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London, England, 1818-07-29 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL iIIhIRY.L4.Vir.

Yesterday a General Mretitia Sntw•rihrn to
this •I'lieistre, was held rn the Kraut' atel.ata °I the
rlw srr. up special Mildly% pureuasit to notice.
The Arrinig, was advertivril for two o'clock. but
blimp se dud nut vtantnruce till war three.
:•ter rooseas 1.01111114 haring brill uttammost•ly
etsAril to the Os •st. a It.ituri I" put
It lath by Mr. Robins. the Citairmait of the Select
Committee. uppototed oil 11w Bth of June last by
a (Grove's, losetattely of Ploptieturs. Alit. Wald,
however, havistg stated that he had another Report
from the mute. the Chairman
glecoieff noel i..e latter should 1,.e read first, and st
vim+ accovilittale read toy Mr. Ward.
I lie teeniest waled, that the Sub-Committer of
.ogroseist fell extremely anxious to give every
*Rea t to taw views of the Special Cuinitinier,
by she A-%entilly 1,1 Proprtetors *is the Bth
June ; dire load actanditigly given Owen acre-e
to libel, iloi:11flars$111. and In lite hrcouuls and papers
of the l'heatre, at
they had made every effort to procure a satisfactory
arrwogesnent of the pecusit,ry difficulties or she
Thr.t.r. and were happy to be able to inform tlw
Alrestug, that they had mantra the consent of three-
fourths of tlw creditors to a reimposition, at the rate
of ine. in the wood ; the rrniaining creditors
held oar, in hope., of griming better term.. The
sum Of 4.5001. hail howls already proposed to be
raised by 11w St-lest Committer, and they had
no doubt this the irons 11111 l g soon at present re-
quired. would 1w rasped trots) the two other Com-
mittees. 'they mine 1111 l ended that the direction
and control of the Theatre. the engagement of a
Stow-Manager. the selection of new psecis, &c.
should be intrusted to George Colman, Esq.
Beim( aux;ous to se, tire the services of r Gentle-
nimi so competent, they had entered tutu a nego-
custom with Mr. Cultism for that purpose, and had
received for answer. that he wits ready to enter into
an exploitation of his terms, so noon as the financial
difficulties of the theatre were removed. If dial
Gentleman's services could not be obtained. they
wire coolidefit 111101 her competent Manager could
be procured. Though many persons concerned
reccminendtd that the theatre should not be opened
till all obstacles were cleared away, they could not
accede to the propriety of that advice, and as an
earliest of their belief that it might successfully be
re-opened at the usual time, the Sub-Committee
were prepared to advance out of their own poekets
She sum of money that might fur that occasion,
and with that view, be necessary.
After some words from Mr. AIORIIS and Mr.
CALCRATT, the Report of the Select Committee,
waa read by the Chairman', as follows :
REPORT

OP THY *ELECT COMMITTER APPOINTED BY THE
OBNIIRAL ACIEMISLY OF PROPRIETOR* UP DRURY
LANZ THEATRE, ON THE BTH JUNE. 1818.

0 In obedience to the Resolution of the last General As-
sembly, this Committee imnseiliately proceeded to adept
the most effectual means, and signified to the Sub Committee
of Management their desire to concert measures with them,
to prevent the Theatre remaining longer open at the risk of
the Proprietors than conk' possibly be avoided; in which
effort y were enabled to succeed, uotwithstanding the
Actium Trustee, who is also a Member of the Board of
Managemeat (although he intimated his approval of the
men errs proposed), on the 10th Jane, not only signified
his refusal to co-operate with this Committee in carrying
these measures into effect, but, previous to his quitting
London oe that evening, made arrangements for continuing
the Theatre open, in the usual manner. during his absence,
which continued about three weeks. By the vigorous and
salutes y measures of which this Committee protuml the
adoption, a loss of afar 1,0001. bas been avoided by the
Proprietors.
" This Committee employed • very considerable portion
of their time is Negociating, attending, and corresponding
with numerous penises, basin uudisputed Metric contract
(11 aims of upwards of 101 ea the Theatre, previous to the
commencement of the last season. Anil although many
• pparent ly well-founded complaints were made by consider-
•h!e claimants of the want of courtesy from the Acting
Trustee, is, adslitiou to breaches of engagement and violations
to 'rood faith, whereby the dam-shies which this Com-
mittee unavoidably encountered, were much increased, and
their measures in some instances rendered nearly
int, they have the satisfaction to observe, that, except in
• few 'amulets, their exertions were successful, and by the
arrangemests, to which the major part of the creditors
agreed, a saving to the proprietors of about 12,00411. may
be now made, and the Theatre thereby relieved from a pres-
sure, which its general progressive receipts would he inade-
quate to discharge, and which pressure, they have great
reason to believe, would otherwise be much increased by the
addition of law charges.
" The Committee also, on the 10th instant, transmitted
to the General and Sob-Committees • statement of their pro-
gress, and suggested, that fur the purpose of providing for
the immediate payments which had beta promised to Credi-
tors, sod to defray the uccessary expenses previous to again
opening this Theatre, it was desirable to raise the sum of
17,0001 as • loan, by subscription, amongst gentlemen oho
fret interested in the prosperity of the Theta'', upon the
debt. sad securities bell by several of such Creditors, teeing
assigned to the Earl of Yarmouth and George Itotrius, Esq.
as 'nesters tor the Subscribers thereto, with all the powers
which those Creditors p.issess, or compelling payment, &c.
hith securities consist alit rents of tlic fruit offices, and
busses belonging to the Proprselors, mid tea private [waft,
the profits of which (under agreciaetits fawn the General
or Sob Commitee) had recently been receivable by Is viral of
th-se Creditors. This Committee also proposed, that aloe
Soliserihers by whom such 17,0001. shall be +ideally.
Ouoitld secept repa)ment the reef by instalments, w ith inte-
✓est at Si. pea en tot ; mnl it was al-u proposed, that on those
weeks of (suture pert. titmice, a. 110. en erupts of the 1 beatific
should prove sufficient, after discharging the cures at ex.
m-nses, the sum of 60/ should be appropriated ilwreout as
an additional mess,. 'Jeff tiding payment of such loam, stint
that the right of nomination of glue pi ram t. the fi cesium of
the Theatre fur life should be utters d to each Miliwei 'bee, in
respect of every 5' 0/. advantrd by him ; shit Is statement
contained an estimate of the -opposed anon a I ill.„war to he
•Niropriated fur repayment, amounting, it a ta.odetate coin-
potation, to 4,1111 lbs.

" Thu Committee also reps.. rented,, that as thi ir time
11A, (rum she peri...l of their app.....16...161, b..., almost
wholly oreuld. el .a obtaining Ida• eons. nls imi the 11110/RI
Creditors to the proposed as rau4rusi sots. they had not Lt.
therto been eitahl.J to direct mut It Nair a(i. WIWI SO lie
olt4inanent ..f the Illt(1 SAWA, 11111116 for cmumpleting the alouve-
oast. d objeets; but that Gee of lb. ir own Members, and
one other Gentleman. had consented to advance antral
sums, ansunoilinE luErlL.r he And this Coniasmillet
entertained nu doubt ut their 4hmlity to obtain such tot timer
oublicriptiusis as would increase that amount to a namely of
the sae which the esti/runes of the Theatre appeared ire.
to riquime. lto y ilserrfuse tousled that they
should ,wt Ise mouldered er..iimptusous in nye' smut IL. If
hope that tit. uglw.. worm) of such 17,0001. would be simis.
scrib..l hy, or obtained thmossaio, tie nalflutuce amid 111,14. of
(I. CP is. rat sod Suint'uniumitires.

" 'rhos Committee al., oataustinicaltil ihrir unal.iu.Ns
opi kW. that 11W OUle n ICU lid WM, CUMIN(I, foul. of the
'll.eatut• awl IS expend:l arc. appillliislirui of ht.oge
g. r. es gazrnieol of Pt rfipritario, and 01 pi. co s for
61. unit ,rpre.rhiatius., br colon :.J t.. Leval:. Cul-
lman, Ery auJ that th:a Cuteausittta a.i. rLod) ALAI Jaaa-

roue in en.upernse ill, tle. Cusunal and Culs-Cunsmilfi re la
all matters %Melo might lw regaisite, as well fur the purpoM
of 'berating him with the necessary powers, es Cif rumples.
Mg any arrancersessots which might be &coned proper hoe sloe
totality of tin &duo:oilien to the ineuded lssas, sad fur
reertsug all the usher objects fur which this Committee were
appointed."
To which rooms tttt irsliiin uo reply has been made he the
General us Sub.Csormaitters, although each of douse Cons-
ommes met iiismeshattly after mob statement was &livered
to their Seen-tory.
"This Committee are of opi oo inu that the preens' rated-
Inns Free List, and Privilege of giving Admissions to the
Theatre, may he properly mu seduced as that the moots. r sit
Free Admi,..loo. shill be less, whets the rights of ausnissa-
lion are ekereised by the New Subscribers, thass it was dor-
ies: the last stems'.
" This Cusnusittee hare great regret in observing that their
',dragoons to solstaiu a CUM pfllllllliC of the several hallowsug
twisislerable claims hair pi-Loved
£Bl7 1,1 IS ohm to 31r. Arnold,
910 15 10
107 4 9

Those creditors mewing s. bdis re, that by refitsing In ac-
cept the proposals which have been made, they shall be ena-
bled to uhtem
every Creditor had acted WI the sale defective princip:e„ it
is apparent that instead of a few übtainitie more beam-Ariel
terms, no payment could be obtained by any. 'lbis Cosa-
mitre floret...re ►ubmit, for the COPIIiOII ration and judgment
of the Propriaturs, the measures witch it may be proper ill
adopt to prevent thusie Creditors from obtaining greater ad-
vantages demo the parties who have liberally commuted to
participate in a proportion of the kisses to which the Pro-
prietors have been aubjemierl.
" By these arraugensenia, if carrieill into eff et, this Com-
mittee will have obtained aileantages fur the Proprietoes
nearly equal to the losses winch they sostaimed dursog the
two preceding *saunas, and orarly all the simple-contrect
deists contracted previous to the last season will he fondly
iretinguished, and the expense of law proceedings th►reuss
avoided, without burdening the theatrical receipts with
any further charge than 11./. uu such nights as their amulet
shall exceed the expenditure. This f'ununitiee have also
reason to believe, that other beneficial sieraugements may be
effected with the New Renters and Bond-holders, whew firer
the management and credit of the Theatre is an altered and
estahlialied ma to merit tee coulTleuce of the Proprietors and

patronage of the Public.
" This Committee have hitherto been induced to hope,
that notice of the resignations of all the Members of the
Sub•Conimittee of Management (except the Earl of Yar-
mouth, who has been recently appointed, and whose talents,
assiduity, and taste, render hint highly qualified fur that
onkel, would have relieved them from the palatal necessity
of recording their opinion of the utter disqualificatto a of
the four other Gentlemen, of which the Sub-Committee of
Management is commuted. They also hoped, that such
✓esiriostioo, and the introductioos of other competent Gen-
tlemen, as Members of the General and Sub Committees,
would have prevculed the necessity of a statement et any
radical-it instances of what this Committee consider
mis-
management and miscoodurt. Hut they canuut, in justice
to Ike Proprietors, refrair from observing, that the debts
of the Theatre have been greatly increased in consequence
of the want of a proper cheek to she facility of olitiduing
Sr-
licks from trades•persons by the differeet aiiifirers, and
others employed its the Theatre, who have been permitter'
to exercise the power of ordering materials of such
qualities, and quautities, as they thought fit. Whilst the
resources have been essentially diminished by that general
ill-ntanagemeut and waist of attraction, which has been so
long a %object of universal and motioned complaint ; rich
also as this Commit .e.e believe, by the enormous number of
tord:Ts for nightly free admissions, which have been sub-
scribed and issued by the Sub-Committee (with the 'seep-
lion of the Earl of Yarmouth), during the interval in which
they have taken on themselves the active =warmest of
the Theatre.
" It is the duty of this Committee also to state, that the
mimeo's of many of the most considerable Creditors to ac-
cept the shove-mentioned terms of compromise, ha• e been
given, and the sums which Members of this Committee have
of to subscribe and ototais have been agreed to, ma the
express nookestanding and condition, rot only that the
Theatre shall sent be groin opened until the compensations
to the Creditors are discharged, but also on the understand-
ing and condition, that the present Sub-Committee of Ma-
itageineut wilts the exception of the Earl of Vermouth) will
either resign, nr im linger be permitted to ex. rcise their
functions. And this Committee have accordingly thought it
right to express Ili it dissent from web Sub.Comtnittee re.
sewing or catering into any new eogagentent sill. Performers.
" This Committee have the satisfactisto of acquainting
the Proprietors, that Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. having expressed
his arability to &vete so much Ma 'dim as is requisite for
the doe performance of the arduous •15er of a Trustee, has,
in consequence of a erpresentation made to him at the in-
stance of this Committee, in a konJ and liberal manner sig-
nified his disposition to resorii it, in order to enable the
Proprietors to obtain an efficio ut Trustee in his place. This
Committee, therefore, submit to the cuensiolerat. sod judg-
ment of the General A senility, the ioroprio ty of recommeoid-
ing and requesting the General Committee to appoint a am-
ain, to be previously named by the Proprietors, as a True
tee, whenever the opportunity of such appointment shall oc-
cur by the resigstatom of Mr. Greasfult, or other% ioe.
" In the Act for Ite•builditig the Theatre, ten Grutlemen,
as Members of the first General Cominittee, were 'Domi-
nated, oho were three-by empower, II to tlt ct eleven others,
so as to complete their number of 21, without any approval
or choice by the Prom awes. Those 21 were then empower-
ed to nominate five of tlwir own Members as a Sub•Counusit-
lee of Management, suloject to the AdOpiiUll or 1401011 of
all or any part of such Sub-Cummittee of Management, by
a Gem ral Assembly of Proprietors, ninth Assembly had
the power of appointing others in the place. of asy whom
they might think 'Hooper h. mject. Amid when soy Alessoliers
of those Commit,. es declined, or became disqlsalified to
art, the remaining Members of the Grueral Committee,
without any reference to the Proprietors, were authomed
to choose a summer to rack of sorb Members who so
declined, or become olioamatified; and although a certatu
bee of the Gino rah Committee ceased roily to become
kleuiliers, those timilensen have hem usually, nu the no-
mination of wine ur wee of the nos:lining Members of the
Committerore-elected„aisol the Proprietors have 'Amer orse asy
such oteations yet emu-ImA their right of clionsilog auyGru-
tleniau iu opiwrili.oi to a person proposed try a Member of
the existioe Coon 0000 awes. Nor have the mimes of the Solo-
Cumuli tier of Management rs enmity lam potty submitted for
Ili, adoption or oo j clioo of the Primo Mors, ac tordiug to the
appareut ittleoloto of Ilw Act of Parliament. Now, al-
though there ate several Nlesalms of the (knell"! Cum-
snifter, whom it is highly desirable to continue—this Cow.
Malec recosonscu4l to the Proprietors is.. all future meow
cues, to cuositirr the gool:61 dhotis of the dill, resit Geotle.
melt whoa airy be prop4o4 d for their choice, itialewl of
•gare•reg, as a matter of emorse, to the ot-appointuatut of
*woes( the prestait M 'lobes s."
DENT. then ru°e and protested ispiiist the
twinging hied' ie IG port like the lift rr 111, 161,11.111
its being previously submitted io the Com-
mittee. To boing such grave, he might say, outra-
geous charges egaiii,t dor Sub-Committee of Ma-
imgcnirill, weu twit lief ItiOlii) Hoc I a 11..,
be-
e..uae the Select Committee was appoint. of, auJ
had set out oil auticahlu grounds. Their Report,
it was hue, bestowed on the Kiri sat
Lot that te.ts, perky+, intended to
r.:lleler the cen.ule of the four oilier is embers
the wore .evere. 'Thal or. out ti.t turtlowLl to ul -
hold tlir iiiirrests ci soy concern. Ile aould
itoliins, could it house divided ugaisist

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that had Vert. occurred. 'The Report censored the
Sub-Coinsuittee for giving orders ; but he woul,l ask
them, etruhl they prove that • siogle order had been
gisesi, iwit rendered necessary by the eircurustalier•
iti the theatre ? Would it be asserted that they had
made Noy improper use or them ? I lad they sold
them ? The Gruileinen who made such charges
ouglit to have brought them forward in a tangible
shape, so that they might be fairly met and repel,-
tie thought past experience should have taught
the Select Committee, that if the waist of check
ass hound detriment:ll when the management was
intrusted to a 'lumber, it would he no lessso if aim.
solute control were vested in one individnal. lie
did nut pretend to more than any other Proprietor.
taut while he lived he should never stand by sod
patently listen to Gentlemen he looked 041 as
friends outrageously abused, without any opportu-
nity of making a reply. The Gentlemen came
with two Reports—one in one hand, aootherni the
other, they breathed cold and lint ; for he would
repent, that n• eburge whatever hofbeen contained
in the Report submitted by them to the General
Committee.

Mr. MORRIS then moved that the Report of the
Sub-Committee be confirmed and approved of, and
that they be requested to proceed in the altiire
committed to them, and particularly in the ap-
pointment of a Gentleman to the internal manage-
ment of the Theatre.
Contain %V *THEN moved, as an arnendinent

" That the Report of the Se•lrct Conitnittee be agreed to
and adopted; sod that the mm 0f17,0001. be raised in the
manner, and on the tenni and conditions, recommended by
that Committee : That the General Committee be uthoriseil
to make such conveyance', deeds, and instru as may
be necessary to raise thit intss, and secure the yment of
it : hat the thanks of the Meeting he gives. t• use Earl of
Yarmouth, for his services as • Member of the Sub-Cons.
and to Pascoe Gornfell, Eaq for his nitration and
*Pi vices as Trustee : That G. Rubins, F.sq is a At and
pro-
per person to act as Treater, and that it be recommended
to the General Committee to appoint him to that office,
should a vacancy occur sad that the Select Committee have
power to add to its Members."

Mr. Hostas then raid, that his memory was not
tenacious enough to enable him to refer to the ea-
r ous topics of Mr. Dent's speech. That Gentle-
man had thought proper to condemn. in strong
laogitage. the Report of the Select Committee;
but convcious as that Committee were of their up-
right views its the framing of it, they were ready to
stand or fill by its correctness or otherwise. Mr.
Dent had said, it was extraordinary one Report
should be produced here, and another to the Ge-
nen' Committee; but no Report had beets made
by them to the General Committee. They had
been quite sure, that a house divided against itself
could not stand ; but did the Proprietors, he asked
them, believe, that when the Select Committee uas
appointed, they iutendeil that the Sub-Committee
should remain in power?—(" loo."/-1)itl not the
Sub. Committee latety apply to Parliament for a
Bill, by which all the Proprietors should be liable
to, and orphans and widows deprived of; a sum of
101. per cent. without the knowledge of any
of them, and was not the matter opposed and
brought to light by himself? (Mr. Robinv). Why
had not they communicated that intention to a Ge-
neral Alerting of Proprietors. held but three weeks
before the Bill originated, on some ordioary occasion?
As to the capability of the Committee. he should
merely state, that since the death of the lamented
Mr. IVbitbread, the other theatre (Covent-gardeii)
Intl paid off a debt of a hundred. or a hundred and
one thousand pounds. while their theatre became
80,0001. in debt. The present Committee. with
one exception (Lord Yarmouth), had no pretensson
to the confidence of the Proprietors. He had
knowu a gentleman once among them, who, after
taking incredible pains to acquire that theatrical
k two ledge necessity for the situation, was taken off
the list while absent in the country ; another, who
had laboured greatly to become acquainted with the
particular concerns of the Theatre, was compelled
to withdraw his name by the dissentious among the
mentbers,The Sub-Committee had forced him
—by their obstinacy to remain in office. and their
unwillingness to yield to the general wishes of the
Proprietors, to retire—to make the statement he
had of their total inability.
Lord ir A MOUT tt declined receiving any thanks
not conferred on hint in common with his col-
leagues. No differences of opinion prevailed in the
Committee of which lie had the honour to be a
member—no dissentious. lie had no peculiar
claim on the gratitude of the Proprietors—his only
pretension couvisted in knowing as little of theatri-
cal affairs as it was possible.—(4 lawsk.)—The
Report of the Select Committee contained charges
against the other for abuse of patronage in grant-
ing alders. Ile could affirm, nu Isis honour, and
could make, if necessary, a more solemn sue-
vendd iii a Court of Justice, that lie had never
wren an order hut for the purposes deemed neces-
sary for the Theatre. Ile could not agree to vest au
absolute authority in any individual. Now as to the
legality of the Sub.Comiuittee, he was ready to
allow that it might he altered for the better; but
as long a the Act of Parliament remained, it 'mod,
and though i•s members were not very competent,
lie 411 J not ace what more competent Committee could
succeed thew. unless they could make up one of
such men as Mr. Arnold. Ile was anxious to see
the powers of initaiageinent intrusted to proiier
!mods ; but lie never would consent to the alowlute
control of an individual.

Mr. CocxFa Nod that every word in the Report
of the Select Committee was true. The question
was out as to the selectiuu ol 04Ie individual or an-
other, but whether the present Sub-Committee
i 1,1 be " turned out" or continued. The Act
of Paufigment did not secure the Comini tee. be-
caurr
it required, in expiry* terms. that the Com-
solute be " approved" by a General Court of Pro.
praetors; and if they reinaitod obstinate, the Pro-
prietors would have the opportunity at their
alerting, in the comae of two mouths, to turn
thew out mid appoint others in their
The Sub-Committee proposed to advance thein•
selves a ruin of Stio/. to open the Theatre. If this
were agreed to, the outstanding crednors would
he sure to cmue down with their executions, mud
the ruin, of the estsblislimeot would ensue. Were
11"1 l'lrlnwvll to give up the whole of the property
se a bat:take to the vanity of four Nlrisibers ? No
report had ever been mide to the Sub-Committee,
lort sourly a out-ration of w hat the Select Cont.
sootier had dime. It seemed the Suli-Cuntinitier had
toiken upon them 1.. appoint Col. Douglas Slit ere-
4/ Mr. Giceihil, though Cary %eft told the tot,.

fool anted to ba reserved far the prevent Meeting.
The Sub-Commie tee had some
titre sgnengated Mr.
Burgess as redo-nor for live years, sir a sated• of
lour hoinlveri 'mood+ o-yeor, tool had heti,' .6
given bun two ivory tickets. They had also en-
gaged a treasurer on very liberal terms. The
siumtwe of orders they name on the 49'h of
Decendser last amounted to a 93 ; on a soleseguesit
ought 2117; and on another in March to 322. From
these charges he was booted to• except Lord Ver-
mouth. AVlonsever that Noble Lord hail a pri-
vate box he paid three guineas for it ; and every
order lie waisteel for r friend was paid for. The
Proprietor, bail ten private boxes of their own
to let slightly, but it was the practice to let one be-
longing to an imtividnal (Mr. Lowndes) before any
of them ; and while his box last season produced
193/. one of theirs had only brought in 211. Fraud*
hail been lately cot aaaaa itted at the doors of both
'newel., ; the door-keepers of Covent-garden had
been discharged, brit those of this Theatre had
not only been retained, but actually had their
salaries raised. 1f they wished to see an end put
to such a system, and a new order of things esta-
blished. they sl lel receive and adopt the Re-
port of the Select Committee.—(App/nose.)
The CHAIRMAN stilted, that he had received no-
tice on the g‘..!el inst. of the vacant.), of the trusteeship
and the intended election. Having lately looked
into the Act of Parliament, he feared that the opi-
• expressed by Mr. Cocker, as to the power of
the Proprietor, by that Act to tams out the Corn-
usittee in two months, was unfounded.
. Mr. COCKER read an extract front the Act, is
COOlirmAtinst or his opinion.
Mr. C A weave said, that the law of the goes.
lion was very difficult 10 be decided in an ii•seliably
like the present. tie entertained no doubt but the
Legislature intended to confer on the Proplietors
the powers contended for by the Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Cocker). Rut though the law of the case
might be doubtful, was there ally thing to prevent
the Sub-Conunitiet's resig • g, rather times con-
tinue in office against the general wish of the
Proprietors ?—(liear, hear.)—They could have
no personal interests in retaining it. Ile hod been
appointed one of the Special Committee, but
the gener of election, Intl personal mac limos, kid
',reedited him from giving his attendance; he
hid, however, read their Report, and lie en-
tirely approved of it ; and if it were necessary, he
would have no objection to signing his name to it,
and joining in something like a charge against the
Sub-Committee ; but it was a slight charge that such
prison% should have been ignorant of the. manage-
I
went of a Theatre. The Noble Lord (Yarmouth)
deserved much peculiar praise; he had thought it
right to pm) fur order. when he waisted them, and
the Noble Lord had such a peculiar and singular
taste, that he thought the Ilse of a private box
ought to be paid for.—(LotsgAfer.)As to the Re-
port complained of, all it went to do was to alter
the management. It was the general opinion of all
persons connected with the throne, that its admi-
nistration must be changed. For himself, he
would not accept of any situation before or behind
the curtain, or on the stage. If he could be in-
duced to take airy, it would be on the stage.—(A
laugh.)—The objects that ought to be kept in view,
were competition fur the public, something like
„payment to the creditor', and seinuneration to the
lierforsnere. The Committee were not liked—they
were not popular—affairs had not succeeded under
their management ; and that was a good reason fur
their resignation. If they were so obstinate or to
continue in power till September, they would ruin
all. He was ready to add his 5001. to the sum
propo-rd to be advanced by the other Members of
the Committee ; hut not if the Acting Sub-Com-
mittee remain iii office. Many others thought, and
were ready to act in the same manner ; for they
judged, that to lend money while the existing
Cu tttttt ittee held the reins, oould nut be wiser thins
to throw it into the Thames.—(Applause.)
Mr. Ituttar.ss asserted, that Mr. Cocker had
received 4.5001. as a compensation fur a debt not
worth 3,000/. and that he was now endeavouring to
pick a flaw in the lease of a private box, winch had
costa Noble Lord 2,500/.

Mr. COCKER contradicted the above-statement,
and declared that the Chancellor's seal hail been
put on a box fur the purpose of defrauding him
of it.
Local YARMOUTH defended the conduct of the
Sub-Committee in t!ie affair of the late Act of
Paalisment. They had intended to carry it only
as far as the Committee, and, if it had passed that
stage, then to submit it to the Proprietors. Wulf
regsrd to the nomination of a Trustee, a Meeting
haul been held srseisl clays agn, at which the resig.
nation of Mr. G.elifell had been taken into cons'.
deration. As to tile letting of boxes, that remain-
ed with the hort.keeper, soil he was ready to admit,
that such conduct as hail been described iu tins re.
spret was reprehensible in the extreme.

Mr. Rostra* repeated his statement with respect
to the thttioted

Mr. I). IIttiNAIIID said, he rose in the hope of
briaignig the assort bly to one mind. Ile commend-
ed the very judicious conduct of the Select Com-
mittee. Ile put it to the Sub-Committee, whether
it was nut better for them to come forward, and
deliver the Proprietors from the difficulties of the
Act of Parliament. Ile had not received any tic-
count of the election of Colonel Douglas to the
Trusteeship; and he was sure that (hotlemon
would not accept the situation when there was a
doubt felt by the general Proprietors as to hi*
capability. The Sub-C •tier ought to recol-
lect, that, btfore the opening of the Theatre, ull
the creditors lutist Ire satisfied as in a case of
COIIIIIIOII bankruptcy. lie must protest against
talking of management and opening the Theatre
us long a. the debts were unsettled.
Mr. Wti.soN said, he never gave himself on*
Imuired orders. Ile was ready to agree to any
lhiii resolved on by the Proprietors, and had no
objection In resign at their desire. But if they
removed the existing C tee, whom would
they pot in their place ? The Act of Parliament
rendered a Committee iiidispensahle ; lie thought it
au impolitic one, unil advised them to apply to the
Legislature fur all alteration in it. As to the isala-
ties complained of, they had been conferred by
Mr. ‘Vhitbread alone, on the day preceding the
lamented event they all r,cullixted.

Mr. liiuststau confirmed the last statement.
and added, that the allowance of 400/. a year to
Lori •... w.. u liquidation of a debt ilus to

Si > ,

him 11 ILe theatre, ant tlost yews 4... meads ti
trit•i..r his I.p.viss.. scr•sto..
Mr. P. Manse sold, that the fiat and
that that Committee which they :01 wishes' to
"Iris oat," lost which 11).-v shooltt Not, had tp.t
brought a single rucsmilievaisee mom the Theator
—they had f wud them all. Ile had himself t0...9
always hoosle to the system of estriers, and the
numbers of them alluded to must have titer, no
account of meters, or authors, on some I.llllkliiiir
occasions. Ile had Inwood, written a letter to
Mr. Itaymood ttsai.t his lavish squirviderh,g.
of order+. Ile had given, within the fiest .110 nigh,'
of his management, un less than 3,04 u. Ile 1.. v. r
had any thuog to do wills waste rind large 1441:417.;...
They hurl heard from the Noble I,ord ,
that he was prepared to share the fate of rill the
Committee. IVhatever that fate might be, he must
say, that neither palms, nor diligence, nor reserrich,
had been apred by it. lie could lay his hand Olt
his heart and declare, that lie was fire from r-weiv
cause of suspicion. The clear object of the Select.
Committee now was, to displace four, awl put in
the other. Ile would not be put down by the
clamour of any one. Ile would appeal to the geirytal
body of Proprietors, and say, that he would 4.t,t
abandon his trust while the irw continued us it IVH..
Their resolutions and censures amounted to ;waling
.—.while it coutinued iu force, so long it most be coo-
forinrd tu.

After it few rema-kr from Mr. QUIN. in furor
of the Sel.4t Committer, nod ►tatiog dolt ihr:e
ICIS an increase of delit of 16 0001. tit ►ix wvt•L',

Mr. MOURE in reply sail, th:it the iocrease con-
sided in tout and taxes, iattA the interest on hoods.
The whole increase for the last three we.-k., was
short of 6,000/. Mr. Moore the.. proceeded to ►as,
after sonar interruption front Mr. Calcralt, that
Mr. Kean had made a stipulation at the consturoce.
went of last season, that every sew piece isa which
he was to perform, was to be got tap under his
esiancigensent, and that five i.ieces so gut up, lia4)
Laded.

Mr. KINN trap I:ere observed, that Mr. react
bad complained to hirn that the cast at characters
wade by filial in OM piece, had beta altered while
out of (nun.

Mr. ,loom: said, hoot two characters bad beets
changed by mutual comoent of the reo runner,.
The amendment awl the motion were
then pat seporatrly, and the blew of Inualla do cl orrli
for the forayer; at the desire of Mr. Mooloro., loom-
ever, a taAlloot was enitrred into to cullcct inure ac-
curately the sense or the Meetiug.
The ntronlwrs were—
Fur the Antroilluent
Fur the Mittiou.

1111.1j.)rity ill favour of die Aluendsucat... Si
'llse Meeting then adjourned.

SPIES iIND 111-FORNEIIS.

Notwithstanding the many unpleasant obliere:t-
lions which the use of the above persons have occa-
sioned against Government, it must be mutter of
extreme regret to hod that such people Nue conti-
nuing to be sought fir, and relied on in various
departments —amongst others, at the Tax-Office.
We are given to understand, there are itutubers
of persons now employed to lay informations in
different districts of the country, who are conti-
nually bringing before the Commissioners (a set it*
Gentlemen who have undertaken this most unplea.
saut office a ithout fee or reward, for the sake of the
country) a number of vexatious and harassing
complaints. Already, it is said, many of the As-
sessors have resigned their offices; and should this
species of espionage go on ■nd he countenanced,
it may be naturally expected that no Gentleman
will continue to act in a cause where such men are
employed, and where the character and situation of
the Coinmissioneis have alone made the submission

to various taxes appe.,r It ss burdensome to the l*n.
pie, because they are csnisiuced they suffer equally
themselves.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

r.►r.►s, crir 21.

Ve‘terday evening the King tiniitaettd
w;th his Excellency 51. Luiiie, Alinister of the In-
terior.

111jesty transacted Wariness yesterday,
Mast., with the Count do Pradel, Director of the
Dousehold. At three o'clock lie went in lii. tar-
ring, to Verrieros.

The three Princes hunted in the %pod of 8.. u.
log nc.
Dia Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
nephew of the King of England, lb expected at
Roc!Wort at the end of the present mouth.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police has givea
judgment in the cause of the King's A aural.-
General against Nilessrs. Chevalier and Itegusuit,,
authors of La uthliotheque IlisJoreque, and ligoismt
Dsvid and Maine', the printers of this cork. It
has seen that the writing which formed the clip ct
of the process was reprehensible in it 4 entire
inasmuch as it tended to throw disrespect too tie
agents of the Government. It lisp also set a
several parts of the production telltitd to btrAti.,
by calumnies and iirjunts, the respect doe to CII
Iltr6oll and authority of the King; ii,at revels!
other puts were caluinnionii, inasmuch as they ima
puted, without legal proof, t.e fr:ictio:,,nriev, acts
arbitrary and illegal.

In consequence t%e Tri!banal 11.4 conilemne.i
Aleuts, Cheratierllll4l Regti.l4l It , each to nix month.'
imprisonment, and a fine nt.J,OOO franc., to mama
fur tire years under the iiiiperiima of the Iligll 1'•
lice, and to tind security fur 3.0.J0 francs. The ;elan-
tens, David and 11,wolUct. 11311 C LICCII
the charge. 'I be lid. also considered that
Mangiiiii, in pleading for dee accused, tallier...a
himself ut el.uulrr uileis.ive and injurious its the
Public ministry, and the atiab;ii4r.icy ill general. 1.1
virtue of nitwit 377, of the licii..l Cude, it lid*
hill an irjUl.Clithl on !Mu to be mum vitcuussi....l IN

ninro. and not to b• vrinfog in the respect doe to
th•• pnlilic ministry, and thp migistruteg.
It has ordered that is judgment be posted up in
tt, hlie to the number of three hundred copies. and
it has condemned Messrs. Chevalier and lteguault
to the expense.

M. Mauguin was not in Court when the judg.
meta wu pronouncing.

Titr Leedom granted by the Royal o.dioance of
the 4E ,h December, 1817, to the importation of
silks into France, confirmed by the law of the
h March, of *hid year, has been renewed by
The fullowing Ordinance :-
1. The application of the general Torii' of Customs aball
mania suspended with respect to silks imported from
sliroad, to the end of the year 1819.

it, from the Ist of Aerial next (the time of expiratioo
of the former Ordinance), end to the lit January., 1810, the
(little* on these articles shall be those that our Ordinance of
the 10th September, 1817, has established.

MT TUESDAY LOTTERY DRAWS.—TWO OF
f 30,060, TWO OF rtooo, ?,000 SOVEREIGNS,
( LA II ET, PORT, MADEIRA, GOLD. —ON LY SAO
TICKETS.

THE BR/TISH PRESS.

lON DON,

WEDNESDAY. JULY ft), Ma.

We have received the Parisi Papers of Saturday.
They contain several stricture,' upon General CA-
*t er., a Ito ib charrd with conspiring against the
King of FRANCE. The gravity of the charge,
and the respect due to the forms of justice,
should impose upon the Journals an entire
neutrality during the progress of this case. The
Paris Papers, all on the side and uuder the in-
fluence of Government, are not, however, re•
sirained by any motives of justice or delicacy, ex-
pected in the due administration of the law in ordi-
nal). cases. Their strictures are not only premature,
but uniformly to the disadvantage of the person
nwler accusation. The French Funds are a
Mile better; but it would be idle to attribute
the improvement to the timely discovery and
&frut of this wonderful conspiracy. The French
Funds, like our own, are subject to fluctuation; and
the nit:llion, on the present occasion, has not beets
sufficiently great to require the impulse of extraor-
dinary means. The/I/milieus contains an ordinance
cf the KING, extending the suspension of certain
ilaiirs upon the importation of foreign silks, which
I:alies would have become again payable on the Ist
of next month, till the end of the year 1819.
11,1 Friday the Fi.e per Cent. Consols were
77 1.10 franc,.

A Dutch Mail has arrived. The following are
eatntets:—

TROIE THI IFRRucii FRONTIERS, JOLT 19.
We learn that the Commissioners appointed by ►is Ma.
peep the King 55f France, to consider of a plan for a system
ref defence front the whole kingdom, according to its present
frontiers, ►ave already commenced their labours. The Co..
inission runsisto, besides its President, of the Abbe Mareiseett,
of 'cereal I 'teemed Offser rs of the Artillery and Engineers.
They must determiue •hat are the places which must be
at 'env heard, since the loss of Landau, M arienburg, and Phi-
iipreville, to restore the triple lime of Vauban to its original
strength ; they are al.o to consider of means of restoring the
furtresses which are so greatly dilapidated. The increase
the rieuch army is confined to the voluntary eurolinent
hkh g.ses on tolerably well ; but this is far from being
sufficient to make the army complete to the peace establish-
omit, fur which reason, it is supposed, that the usual levy
mill take place after the harvest.

saysens, !WM 20.

We Caller ourselves that after the meeting of the rsove.
igns at Aix-la-Chapelle. we shall have the pleasure of see-
s.. g their Majesties the Emperor of Russia sod Jiing of
l'iussia in this city.

TI, idlest farmers do out remember such a dry seasow as
Abe prestuit. The rye is already eat. sod is some places
AIM *heat, a eircuossiasee without a parallel.

'I lie following communication was received yes-
iertlay it Llo)d's

CORMIA. JULY ii.

1 c.terJay came in a gpanibh chaise maree, with the crews
f a curl Spitaiah coulters captured by as Insirgest ship
vitvai.er, in company wit► a brig and a drama warm, which
ay) lird laktig and armed.

CADIZ, JOLT S.

on the Ist instant, the N. S. del Carman , Paso%
ti ~at Marin, after being taken and plundered off Capekt.
by an Inaurgrat prslivateer.

Glasgow, Hunter, 'arrived in Hie Clyde from Jamaies,
1.% lountled 12th ult. uff Heuer', by an armed schuoutr,
%alga blur and white cherbrd Oar, toed soot►er schooner iu
I empany, licariug a white liaor trith au eagle sad stars, and
lt plinuilrrwol of sails, a spar, a barrel of Pwkt "d line"
gallk,ns of rusu.

,
Count c NSTER had au audience of tne
IZELLAT yeptrithiV.
Ills 1114,p•st's sloop Relate, Captain GaonGE
1.1411E1.1., I,lt !sheerness, on Holiday, for the
burr, to lake in her powder, previously to her
Oh% to Portsmouth to proceed to North America.
'Elie 11 isionrable Captain DUNDAS, of the Navy,
I nil Sues of Lind DENDA), is elected for the
only or Oikiw,, its oppotitioo to the late Mem-
r, by a majorny of sewn, at the most homey-
-4' meeting of the Freeholders that ever was as-
svinl.led„

The So- mhdoon Limners will have commenced
wheat iusrvvve, generally. in the retiree of the
Present week, sod mu scapula ewer afforded them a
loon pro/gistIsW.t m alnand4nt ann! for !brit

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