The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-22 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDF.N.

Monday night the season of this Theatre closed ;
when Mr. Fuwcet made the following address to the
audience :
LAMES AI% GENTLEM —TIM termination of another sea-
son calls forth another tribute of grateful acknouledgment
from the Proprietors of this Theatre, Mr the very en-
couragement you have atforded them, through a year, not the
most favourable for-Theatricals. Supported by a Company,w ho‘e
varied talents you PO kindly Uppniriale, the Proprietors have
been enabled to produce both Novelties and Revivals, with a
strength of east which has ensured their attraction. 1‘1i43
O'Neill, in Tmeedy, tuts fully sustained the brilliant reputation
she acquired on her appearance last year ; and her performance
in Comedy seems to promise that she will heroine the favourite
child of 'nail.), us she is of 'Melpomene.

At the desire of our Illustrious Princess. ho has .o ;!raei.
otedy condescended to patronize the National Dratimit Mrs. Sid-
dons re-appeared fora few the radiance of her
departing beams Him ll iii ed the pages of our immortal Bard.
To adopt his Master-pieces. to represent the storks of Shak-
apea re in a 11141111 Cr worthy of his surpassing genius, is the 'wide
and boast of this Theatre. And it is worthy of remark, that
this y.ar, exactly two centuries after Shakspea re's death, 11110
of his most Poetic Dr,usias has been restored on the Cos tot-
garden Stage.
Until the second slouday in September, the moat time of re-
opening, the Proprietor+ most respectfully hid you farewell.
'lime Performer.. Ladies all'i Ueutlent,m, throne' me, express
their gratitude for your iminterropted kindness and indulgence ;
and o e tunably take om lease till next season.

The indisposition of the Princess Charlotte prevented
her from attending Covent-garden Theatre on Monday
night, to see Miss Stephens in llaxd«ac.
Reynolds, in one of his comedies, ohs,:rves, " I don't
like -Summer—the Theatres are .sided; and they remind
me 9f so many departed friends, that were wont to instruct
and delight me." These f,ritnds from Covent-garden are
now pursuing their different routes. Mr. Lh,ton, Mr.
Mathews, and Miss Stephens, we understand, arc gimc fin-
Ireland ; Mr. Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemble, and Miss
O'Neill, fin. Scotland ; Miss Booth, Cm Exeter and Ply-
mouth ; Blanchard to Liverpool ; Emery, to Yorkshire,
Newcastle, and Durban& ; and Miss Foote makes a tour,
Cu- a few nights, at each of the following !lams:—Tun-
bridge Tells, Margate, Worcester, Herefind, Cheltenham,
Worthing, and Brighton.

A In:EL—One eight List week, At neatly tell o'clock, two
boys, one 4 barber, Avit the other
Alct 4t low-w.iter *mak, to midi' ads it of honour
revecting a la 4114111 ; ware attenili.,l 0 a .ill •
gle second for inolt parties -tired tun room's: one b.Jf •
had effect 6) ims.ling through the skirt of the isawbet's -This meeting of kutiour u$ of the following celettvalcil
line, :

Raw a Meter and 3 CoNier fight.
'Fite tia:ber bem Cie dingy Coal. white:
The wr,t:died Collier ntised his 41i:41ml
And, big with vengeance. beat the barber him&
In e:::»e li,i,k-d,:d.taatt, with rime o'enTread.
And beat the Bather :Ind the Collier
llltwk, re-I, and white. wore thus in columns test.
And in the cloud the tom'ontants wtlust

fire broke wit on NiouJai; Ibe v Mitre of Stoboiougli
near W.trefiain. Dorset, which, iu three hours,
teen dwelling with tout of the foci; itute, bare,
ay.