The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-23 00:00:00

FOR TUE SUN.

The following Letters are entitled to a.place in
our Paper. as they relate to a Gentleman to
whom the l'oblic is indebted for the institution of
a Theatre may be truly deemed NATIONAL,
as he bias often gratified the Public by his own
literry talents, and as he is the son of one whose
memory we bold in esteem, and whose profes-
sional science, taste, and genius, will for e►er
preserve his came with honour in the musical
annals of this country. We shall, however, ad-
here to the useful maxim audi alteram partem, and
at present only express our regret that dissentions
should ha‘e arisen among those who were once
in amicable intercourse and connexion :

Golden-square, Dec. 22.
ED/TOR,—A report of the trial of Caba-
bel v. Drury-lane Theatre,' having appeared in
all the Daily rapers, on Thursday last, and great
plibliAty having been thereby given to the slan-
ders uttered against me, by. Mr. Gurney, accord-
ing to his instructions, as Counsel for the defend-
- ants, I shall be much obliged by your publication
),Ixf the accompanying letters ; since, as the Sub-
committee have thoUght, proper to decline an-
swering them, I can no longer, in justice to my-
self, allow the calumnies they tacitly acknowledge
to remain uncoutradicted.
am by no means desirous to thrust myself un-
necessarily on you or on the public; but I. con-
ceive
myself called upon to declare, in direct
turn's, that every syllable that was delivered by •
the Sub-Committee's Counsel in regard to we,
•Was utterly false and malicious ; and above •all,
that part which accuses use of animosity,' &C.
towards that Committee, which I have invariably
endeavoured to conciliate, and from which, since'
I voluntarily left the Management of Drury-Lane
Theatre, I have suffered the most unremitting and
ungenerous hostility, and the bitterest and meanest
persecution. I .am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
S. J. ARNOLD.

(COPY.)
TO MR. BURGESS.

Golden-square, Dec. 17.

. _
Sts,—Mr. Gurney, as Counsel for the Com-
mittee of Drury-Lane Theatre, having this morn-
ing, in addressing the Jury, stated that the suns
I had certified as due to Mr. Cabanel, was a mere
job got up by Mr. drnold, to serve a friend,' or words
to ttat effect, and its direct contradiction to the
evidence before the Court (which proved that I
had signed the certificate for Mr. Cabanel's de-
mand many weeks previous to my quitting the
management of 'Drury- Lane Theatre) ; having
stated ‘ that the Defendants were indebted for
this suit to the animosity of Mr. Arnold, who
Was at variance with the Committee at the time he
signed the order for payment, and who, having been
discontinued as Manager, had shewn a most lauda-
ble degree of hostility to his former employers,'
I have deemed it expedient' to wait upon Mr.
Gurney this evening, in order to ascertain whe-
ther he had delivered these calumnies as his own
opinion ; and that Gentleman having nnhesitat--
ingly disclaimed the slightest personal allusion to
toe, and assured me that he had not uttered one
• syllable beyond his instructions, I now call upon
you, as Solicitor to the Committee of Drury-
Lane Theatre, to inform me upon whose autho-
rity you have presumed to insert, in your instruc-
tions 'o Counsel, the gross, malignant, and scan-
dalous falsehoods which, in conformity with those
instructions, were uttered by Mr. Gurney, in the
Court of King's Bench this morning.
1 am, Sir, &c. &c.
s. 1. ARNOLD.
• P. S. I expect your answer by the hearer.

(COPY.)
TO SAM. JAMES ARNOLD, ESQ.
Curzon-street, Dee. IS, 1817.

Sta,---4 beg leave to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, dated yesterday (delivered at my
house this day about 12. o'clock), And to- acquaint
you that I am not accustomed to inform Gentle-
men what instructions • I give to my Client's
Counsel, or upon whose authority. I.am,
Your obedient servant,
HENRY BURGESS.

(COPY.)
TO THE SUE-COMMITTEE uF THE THEATRE-ROYAL,

DRURY-LANE.

GoldcH-square,.Dec. IR, 1.517.
Gentlemen,—l enclose the copy of a letter ad- ,
dressed by me, yesterday, to Mr. Burgess, your
solicitor, and another of his answer, obtained
after sending four times to his house in the course
of the day. By the latter it appears that, though
he avowedly had his instructions from the Sub-
Committee, he is fearful of committing himself
by committing the individual from whom he re-
ceived his orders. As I cannot suppose the whole
of the Members of the Sub-Committee to have
been assembled to give those instructions, and •
.especially as it is notorious that the geneeal ma-
nagement of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, has
uSually.been confided to one. individual of that
Committee, I presume the Gentleman or Gentle-
men to whose instructions to Mr. Burgess I have
applied the terms gross, malignant, scandalous, and
false, will have no hesitation in acknowledging
his or their meritorious act.
I should be sincerely sorry .to throw any public
or private stigma on the whole of the Sub-Com-,
mittee ; some of whom I know well and respect.
mach, and to the others can have, no
'since I .have not the honour of knowing them at
all ; but I 'conceive. that the person or. persons
who have ventured to dictate the mode of defence
-set up, solely for. the purpose; as it appears, of
villifying and slandering, me, will feel it incumbent
upon him or them to rescue the. credit of the
other Members of the Sub-Committee from the
..broad imputations and unqualified epithets I ,hare
attached to their Solicitor's- authority, by.a manly
acknowledgment of their own responsibility,. •
As it is not my intention to suffer the present
impression made by your Counsel's defence to be
promulgated to my injury, or to permit,the busi-
:.ness. to cool before I. give the lie direct to the ca-
lumnies-uttered under -your sanction, I,:must 're-
quet the honour of your answer before four
o'clock to-morrow, immediately after which hour
I shall convey tle whole of the. present corre-

spnndence (with my own observations). to the
Press.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,

S. J. ARNOLD.

(COPY.)
TO TWE SUB-COMMITTEE OP THE THEATRE•ROYAL,

DRURY-LANE,

Golden-squatc, Dec. 20, 1817.
Gentlemen,---Having learned that my letter of
Friday last welisent on from the Theatre to the
residence of one of- your Members who was out
of town, 1 have thought it possible that my ap-
plication did not reach you in time to afford au
opportunity for the answer 1 expected yesterday ;
and being extremely anxious to avoid any public
accusation of the Sub-Committee collectively,
while they are probably collectively- gniltless of the
injurious and impertinent liberties that have been
taken with my name ; I have deemed it right to
postpone, for a tew hours, the publication of the
currespondunce, in order to afford you more time
to acknowledge or disavow so infamous au attack
upon my character, or to enable any individnal who
may singly have dared to calumniate me, to stand
forward and acknowledge his individual responsi-
bility. I cannot think £ 0 injuriously of any Gen-
tleman of the Sub-Committee as to believe that
(being 'conscious that the terms I have used apply
to him) he will screen himself front my just in.
dignation behind the cowardly shield of your or
ficial unity ; nor call you believe that I will suffer
the string of falsehoods which have been-utterrd
in your name to remain oncontradicted, -or the
author of them, if he can be found, to escape un-
punished. I -have the honour to be; Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
S. J. ARNOLD.

LAW IN lELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 22.

DAVIES CLARK V. THE DUKE OF MAEI,BOROUGH AND

THE EARL OF SPENCER.

This was an application for a receiver.to the
Blenheim estate, the property of his Grace the
D ke of 11Iarlbarougli ; and also respecting
.5,0001. a year which is paid oat of the Post•office
Revenue. In consequence of an objection made
by Sir Samuel Romilly the further hearing of
case was postponed till to-morrow.