The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-18 00:00:00

Your obedient Servant,
R. 5.

Hemel Hempstead, Feb. 10, 1820.

THE DUBLIN THEATRE.

We stated, a few days since, as a very preys.
lent report, that proposals had been made to the
Proprietors of Crow-street Theatre, by some per-
sons of eminence in the Theatrical Profession in
London, to take that establishment at a yearly
rent, under the new patent ; and we now find,
from a morning contemporary, and from coin.
municat;ons made directly to ourselves, that Mr.
HARRIS, the Proprietor of Covent-Garden Theatre,
is the bidder, and not any of the gentlemen pro-
fe)sion ally concerned with the Stage. If what it\
said be true, the offer made by 111 r. HARRIS is so
fair and liberal, as to meet wali the approbation,
of the greater proportion of the proprietors ; and,
iu twat case, it will most probably be ultimately ac-
cepted of. It is manifest, that something very peen.
liar in the proprietary of the Crow-street Theatre
bas so re, arded the decision of the Irish Govern-

it with re,peet to the issuing o' the new Patent,
as to cause the suspension of our Theatrical re-
creations for a much longer period than is usual,
iVtiatever difficulty has bten thus interposed, seems
to be too formidable for removal ; and it being,
thetelore—its kve may judge nuns circumstances—
next to impracticable that our Theatrical affairs
should go on uvrio the old system, a new mode,
under a new Patent, has been necessarily struck
out.

lller

With all respect for t hose who may conceive their

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interest at valiance with our opinions, we approve
of the plau,which, while it seems to pay every ne-
cessary respec, to property, rffeet,ally guards ;he
public egaiust having their theatrical recreations
obstructed by the dissent ions of individuals. No
mode appears so likely to accomplish these ob-
jects, as that of letting the Theatre, at an annual
rent, to a person, in whose solvency there is secu-
rity to those who have disposed of their interests,
and in whose knowledge of the Stage, and respecta-
.bilitys,of character, there is a guarantee that it will
be well conducted. Such a person is Mr. HAR.
ars, the Proprietor of Covent-garden Theatre.
Under his direction, there is every rational hope
that the public will be satisfied, and the Theatre
prosperous. He has resources not within the
reach of any (viler man who may offer for the Es-
tablishment, and it will be his own interest to use
them to the best advantage for out entertainment.
We are quite certain that the project which con-
nects his name with tne Theatre will be a popu-
lar one.
Whether an arrangement for consigning the
Theatre to Mr. Haaers's management be. resolved
upon or riot, it is, we believe, certain, that the
Government has determined upon issuing the Pa-
tent under such circumstances as maybe most likely
to insure a succa,,sful course of I.l,,catrical amuse-
ments; but finding, after a lout; and rninote in-
vestigation into the afftirs of the Crow-street
Theatre, that such a course could not be predict-
ed or expected freto the continuance of things
upon the old system, alternative of other mea-
sures became a thing of necessity..-7(The Dublin
Correspondent, Feb. 15 )

There is, we apprehend, a point which our
cn-
tenrporaries have overlooked, in treating the (mils-
sion of the QCEEN among the alterations of the
Church Service. Was it competent for the Council
to introduce her Majesty, she not being within
the realm, and there being neither proof nor the
means orproving that she was alive at thc. moment.
This may be a ground for the omission : but. we
would not be understood to iFttimate that there is.
an intention of introducing, at any foture time,
the prayer for the Rt.,Eati by' name.—(Morning
Herald ).

Michael Moreau, aged 86, a pauper in Saint
James's wot khouse, yesterday morning, in a fit
of insanity, shot himself with a pistol; the wound
occasioned immediate dew h.