The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-01 00:00:00

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...ECONO REPORT OF THE SEI.F.CT COMMITTEE.
" The Proprietors basing, at their last General
Assembly, agreed to adopt the proposition of this
'Committee, that she sole Regulation, Conduct, and
'Calomel of the Theatre, and its Eapehditure, Ap-
pointment of Stage Manager, Engagement of Per-
formers, and selection of Pieces for Dramatic Re-
presentation, should he confided to Me.Ceittesn, and
assented to their declaration of the toter disqualifics-*
... Coos of the present Sub-Committert°l Management,
and the consents of the most .cowsidersble creditors
to accept terms of compromise bing.gisess, and the
sums.which Members of this Committeo had offered
to subscribe ind obtain, having beets agreed to ton
she express understauding and • cessation, not veil
'that the Thesere should not he again opened until OM
"cosepensations to the creditors ,ere discharged, bet
also on the uuderstandine and condition that the pre-
sent Sub-Committee of Management would either re-
sign or no longer be permitted to exercise their fonc-
ties., and their dissent from each Sub-Committee re.
besting or entering into any new engagements with
Performers, this Committee; on being informed, that
in defiance of such the declared sense sod Resolutions
of the Proprietors, the remaining Members of the Sub.
Committee of Management, without basing attempted
to conclude any treaty with Mr. Colmao,
.were ne-
-pasting with Mr. Stephen Kemble, Me Stage
Manager, did, on the 31st July last (in furtherance
of the objects so agreed to by the Proprietors),
transmit to the Sub. Committee of Management their
Protest in writing against such Sub-Committee per.
forming any act contrary to the Restitutions which
bad bees so agreed to, and this Committee did
thereby also declare that they were willing to co.
operate with the General and Sob-Committees
matters which might be requisite, as well far. the
purpose of investing Mr. Colman with the necessary
powers, as to establish such check mad controol over
the expenditure as might be expedient for the into.
rests of the Proprietors, and consistent with the
prosperity of the Theatre.
" No notice having been taken of that commu-
oication, or any effort made by the General or Sub.
Committee to co-operate with this Committee in
. raising, or-by themselves to raise, sufficient funds for
discharging the Compositions which the Creditors
had consented to accept, or for the other necessary
purposes, on the conditions which bad been sanc-
tioned by the Proprietors (although this Committee
had, so long since as the 16th July last, given no-
tice to the General and Sub-Committees that five of
their Members and one other Gentleman were will-
ing to subscribe 4,5001. and expressed that they had
no doubt of their ability to increase that amount to
* moiety of the sum which the exigencies of the
Theatre appeared immediately to requite), and this
Committee having, on the let of August last, been
Wormed that Mr. Stephen Kimble had then been
actually engaged as Stage 'Manager' end that,
wittiest regard to the Proprietors' Resolutions,
or making any provision for the Creditors, it
was Weeded by the Sub-Committee to open the
Theatre at the usual period for the wrest season,
this Committee, In the hope of preventing the secs-
' *elation of loss to which the Proprietors would ap-
parently, and they lure no doubt will eventelly, be
subjected by such skotation of their Resolutions, did
inneediately give italics in writing to the Sub-Com-
*Wee, that a Bill would be filed in Chancery for the
pewee of restraining them from opening the Theatre,
or entering into any engagements with Performers,
until the Creditors were paid, and for such other
purposes as Counsel might advise for carrying into
effect the Resolutions of the last General Assembly
of Proprietors; which notice having been disregarded,
a suit in Chancery was instituted by several Members
of this Committee against the Sub. Committee of Ma.
wsgement, the sole object of which was, to compel
them to obey the Directions and Resolutions of the
Proptieters ; and this Committee greatly regret, that
sltholigh such suit was instituted under the advice and
opinion of Counsel of the greatest eminence and abi-
lity, the injunction which, during a few days, re-
strained any mischievous proceedings by the Sub-
Committee, could not (according to the judgment of
the Lord Chancellor), consistently with the legislative
provisions to which the Theatre is subject, be longer
sustained.
66 It being understood to be in the contemplation
of a few Members of the General Committee to re.
duce the prices of admission to the Theatre, this Com-
mittee did, on their own behalf and on behalf of all
the other Proprietors, deliver to the General Com-
mittee, during their Meeting, on the 28th of As.
gust, a Protest in writing, against the adoption of a
measure so destructive to the interests of the Pro.
rietors, and which appeared fraught with absolute
and irremediable ruin to the theatrical property. The
Protest, however, as well as a motion which appears
to have been made at such Meeting of the General
Committee to submit the proposition for redoetion to
the consideration and jedgment of a General Assem-
bly of Proprietors, appears to have been disregarded,
and the prices of admission reduced by seven persons
only, four of whom were Members of the Sob-Corn.
Settee, and another was the last elected Auditor.
66 This Committee abstain from noticing many of
the unfounded statements contained in certain printed
pipers recently circulated, purporting to he Reports
of the Sub-Committee to the General Committee,
and of the General Committee to the Proprietors,
eat they deem it proper to declare that, however de-
sirous they were of averting the disastrous come-
gessoes which may be expected to result from opening
the Theatre at reduced prices, and under the couttnel
of the present Sub. Committee„ it was the original in.
Notion of this Committee that the Theatre should
Cava been opened at the usual period ender better
sespices, free from pecuniary difficulties and with in.
mteasrd attraction, which object they have no doubt
rwroald have been accomplished, if the General and
:11els.Coustaittee had acted in conformity with the Re-
solutions agreed to by the Proprietors. It continued
is be the eject of this Committee to open the Theatre
as soon as the present Sub-Committee could be dis-
placed, and the necessary fends obtained for meow-
log its pecuniary embarrassments, without which re-
moval it must probably be speedily closed. But the
Gillen! end Sob-Committee having by their disre-
gard of the Proprietors' Resolutions, and unau-
thorised reduction of the prices of admission, der
etroyed the hope entertained by this Committee, and

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