The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-29 00:00:00

RUAY_LAYE TIrE At 'RE,

Ml7tsrEttuAy,,,between one and two o'clock, a
eeting of the New Renters of Drury-Lane Thea-
tre took place at the Crown and Ancfior Tavern
in the Strand. Lord -KI/INAIRD was requested
to take the Chair, but declined. Mr. MORLAND
then took the Chair, in consequence of the
.request
of the ,company, and.-stated that . the purpose for
which that Meeting had been called,.-was to sub-
mit to it a Proposition which, without altering the
Trust of 17933 would' operate considerably to. the
advantage of tlie.Renters:
,
Mr. SHER I DAN,: after stating the particular cir_
cuiristances in' which the Renters of the Theatre
were placed, observed, that the sum of .01.; a
night, Which, it had been agreed, should be de-
duaed from the receipts of the. Theatre, and given
itito the hands cif the Trustees, had been found insuf_
ficient for the paynient of the Renters Shares ; and
Itereffire- the Proprietors had proposed to the t
Renters that the-sum should be fixed at 451. per
-night. It was neeessartfirSt of all, that the Duke of
BEDroit.D's rent-should. be,paid,aad next to that, the
patent rent. The Proprietors .41ere then willing,
:that, after•deduaing these, together with the other
'necessary expences of' the TheatVe,..frbin the re_
ceipts,.Of ecli night, the sum ,oftiaeele. out of the
residue, should be given to the Titi'Stee for the pay-
:mem of the Renter's ; and in order that no person
should have reason to suapea:that. those necessary
'expellees of the Theatre had been -over-rated, or
'that any mistatelnent Might: be made of them,iowas
agreed by the Proprietors, that all accounts should
he kept by a Clerk, that they should he submitted to
-the inspeeiion of petsons regularly nominated for
that purpose, and- their Mi.' WiL.SON, the "Lord
:Chancellor's Secretary, should -be the Auditor of
the Accounts. He hoped this proposal' would meet
:the zyprob;tion of every Gentleman. present, and
be could assure them that it was his sincere wish
:,tha-, all Ellett claims' might be settled- in a matiner .:
he most aatisfattory. to them. The eXpencea of
builciing the Tileatre were enormous ; , and he must
,repeat what he had said On a for Mer oceasibn; that
.the original estimate was never 'undertOod to lie
Confined merely to the shell of a Theatre, but.was • Understood to include all the taverns. and 'Other
buildings
,that were to be attached to the-Theatre.•
The expellees therefore having so far exceeded the
estimate, was one princpal cause of the --diffieulties
in which the property had been •
involved ; but
he could now inform th
had been a e Meeting, that a plan
greed.upon for ereaing; the taverns and
other buildings ; that it would shortly be submitted .
to the Renters, and he hoped it would- -Soon be car-
ried into effea.
- ,
• Lord KINNAIRD then expressed his approbation'
of the proposal made by Mr. SHER I DAN, and moved
,a Resolution to that urea.
The Motion was agreed to with only two dis-
:tenting v'oidef• ' There were about forty or fifty
"Gehtlemeii present.
C''' Mr, liammaaseny wished to have it explained
'why there were so many Private Boxes.
AsaNl.r. Sttaatoart replied, that these boxes had
1;" ecslti for the payment of_ mortgages on the
thja.t,re) and they were. placed in such a situation,
general
' Ina ereftion of them could do no injury to the
interest of the property. He then took
"asi"n to mention the great and unforeseen ex-
Pences that Thereattended tlie opening of the Theatre.'
was 'not a single old play that was repre-
. tented there, for which it had not been necessary to
Provide new scenery ' had all been ,in
the
same manner as if they
served new , had expressed
plays. The Chancellor, he- oba
„
theatre had never a wish that the business of the,
ver
arrangement of every ih‘s ; he ing
come before him, and that the
then a
taken out of his h a concerning it might-bedeclared he wished
(Mr.. SHERIDAN),
Losame thing as much as that
NOble and Learned
he sincerely hoped
that all the parties wo:il'i and
' come to a satisfaaOry
- , agreement ainong
nithemselves:, without troubling
fits L-rdsliip an
lie. should
.pro,xl.
,tire.r He next observed; that
lon future day the appointment
of a --ta •t
ommettee to consider of the best mode of
ereaing Taverns, 81e. ab
. out the Theatre.
The Meeting the • n adjourned to the ad March.
____________,,e_a_
THE THEATRE...--The Tragedy of Tif. , Mourn-
ing Bride was attended b
I) y a very numerous au-
(Bence last l -
. night at ruryalane Theatre. The
haughty.Charatier of Zara, softened b' 1 and
Y ove,
stung by disappointment fi 11
ha ' pless passion to a
yet na y sacrificing her
generous compassion for the
iobjea of it, gave ample
v scope 'to the talents of Mrs.
kIIDDONS. All these emotions with
the conflia of
contending passions, were expressed with . truth,
energy, and fire. Her deportment corresponded
With her
graceful. K EMR'
of 0.07,;-,,,,
.wh
,t.E made as much as could be made
0 is 'chiefly important in being the
favourite of •
Leal Princesses. Almeria was very
Well supported by Mrs. POWELL .Her surpriie
d a it -
an g ation at the first appearance of her husband,
whom she
posed dead, was uncommonly well ex-
pressed.
So was her
tenderness towards Gomyr,
and the n.rief
in s .and anxietyarising from the untelent-
, _Mrs.s powty of her. father. \Ve have seldom seen
everiE.
Le equally successful. '
Mrs. Bier
f , -rls.lGTola is so much better, that she is
free rom ner medical
attendants, and gone toKnights-
'arid e f
g or the benefit of a chap f -
, .ge o air...
Mr. ROB s°N, from superintending ';the feed of
the Cavul '
- rY., has constituted himself, in his o•-run
Qazette, the chief Scemclivr of Dublin—a most
aPPrCW4te,4pp.9intinent we must confess.
Thellit 0 •
e Countess .of Ho LDI3 RN ESSE% house was
yesterdaYl ift Is . A 11.
' '
, tei..... oy 'auction by Mr. CHR IST lE, for
the 911 % .
.i., , m f 4,07a1. The Purchaser was Lord
, Wituneteroar.
-,The whole of the DatchwortltEst, W
ates, near at-
ton, in Hertfordshire, the property of, .Wre-
, SON, Es9aa,
which came to the hammer at Garra..
way's, On Wednesdav,
believe bia_ovalit
• -a, 3,000 .
it was baught fbr the purchaser of PAIli.
Later t E LD'S noble mansion,. of Woodhall.
- The
. aFirst Consul has visited the various manu-
faaures at Lyaas, and entered,with
into the minutest details of their o •
perattons.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KTNG's BENCTI, JA ig.

Is the course of justification of Bail.; a Gehtle-
man appeared who was opposed.; but he stated, that
his name and title were, Edward O'Brien Price,
Baronet of that part of the 'United Kingdom -of
Great Britain
.and Ireland called Ireland : that he
had. been in the capacity of a Clerk to' a Woollen-
Draper at'Bristol, had- been arrested for debt Se-
veral times, but had discharged all claims upon
him, except the sum of -tot. which he said was an
Unjust-One': that he claimed a large estate in Cheshire
as heir-at-law of the late Sir John Powell Price—
went down last Autumn to take possession of it :
thavit was an estate on which the Freeholders, of
the County Claimed a right of common, and"Which77
is -worthr7ool.-a year : that his claim to this estate-
was allowed- by a decree in the Court .of Chan-
cery ; which decree, however, he did not produce,
shes,ving.only-lis -claim, and, therefore, Mr. Justice
LAWRENCE held that he could not justify Bail on
this species of property.—He then stated, that he
was in the aftual possession- of an estate in.lreland
of the value of 3001. a year, which descended to
him from his mother.. it was submitted, that the
property ought to bein England before he couldbe
allowed to justify ; but the Learned Judge observed,
that it would do --to have proper-tv either in England
win Ireland,. since the Ad. of Union, and quoted
a casein which it had been so determined. The
Gentleman, and his companion on the Bail piece,
then justified in the sum .of ispl.

THE KING V. STEVENTON.

this,is a case which stood over from the laSt
Term--for argument. It_ is a convidion for a con-
spiracy to prevent a Witness from attending to give
his.ividence before the Commissioners of
,the' Ex-
cise, upon an information exhibited, of a person
having in his possession certain-contraband goods,
quantity of wax candle,s; for which the duty
was not paid.
- A motion was made in arrest of judgment, on
the ground that it' was not stated, in the informa-
rian, tbatilie- person who-gave the information-,
was
,fin Officer of His MaiestO Revenue, which,
it vcias contended, was,.required by the AEI of „Par„
!lament of the z 6 Geo. Fi. c.. 7. S. 13.,
The ATTORNEY GENERAL sheaved cause against
ibis rule, and contended, that from ate several
Sratutes which govern this subjed, and which are
to-be taken in pari -niateria, it was not necessary
that'it should be statekl,:.as,here required by those
who objeCted to
.it. Thar the' provisions! of- the
-,tas Were applicable, in express terms, to Cowls of
_Record— That wherever an A& ,of Parliantent
stated Courts of,Record, it was, held to relate to
;Ile Courts of Westminster-Hall, and to them only ;
consequently- had no reference to the proceedings
before the Commissioners of the Excise. --
Mr. MINGAT, Mr. GARROW, and Mr. 'WOOD,
were on the same side ; the latter Learned Gentle-
man argued the case at some length.
Mr. ERSKINE was proceeding to argue in support .
of the Motion,. when

Lord I(EivroN suggested the propriety of the
case standing over for a few days, to afford time.
for Counsel to look into :the different Aas of Par-
liament, and also to ascertain what had been the
form of pratttice ever since the year 1786 in these.
InforMations ; which, the Court ordered accord-
ingly.