The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-10 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

COVENT-GARDEN.-7-This Theatre opened again
last !tight with the Opera of Guy illannering.—
PyNR, late of Drury-Lane Theatre, performed
Henry Bertram, and was well received. He is. itn-
proved in acting and singing. Mrs. \TATFs was
Meg Merrilies, instead of Mrs. EGERTon, who has
been so unaccountably discharged from this Thea-
tre. Mrs. YATES caught the spirit of the part, awl
was deservedly applauded. Miss.MATHEwS took
t he character of Lucy, Miss STFPn esslreing still ab-
sent. The afterpiece was which Miss
DENNETT was the substitute ior Mrs. PARKER,
and appeared to much advantage, particularly in
her dancing. The House was et waded, and
the whole was well received.

DRURY-LANB.—A Sunday Paper having aslerted
that the Hon. GEORGE LAMB hid received money
at this Theatre on account of Plays brought for-
ward by that Gentleman, the following Corre-
spondence was the res,lt

Irliite,4all.yortl, Sept. 2, 1818.
Siß,—Will you be so good as to look hack over the Treasury
accounts of Drury-lane Theatre, and inform me whether any
sum of money has ever been received by me o❑ account of any
play altered or brought forward by me, or as a remuneration
for any part of my labours in I hat Theatre ? An answer to this
as soon as possible will oblige, Yours, G. LAMB.
To Mr.-Duns, Treasurer, Drury-lane Theatre.
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, Sept. 5, 1818.
SIR,—I have the honour to inform you, in answer to yunr
letter of the 2d, instant, that no sums appear by the books of
this Theatre to have been paid to you, for the alteration or
bringing forward of any piece, or as a remuneration for any
thing dune by you during► the time you were a Member of the
Sub-Committee. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very
obedient Servant, W. DUNN.
To the Honourable GEORGE: LAMB.

A Theatrical Fund, for tl►e support and relief
of old and infirm Actors and Actresses, is about
to be established at Liverpool, upon a plan flea ly
similar to those of Drury-lane and Covent-garde►
Theatres.

CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN LORD SIDNIOUTH AND MR. HUNT.

Whitehall, Sept. 8,181 R.
SlR,—Lord Sidmouth has directed lie to inform you, that
as the Paper containing th,e Deelarauinn and Remonstrance
addressed to the Prince Regent, which iyou put into bib
Ltrdship's hands yesterday, purports, by the description tkere-
in given -of it, to contain the Declaration and Remonsti,exe,
of the Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster.:
,and parts adjacent, and as this description is evidently I.ld .
notoriously untrue, his Lordship does not think hinissic.
at liberty to lay the same before his Royal Highness.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant.
HENRY CLIVE.
H. Hunt, Esq. 8, Norfolk-street, Strand.

MR. HUNT'S ANSWER.
A, Norfolk-street, Strand, Sept. 9,181 S.
MY Lona—When I delivered to your Lordship the Re-
monstrance unanimously agreed to at the Meeting, held in
Palace Yard, on Monday last, addressed to the Prince Re-
gent, you promised me, that you would read it over, and, if
it did nut contain any improper language, you would de-
liver it into the hands of his Royal Highness, and that
you would give me an answer in the course of three
days.

Late last evening, I received a letter, signed Henry Clive,
which states, that sour Lordship had instructed him to say
that you did not think yourself at liberty to lay the same be-
fore the Prince Regent, because it purported to be 6' the
DecAration and Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the
Cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent,
which, description was evidently and notoriously tree.'
Nose, my Lord, by what means your Lordship ascertained
the fact that the persons who attended the Meeting in Pa-
lace-Yard were not Inhabitants of London and Westminster,
and parts adjacent, I know not; but this I do know, that
those persons who proposed and seconded " the Declaration
of our manifold Grievances, and the Remonstrances against
the cruel, illegal, and unconstitutional acts of the cor-
rupt * * * • and * * "16 * that had been so long
imposed upon his Royal Highness the Prince Regent by the
great and overwhelming Borough Proprietors of this
Country, &c. &c." were Inhabitants of the Cities of
London and Westminster, and parts adjacent ; and I be-
lieve that almost the whole of the five or six thousand per-
sons at the Meeting, who unanimously sanctioned the same,
were also Inhabitants of London and Westminster, and parts
adjacent. However, as your Lordship has declined to deliver
the Declaration and Remonstrance to his Royal Highness
the Prince-Regent, I will trouble your Lordship to return
rue the original document that I left with you, that I may,
agreeable to the instruction of Vie Meeting, take some other
method of laying it before his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent. I am, my Lard,
Your Lordship's most obedient, •
and most bumble servant,
To Lord Viscount Sidmouth. H. HUNT.

The improvements in St. James's-square are
now going on with more speed than hitherto—
there has been some demur about the expellee of
enclosing and planting the area, among some of
the proprietors of the houses in the square, which
at one time threatened an'application to the Court
of Chancery, but the dispute is now amicably
settled.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. —On
Monday morning, Cornell, the gamekeeper of
-- Chafer, Esq. of Bicknell, Kent, who had ren-
dered himself very obnoxious to poachers, walking
in his master's grounds, was attacked by two fel-
lows, who were discovered by him committing
depredations. He attempted to take them into
• custody, when they beat and kicked him in the
most inhuman manner, lett him on the ground
apparently dead, and decamped. The gamekeeper
was found by his fellow-servants, and was imme-
diately conveyed to his master's house. A surgeon
was sent for to attend him. He was able to de-
scribe the villains, and officers have been sent from
town to endeavour to apprehend them.
Last week a person was detected in passing
forged notes in the village of Bassaleg, near New-
port, on whom were found 7 l/. notes, purporting
to be notes of the Luton Bank, and one Carmar-
then Bank note ; but through the negligence of the
constable to whose care the culprit had been com-
mitted, he effected his escape over the garden wall
of the public-house, though so closely followed
as to leave the flap of his coat in the hands of his
pursuers.

MARRIED.
On Tuesday last, Isaac Ketchen, Esq. of Hunter-street,
Brunswick-square, to Charlotte Fairley, third daughter of
Kenneth Tod, Esq. of Kennington.
On the 4th of April, James H. Johnson, Lieutenant R.N.
to Eliza, the third daughter of J. H. Harrington, Esq. of
Calcutta.