The Sun.
London, England, 1817-01-23 00:00:00

SURREY TIIEATRE.

On Twelfth Night the Manager invited the
whole of his establishmeat to .an entertainment
of cake, wine, and other refreshments, which
was also, attended by several private ftiends of
high respeetabiltty. Last night; after the fall Of
the etatain,for the season, the Company of Per-
formers gave a loodsOme slipper, in the Theatre,
to Mr. and Mrs. T. DI RDIN anti thick friends,
W 14.14,11. trAlt wit h gro‘it 61141 L t,tttt tiar..
minty. ri'CVIOUS to close of the stageiper-
romances Mr. Ms DIN came, forward, and thus
'addressed the audience :--
‘, Ladies and:Genilemen,—l cannot ,permit this
evening to elapse without personally, offering my
respectful thanks far those favours, which hav,e
enabled me, as sole Proprietor of this Tbeatre,
withont any other partnership than the honour
at your patronage and.. the support of my Per-
formers, to briog this establishment to its presebt
state of improvement, and to close a prosperous
season, notwithstanding a series Of ttopropitions, '
and still less propitious circumstaneea, in which.
we all have shared.
I have also, Ladies and Gentlemen, to exe-
cute a most pleasing Aluty, in thus publicly thank-
ing the Performers and Artists of every description,
for, a co-operation of talent, zeal, and industry,
,which, aided by the 4intlness, uttanilnitY, an} re-
spectful atteoiion to each other, which has as.
silted to produce, in so short a sp,aie of time, the
suttnerous pieces which, on these boards,.. have
been functioned byiyotir, approbation.
.f In the nantepf those Perfmlners, my
Wfl I gratefully repeat our colinuon acknow-
ledgments ; and in taking leave till Easter MOnday,
hug to assure ,00, that the, intermediate period
,shall hi's:lo4l4 in fresh entleavonts to merit a
colitioUaOcc vf,,your favbur• and pfuttctiou.".

Alt !.my good Friends! would to Heaven that
our own Count' y was free front mf.rt of such dis-
positions, who are whining everlastingly over the
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distresses of the poor, hut will neither spend a
feerth'lna nor Ifl a finger to remove them, I could
-easily point out 10 you the town Where they re-,
Having rebelled first nwtinst their dod,
they seem ripe for rebellion against.their King
Bin will say no more, Itst I should drag the'
Moles and Bats front that obscurity 'l9r Which
Nature designed them.
After taking our leave of the Hunts, let me
hitt:a-dike to you anOther worthy, who has equal..
thOUgh he has not acquired equal tame.
This Man failed (us tnsony An hottest. man has
rdoneY 'early In tile. Hiss connextons being good,
a inure advanced period, he entered into husi.
ri
iness CsecOnd time, Upon a largi:r scale, and was
'a second time unsuccessful. his creditors were
again inclined to be lenient ; but upon
as is anal, to examine his accounts, this great

man, who fancies himself able to manage the gtf.
fairs of EMpires, and would be content with no
less a place than that of a Treasurer, or Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, openly and unblushingly
declared, that lie had kept no books" !!!!
Of many oihers it is unnecessary to say more
,than the old adage has said to such men many
centuries ago—" Let not the Cobbkr presume be-
yond his last." _ _

And now, my worthy Friends, I will bid adieu
to you, for the present, hoping you will always,
as you have`had in this instance, have the good
stuse not to suffer yourselves to be led on to cer.
min destruction ,11, a stet of noisy, prating, urn..
principled fellows, to whom no one who knows
them well would entrust a handful of copper one

pounteri.
lawcathire, Jim. um,

VERITA';,