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LONDON, TUESDAY,' gEPTEMBEIt 1. 1818.

of to.rwarrow, sad published sad told at the Theatre in the
evening. Your mornings, shoishl the weather prove unfa-
vourable. mast pass brevity withidit the comfort of a News.
paper : I am sorry I was not before acquainted with this, as
I should have done myself the pleasure of muslin you true
daily—as also a play-bill.
With respect to the pay-list, it must necessarily, in a na.
tional theatre, be In avy—it mama be otherwi.e; bat, corn.
pared to the last year, it most, proportionably, be less; be-
cause, for a useless body of denims and bail singers, you
have, in exchaage, useful and+Srflbetive talent; approved
by Oletown, and capable of sqppileting every depertmrsit
• drama.—lit fact, ski alteraliona, the addstioual
strength of prufesaional merit, Ink** given the establish.
anent a new chisracter, withattillhA aid our prospect of
success must have been dreary andliapelms. As to nutosscre,
we could trot, in my opiaioa, marmaiti the drama in its va-
rious brauchesof tragedy, torneill, spent, fAITP, and poem.
mime, with less. Is regard to anothers, Covent-Garden ex-
ceeds us by at least fifty, in the ThIll)1111 tlepl talents; and,
surely, if Mr. Harris, who, with amity tie yean'experience
as a Proprietor, shall cousidor that extra number absolutely
necessary, we deserve Wise praise fur inatutaitaing an equal
character with a lessee oveskee. You mast have heard it
abroad, and ireeastolil (i.s4ati, *at, y9ur Compasty
of last per... **TM tope for Hrisryifine: Your lows
told It—public opistioa proclaimed lt.-seed has not this evil
bees remedied by fig most ',rodent and skilful airatiss-why
discharging the useless, and, with their pay, substituting
the valuable and ethane? Excepting two, who are hound
by articles, and are really worth uothiog, I I
lemnly, you have nut • superflauus being.
mint ;--nay, two females are absolutely wanted:
youthful, sentimental comedy, and one io trageds.
Mrs. Henry Siddosta, for Ilse Desdemorto*, Ja-
Imre tutor me at this moment, a cad-book
coutai 1111 l g a list of the Company during the
was a member of his theatre, and wall his
lively small theatre, being use-third lets in mi.
the present, the numbers and pay-lists exceed
durably at the present vanamitt. I ateniton this
a proof to b.ar nut the op won I have as. forcibly
we hare no more in numbers than are absoluteli
Rich exceeded Garlick far in this respect; beta'
and glory rested on spectacle amid pantomime ,
theatres!) 'fbe old theatres, under the management
mem, held, at the utmost, about 400 f.; and
because it is recorded, that " Liliipn4 "
Tabs ~ “ Cymru'," and Meer spectacles of this.
2,0001. to 3,000/. in brio: in; out—iet they paid
and gratified the lowu. Garrick paid to a wire.
few French dancers, more in nee part of the
from Christmas onward, than the pay of oat
.present company for the whole season. The irvi
day is, the enormous size of our national .
cursed tuiroopoliziog magnitude of them—where
of seeing and hearing is destroyed in the vast ay
the auditor and pes former, which makes forced
tnral, sod uatstral acting insipid. The greatest
maintaining the enormous size of our present th,
in paying the companies—l mean the increased
material ; timber, canvass, trots, paiut, light, or,
additional labour; trill of the present expense w
the old theatres, which constituted a great par
gain. I need not mention this, you must know
it is an evil which, with us, ran only be deplo
aterried, while our theatres retain their present
sag magnitude. I coutrast the present
rinds, in order to Maids from your usinsl, .
Ides that we have unammeary numbers : believe
be the' to • out the f

sod
same grossest

ealsibit the contra), si
vary our ethibitions, every proms' in the holly
have their alternate round ut employment.

caution you have favoured Inc with; relative
meld of any additional performer. I hope '
lust well, to assume that power without the
approval of the Committie. It is my task
mend, and trader their sanction; afterwards
it should be considered necessary. It is my
pride to; guard the property, not waste ii
a•uufadruce declare, that since I have been
direction of it, there has no/ been a penny .
an absotnte acceesdr—not an article obtained
witoessisig its appropriation; and as I kill tolerably
quainted with the real valise of tlw articles wanted for the
use of a Theatre, I consider my judgment of cousiderable
import to such a properly, and WWI continue my watchful
observance of the expeaditure. I fear, at this season of the
year, few cast uhlsiti temporary country engagetnents, so as
to relieve the treasury in the way of saviug. Horn has been
abseut some the opening, and will uot return till the Ist of
swat month. Nliss Somerville will be at Rath Collin Ilse 3d of
next mouth till Christmas. These are windfalls in the way
yon wish, and 1 shall slut min Ike opportunity, should it
Decor, to iiiilnlge others, if oilers be made In seduce them
from town—ihat is, if we du not immediately want their
services. Miss Byrne i■ as acquisition to us, as, without
her, we could not have performed a single Opera, noise-
queutly the great National Holum would have lust its ba-
laiice in comparison with its sarigblwur. Iler reception was
excelleut ; nut from partial frieudt., hut Gum 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: front tea till Cuur is occupied in rehearsals—
the interim from four till six in Planning. and from that
hour till half after eleven, bit performing—add, from eight
till ten in the morning, in surveyisez, plotting, &c. This,
you will say, is a tolerable daily duty.
I now ',merest to answer what appears to be that most par-
ticular part of your letter—namely, uriferr. I ion sorry
that fur the first time we must differ widely In our opinion
on this subject.
It has been my good fortune, during my summer attend.
auce and duty at the theatre, to hart had your full and
friendly conciirrmice in every shin I clew-steel fur the im-
provement, credit, and character of the 'hyalite ; and how-
ever we any differ on one pond, I trust it will out disturb
any good opinion you may entertain of my zeal, uur change
the belief you have in my pramiptitude to labour asaidiuusly
for the interest and prosperity of the establishment; and I
shall proceed with the saute undisguised freedom I have
hitherto assumed on other material neadare of discussant,
where you have yielded to what you haveliberally wonted
my mote experienced judgment in theatrical offairs.
During the many convert-rattan I bad with Mr. Lanai, on
the subject of lily undertaking the maitagetneut, and alien I
acceded to his request, I never varied (rum my determination
on this score—a toich was, to have a discretionary plower of
writing enders, and to Ise responsible to the Committee for
the exercise of th-11 power. 'I his was acceded tu: I claim
it as nay agreement, and you will field it recorded in the last
Mutates of a full Cosi 1111 l ttee, in the ter? words I
have now
made use of, when I entered upon my official duty. How,
then, my dear Sir, sin I to cousider your order at
the prescoot inoureut, to abstain !noon wilting any, af-
ter rxereisoog the power, voted to ono., for the space
of six weeks, diming which time you have almost been a daily
v ss;tui at the theatre., walkout stating oue objte von to the
former ro solution of the Committee? Can I conei.ler this or-
der, issued (tutor: your vet" short Migrate from town, in ally
oar( ligl.t than float of a dm ct accusettuu of my taneolurt,
in the :abuse of th.. power ii ills *larch I bale been 1111%-tsted ?
I am certain you du not takeout to °olivey sorb a meaning,
yet y uoor ooieb r will bear use OM in considering it iu this
hilt of t lea I sis, awafe )4.1, illiVe all opposite fueling to
float which is to resider sour 31J113clT a we're antoinat..ons

without power or privilege--withoont consequence or ri aspect
—without the power to control or to regubite mite's—fur
Ibis would he the case (Laving exercised au authorised oriel.
kite) were your order to be enforced. What I have done ip
this respect, I will justify before the fullest Committee that
can be assembled, as a sound policy, and prove, upon the
responsibility I am pledged to, to their satisfaction, that
the exercise of any privilege m this respect bas been in every
circumstance highly hem ficial, not detrimental to the
theatre. Haviug staled thus mach iii vindication of my owu
conduct, in the exercise of that which I consider as a right
by agreement (and were it debarred me, I could nut for a
snontent hesitate is the course I ought to pursue), as well as
to uphold the necessary consequence and anthority of a
Massager, which I should conceive tau might rather to iti-
crease than diminish ; I will j • my opinions with yams
thus far—were both theatres to embrace one de, sod be
bonnumbly scrupulous not to deviate Prom a positive
pureed law, binding each other by a penally—Men, I 'ans..—
with the grace of Gud--banish at! ',niers and all privileges ;
bait till that shall be dune, it would ruiu—to
attempt it.
The arguments you have made use of are theoretically
rig tot, but practically wrong. The governmenot of theatres
has been bow bong established ow its present system. to eater,
in tomes like Hirst, and under depressed cirenewalatiete,
speciil.otove plans; anal be who is daring einosOlo lea 31114 at
reform in this particular, may chance to lose his funimo
with his wisdom, and retain•ouly the reflection, that Ke has
pnid dearly for the weakness of his nature, Mill the boldueas

Huard of 3111;iagement took POiSt 9 of
the theatre—one rime na the singe In reform abuses ;
another examined the lamps and candles ; another the ward-
robe; another the carpenter's shop ; adothee the coal-
cellar—this dress was tun cost's, that unnecessary; what
:is the use of this scene, and 11141 property ? c. &sr.
At the expiration of two mouths they found the Lek they
lied with eagerness undertaken, wale!. some—iss six months
they were sick—sad in nine, they fled from their duty, and
Sheridan was left in quiet liossessiuu uf his theatre, and
never after heard of bad management. Here was a enre
deed!—and as 1 am certain you moist often be perplexed in
the same way, 1 wish it could be practicable to impose the
same remedy, and tree you from all future insignificant iu-
trudees.

I have wandered more into Ibis matter than I intended to
have done ; but as the occasion has called for elucidation,
it may nut he considered •cearaery. I can have only one
feeling about Driery•lane— its prosperity ; I am bound too
strongly Ili its interests, to maintain any other upiniun, or
uphold any other system than that which is conducive to
success, because my remuneration for labour utust sprint
from that source. Yon will have tb. candour to *atom.
ledge, that the sum I receive from the treasury cannot be
adequate to the anxiety, the duty, the responsibility and
harassing labour of sixteen hours daily and nightly attend.
suer ! Allowing this, I must tie absolved from hailmoring
any retrograde feeling against its government ; and if the
study of twenty years in the management of theatrical pm.
perty, with a close application to the history of forint r
times, can rpialify me to girt a decided opinion, t Olt
will gite me credit fur Ibis freely and sespectfielly r .
bating a proposed system, which my experience cud judg-
ment so forcibly point out to be fatal, and which, un a rt.:.
thee and snore serious consideration, you will, I may
hope, abandon 1 do not mean that Milers are always to
be admitted—this is the farthest from my thonghts stud
views of management : they might only tube used as cocom-
stances misfire them : but if they he tweeted led al one house
and iiid at 011Othet, the consequence *lit be, that the public
sell; crowd to the full, slid abandon the empty house—they
sill !Hoed. • the success of the one, and the ruin of the
other—the comfort of one and the. coldness of the edlo r—
the good mans:tensest set Covent-Garden, and the lead at
Drury.lane. 'Else public it a mousier in this respect, and is
generally guided in it. °plot .... by appearances, not by truth.
Thowe who are capable of judging fur themselves, will lint
take the trouble to do so, but will Vote the opiiiiiin of a
rascally scribbler, Who is tuts often binied ley patty
and paid for his *hose. When orders an. seTessary,
I will
keeping It out; noel that, tot so :mei age, two orders sei II
hi hog a ILsol IPC/34111, WllO Stall pay for admission, that
is, when they are, as they always ought to be, properly
diets Muted ; besides, ie It out belies to have a respects.
ble sudietice in the house, than (0 all•tfOttla to empty
In itches, aLich, at psi ticular p. rinds ^r the weasels, like the
present, whets the tows, is empty, nod ss, are preforming
e v.-1y ought, we must otherwise do ? l on ypeculd, uo the;
Prep list filling the places nut occupied me weak nights—
those are the very people who fly train a Olio house, and will
wily roles. it when there is a new play or a new performers
and will then occupy the places of those slue would pay for
the sassiest:cot datum; nay, they are the very persona

diligetices during the Congress. The ratrannliiiiri
post of the smite town has ►eceived 3,000 clowns,
and that of Aix-la-Chapelle 3,000 for Pioldor
poses. to g.-sieral the sum of 4.2,000 croireis has
been allotted to those putt-horses which will be the
most occupied during this period."

cirmsnAoi Avyr§?

Prince Blucher was taken ill nn his way limier;
so that he was forced to travel by short ►tags, lad
to atop for a day in the little town of Stan. lie
rived here )esterday, but b:ing I'orcesl to keep list
bed, lie cannot yet take the waters.
Pielil.Marshal Prince Schwarttenberg will it,ive
sib on the 15th to go to Frauzenbad; a heskr, after
paying a short visit to Prince Metternich, he will
go to Marienbad. Prinem Aletternich will lesie
Eqer the 24th for Frankfort, *title he will arrive
on the 17th.

tIENNA, AICUST It%

It is said their Majesties rill at li ,den
till the 26th, arid will then go to their
where they will remain till the departure tri Lee
Emile; or fur

The Empress will then go to Seholmbrenti, her
Majesty will not go to Munich till some time 'oefore
the return of the Emperor; her Majesty the Duch.lw
of Parma. will also reside at Schoeithrnini, till the
vOth of September t at which time plie will truant
to her do 1111 l mts.
It is said that Count Golernitio, the Minister of
liar received orders from his Sover.-ixtt Iw
tqcitr to Aix-Li-Chapelle ; Count Cdrainisii, the
Ambassador ci France, how at Pans, is alpir ex-
peeled to go to Aix-la-Chapelle bailie he ro‘iriot
hit her.

The Duke anti Duche!.s of Cantbritttze ariito-11 on
the ..)3,1 at Devinter. o heoce they proceeded ins
their journey to lianover.—( holden Pape, A,
August -28.)

GOTTINGCN, AUG CET 17.
The Duke of Nassau has aril teat all those, ol 11;s
who were students at Gottingeu, and
left the University, intir.ediatel) to triton thittlei.
The Humber of the studeots donna-ors loom dia•
to day, because the fon twit rg, after I ilry
affairs in order, hasten to trove the Uote.i-oy.---i
The statement that • student and a iluip.ar *tie
killed iii the affray is and was spread
in the first moments of dist whinier and euisfu-t•iii.
It is true, however, that several %modems, most')
were severely wounded. A 3outig hem
from Switzerland, of the name of liinger, woo had
not committed any fault, and itsuarke.

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see vain:role also enevtmet uxcepting two, *no are notate i t.',.. "-iss.is tus awe .NSUNitieSS in nil nature, NMI Me UOIOUrSS I letter, in his one debilitated state, were the combined cause
tel his attempt. History VIII bear me out la this cone i f
by article., and are really worth uothirig, I declare, most so. I "lures of his sudden dissolution ; indeed bia Medical atteudauts /
lemnly, you have nut a superflauus being on Inc establish- and the experience and lives of thc greatest professors of the .;..1; e tit, as their decided 000 too.
Wed' ionic Art will prove, that during two bemired sears .
mead ;--orty, fro kmelee are absolutelY vraiiird:—Oise in J S.D.D R. i'
youthful, tauttoseutat comedy, and one is tragedet sods as the Same evil we e.anplain of has existed—the saute means
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Mrs. Henry Siddous, for the Deadens:ow, Juliet', ac. Sm. have been pursued to counteract it, awl the mute policy,
after fru it 'trio endeavours, has again been resorted to—ti. u-
1 have hir,re me at this cement, a cad-book of Gat ricks, • Thst his pries were ably arranged, may be inferted
coutai 1111 l g a list of the Company Jeanie the period !Stomp lions means—to preserve appearance and secure character : from Mr. Secretary Ward's reply to my brother, on the 1 i
WS* a member of big theatre, and with his thew compare- it is au evil, but a accessary one, and as it cannot, but by a moaner, he announced his father's fatal attack—oil no on.
lively small theatre, being use-third less in magnitude than joint observance, he remedied, do nut let us siugly suffer by count erhoterer la fear any ill erects from his,laahilila la
the present, the numbers and pay-lists exceed ours cousi- the attempt. 1 aftesid, as his arrange/Reefs were mode in /0 masterly and .
derably at the present moostut. I steuthm this merely, as i From the reign of the great ',merlon, fully exemplified clear a inaneir, that it mould he perfeella pmaibte for them
a meaty User out the up own I have ace forcibly given, that in his life, to that of Caliber, Willis, and Dogget—from See to cm throuyli the srliok Mama selfloriei Ai: *names/ at-
we hare no more in cumber thin are absolutely necessary. Richard Steele to Lacy—from Lacy to Garrick, Harris, and fsedisue",.
--s--s------
Rich exceeded Gulick far iu this respect; hecatt•e his pride Sheridan—all
izilileyithoal7beittu..nalLro,pwre.det;orast,idtliife
essocniiiemtne.c.escosuillydr 1
and glory rested on spectacle and pantomime (the curse of . .
:T'llt- .'. : • ..
•:. •
theatres!antler
) The old theatres, the maiiageinetil of those not banish the system, shall we, with our shaelders lowa- FOREIGN !NYE Li IGEltrt:E. j
Inca, held, at the utmost, about 4001.; and it is well known, ing to the ground with difficulties, attempt it, warps, in- `.
because it is recorded, that " Lilliput," a The Christmas deed, it be tee make us sink under the bootee, and au end .` 5...
' .
Tile." " Cymru'," and other spectacles of this kilo', cost from our hopes awl dw odier together ?
2,0001. to 3,000/. in briuging out-syei they paid the matiagers, .is rather was the I riecg and hest historian, so was he
_the FIANDIONI AND HAMBURGH MAILS. ''. is‘`..i,- •-' • . -,sde . '...
sod gratified the twice. Garrick paid toe wire-dancer, and a most prosperous manager--takilig Mil/ view the period .if . ...—..
his government—the reign uf Charles Stuart—his life is, • ' , - . ...
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few French dancers, more in ewe part of the season, that ia.
the tritest picture of the times in whit It he lived. • iilsta-CRAPIILLC, AIJOVer 25. . ' 'a. ,
from CM tames onward, than the pay of use quarter of orir Perhaps,:.-.1..
.present compsny for the whole season. The evil of the present After the trembles of • civil war, and the maim mischances The Royal Government has to-day had the flu}' . .s, •
day is, the enormous size of our national theatres—the of theatrical management, the perisul at lest arrived, which stone taken up *again which was laidfoueda-
for Our .
he had so long lauguished for—the quiet government cola time of the building intended for the Hotel or ih. - -:v1-7. -
.
cursed turoloprilizing magnitude of them—where all pleasure.
of seeing and hearing is destroyed in the vast space between Nations/ Theatre—with Wilke and Domiet.—This triton. I/relit:lure, and this leaden bait fins beets opened' • - '
.s.
the auditor eiol pei former, which makes forced acting ones- virile reigned pro•pe ly twenty years; awl In Cibber's -i, t
whicb rontatnsi beside some 'pieces of gold and . • -
lineal, soil oat era! acting insipid. The greatest evil is is
tensed the tohfethamtmiwre pioullicyit, witilleinbeaititsaern%htehantpeia)ecahratutautrifs::: -,..,
silver coin, the proces-verlal of the cerrrnony of. tot .•
maiatainiug the enormous size of nut present theatres, sotI
in paying the companies—l mean flee increased quantity of cess and good louses, ii. order to km) pace with the sheer Act. This pdper contents a very remarkable "•
4. . •
material ; timber, canvass, iron, paint, light, ornament, and of their ieeighhours. From that period to the present, the ~,ke; which is conceived io these term* t.s.-- A- ''.. ' .
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additional labour; trill of the present expense was saved is same necessity has existed, and the same means IMVICIM-11 "In the rear 1813• on the 15th •of the Month of • I
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the old theatres, which constituted a great part of former to obviate the appearance of an empty or indiffereut house, . • '•
August, while the Emperor, in the centre of Ger.
gain. 1 need not mention this, you must know it well; bat which too often occurs under the best reasiegeineut. I
it is an evil which, with us, can only be deplored, DM re- Who so well knew this necessity as Garriek, and our la- many, at the head of a great artily, it dictating lawn ' 1
nitt. •
eied, while our theatres retain their present overwhelm- mented Sheridan? they both followed the example of their to Europe," Ice. t
.
ing assguitade. 1 contrast the present sod former pe. peedeerasors, when occasion required it ; sod lam termite Mr. Counsellor Rothe*, who ba'd-accear,tanied
•
riutis, in order to banish from year mini', altogether, the my dear Sir, with such examples before an, and with our the Prince Chancellor, has MHO, *saintliest Ab thin , lif- i ..
Idea fist we have uneeesessry numbers: believe me, I siethild weakened means, you will not persist in a resolution; which, city, when! his Excelies4y bionolf will seise in A . • li‘l.
be the first to point out the speediest remedy, if each were believe me, will, if pursued, prove detriencotal to our We. fee. d.a, as well t
its all the peraiiiemlOyed its hill
the ease—but ohm 1 state, that its Shakapeare's "Henry tbe rest, arid raintra• to our prospects. lam aril aware, that, i. p
ghats./ now is uthearad, theists owe 'in Iris Its la Otis alOaglit • taw bodgardeeee will always be fogad at few ell-ze bu„,
diarallipc morasoomerm Aim be ' • tbAsnieatest growiens, who, ;sighing theft* vis snore wledt• * ' =tl OOP twiMiltoosef die Val stiNtillthe ' • ' • °
! Ar•
It la truer that while we are Peer Meg • aumeety, the than their uelgithoure, are determined to find fault with sere eight butt:thongs of infantry of 'the line eta
tragic sad operatic performers eared be Napier* and the every action of Hone who mem ; but such opisnotis ought Land welir, and a regiment of cavalry. These liikt '
•• ' i 1;•
same argument sill bold good with ttreeemothasis, while we nut treeless,* ee the nsmitsof (tripe who act with COUPtillai
corps, after Laving, attended at the teremont. wlich t
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inhibit the mote:sty species of the drama; lint as se must rectitude. Sheridan, at a period whets the theatre vas
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vary our exhibitions, every person in the burly eorpoi ate must threatened with esteem mos, wits upbraided by a I:oily of will take place at the etitnsoice of . lir Sovereign. into
have their alternate round of employment. I needed not the grumbling auditors, who yelped trot every where the same our city, and at the °peons.: of the sitting* of the 4 1 t 4
caution you have favoured me with, relative to the engage- ductrine, which doubtless you have often been assailed with, Congress, will return to their t errisiii.e.
meow of any additissust performer. I hope I know NU) duty that the theatre was filled with oideis—tliat the nowey was The house of M. Schloefser, situated in IA tl.
too well, to assume that power without the senicurrence and errotigls appropriated—that it was badly inatiat4ed—and petite rite de Borcelle, will be occupied during th 0 '
approval of the C •itie. It is my task only to recom• that they would take possession
of it,
and
amine it fore
A
maul, alai trader their sanction; afterwards to engage, if the creditors. Mr. Sheridan, with great pcnetratton, saw rittut,+ of the Congretas by the Urinals Xliiatiter et
it should lie considered emissary. It is my disposition and the drift of his liiiiileitlW, brawling friends, and found a For, tetit Aff 11
.airs, Lord Castlereagh. .l,
pride to; guard the properly, not waste it; and I can with remedy for aerie ruariegs, need said—" Getillemen, I resign The e write frosts Dusseldorf, that " The director .--•
contideuee declare, that sines' I have been intru.lvd with the the assuagement of Drury-lane to your better judgment— of the 'post-office of that toren has teeeivetl from the , .i
direction of it, there has sal been a amiss cord well withord call • meeting—form • Board of Massa:einem, awl pay G , s of o ~111 _ •
over 1111 l me a tios z,nt cruet::, Cs, tit order l'.
as Oa:oWe accessity--nat au article obtainesl without my yourselves by your wise sod prudent sovernouviit." They s .1
witoessiog its appropriation; and as I kill tolerably well lie- did so ; and this Board of Milllnellitill look pusm.sii" of provide R-t_ uttlitiottel horses for the relays of the i