Star.
London, England, 1822-06-24 00:00:00

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y, pursuant toadvertisement,*Pablic Meet- The fate of this mansion reminds us of that which
in gof the Proprietors of this Theatre took place in the befell the hiagnifieent seat of the late. Sir Gitecont
Saloon, for the purpo-e of receiving a statement of the PAGE, at Wrinkleinanla on the westeni side of Black-
affairs of the Theatre. Mr. CA LCRArT, having been heath. 'Phis
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called to the Chair, stated to the Meeting the object by a c
for which they had been called together. He held in adorned with paintings, hangings, marbles; and alto
his hand, he said, a statement of the accounts, drawn relievos. Sir GREGORY died in 1775, and• left thii
up by their Auditor, Mr. Oakley, which he' had no (seat to his nephew, the late Sir GREGORY PAGE Tun-
doubt would prove satisfactory. It had already re-' Nen, who took the name and arms Of PAGE. Sir
ceived the approbation of the General Committee.— Gitecasay PAGE TURNER disposed of the noble col-
lie had the pleasure of being able to inform them, lection of paintings by auction, and by virtue of an
that the income of the Theatre had been regularly Act of Parliament, the house and grounds were sad
paid by Mr. Elliston, whom he begged to metition to by auction to JOHN CATOR, Esq. of Reckersharn, for
them with great commendation. He begged to state, £32,550. This Gentleman sold it again by aaction
that Mr. Elliston had not only paid their rent of in 1787, in a very different way ; all the materials,
£10,200, but, in consequente of the extra nights on with its costly decorations, having been disposed of
which the Theatre had been opened, they had now in in separate lots. Such also was the fate of Canonas
the hands of their Bankers the sum of £l,lOO, for the near Edgeware, the once princely Palace of the
free renters; so that he had actually paid, during the princely Chandos, which rose and disappeared in lesi
last season, £11,300. When they came to reflect upon titan half a century ! And-similar too was the fate •
the previous circumstances of the concern, they could of Eastbury, in Dorsetshire, a splendid seat which
um but consider this as an extraordinary change in cost £lOO,OOO. It was built by the famous GEORGE
theatrical matters. They had, in addition to this, ,Busa DODDINGTON, whose vanity at the age of f oar-
reit ized the other part of their income from houses score, when he had no heir to inherit his honours(
and offices. i here was a law charge of 1:280; but induced him to accept the title of Lord Melcombe
this, from the peculiar ci:curnstances under which Regis. This seat, on his death, devolved. on the late
it had been incurred, must be considered rather as a Earl TEMPLE, who lent it to his brother, Mr. HENRY
gain than a loss. During the three years that the GRENVILLE, on who edeath the Earl offered to give
Committee had held the management of their affairs, £2OO a-year to any Gentleman who would occupy
they were engaged only in one law suit, and in that and keep it in repair ; but the proposal not being ac-
they were successful. Though it cost money, as ever y cepted, he determined to pull it down, arxt the ma-
law suit must, still the result was advantageous.— terials produced little more than the prime cost of
Having thus stated the income and espenditure, he the plumber's and glazier's work.—The sale proceeds
rid not know that there was anything more7ta he with great spirit. The plate, which is of the most
said,on that subject, except that the utmost expectta massive description; produced 15s. an ounce. It is
tions of the Committee hod been fulfilled. They had settled that the House shill be pulled down.
got tid of debt much more rapidly than they calcu-
tilted on, and there was every prospect that they
would ultimately realize the whole of their property.
He thought it right to state, that Mr. Elliston in-
tended to make great alterations, and introduce fur-
ther embellishments in the Theatre, during the recess,
which, added to the industrious efforts he was making
to irnprbve the company, would render it as attrac-
tive as it ever had been in the annals of theatrical his-
Wry: As far as such property was concerned, nothing
could be mare promising or more cheering. They
would recollect, that so short a tinie back as three
years, the House was filled with executions, and la-
hoisted Limier embarrassments of every kind: Since
twat period, they had repaid £75 per cent. instal-
merits on their debts ; and if they had not realized
all that they owed, they had the most favourable
prospects before them. But in order to shew more
clearly the situation of their affairs,he would state how
.he concern stood in 1819, and at the present time.—
When the Committee undertook the affairs of the
Company, in the year 1819, they found a debt upon
the concern of £92,404, which debt was in July last
reduced to £45,939; since which period the sum of
El 1,973 had been discharged, reducing the present
imoutic of debt to £33.965. They had therefore paid
off, during this) ear, £ll.976—much beyond what
they expected. They had been called upon to pay
£2OOO for a lieu upon the Theatre, which they did
not anticipate; but which, upon looking into the
terms of the engagement, was found pe. fectly just.
Oa this account, the balance in the banker's hands
,lid not appear so great as it would other wise have
been; but as it was so much debt paid off, it might
be fairly added to the amount of their profits. Agree.
ably to the stipulations held out to the subscribers to
the loan, the sum of £4351 was to be paid to them
in the course of the next year. The Committee having
already paid three instalments of £25 per cent. each
with interest, up to January last, they had therefore
fuifilled their engagement in a great ii,easure, so that
no more than £3400 remained due. The next past
of the plan, that of setting aside the nightly receipts
for the new renters, had been fully acted upon. The
only incurnbrance, therefore, that remained, was
£24,416 due to the bondholders, and £5200 to claim-
ants, which, in all probability, would not be called
fur, and which, if it should, they would be pelfectly
ready to pay. The Committee confidently calculated
that they would be able to discharge the whale of the
debt within the time mentioned in the several Reports
made to the Proprietors. From these circumstances
the Meeting would pet ceive that the Committee had
fully realized the scheme held out three years back
to the Public. The new renters might have the
£llOO paid for extra nights whenever they pleased
to call for it. He would not trespass longer on their
attention, but merely to repeat that their prospects
were much better than any pet son a short time back
could venture to hope:From the punctuality and grew
attention of Mr. Elliston, lie formed the most sanguine
expectations that they would be able to realize every
thing held out to the Proprietors.
After appointing the Auditor and Committee, and
doing some other business, the Meeting broke up.

HRBDOMADARY.

MONDAY, Jtms 24.—Nativity of John Baptist. Midsummer
Day. Holiday at the &ink, Exchequer, and India and South
Sea Houses. The Sun rises at seventeen minutes b:•fore four,
and sets at seventeen minutes after eight. Conjunction of the
Moon and Mars in Virgo, at half-past two in the morning.
Tucsnmr.—The days are increased eight hours and fifty minutes.
Clocks about two minutes before the Sun.
Wennesnsy.:—Trinity Term ends. The Moon enters her first
quarter at twenty-eight minutes after seven in the morning.
Tuunins:.—.-Opposition of the Sun and the Georgium Sidus, at
a quarter before four in the afternoon.
FRIDAY.—Venus, a morning star, rises about ball-past one in the
morning.
SATURDAY.—St. Peter. Holiday at the B.:nk, Exchequer, and
India and South Sea Houses. Conunctioa of Jupiter and
Venus in Taurus; Venus ninety minutes south of Jupiter.

Sutton, the pedestrian, still contimies his arduous undertaking
at Milton.—Bets are nearly equal.
The Weir, a vessel of 300 tons, chartered by a London Con-
fecrioner, for ice, was lost on the 28th of April, by the pressure
of the ice-bergs. She went down almost instantaneously, and
nothing was saved. Captain Tilo3l.l,tiGN, and part of the crew,
existed on the ice for a month, living on seals.
The bark of the %,illow-tree burnt to ashes ar.d
mixed with strong vinegar, forms a lixiviunt which
effectually eradicates, by repeated applications, warts,
corns, and other cutaneous excrescences.
So general an interest, in the literary world, has
not been excited by any Work, sincc the pals.lication of Ossian,
as by O'Ccotua's Clovrisles Eri. In all respects they must
be regarded as aniohg the most extraordinary historical recorch
that have appeared since the Pentateuch, with which they pro-
fess to be coeval. The Hsstory of the aboriginal Irish People,
fioni MS.S. a theuund years old, and which were composed
three thousand years ago, are features of a work sufficient to sti-
mulate general curiosity, and to excite the pens of hundreds of
critics and commentator?.

THE Museum, No. IX. (a new Week;y Journal
devoted to LITERATURE the FINE ARTS, SCIENCE,
ANTIQCITIES. the URANIA. &c.) published 22d June
(price Bd..in London and it• Environs, brine by post,
is.) rontal::s :
I. Letters from Paris, No. 4.—t. Anniversary of the Roe-
burghe club.-5. First Shakspeare Reprint.-4. Notices of the
less known Italian Writers.-3. Vulgarity of Slang.-6.
llrigi-
nal Poetry.-7. Fine Arts: Itaiinbach's. Engraving fa:. Wale',
ltlindman•s Buff; Exhibition of Drawings in Soho-sq.-8. The
Drama : Opening of the Haymarket Tneatre—Miss Tree's
Imogen.-9. Reviews of Dibdin's /f.des
Grave of the last Saxon—Gwilt's Origiu of the Caryatides--
Bracebridge H.R.—With Varieties, Pacetix, &c. in Prose and
Verse.—Published by JOHN AIILLuit, 69, heet-areer, every Sa-
turday ; sold also by all Booksellers, Newsmen, Postmasters, &c.
The new satirical Poem The AltilanukA,"
is most humorously written in the Beppo style, promises to ob-
tain as much celebrity as that produced some years since by a
Noble Lord. The objects of the two are somewhat similar.
The author of " The 'Alohawks" has boldly undertaken the cause
of literature axd literary men against the tnisrepreseilers of
books and calumniators of persons—those stabbeis in the dark
arid provokers of duels, the Quarterly, Monthly, and Daily as-
sassins, whose deeds foim so new and disgusting a feature of the
age in which We live.

Two hundred and Eeventy quarters if foreign wheat,
in bond, have been sold in Newcastle since our last,
at four shillings and one penny per quarter, or one
shilling and a farthing per nob ! It is 'lamentable to
reflect that tile poor Irish are starving s bile abundance
elcorn, tt hich could be pm chased tor a mete t:ifle, is
spoiling in our lofts! Might not Minister, with great
propriety bring in a Bill enabling them to buy up sound
foreign corn at a certain price, considerabiy higher,
of course, than the price %ye have named, and to ex-
port such corn for gratuitous distribution in Ireland ?
Such a measure would afford great relief to the
Irish peasantry, as well a, the holders of foreign
corn, and could do no harm to the agriculturist, as it'
would be delivered to such persons only as could not
afford to purchase the produce of the land.—Dur-
ham Advertiser.
CORN EEC:BENGT, MARE-LANE, JUNK 24.—We had but a mo•
derate supply of Wheat fresh in this morning, but the quantity
left over from previous arrivals is large ; and the demand being
slack, even the finest samples met ready sale at last Monday s
prices; the ordinary descriptions were offered at a reduction of
21. per quarter. Owing to the continuance of hot weather, and
the Injury which it has occasioned to the crops of spring corn,
an advance has taken place in the prices of Barley, Beans, and
Peas, of As. per quarter; and the Oat trade was brisk at an
amendment of I. although the arrivals have been very con-
siderable.—Current prices as under:
ENGLISH. Small Beans 26s 30S
Wheat, Kent and Tick ditto 245 27s
Essex .... 30s 52s Oats, Potatoe 23. 26s
Suffolk 3os SOs Poland 20s 24s
Norfolk - Feed 155 22$
Rye.. l6s 9.0 s Flour, per Sack 43. 50.
Barley .................18s 243 llspetieed, per I.ast £3O 4.52
Malt 42s 46s FOREIGN.
White Peas 24s 263 \Vheat, Dantzic...A. . Os
SMITH FIELD MARERT, JUNs 24.—Our market coLtinutt to be
abundantly supplied with All descriptions of Meat. notwithstand-
ing the greatness of former arrivals; and the butchers not being
digitised to purchase, every article is lower and rather heavy.—.
Current prices t
Beef,2
vial. ;34. to 43.03. Pork, 2s. Od. to 3s. 44.3. Od; to as. 4d. per stone of Albs.; Mutton, Is. oda,
to 55.04
38.6d.t0 4 s.6d—Cattle at Marker : Re.asts,249o ; Calves,46o;
. Sheep and Lambs,l3l,9*; Pigs, 260.—Hay and Straw per NA:
I Hay, 3/. Os. go. U. 30s. (lover, 41. 4s. se 44 101. StraWs 14. 75.
I to IL les.

A general issue of half-sovereigns is expected to
take place immediately from the Bank, to the amount
of D2OOO, if required, to each banker.
The Report of the Select Committee of the House
of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of
the Police of the Metropolis has been printed. Among.,
other suggestions it recommends that the Secretary of
State be authorised to sanction an additional pay-
ment of any officer who may be severely wounded in
the performance of his duty, and to grant a retiring
allowance when any officer may be completely dis-
abled by bodily injury, or worn out by length of
service ; and also to attach to each office one head
constable, at a salary of three guineas per week with-
lout emoluments ; such officer to be selected from the
most deserving of those at present employed. With
respect to fairs held in London and its vicinity, and
Ithe prackice of bullock-hunting, it prop ses to em-
power any two Magistrates, who shalt have reason
to think a fair entirely illegal, or continued beyond
its legal duration, to summon the owner or occupier
of the ground whereon it is held, to appear at a Petty
Session of the Magistrates of the division, and chew
his title to hold such fair ; and in case he shall not
satisfy them, they shall be enabled to declare such
fair illegal, and require the peace-officers to remove
all articles from the ground, and take all ersons in
custody concerned therein who still continue such
fair after notice given of its illegality. On the sub-
ject of bullock-hunting, the Committee recommend
that the penalty, now 20s. be increased to 40h.for a
first offence, and .1.:5 for a second acute.

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