Star.
London, England, 1809-12-15 00:00:00

and Managers for the insoha offered the Public, sod that Mr.
Br.,,Ann should he dismissed for his imrreper conducti
This was 4.1-,I1owv(: repeated cbecrs.

The fourth and las., Proposition was--.
That all prosecutions and actions on both sides should be
fr..a-hed, provided the Managers acceded to the terms of the
o:her proposition.
Here uproar and confusion again interrupted the
Frngress of the business, and cries of 0. P. resounded
from all quarters.

Mr. CLIFFORD said, he was only anxious to collect
their votes, and therefore begged the attention of the
meeting while he put the propositions in their respec-
tive order. In a business of this kind, he said, there
would be little or no effect, if the questions were not
carried unanimously.
I'he propositions were then put, and all unani-
mously acceded to, excepting that which agreed to
the prices of admission to the boxes remaining at 7s.
to this considerable objection was made, but it was
finally allowed to he carried in the affirmative.

Mr. CLIFFORD then said, as the Meeting had agreed
to the propositions submitted by the Committee, he
should take the liberty of proposing a toast applicable
to the present state of the question under their consi-
deration.—" May this Meeting produce a reconcilia-
tion between the Managers and the Public, equally
advantageous to both." After this toast was drank,
noise and confusion prevailed for a considerable time,
and cries of 0. P. were frequently repeated.
At length Mr. CLIFFORD again obtained a hearing.
Before Mr. Kemble was infroduced into that room,
he said, he took the liberty of telling him if he came
he should be treated with civility and respect, and he
had called on the Gentlemen present to do him the
honour of supporting the Chair. Their present con-
duct therefore was a mark of unkindness towards him
which he was not aware that he had deserved. He
had now only to say, that Mr. Kemble having heard
all the discussions and dissention on the subject, was
anxious to take his departure, in order that he might
publish in the papers of to-morrow what the Mana-
gers and Proprietors could do towards complying
with the public wishes. Previous to his leaving the
room he w is anxious to make a few observations in
person. He, Mr. Clifford, therefore trused he would
meet with that civility and attention which the meet-
ing had promised, and which he was sure they meant
to perform, when they agreed to his introduction.—
!Loud Applause:.)
Mr. KENIBLE now rose amidst universal clapping of
hands, and cries of "Bravo, Bravo, sear him, hear him!"
—This current of popular clamour being subsided, he
spoke as follows :—" Gentlemen, it now becomes my
duty to withdraw, as you have acceded to the Pro-
positions
submitted by the Committee for the consi•
deration of the Proprietors, in order that I may pre-
pare a statement of the terms on which the Managers
are ready to accede to the public wishes to be pub-
lished in the Morning Papers ; and I sincerely hope,,i
from the bottom of my heart, that this negociation
may be the foundation for a good understanding be-
tween the Public and the Proprietors of the Theatre.
(Laud and reiterated plaudits.) Allow me, Gentlemen,
to return you my very best thanks for the kind and
polite treatment I have received during the time I
have been in this room, and to assure you of my ar-
dent desire to merit your respect."
Mr. CLIFFORD then proposed the health of Mr.
xtmble, and success to the Theatre, which was drank
with general satisfaction.
Mr. Kemble then retired amidst a peal of clapping,
cheers, and cries of— Kemble is hir:sey again I"
Per. Fat now proposed the health of Mr. Clifford,
whose conduct throughout the whole of the present
occasion, he said, had been extremely generous and
liberal. He had, like a Briton, espoused the cause
of the piNic-, anaj, like a Briton, had obtained a glo-
rious vict-ry. . . .

This toast was drank with the greatest enthusiasm,
bot Mt.CtutoaD was prevented for a considerable time
from addressing the Meeting, by the continued noise
•and confusion. After several attempts he obtained
attention. He said he had been in the habit of ad-
dressing Meetings in the County of Middlesex, in the
Cit?of Westminster, and in other places, but never felt
so great a difficulty to obtain a hearing as on this day.
He had experienced many marks of public approbation
during his career in life, but none ever gave him more
heartfelt satisfaction than the honour conferred upon
him on the present occasion. He had always been the
foe to tyranny, and his exertions should never be want-
ing to uphold the public rights ; in pursuing, therefore,
the conduct which had elicited the praise of the meet-
ing, he felt that 1.. e had only complied with his duty,
and regretted his inability to describe thegratitude with
which his heart was impressed. He then adverted
to his owat cause in the Common Pleas, and passed
some high encomiums on the ability with which the
Learned Advocates, employed on his side, had de-
fended his cause. Mr. Serjeant Shepherd, in his speech
ttpon that subject, he sail, had expressed regret that
he should be obliged to hurt his (Mr: Clifford's)
feelings. His feelings were not, however, hurt, for
he felt a conscious rectitude in the conduct he had
pa:lied, and was ofopinion, th4t those who had made
the thing necessary, were alone answerable for the con-
sequences. So•ne insinuations bad gone forth amongst
his friends in 6.! County of Middlesex, derogatory
that character which he had at all times felt it his
pride to preserve unsullied, and he thought the
b-,1 way to slt the matter right would be to have
tt canvased by a Jury of his countrymen,
set that character right. Their verdict had
once convinced the world of his innocence and
:,.-f-tiblished, on a solid foundation, that conduct

•-hich had been previously called in question. He
.1 alltiltd to an tiT.;entlemanly attack which had
:wen !"ri,ll!' !Ton him in the Court of Common Conn-
t•'l, ditrinp his :ibsence on Wednesday last, by Mr.
T lkt}to, in the coone of his contemptuous slander,
, ;,;!( d him ironically an honest Counsellor. He
tht- re was rt- occurrence of his life, however
.'r,alt.lft it might t erwise he, from which any in-
:rrtt,--t! Jerrtgatory I- • honesty and upright conduct
)he cleaticed. '!''.c man, however, that had en-
f*nt.ctired thus fot.:l r and treacherously to asperse
ttnt itchind his back, was almost too insignificant to
"merit his animadversion. That Gentleman had always
ht,ri crmsldri ed as au advocate for the public cause till
t c,h,r:ibed a contract for making water-proof great
for his invention of which he had the honesty and
-jr-':ion to add a profit affirm aid twarirjlits cent. His
hr)wever, having obtained him this advantage
r his colleagues; with his circumstances changed
s stfouments, and from thenceforth he became the
'flost threct sappiwter: 4 the tainisterial intepests. He

would not be guilty of the tame tummly etethet
which Mr. Jacks bad pm-sued, but leave hith" to the
" honest" feelings of his own mind, which were cer-
tainly much ,g cooler" than he would be very ready
to confess —He (Mr. Clifford) felt it his duty to
make these few observations, in vindication of his
own character, and in support of those feelings he
had at all times avowed. He trusted the company
would pardon him for occupying their attention so
long, and expressed a fear he should never have it in
his power to make them a sufficient return for the in-
dulgence they had granted him. He concluded by
drinking all their good healths.
After which, at nine o'clock, he withdrew, and
was greeted with reiterated bursts of applause, which
prevailed for some minutes after his departure. The
whole of the company shortly after retired.