The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-31 00:00:00

TO TILE EDITOR.

ttc:i rename his been 'widowed upon the
m•nagement of this theatre. The sucress of the
iantvern certaioly•lia4 not it the expectation
of myst.ir into others intetrated ill it. I
that I have seen in the ra4e for emigration.
and other • temporary awl imidetstal
citcum-
st:utc?s, smite cause, thote;4ll tint adequate caurie, for
thii result. Suite permits, however, sere de-
!ermined to impute it 4,11!,Ily and #.l“. I tisi ely
to the mismllli:ogentent of the gi,l)-('ffininitire,
and particularly that part of it that remains iti
(Ace, disclatimig to rebel/111W) its treat and ditty.
—Nly knowledge and experience of the tomtit 4
save me from becoming ilte dope: 'or livt,
representation; and the !Alms ing 46E41111115t which I
enclose, is not the only nee in toy possessiatt,
if published, may perhaps sat: others twin falhug
into • snare laid to entrap them..
~.Ai OLD Sunscrtsea.

(Copt.) .
LEITER FROM MR. 11101ong,TO MR. r,It•MIoND,
Doted ()el Is, 1817.
Drat !Cm...4 armor yesterday, r,po stiff( l'oM flit,
wish M►. Ems* with the prompt's', roil of tb.• CAblvt• of
Preside, littel it way he furthatth printed fur the use of the
theatre.

I have not seen a piny Lill or • newspaper sioce I I. ft
town; but. Mr. Lamb informs me, obit " lo• ha. left you
with your hands (sill," 1 hope, of AI. itico's tool Potosi's, so
very necessary to :he support of our istabliylotsesit.
The principal object of my, now, It`t it log to pot is, the al-
ready enormity ofonr pay lists, utak+ the rec. ipso' will not
he competent to support, With other totariaidah'e
sinless the receipts iocrease;
.and all mar troporil renown!,
by the discharge of our opera and bilk, establi•liment, ham
virtually merged, in the increase of the pay lists, as they
stow beiriw to opt rate. one ;may list, I Lail, in fact,
little or nothing to do, Si you p Il &mils; I ow, mit once
e 0.111111,11, Rlt 10 any of She Dew etierpt Allot
Cu bill's. In looking at it now, it ms, perhaps. 100 late to be
11,04111; hitt, I think, there are many perform. rs in the lists
ecessary mad
,useless; molt WIWI, 111(.111 ear-
nestly, conceit of 'frit; to iuduce as 11$11011'y'as esti, of thnii
description, is ti you mesa boow better tl.sie inyfelf, nut
to he want. il, to ems int./ the count,r tier ate Anil exec ci set
and, in particuilm,l most auxinurty remotest, that you will
not engage any .4 her performer batmoweer, unitaof the
emprrinfire ardor', of Kman ood poirlon and
Mitudca, until they eau 1w pruvolmd for by ale-rime., and dot.
charges. The present sea lc of tee. ipts cannot pay Sturm
and the treasury already so iiwolvid, by trtpatiums
that I do not terl justified so Girlier aid, and cannot r-
lake to paw additional perform r. molorwoe than Olt the
hifoie mentions il. Thrri-fore, 'f •mimy new ,iym-
gseement be thought aileisahle for Ilse timt. re Nt• of the
theatre, it ma,* lie submitted to the CMIT WO' :end acting
Tesodee, as 10 lite awaits of :meyins us, for mat ore atlittria.
lion ; that, if the recommendation he not a. cototianied by
the means of payment from 1111Pettle.11 rod sn.elmimzcs, the
Committee may be folly aware of what menu. they may pus-
ses. to meet the additional demand.

It is a slate of nsivery to me, to go 1111tc:!;,,,0.e.., 'Own
so crippled no not to be competent to 11114 I t*. j,..11 de-
mand, anal nu member of the entimintie Au. toms ..nd f.. 1
this as I do. Many portions of our receipts, limo ercriddly.
ate already hypothecated to partial pots me., and, oinkr
these circumstances, an overwhelming ply h.% such nu
our's, is death to the theatre, as you pert', tly well know;
while no tradesman will longer give us ary cs edit, aithunt
a personal guarantee.

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My next object relates to orders, of gr. atitition nelminion
to the theatre, as doe* are denominated. My opinion, of
which you are fully apprized, dee adrdly and unequivocally
is, to aboliok the practice of issuing them fur e rev, as worse
than unionessarY, operatively ruptures to the Ilwntre. Al,
level eitatom is no justifiable excese foe eiriors practices,
and ought never to lie suffered to extmisside good firiirr.
I have never altered my opinion upon this outset, So for
the better, in streugthening it by experiesiev. iuliermalious
/111.1 rrdectiun. Last.year, my efforts, by if etilaitops, whirls
1 submitted to the Committer, near:y put a tissalend to this
pernicious practice, and those regolationo ace still in force.
Be the result what it may, it cannot rhaligr the principle on
which my opinion is formed of the mischief resulting from
the practice, and as 1 see, by the nightly lichen's, that, out of
a house distressingly crowded, which, by calculation, it all
paid, independent of free privilege, would yield mule 111.111
5601. and that we did not, recriwe sine half of than sum, it
is more than high time to adopt other prisicip!es, and to re,
were to the Committee's wholesome rig is lat tttt Nos deli Ise, lately
and specifically laid down last year. Those, like all other
regulations in force, were deliberately parsed in full com-
mitteeotid I know and have the decided sentiments of some
of my colleagues, not only that those eggeolat ions most •Ise
enforced, but that orders, generally speaking, should lie for
ever abolished. I srgetitly requested of Mr. Lamb to speak
to yon most particularly on ibis subject.
I am egoist awakened to the pressing importance of this
*object. by the present crippled condition of the treasury,
which must be relieved by some means or other ; and if we
cannot effect that end otherwise than by resorting to ex-
tremes, to extremes we must inevitably resort. I have there,
rote written to the only Member of the Committer now in
town, to recommend, as my decided and firm opinion, that
the Secretary be directed officially to furnish you with the
regulations of last year for your guidance., un thus subject of
orders, cud that they be rigidly enforced.
A. before stated, 1 have the sentiments anther Members
of the Committee for the same object*, and I hirer
slot from the pursuit until finally anconspliehrel, became
otherwise I fuel 1 should betray my trust. 1 win confident
the full execution of this role will relieve the theatre from
distress ; and if, on experience, it do soil, 1 have another
resort, perhaps more certain, but *lints 1 am anxiously
struggling to avoid ; but, if the 'cranny In nut evinced,
by the one meanie ur the other, as the Trostre of this twat
property, I feel that I shall betray my "root if I do not le.
commend the doors to be closed. On supinersing this chow
of orders, Mitre cant be uu appne hension cf playing to empty
benches, the idle plea for orders ; mid Mr. Kean, Mr.
Munchen, Mr. Merton, &c. in their hymns Mind despise as
audience that will poly come to bear their invaluable leer
suns to the owlet, because they can come for nothing. Let
us, then, in lilt MNlllitr, rake au modirsier news collected.
as we more especially ought to do, der tilt illy and unrquivo-
edty all I des, that Mr. Iheien's attraction ran
wevar he elinlll.ll4loll, Wllllllll the wentel possess mind. to com-
prehend, feelings to appreciate, mid tome to disrsinoteatet
his admirable delineations of stature, and Ihall spots hew est-
monde portreoluse has newer brill esidingened but by this do.
gradiag premiere of issuing these grannies's seelemosions.
Nay, 141 my Min knowledge, alter 1111 a :,Iy large tool
respectable InwOon of the commemity, 1 Meal), amongst Ihr
middle oliisse. of society, who re one tee treat their iietel.lects
by Mr. Keses's finished remeesentationo, under uuy such
humbling cover.
hot, !et 11. for a moment image, to examine what visitors
contribute to fill the house, Insides money payers asul order-
bearers. ,1 he newspaper penile gen—the six Cial free Itst
of the theatre, of anthora, &c.--the old theatre !OM
privileges, and the penile-gra of enliscrabers to the tiew
theatre—the gratuitous privileges of the peeteriness, snit
moo signet bones. These several classes, of themselves, rorlik
a very considerable, nut to call it a very large issolicucul
and we know, by our retreat, that in se eics.es slits •, of
remotion visitoss, unequivocally. repo:lime lieu idle do. ad el
empty bencleea. And, it we add, liar pit, :away. WI, it,,,
renew fide evidence of n goo./ or had the r.ll. rues,
Mid the average box servile's 'paltry and doCrediOdille ar
they are to the lashionahle, to the polished scciety ief "ire
splendid inrltopolls, rue such collecti re faculty), tin (wilier
Rergiritui•jer:l:lll.l..e7l:ll:4l.tal mull m the perfurmr•.. wiseli mull cps.
pi Jur of the folly of williAg deceit. 1 am certain,. Me

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