The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-01 00:00:00

DIDURY-4,,1NE THEATRE,.

As the, melancholy state of -this property has na-
tnially excited a strong interest in the Public, «e
tetutily giye place to the follawing-article, which
seems to be the -mostlotcible appeal that has yet •
beep urged in behalf Of the patent and, those who
depend upon it.- •
,TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT
MAJESTY.
e bumble Petition of Sn,Rax IttqllA.RDeON., Widow
if Joseph, Richardson, Esquire, late Member for New-
port, in Cornwall, and• by his,Will, Representative for
her tour Danghters of a Quarter Share of the. Patents and
other remaining Prep,:rty of the late Drury-Lane The.
lase. - In behalf 'of herself and family, and of all t}PaSe
who have interests dni,ending °iv that property,
S.l-I,ENVET He, _ -

-That your Majesty's Petitioner laving been* in.
formed that, without any regard tolthe calamitous
Situation into which she and her family are plunged
by the destrudion of the late Drury-Lane Theatre,.
and without any eonsi.deratioa for the various in-
terests of those connected with that property, a cer-
tairt combination has 'been formed, and a subscrip-
tion set on frobt,. for opening a third Theatre in this
Metropolis, and that a Petition has been presented
to your Majesty, soliciting your Royal Authority
fos that purpose,. -
nit your Nraiesty's Petitioner, under an im-
pression that were she not to use her best endeavours
to prevent any such favour from being granted to
the above Subscribers and Petitiopers, it would be a
failure in what she owes to herself, her family, and'
to those who, in' DxurY-Lane neat re have ern bar ked
a sum greatly exceeding three hundred thousand
pounds, upon the faith of the exclusive right of re-
presenting plays and other theatrical performances
vesting in that Theatre, and the Theatre-Royal Co-
vent-Gasden, begs humbly to submit to, your Ma,
jesty, as to the fountain of all justice in the British
dominions, 'not only the peculiarly dif6cult and dis-
tressed situation of herielf and family, who have no
propertrwhateter but tho above Quarter Share, bat.
-the ruinous consequences that must inevitably result
to their inteiests, and the interests of all those who
have advanced their money nm the late Theatre
-Royal,, Drury-Lane, should the establishment of a
third Theatre take place in this Metropolis.'
That having considered a Royal Patent as an in-
'violable security, those who embarked their money,
either in Drthy-Lane Theatre, .or that of Covent-
Garden, feeling themselves asiured in that particos
lar, willingly aciVanced heavy sums towards raising
and supporting. those establishments for liberal and
'intellectual arausentent.
That should a third Theatre be san&ioned, the
• value of the two Winter Theatres, so long esta-
blished, would' not only inevitably be diminished,
- each a third, but the exclusive Patents which were
granted to Sir William Davenint and Thomas Kille-
grew being once .violated, there, cou:d no longer be
any certainty
.that Male Theatres might not be open-
ed no person would therefore be so rash as to ad,
vance money for re-building And this alarm your
Majesty's Petitioner feels to operate sensibly against
Drury-Lane Theatre, in the endeavours used to, rein-
state that demolished property.
. That the inviolability of the. Patents appeared to,
:the Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre of such es.;e4-
tial importance, that they rather chose to purchase,
at a heavy expence, the Patent granted to Thomas
Icillegrew, and then dormant, than to'huild their

late Theatre on the presumption of its, being sup-
ported by renawals of their existing Patent. The
Patent for twenty-one year of his late Majesty
King George the First, not only having beep grant-
ed at a period when the two Patents of the late
King Charles the Second* were in the possession of
an individual, but when from the rniscondua of
the person who possessed them they were suspend-
ed ; and although that Suspension his late Majesty
King George the First-was pleased afterwards to re-
m ove,. yet from the circumstance of one person
holding both the patents granted by King Charles
the, Second,
.those Patents virtually were held sa-
cred, there still being but two Theatres, sanetioned
in the Metropolis,
That the risques of Theatrical Proprietors must in
any case inevitably be very great, and that many per-
sons have been ruined in adventuring the accu.nu-7
lated gains of many years of diligence and frugality„
upon the certain heavy expenditure and precarious
success of a Theatre..
That Authors., polished by edocatiOn, and e•;;'
spectable both by situation and by character,. could
not be ex peeled to dire& their talents to the Drama,
unless the reward should promise to be ac'equAeAO.
the exertion.
That the respeCiability of . the Company of Per.,,
formers must greatly result (torn the- pecuniary ad-
vantages they derive, as has been much exemplified
by the increased col,siderAtion in which thcy kive
been held since the salaries allotted to them by the
proprietors have been so .liberal. Performers, .of
merit not having of late years been subbed to those
domestic difficulties which' forincrly,so much inter-

. .
fered with the exercise of their professional duties.
—That. it Jiving been generally coujetitured
although the proprietors of the two patents granted
by his late Majesty King Charle's the Second Were
obliged, from the failure of audiences, to unite their
Companies, even during the reign of that Sovereign,
yet the increased population of the metropolis %N rsF
such that it would; at present very well support
three Theatres, your Majesty's Petitioneg, burobly
begs leave to state in refutation of that,opiuion, that
the Proprietors of Zfrury-lane Theatre have it in
their power to prolte intontrovertibiy to any person,
,whom your Majesty in your goodness may please
to appoint for idvestigating . the fa&, that,their
Theatre (and. it is supposed that they, might safely
add that of Covente-Gardtn) could have held, taking
••
the average of th,i season, and carrying that average.
through every se: won since its cucstruction,
the number it h 4is ever received.
It lintrible rift confident reliance therefore, on
your Majesty's Vustiee;.raciousness.„ and unc, osing
desire to guard the tittits and property of every elas
of your Majesi 'subjects : and particularly regard,-
Mg-your Maje Aiy as the defender of the ti.idoyiand.
the fatherless, your Petitioner invokes in taVour,
herself and farPily, and in the behalf of thos. who
have embarke 4 an immense property in the Tate
Theatre Roy4l, Drury-lane, that
_consideration re-
speding thei k case, and that sheltering protetiion.
•i,vhich it is t grie charatter- of your Majtsty to o,fiord
to all those who lay the grievances at ' the foot v(
the Thtane.

And your Majesty's bumble Petit:Amer, 511311 C
pray Sec.

SARAH RICHARDSON.

fIiRTIiS.•
Oct Thursday morning last, at Lambeth, Palace, UM
L.ady of:, the lion. and Rev. Hugh-Percy, 'Of a Dawhier.
On Ftiday last, at "'hors!), Yorkshire, the Lady of thP•
'Rev. ‘Pilliam Dent, of a Son.
Yesiierday, Mrs. Crewe, of a Daughter.

Ai/MR/AD. -
On., Saturday se'nnight, at Newi:astle upon...Ty/o.e, Mr%
john:Barnes, to Miss M. G. Simpson, bo4l-1 of 131:catC`4
Roy ;I there. •

DIP!).
( In Thursday last, at Donington, in the County of Si,}o4
inie 73d year of her age, Catherine Letitia eeut,, widow
of bile late lohn Lewis Lewi's Petit, M.D.
The same night, suddenly, 4r. Edward Wright, Printer‘
of St.: john's-square, aged 42_ This is. the third brother whc4
h4s died prematurely, in the salve trade, within two ycatl
pd. an half. .
On Saturday last, after a short illness; William. Hatar4s
lsq. of South Lambeth, agedn. ,
Cn the 29th inst. of a deep 'decline,. Lieutenant PP°.
Cuthbert, of the,_Navy.
At her house in -East-street, Red-liorz-square,, Mrs.
sanna tones, spinster, aged 76 years.

`LONISbI,I MAKKETS, dec.

RETURN OF WHEAT IN MARA-LANE,
•By Messrs. CH IaILD and MA LPA S, Meal Weigher§ a
' - Including only from April 16, to Apra at,
agreeably to the A.
I
25 Quarters alilBs od • 5114 ;Quarters at 91$ Oa'
354 -- at 110'04 1893 —-- at 9,f5: od
.45-- at ails od ' -2526 ..........., v5O •d
173 --at 1 tos ed. 1-380 --....... at 89s od'
. 70 -7--- atlas 6d 427 --,-, at 881 od.
88 -.. —at foBS o 4 So 7 ----, at 8.75 od
5r
.186 --e- at to6s od 440. ------ at S. od
i 25 ------- at toss od 434, '''''''''''''• at 845../i4
25.--. at koAs od 35.0 ----....... at SZS od
213 --4.- at 1025 ott 7z..?; ---- at i. 25 04
4,1 at tots od . 640
.78's e 4
755
at 7is •
Lia 37 .
.at •Os oil . 40
270 -- at. 975 od 1 109
/334 .....--...-... at 9,6,5. od 1 95
1t74 ---- at 955 04 853 --,- at 7os od
4952 at 945 ott I
15 at Os cd.
2037 -- at 9.3 s rod 130 - at 66s od
And 67 Quarters at 655. per quarter.
Total 34883 Quarters.—Average 9.5. 7p.
25. sqd. lower than last Return.
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A ltb:TI112/1 OF FLO
From Ajril 14, to April s from tL
Sacks. • s. A. Sacks. S. 9.
4 --- 95-o* io Sz 6
to - 0 I -2 01
11151 -- go 0 105 -SO 0 L
zo7 b 9. 341 -1,
1956 SS 0 I 50 40
oral--13,362 Sacks. -Average g9i. siA. per S'Acg'
'zs. GO. lower than last wcel.

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