conclusions.

The Editor does not anticipate any disapprobation from thus giving
publicity to a small portion of the Rejected Addresses; for unless he
is widely mistaken in assigning the respective authors, the fame of
each individual is established on much too firm a basis to be shaken
by so trifling and evanescent a publication as the present:


- neque ego illi detrahere ausim
Haerentem capiti multa cum laude ceronam.


Of the numerous pieces already sent to the Committee for performance,
he has only availed himself of three vocal Travesties, which he has
selected, not for their merit, but simply for their brevity. Above
one hundred spectacles, melodramas, operas, and pantomimes have been
transmitted, besides the two first acts of one legitimate comedy.
Some of these evince considerable smartness of manual dialogue, and
several brilliant repartees of chairs, tables, and other inanimate
wits; but the authors seem to have forgotten that in the new Drury
Lane the audience can hear as well as see. Of late our theatres have
been so constructed, that John Bull has been compelled to have very
long ears, or none at all; to keep them dangling about his skull like
discarded servants, while his eyes were gazing at pieballs and
elephants, or else to stretch them out to an asinine length to catch
the congenial sound of braying trumpets. An auricular revolution is,
we trust, about to take place; and as many people have been much
puzzled to define the meaning of the new era, of which we have heard
so much, we venture to pronounce that, as far as regards Drury Lane