The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-08 00:00:00

[PRICE SEVENPNer.

the number actually dependant on tbelGobnin-g,

Astley's, and the Surrey Theatres for support,
athount, with their families, to no leas than three
thuitsand number exceeding those

engaged it) the Theatres Royal by some hundreds,
Saying nothing of those persons who derive their
support from the Ofyinpic, Adelphi,R(q;e:,Cy, Sad-
ler's Wells, and East 'Loudon Theatres. With what
face, therefore, ttie Patentee and Proprietors call
for the utter ruin of such a nunibt.r of meritorious

►l►eirsuppor't of themselves and

ft, milies ttoin their talents and inda‘try, the Public

must decide. They cannot say the Ninn,r Theatres
are objects of minor impottuocc in the amuse-
ments of the Public, and in the employment of

talent. They may perhaps urge, as in n recent
instance, when I hey attacked the Olytitpie IntnA
Sins l'areil Theatres, impugning :he pnwees Al
their ,tw•u licensing »ntho►ity, Lnrti

hit the MiiiorThrattes affect the wril-k(10.111,4

01 the Parent is not Stith.
t'illl aiidience
wark, eriviimils, to titi :more ttirsit
(.I.e two Royal TitettiTeS ; b.lt -
defea'tit as hey hvricliehre. 'Tie
(It socii »n ailegalion will airreeir in a 10011!Clit

by a compat ikon beta yen I he' noniber of 'flied..
and -111 e attronin of i.. 11 in London
and Paria—svcre it not contr3dicted br !he

compkinkints the msi.tve-s, ti ho, ill the daily
bills they issue to the Public of their transactions,
have repeatetHy sltited their hooses to be: over.
'flowing, not vt; mho g the pretended.. draw.

hat ks .4 the minor Theatres. In there:
Hre open nightly no less 'hall 2 l'heAttes ; in
London never more shall 8. The pophlation of

Ptris is commit ed at 600,000 that of London
exceeds 1,500,000 ; the inf. recce may easily be
drawn. The otelo-dramatizitig-and periorming Of
'Richard the Third at the Cobourg, tor the purpose
of thsplayittg Ibe great talents of Mr. BOOTH, is it
scents, Ore- offence that has thus suddenly dra ten
down the hostility of the major Theatres. For the
doting this I had good precedent. he present Lts,
seeot Drnry-laneTheatre,at the rime he retried he
Surrey 'fbeat I e, meld-dramatized both Richard the
Third and Macbeth, as well as many of the pieces
- the Royal Theatre;. Richard the Third was
melte-dramatized expressly for the Coboorg, with.
additional musical scenes, and an immense reduc-
tion of matter, by Mri, MONCHIEF, who is regu-
larly engaged at Cobourg Theatre, to adapt
ail such pieres as may he produced there. , 1 have
no wish to persist in availing myself -of. any ma-
terial in the slightest manner. brie uging to the
Royal Theatres, nor should I have done sO in trie
present legal instance. bad it not been 'with a
view to gratify the Public witli as complete a dis-
play of MrlinoTtes fine t,:lents in Richard as the ha-
tore of my license perthit ten .1 wilimglywOhdraw
if they consider its performance an itOtry.to, them ;
but when they modestly ask me, late on- Saturday
night, to withdraw a new Piece announced for
reprrseotation on the- succeeding Monday---a
Piece ‘,riiteti expressly for my Theatre, and in
the prodoction of which I have expended a suns
autOtiotioa to nearly fifteen hundred p,.unds, as in
the case of the Horded and Curititii.• the splendid
success o[ which has their efforts, I
sholild be wanting in every proper feeling of
duty to myself, and should be guilty of a
breach of faith to the public, it 1 did not man-
fully resist so .unreasonahle a demand. The
Magistrates under whose licences • I act are em-
powered by the Act of Parliament to license
scenic representations at their own discretion ;
they have done so at their mature and repeat-
ed -discretion ; and I fed persuaded they will
not impugn their own judgments, or depreciate
their own authority, by complying with the unjust
and selfish wishes of the Proprie;ms, who
having, by every species of illegitirnate representa-
tion, rope-dancers,jogglers, elephants, monkeys,
dogs, and horses, lowered the dignity of their own
establishments, deem eveiy effort of the minor
'Theatres to eationali-ee their entertaintnents an
offence to the Goddess of Folly, and resolving to
prove trite votaries of their reigning Deity, de-
noiince the efforts of intellect as a crime, call
upon the constituted authorities of the country
to check the growth of improvement, and, while
aesoming to be Patrons ,and Proprietors of the
Mama, prove its bitterest enemies. I regret the
liorits of a- letter will not permit we to venture on
the wide field of decisive discussion this subject
opens ; but my adversaries maybe assured I come
folly armed to combat all hat the sophistry of
their legal advisers; foutided on the precedents of
leis enlightened times, may furnish them with ;
and that, assured by the strong hold of custom,
theesanetion of a discerning public, and the au-
thority under which I act, I am resolved to dis-
pute with them every itch of what I conceive to
be my just ground of LI a furore
,commn-
nt'cation I Will essay to show, that whatever dis-
teesses the Royal Theatres may have talleu into,
have been rather owing to their own mism lunge-
ment, than any influence of the-minor Theatres.
I am, Sir, your very obedient humble Servant,

3. GLOSSOP,
Proprietor of the Royal Cobourg Theatre.

SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a
middle-aged woman was walking along Char..
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square, wit 4 a load, and her
toot slipping on the pavement, she was thrown
I,eadlong down an area of a house, and her skull
fractured. She was taken up insensible and cone.
eyed to the Hospital, hut she wits quite dead.

On Thursday night eleven phachtqs Were shoot-
ing for some time round Moreton hull, Norfolk,
and on Friday night they came 16 the number of
25. The keeper and three assistants disturbing
them, were attacked and touch bdaten.