The National Register.
London, England, 1822-06-24 00:00:00

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

A meeting of the proprietors of this theatre took
place on Saturday at 2 o'clock, in the saloon —Mr.
Ca'craft having been called to the Chair the report'
of the Committee was read ; it stated that the Lessee
had paid the rent hitherto, and that the debt had been •
reduced from 92,4301, which was its amount when
Mr. Peter Moore's committee went out of office,
in 1819, to 33,9691.—that 75 per Cent. had beet
repaid on the recent voluntary loan, and that the re-
maining 25 per Cent. would be paid within a month
of the commencement of the neat season.—The
report concluded by stating, that the committee had
every reason to anticipate the realization of all they
had held out to the proprietors as probable. The'
Chairman then briefly addressed the meeting, in
doing which, he said he cot fidently looked forward
to the moment when Drury Lane should be as po-
i pular as Covent Garden--.we ill not know what ex-
' tent of foresight Mr. Calcraft may be gifted with,
but from this assertion we presume he is extraordi-
narily blessed in that way, for he confi lently looks
fur what no other man of common sense expects.'
The Auditor, Committee, and Sub-Committee
were then re-elected, and thanks voted to them—
after which
Mr. GEORGE Rosnes said, he had for so many
years been accustomed to address them that it might
be expected of him in the present instance—•at the
time when they used to meet • in cabal, instead of
under the pleasurable feeling of to-day, he had told
them that when the managing committee should
give way to legitimate government, and not till
then, the theatre would flourish--the event had jus-
tified his prediction, and now, instead of having the
house full of executions, they could not prevail
upon persons to come and take their money—such
was the difference of the public confidence. Thanks
were then voted to the Chairman and the meeting
adjourned. .

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GREAT TROTIINGR—The race between Captat t
Hansel's grey horse Markt:mot; and Mr. Marring-
ton's brown mare, took place on Thursday morning,
at Bushey, on Windsor Forest, round a circle of two
miles, The match was to trot one hour for 5101
guineas, and heavy sums were also pending. The
horses started at different ends of the ground, and
each carried eleven stone. Betting was 6to 4 on
the mare. The mare broke twice into a gallop in
the 15th mile, trout distress; and having lint her
speed, she was pulled up, and the horse was tired
also, and won the race, doing less than 17 miles in
the hour.
We inserted some time ago an extract of a letter
from Bruges, statin., that the notorious Fletcher
was living there wide:a Mr. Ellis, who held an office
of sonic consequence at the Capc, and who distin-
guished himself in one of the late Westminster
Elections as the friend of Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell..
Doubts were expressed in Th., Courier respecting
the above circumstance. We have just received a
letter from Bruges, from a respectable source,
forming us that Fletcher had been residing there-
, nearly two years, under the assumed name of •
Clair; that at first he lived very privately, but
terly he joined in house keeping wits Mr. r
that Fletcher, having been found out, decant" • Itt
quick time; that his wife and daughter, wild Mr'
Ellis and his wife, followed in the latterendlf
and that they gave out they were going to Spa, Lt..
this was of course doubted.
Pew. rJid Erects vf the Electric Fluid.—Yec—
t_Tday morning a plum-tree, upwards of eigl.t
ilches in diameter, belonging to Mr. Stephea
lips, of Nettlebkd, was struck by the electric fluid ;
the concussion wt's so vehement, that the tree was
%lammed, and literally shattered to picoes: so•cral
of the tieginents were thrown. to the distance of 40
yards.—At Swincomb, one mile from Nettlebed,
cow, the prop. rty of Nit% Cuttrel, whilst irazing„,
• was struck dead by the electric th... 1,

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