Star.
London, England, 1828-06-30 00:00:00

DRURY•LANE THEATRE.

The Theatre closed on Saturday night with Mr.
SPRING'S benefit, when the following Address was de-
livered by Mr. Wm. Loot:
" Ladies and Gentlemen—This night's performances will termi-
nate our, present season ; and it becomes my pleasurable duty to
convey to you the high sense of gratitude which the proprietor en-
tertains for the brilliant and triumphant manner in which you
byre borne tiim through it—a season uniformly successful, and in
some instances almost unparalleled. Our various novelties, audio
particular the combination of comic talent presented. to you was.
met and cherished with such etsbatassilei marts of your approbation,
as sera pores a.st to moccasin( activity and exertion for
your future g
" Pamir me also, Ladies and Gentlemen, to thank you in behalf
of all the performers, for the kindness with which you have re.
milted and rewarded their efforts. To their thanks) presume to
add my own ;•:and, till the Ist of October neat, I bad you, In the
name of the proptitton and the performers, a grateful and respect-
ful farewell."
Poor GeIIIALDI on Friday night took his last farewell
benefit at this Theatre. The entertainments selected
were,Jonatken is-England, in which Mr. MATHewe pet-
aonfied Jonathan W. DouNkins ; a musical melangek in
which Madame FELON, Muss FANNY AYTON, Miss Love,
Mr. Kilmer, Mr. HARLEY, Mr. MOUGAN, and others,
sang some of their best songs.; the"--Adopted Child; the
extravaganza. Hartman Hoax,'..in which Miss KELLY
played Columbine, to Mr. Hanuti's Harlequin, and
the whole concluded with a selection of popular scenes
from the most approved comic pantomimes, in which
the entire pantomimic strength- of the -metropolis at-
'aisteds • Never was there such a concatenation of Clowns
and •Coleeibines, Harlequins and Pantaloons, as here
gathered themselves together to grace the final astir of
ode who Was, for ro many years,'" the king among 'em
all.' He himself performed is only one of the scenes
ibtiveMentioned—t barber's shop, horn the pantoniinie
called the Ma:id:Fire, in which he played the Clow.
To the performadifk-of this part he was led on to the
sage, incidentally, by Mr. &tater, in the character of
Harlequin in Harkquin Hogs; and was received with
shouts of applause. He was much affected, bet though
evidently labowing under iv eat bodily infirmity, he bore
up stiffly against it; and went through the scene with so
much humour, that the audience laughed as lustily as
of old ; and they were so delighted. with that funny song
• of his about " blue ruin" and "hot codlings," that there
ware very general tall for its repot tion. He was too
*ugh eahausted to. oliey this call immediately, and
eventually he was.allowed to retire without repeating
it. The other performances then went on, and at their
close be came forward, " divested of his motley," and,
in " good set terms," he very feelingly delivered him.
self !bus

Lanus alio Game saux—l appear before you fee the bat time.
I need not asstn'e you of the sad regrit with which I say It: but
sickness and infirmity hive mine upon me, and I an no Mager
wear the " motley." Pour yaws ago I jumped my het jump, Aldsed
my last custard, and ate my last sausage. I cannot des9Wv the
pleieure I felt an once more unman ear imp and bells tooight—
.thet dress in which I have so often been made happy in your ap-
Pkuut ; and as I *tripped them off, I fancied that they esemed to
to cleave to me. lam not so rich a man as 'was when *as bask-
lie is your favour formerly, for then I had always a fowl in one
. posies, and sauce for it in the other—(Laughter and apidalaug)•
• thank you for the benevolence which has brought you hereto assist
„yogr oid and faithful servant. in his premature decline. ' Eight-
• and-forty years have not yet passed over my head, and I am
sinking fast. I now stand worse on my legs than I used us do es
. my bead—(A laugh). But I suppose lam paying the penalty of the
emus I perusal all my life—my desire and anxiety to merit your
favour has excited me to more exertion than my coirnitutles would
beat, and, like vaulting ambition, I have oirerkaped myself.—
Ladies and, Gentlemen, I fans' hasten to bid you farewell—but the
pan I feel in doingio is assuaged by seeing before me a disproof of
the old adage; that favourites have no friends. Ladles and Gen-
*mei), may you and youis eversenjoy the blessings' of health is the
fervent prayer of Joseph Grimaldi : (steepen—farewell." (Here
the audience rose and cheered him fondly, With waving of hats, Ece.)
" Farewell," he continued, " Goo bless you!"
His son and hr. HAnzigy 'then adenace4. and ledbiro off the stage, from *bids we may niitm. be re.
ttleJ with 66 Alf the bononss."