The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-21 00:00:00

MR. ELLISTON'S COMMISSION.

Tuesday a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Robert
William Elliston, the late lessee of Drury-lane Theatre,
tohk place in Basinghall-street, for the purpose of electing
assignees. A number of creditors attended in order to
prove their debts. The biisiness of the Court, however,
Was so conducted, that our Reporter -Could catch nothing
of what was going ftinverd, although hi listened most at-
tentively. Indeed, the conduct which it was thought htptir:
ne-
cessary by some persons concerned to adopt, fot h
Pose of preventing those who attended for the press from
hearing the particulars, was most disgraceful.
It is also necessary to mention, that upon this occasion
the papers, upon being handed in, were at once folded
anti a whispering took place between those who appeared
prove, and the solicitor,: while twenty tongues were
going at once in this bear-garden. Even in the Courts. of
Request, where the lowest and most exasperated of people
are in the habit of getting their claims decided, there is
more decency observed than was witnessed in the exhibi-
tion of this day.
We Underatiiid that. Mr. Peto proved to the 'amount 'of
3,701., and that he and Mr. Brookes were, without oppo-
sition or competition, appointed assignees,

BARNARD THIC,PLAYER.—This unfortunate man
has at length foundan asylnro, and in ;..stice to the humanity of
Certain members of the profession, we ure happy to obserVe that
the'poor man, whose decay of mind had rendered him useless to
the theatre, and had gradually sunk him to is state of the most ab-
ject penury, has. been, under the advice of Dr. 'Wain, and a
cornniittee of hie brother actors, consigned to a private asylum for
lunatics at Roston, where he will have every attention which his
unfortunate situation demands. The committee have agreed that
he shall have a weekly inspecting visit from each of his old col-
leagues. The .Seeteiary of the Theatrical Fund, assisted by a
committee, has been inablol to accomplish this object.
LIGHT HEADING.—Ah, this word " the
cause of much heaviness. A pound of feathers, it must be re.
membered, weighs as heavily as a pound of lead. It is a militate
to suppose, that the nearer we approach.* vacuum, tht more agree.
able is the atmosphere. To be " light," in the °ow°, of most.
Pop's, is to be idealess. It is most true, that ,the more common
the ideas of a composition are, the more numerous/rinciple seen)*
WM be the au-
th , ence by whom it will be understood; and dtie'p
to guide the advocates of a light" reading and writing. —Write
that, say they, which shall require the least education and the
commonest experience' to understand it, and you will write that
which must he popular. Compare the merits of Taeitus and
Clarendint, and very few know or care any thing about the met-
ter. Discuss Pope mid Dryden* and your audience is a little
more enlarged. Talk of Lord Byron, and-your auditors are mul-
tiplied by a hundred. Criticise the manners of a dinner-table,
and the vulgarities of half-bred pretenders+, or low.bred CoCknies,
and the very housekeepers end lady's' maids eau relish your dis-
course. This is the modern. Inaanlog of the term, a light," and
the. principle of the management of more than one popular periotli-
c4—Loistio Magazine.