and amongst them of one where noarilleited ptoteetion and
patronage fur nearly half a ceulury had bees extended to
the alleviation of distress and the reward of merit. He al-
luded to the late lanseated Mr. Cootie. Ansersgst those
prelims, some, no doubt, remembered with Ideation, the dia.
play of the comic powers of the late Miss Pape, Mill he now
bad the satisfaction of announcing that that Lady had
• hostiles* of 5001. to the Drury-lane Feud. Oe his behalf
he must any that be possessed a heart arsisnated with the
warmest attachment to his native eunotry. He had been
absent from his duties last )ear, sad neat but abuse
who had been separated by the waves of the Atlantic from
toe land of their birth could epes ciate the (echoes of delight
with which be once more beheld s 'Revise which raelord se
high, both as to slumbers and character, and which held out
such fair promise of—support to that esteblialsniest, short
prosperity he should use every means to his power, as as
bumble individual, to promote.
•
" The Master of the Corporation."
" The Conilnittee of Drutprlane Theatre.
Mr. CALCKAFT said it was incratheet on him, as ewe
of the Mesabi:4,4o return tolianks ow their Whitt He could
sat ly say, au boa, of men laboured more sealossely fur the
attainment of their übjrct than that Committee. It was also
his duty to express their ackuowledgmeets to the Royal
Chairman, without whose aid they could have done sothtug.
" The Vice. Premileets."

The Hon. G. LAMB said, he should trespass se farther
on the festivities of the evening than to express es behalf
of the Viee.Presidests their cordial 'basks tar the beware
costarred upon thew, sad their sincere pleb that the preprint
Anniversary sight peeve more favuuntbk the. say furrier
occasion.

" The Loewe of Drstry.lane Theatre."
Mr. ELLISTON said, Ilse tide of gratitude which
swelled his bosom must plead his exciter fur say defect of
expression. He had devoted himself to the stage, which at
first yielded hint only 50s. per week, and realised every
otber pursuit for that favourite oltiert, He etseeeibe bed
sow attained the highest poled wbich Ise could imps., rassb.
With respect to the (audition of Isis theatrical psi ps% he
entertained a more favourable view of it at present she. WI
year; sad even if he should fail, which was sot likely,
other speculators would doubtless be found to embark is
the enterprise. At all eventsobe failure should set be steri.
bumble to the want Venal-COY on his part.
The Treasurer ilses, tend the list of donations. mike
amounted to 1,3001 amongst them was one of am Imumilei
guises' from the King, accompanied with the eaptewiosef
his wialefor the 'Wham of an establishment so heserekully
instituted and so laudable. The annouucenseut of Alm subs
lei ipl klub excited considerable applause.
"The Stewards."

Mr. COOPER said, that from the kind opinion of his Mask
the task devolved upon him of expressing thvir acknowleit.
meats to the meeting. Years of exertion found !ben reward
in an assembly suet, as the present, consisting of the i 11,..
trious and the benevolent. It Irak, the solace of biting cold
neglect and pesury.,,,Re could words to (morn, the
heartfelt gratitude which Sowed inspostaueons streams from
their bosoms.
"The memory of die immortal Shikkspeare."
g' The memory of Amid Ginrick."
" The Wits.

The Royal Duke left the Chair at eleven o'clock, attended
by the steward*, amidst the applause of the company.
lu the course of the evenlog several songs were executed
in • delightful style by Miss Posey, Alise Cubist, Mrs.
Bland, and other Ladies belonging to Drury.lasel'hentre,
who were seated in the gallery, which was tilled wills Ladies.

The Sierra Leone (rosettes to the middle of
January contain the following intelltgrnce
Governor Grant had opened an intercourse with the
King of the Tuulabia, by which the British will probably de-
rive lucrative trade and African diseovery. This kingdom
is only a few days journey trim the Korn The following
deaths have taken place on the Gold Coast : Elmina, the
Ditch Governor ; Ann, Goverttur-General of the Dollish
Settlements; and Governor Gordon, of the English Settle-
ment. A deputation had arrived at Sierra Leone from Al-
many Abdal Nader, Kiog of the Tuulshas, at the heard of
which was a Prince, and a Mehometau Priest and his wife.
This singular man came all the way frum Egyprto the Man.
chore° nation, with important information of the geography
of Oriental Afrleai he had parsed through Tonabectoo, sod
was of en opinion that the Niger and the Nile were the Faroe
river. The French sod l'orteguese vessels reerryie au acttic
slave trade."

We are authorised to state, that the accounts in
some of the Loudon Papers of the nightly meeting
of the labourers at Hoo Green, in this county, are,
to say the lei.st of them, by far too highly coloured.
Whether the Resolutions mentioned in those
Papers were even proposed by any of the more
violent of the rioters, can only be known to those who
were present, and it is very certain that they ore ab-
solutely disavowed by the greater part of them.
The declared intention of that meeting was
simply to stop, but not to destroy thrashing
machines and drills ; and the men in the most po.
sitive terms stated their abhorrence of the infernal
practice of setting fire to stacks or buildings. It
may be proper to add, that the members assembled
at HooGrees, as far as could be ascertained, never
amounted to a hundred; and that one subsequent
day, when the greater part of thom who composed
the meeting were swat .by two Magistrate*, they
*greed to übandon their iiitentbso of being any
kind of force, and to ado, Ind thankfully toeccept,
ea a favour from the furthers!, the pronsisokof discon-
tinuing the use of flouting inechines .fris this side
of berveste.—{/psvieh Joined.)