The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-08 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR—It is said that the Covent-gar-
den Manager really intends to bring forward the
tragedy of The Italians, and that Mr. MACREADY
is w personate the het°, If so, I have no scruple
in saying that it will he better performed by him
than as originally cast, external advantages, as well
as superior talents, being much more in his fa-
vour. But will not the Wolves, anti other malignant
spirits, as well as the Vmnpyre Critic, pursue the
Author and his Play to the Rival Theatre ?
And if so, how will the public voice be able
to prevail against so malevolent and ferocious
a herd ? • And atter all the mortifications, dis-
appointments, and insults, which the Author has
endured, is he to have no " indemnity for the past
and security for the future ?"

FOR THb SUN.

CANDOUR.

Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, April 7, 1819.

Mr. EDITOR"-It was not till this morning
that I read the statement in The Herald of Mon-
day last, respecting the occurrences at this
Theatre, on the first representation of The Ita-
lians. lam anxious to correct one error which it
contains Permit me to assure you, Sir, I never
asserted to the audience that Mr. KEMBLE was con-
fined by illness. The -Gentleman who reporied for
Mr. BELL'S Weekly Dispatch, to whom I feel in-
debted for his nem acy, states me to have said,
that on account of ill health, Mr. Ksmsns had
gone out of town: This, Sir, was the fact, and 1
could not, I trust, be supposed capable of the
folly, as well as meanness, of attempting tO im-
pose a falsehood on the audience at any time,
much less at a moment when I had pledged my
honour to the truth of my assertion. A placard,
indeed, was exhibited, saying that Mr, liemana
was " absent front illness;" but this, iii the hear-
ing of many persons, 1 had desired might be al-
tered, by substituting the word "'London" for
" illness," though, from the confusion prevailing
at the time, my request was neglected,am! the
board hurried on the stage as it was.

Mr. KEMBLE, ,vhos-3' health has been in a very
delicate state since he came to London, and who
has constantly paid the Most incessant and lithorious attention to the business of the Theatre in
general, as well as Mr. BUCKE'S Play ii► particu-
lar, intending to pass the Passion Week at a
friend's house in Derbyshire, had the full,acqvies-
cence of the Gentlemen of the Sub-Commi►tee in
his leaving town
,on Friday, in consideration of
his undertaking a journey of such length in the
space of so few days.
Humbly situated as I am, it is far from my wish
to obtrude myself on the public attention. in a
Newspaper. If, therefore, Sir; you will have
the goodness, in an early fu►ure publication, by
any explanation the above may afford, to relieve
Mr. KEMBLE, as well as myself, from the
construction I have alluded to, I shall feel much
indebted to your politeness, and gratefully im-
pressed by your candour.
I have the honour to be,_Sir,
Your very humble servant,
G. C. CARR.

EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIANISM.—Crisp, the
Pedestrian, arrived at Cribb's five minutes be-
fore twelve o'clock on Tuesday night ftom
Do'ver, which place he left at four o'clock in the
morning, starting again at ten minutes before
four o'clock yesterday morning, on his sixth
day's labour, having done 432 miles in
.five days.
He was much distressed, and so exhausted that
he fell asleep when they were rubbing his legs.
Cribb started him off, with a glass of gin and a
pipe, hut it was not expected that he would leave
Dover. What has been already done is more than
was ever before heard of.

LONGEVITY.—There are now living as resi-
dents in the parish of St. Peter, in Thanet, thirty
persons, whose united ages amount to 2436 years
—a singularity supposed to be unparalleled by
any parish in Kent, in proportion to it 3 popula-
tion.

PARLIA MENT.

OF LORDS, APRIL 7.

The Royal Assent was notified by Commission
to the Gas-light and Coke Company's Bill, and
three Private Bills. Ihe Commissioners were,
the Lnrd Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and
Lord Redesdale.

The ()Adis were administered to the Earl of
Bradford and Lord Docie.

The Earl FoßTEscua presented a petition from
the Churchwardens and Inhabitants to- the Parish
of Stoke Monarch, Devonshire, against the Poor
Settlement Bill ; 'but the 13111 not being before the
Roos, his Lordship withdrew the petition for the
present.
The Freight Distribution Bill and the Inn-
keepers' Bill were read a third time and passed.
Thomas 'a Divorce Bill pascd through a Com-
mittee, with amendments.—R,port to-morrow.
The Bank of Ireland Cash Payments Bill, the
St. Pancras Poor Bill, the Chalieery Clerks' Bill,
and a Private Bill, were brought up from the
House of Commons, by Mr. Loshington and
other Members, and read a first time.

BANK OF IRELAND-FURTHER' RESTRICTION ON

CASH PAYMENTS.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL, on moving the first
reading of the Bank of Ireland Cash Payments'
Bill, stated, that, it was consequential upon the
Bill passed yesterday, with relation to the Bank
of England, and that if it was right to pass the
latter, it followed that it was equally necessary
to pass, the former, and the same reasons also
called for a similar rapidity in the passage of the
Bill. He therefore moved that certain of the
Standing Orders
.be taken into consideration to-
morrow, with a view, to suspend them for the
passing cf this Bill, which was ordered, and that
the Lords be summoned.--Adjourned till to-mor-
row (this day.)