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London, England, 1816-10-01 00:00:00

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'booty Laua.--41r. KEAN appeared list night, as'
WA, and sustained. the character with his usual
cacellance. Mr. Banoottna played lap for the first
time, and Went through the part with tolerable soc-'
eess. Mrs. Baneroey was highly interestilog in J ,d,.
i ) and Mrs. KNIGHT supported the character of
. zailia with propriety, spirit, and effect.
. 'MEETING OP THE° PRO PRI E FORS.
Yesterday, in pursuance of- a public advertisement,
1 very numerous attendance of the Proprietors a•-
• ienthledin the Great Saloon of the above Theatre.
. Soon after one o'clock, the four Members of the Sub-
Committee arrived ; but Lord HOLLAND, who was
Of the OW Committee, was' called to the Chair. At
bis request Mr. ELLER read the following. Report :
64. GESTLEMEN—Th :,, e Aleet; , which is held this
day, by direction of the . Act of "Parliament,*. for the
purpose of filling up the annual vacancies in your
clromittee, is the occasion on which we are required
to present you with •a Report upon the state of the
property which has, during the interval since the last
owing, been confided to our care.
a This Report can be expected to be one of
detail, Its contents willnaturally be confined to ilia
'communication of results slope, with the causes of
which, however, it bas been our duty to make our-
selves accurately acquainted.
66 In the Report whiih was submitted to you last
year, we aid, as far as lay in our power, make you
fully acquaiated.with the actual state of the property
at that period.
it To the debt which was thee stated to exist
against the Theatre, it is our duty to inform you that
there has been once discovered to have existed at that
lime a further debt of £2027. 2s. 9d. of which
• i 513. Gs. GI is due to original claimants, who, it
had been taken for granted, in the three preceding
Reran to you, would never appear to substantiate
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their el Bream. ,
16 Of the remainder, it is extremely doubtful whe-
ther a sum of nearly rESOO will ever be called for as
a new item; bosiever, brought upon the books, we
have thought it tight you should not remain -.in
ignorance of its existence. -
ff Upon the remainder of the outstanding original
chino, amounting in the whole to 44718, the sub-
stantiating of which is in a great pat contingent
upon distant probabilities, we have nuthing to vim.
municate. These accounts, however; cannot, ac-1
-cording to the Act of Parliament, be taken to be
finally closed, so long as a single claimant remains
ralisenvered.
" From tour Sub• Committee Ne have received so
fall and clear an exposition of their conduct in the
amolgement of the Theatre, not only as regards its
systrm and 'principal features, but with a clue to all:sts
details, that our successors, no less than ourselves, will
. he ptissesscd of the fullest means of estimating the
planner in which their duty has been discharged.
66 lon were last year informed, ' that a well
grounded coufidente WAS entertahrd of a continua-
tion of the average receipts of the three preceding
purse that i will that receipt before their eyes, thb
Siib•Committee had exerted themselves so to reduce
the scale of expense, as to be able to calculate on a
dividend on the following seas-n.' that 6 they had
. fairly submitted tb us the detail of their several cat-
culations, against which they desired the result of
their labours might be tried at the conclusion of the
easing season. That the reduced expenditure on
*bah they had placed the estabiishmtnt exceeded
the sum of I€B,ooo per annum, as against the average
d the three former seasons, and a much larger sum
IS opposed to the one immediately preceding.
,6 In the statements throughout their present. Re-
port, it is but justice to say, we have reeuguized their
oustaat readiness to adhere to the test they originally
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• " The actual etpc'nse of the year has been kept I
within the estimate by 4522. Isis. 6d. and would;
have been diminished in a further sum of £5OO but
for a necessary outlay in the Flies of the Stage, to
remedy a detect in their otiginai construction.
.‘" The reef i, t has !alien short of the calculation in
the sum of IC3I than 81 I ,V9S. II 3 sd•
" That calculation. as submitted to you last year,.
was formeJ on the average of the three preceding
years. The obstrvation of the Sub•Cotnmittee upon
this result we shall give you in their own words, as
Ile force of it mast equally strike every Proprietor
/ha is engaged himself, or intimate with: others in
iusiness at the present eventful period.
" How far the times, they remark, have. tine:-
/ctediy, had any influence on the receipts, or how
far the original calculation was erroneously. adopted.
were presuniptuous in us to determine.
" One year's experience can scarcely justify our
giving a decided opinion, but prudence points out to
us rather to forbear encouraging the sanguine hope
i larger receipts, but to look for a more favourable
balance in future, from diminished expenditure.
" Eager% however. as ne are to.applaud the sober
vie 71.4 and expectations, which, if erroneous, will err
02 the side of safety, we cannot in Justice either to
them for the past, or to you for the future, give in to
extraordinary a solecism as to suppose, that at a
Period when distress has driven so many abroad, and
'kited every class at home—a Theatre of public
amusement should be the only ark in the general
d4ole• It must, on the tontiary, to the least son.:
Rothe mind, be apparent, that of ail property, this is
the aunt liable to be affected by general, however
teml'otaly, distress: and although we may lament
the malt of the season, which has not presented you
With a dividend, we cannot but think. that there is
ercutid of well jestified confidence in your Subs
Committee, that, on the side of expense, unlike other
e'litnates, theirs has been dimiuished in being carried
Into execution. Nor is it too 'much to assert, that a
144= shale of public favour to this Theatre, has afforded
"' the proof 'and the iewartrof their zeal and
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'4 Were the tale to end here, your hope far the
fume must depend on the contingent amelioration
of the times; sue)), hdwever, is not yolir only re-
sofece, for in the estimate which has been submittal
el of the expense for the ensuing season, a further
Ininution is calculated upon in the sum of mi'6ooo.
Coking therefore, upon the whole, an annual iCdUC-,
t*lttunt the Average expaises of the three first. sea.
10'4 4,1 1 4,0()0.
44 these retreechmenti it is but fair to those,
whomshas fallen a duty at all times ungracious,
/ttr fur your interest, quit': uecussary, to offer our

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