The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-06 00:00:00

DRAMATIC PIECES.

Prefatory to the return of the number and
title of each dramatic piece or song licensed by,
the Lord Chamberlain during the years 1829,
1830, 1831, and to the 11th June 1832, Mr.
Colman gives the following explanations :
In pursuance of a resolution of the House of
Commons I now forward a return of the number
and title of each dramatic piece or song examined
by me, and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain,
during the years 1829, 1830, anti 1831, to the
present time, specifying the dates of the licenses.
As to an account of the fees paid to me by
the theatres, which I am further ordered to for-
ward, those fees are two guineas upon the deli-
very of each license, which sum has, to the best
of my knowledge and belief, been regularly re-
ceived by those holding my office, ever since the
Act of Parliament passed in the year 1737,
which placed theatres under the control of the
Lord Chamberlain. Fees, therefore, appear to
le established by a prescriptive claim of 95
Years, and " fees and emoluments" are included
in the terms of my stamped appointment.
The fee of 40s. was exacted, in remote times,
ny the Master of the Revels, whose office seems
from record to have been equivocal. A fee of
two guineas for each license has been paid time
tut of mind to the Examiner, who is regularly
old legally sworn into office, and his appoint-
ment is signed and sealed by the Lord Cham-
berlain ; so that the Examiner's fees are very
materially less in the present day than they were
in former times, according to the comparative
value of money at the different periods.
On the first year, however, of my holding the
office of Examiner, I established one alteration
in my receipt of fees, which the following copy
.)f a letter to a former stage manager of Covent-
garden Theatre will best explain :
" June 29, 1824.
_ _

" conscience obliges me to trouble yotl
igain, and to return (as enclosed) two of the fort'
guineas which you have this day forwarded to rne.
Certainly a license is indispensable for each near
-ong, and there is a fee upon eve.), license; but 1
,hotild be sorry to bear hard upon the performers b)
00 close an adherence to my perquisites. If there-
fore several new detached songs be sent to me a,
nice to be licensed for one and the same bent ii
light, I beg to receive only two guineas for all o
hem collectively ; should there, however, be only on,
song, I expect the same fee.—l am, See.
(Signed) " G. COLMAN.
" To J. Fawcett, Esq., Stage Manager,
Theatre Royal, Covent garden."

Again, in the year 1828, a company of French
ierforiners was allowed to act for a season in
London, since which they have continued then
seasons annually. On their second season I re-
linquished all my fees due for 113 dramas which

Wheat. Barley. I Oats. i beans.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. a. to s. s. to s.
Rlandford 61 35 22 38
B 52 63 36 49 19 22 31 35
Cambridge— 24 18 33
Chard 56 62 28 34 18 22 34 38
Huntingdon 58 67 27 33 19 24 30 34
Long Sutton 56 64 17 22 32 35
Louth 5O 53 27 32 17 20 32 34
56 61 28 32 22 28 34 35
Newark 55 65 33 43 17 20 32 40
Nottingham ..—.—.. 60 66 31 42 22 26 36 42
Peterborough 50 61 32 33 20 24 33 38
Plymouth 60 66 30 34 21 23
67 43 27 43
Sleafbnl 6.5 70 36 38 22 28 41 43
Uppingham 58 63 32 40 20 24 30 40
Wisbech.. . 54 57 32 35 14 18 32 35

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York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
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BIRTHS.
On the Pct inst., at Crayford: Kent, the lady of the Rev. R. B.
BOWIIIC, of a son.
on the 3d inst. the lady of James Weston, Esq., of Finsbury"
circus, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the sth inst. at St. Monis Backchurch, M. Saward,
of Chatham-place, to Harriette, eldest daughter of the late Itcv•
John Summer, of Rochford, Essex.
On the 4th inst. at St. Mary's, Leyton, the Rev. Robert MO:
ricke, of Dinharn.lodge, Luolow, Salop, to Mary,
of the late Edward Andrews, Esq. of daughter

On the 13th ult. at LeghDorlnE,Dilary Augusta Stephenson,
Yotinge t daught rof Edward Stephenson, Esq. Farley.hill.
On the 4th inst. at 'Footing, Walter Lord, Esq., in the 73d
year of his age.
On the 3.1 inst. in Sloane-street, Chelsea, in his 34th year, Mr.
James Whitehead.
thi the 3d hist. , after a lengthened illness, Mr. William Mac-
kley, of Tottenham-court-road, in his 65th year.
On the 4th inst. Mr. Edward Mould, of East-place, Lambeth,
aged 56.
On the 30th ult. at Winchester, Miss Blackburn.
On the 3d inst. at Brunswick.place, Brixton-hill, William, son
of Mr. William Holt, in the cad year of his age.
On the Ist inst. at Lower Connaught-place, Mrs. Frances
Scott, aged 76.
On the 24th ult. a' his house, Springfield, Liverpool,
Nicholson, Esq., late Lieutenant-Colonel and one of the senior
>eputy-Lieutenants of the county of Lancaster, in the 56th year
,f his age.

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