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General Committee. lie knew notliiiig of reports
sent shout by post and communicated to the -Edi-
tors of newspapers—it had been drawn up by Mr.
Ellice, the colleague of Mr. Moore, for Coventry,
and he was extremely terry that gentlemau was
not present to-day, because it contained the fol-
lowing remark, that 66 Mr. Lamb was ais.ver-
able for mismanagement as well as others," and
that he hail " usurped the management;" and
because he now declared that Mr. Ellice had oricz
assured him he should stay in office to support
him. But Mr. Ellice had since that witnessed the
honours showered on Mr, Moore by his cousti.
tuenta—they lisd dazzled his faculties—he lia,l de-
wetted him, and joined that distinguished individual.
When he had retired, he had been censured by
many Proprietors for deserting the Theatre in the
moment of its distil-as. Ile had not made a secret of
the cause, and, among others, told it to Mr. Robins.
The latter then asked him to coalesce with other
Proprietors, in an effort to wrest the management
of the Theatre out of the incompetent hands into
which it had fallen, and lie would have acted the
coward had be not consented.
Mr. LAMS then enirondverted on the printed
letter of Mr. Moore to Mr. Raymond, and con-
drained the insinuations it contained (as he con•
ceived) against the latter gentleman. and -coo•
leaded that the SulosCommittee were convicted
of abusing the powers intrusted to them in
opening the Theatre, by the following recorded
opinion of the trustee of the property
feel I should betray my flint, did I not re-
commend the doors to he closed, if the treasury is
not relleved."—Mr. Lamb. in conclusion, offered
his sincere thanks to the Proprietors, for the atten-
tion and partiality lie had always experienced from
them; and assured the Meeting. that he had been
forced to enter into the statement he had just made,
and that he had been anxious to avoid egotism, as
much as the stature of it would allow.—(Apploare.)

Mr. Wri.sox said, all he had stated' Or, tint
Mr. Lamb Mad great power in the Suh-Comtuittee,
of which he was a most efficient Member—and that
the measures of that very Committee were now con-
detailed by him. His own idea always hail been,
from the moment the Theatre became a losing
concern, that it ought to be let; and he had offered
20.000/. per annum for it—certainly the nwist fool..
ish action he had ever contemplated. He made
the offer, not because he conceived that lie had
abilities to manage the concern, but knowing that
he could procure the exertions of such a man as
that who now held the situation. He had sent for
that individual, and consulted with him on the
occasion—and he believed he was ready to state
all the circumstances that occurred. With the

same view, that of serving the establishment,
and with that alone, he had acted, from the
moment he became a Member of the Sub-Com-
mittee. He never had, he wonld almost say, the
impudence to think that he could rlo any essential
service in the stage concerns—but, having the in-
terest or a friend at heart, who was deeply con-
nected with the prosperity of the concern, he
exerted himself as far as he could to extricate it
from difficultira. Whatever his opinion was of the
wields of Mr. Lamb, and he certainly had great
talent., he would rather consult him as a lawyer
than as a atage-manager—/Mr. Lamb—" Thank

you.") Whst he uniformly amid, was, " place
the Theatre under Mr. S. Kemble, nr some such
um, if you wish it to prosper." If Mr. Colman
were in the awe independent situation as that in
which Mr. Reath!, stood, he would readily have
placed him in the management; but, under ezist•
ing iriseinarstinces no man, possessing common
sense, could say, :hat it would be prudent to em-
ploy him to superintend the stage.

The CHAIRMAN *aid, that, since the year 1793,
he had been connected with this Theatre, and, in
every thing he had done, during that time, he was
solely actuated by a sense of the duty he owed to
those whose interests were at stake. In the course
of his speech an Honourable Gentleman (Mr.
Lamb) had said, that there was a certain degree of
ductility in the General Committee towards parti-
cular Members of the Sub-Committee. This, he
believed, woo true to some extent. One thing,
however, should he recollected,' that whatever was
wrong in the original formation of this corporate
body, was the act of the whole of the Proprietors. He
had used his most strenuous, efforts to 'hew, that an
oligarchy of live persons could not govern any thing