The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-10 00:00:00

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THE,I- FRE.

The Proprietors of this Theatre,:in faithful ad-.
beretice to the prtanise which Mr. KEMBLB made to,
the public on-the termination of last season, hare,
at a very great expence,- made a:1 the alterations
which were deemed requisite; and the whalers now
the most comple:e structure of the. kind in Europe.
The follo-wing is a-brief statement of the improve-
ments:—

The chief expence has been occasioned by the
necessity of forming a communication from the first
circle to the tier of private boxes.' To effect this,
it became necessary to take down the paltry wind-
,ing stairs ; this has accordingly been done, and in
their place a flight of stairs, much more commo-
dious, though not so spacious .as such a building
.demands, has been -substituted. .The stairs are all
of stone, as also are the; passages of the corridors.
The grand saloorf, from which if.e public were
;excluded last seastm, will now ,be thrown open.
:It is in the stile in .which it was -
out the slightest alteration. The corridor cf this
tier will form an, extensive promenade, of which the.
beauty is, however, considerably diminished by a
number of massive square pillars, each occupying
.at the lea,t,.'five limes the space of circular cast-
iron pillars. This defect, added to the lowness of
the root, takes tnaterially from the effect. winch
otherwise woold'be produced. ' .

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The twelve centre boxes of the private circle are
now !brown open„-and will\ accommodate one hun-
-dred.arid twenty sp.ictators. The long dark stair-
case, from the s..cona to the fourth tier or ovieg,
is .alttlea• to a mush more cwntnudious ascent, iint.t
ti.,• upper passage is improved;

The two shilling gallery is altered much for the
bet►er. .The spate above the head: has been increas-
ed, by cutting ;iway the cieling as close as p.
to the floor of •the upper gailery. There are ten
benches ih this gallery, the lowest of which has not
been int.ved, but the other niye have been raise.,
about two inchei ra.co ; tire top of the upper seat
being eight en in6,es h►gher.than it was.

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In the uppa gallery, and the side Rgeon-hole-,
there is no alteration, The b size 'with which the
benches of the.pik were covered is te.,noved, and
they are all qe.nly pii)ted; the practice ot, sianoing
on the bencli,:s being 'found to Troduce so much
that they could not be conveniently kept in
order. • •

Ail the corridors have been arched with brick-
and-p giVing addi•ioual security to the
audirnee tram tire, aria materially assisting towards
the general tranquility of the nouse;, and in a►i the
fiOnrs of the boxes and gai:eries, tie most effectual
means have been aoopted for the same desirable pur-
pose: rUt tit, 'seats have been renewed. The in-
terior of the 'hOuse.has been in great part newly
paint-d, and an extensive steam apparatus has been
pet-pared at Soho for the 'purpose of regulating its
temperature during the winter season.
The se•'son commence: this evening, and atall
that the Proprietors require is permission to have
no more than the Acitilc number of private boxes
which the public tolerated in the old Theatte,•whtch
-was much smaller than the. 'present, a permission.
►nick seemed to have been cordially,granted at the
close of the last,seasun, we hope that in future this
migaiticent edifice will heleafier be devoted only

" To useful mirth and salutary woe."

An account of the operations of the •expedition
under the orders or Colmet Smith and Cdptain
Wainwright, against the pirates in. .the Persian
Gulp!), suhsequest to the 7th ut.December, states as

After a'stay of about three weeks at Muscat to
refit, the squadron sailed again on the 24th Decem-
ber, bccompettied by nearly 4000 of the Imaum's
troops, and on the evening of the 3 i st arrived before
Shinats : the. tort was 'sutOradhed, and on refusal
ai bombarded by the ships and gab-boats; on the
2d January the iroupswere landed, and early in the
[owning the 3d a breach was made in the curtain,
.ett upe of, the towers •of the fort fed in, but it
was fiyin.l nnpossible.to drive the enewy..from the
oiliest to k era... • •f• •

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" At two o'clock the place was stormed, and by
five w.s in our possession. lit is impossible to con-.
template a more obstinate resistance than was made
by the enemy in this position. -Mine the body of
his fort was in the hands of the allies, his defences
nearly battered to ruins, and the greatest part of his
garrison lay around-in mangled heaps, he continued
to maintain two towers, tt, beat off every attempt to
.scale. them, and with deliberate resolution he return_
ed upon the British the hand grenades and tire-balls
(before they could burst), wind) were used against
him. At length as.the towers were falling,- when
every soul in them must have perished-, Col. Smith
made another effort to save them' and by reiterated
assurances of protetlion, induced theme.to surrender
it was,: howeve7, with. the greatest difficulty that our •
Officers saved then) from the desperate animosity of
our allies. We had one man killed, and Lieutenants
W. C. Harvey arid H. Taylbr, of the 65th regiment,
and nine ;men wounded..;—Tfie smairtort of Stu nas
was all that remained to ihe pirates, and a competent
fOrce bad.-proceeded against it:" . .
Our correspondent, in-treating of the fall of nas-
al Kayma,
.the troops.were landed at five
o'clock on the morning of .the 14th in two divisions,
and by ten the town ,was' in flames ; ti‘e enemy,
however, maintained the conflict till two, when the
firing ceased, and the place was giVen up to plunder.
I have not time to desclibe the tol.vii to you ; but
you may for some idea, when -I tell you it was
twice, as large as Bombay, and, in point of wealth
and population, not inferior to it. No quarter was
given to the melt.; the women and children were
spared : the town is now a heap of ruins, We de-
stroyed 40 large dows, and about 153 sail of small
ones, together with the ship Minerva, their prize.
It is impossible ,to •ascertain the number of the
pirates killed, but. it•must be immense. Our loss
was a.-Captain of the tisth Regiment,, and five men .
wounded."

Our loc•s in the attack on Luft, comprised Lietit.
Wilt), of the 47th Regiment, and 10 men killed ;
L'eut. Warren, of the 65th Regiment, Messrs. Hay
a!ld Grey, Midshipmen, and 51$ soldiers and seamen
Nitrounded.