the boxes are feparated from each other by partitions that are low in front, and rife behind, and placed in a new and commodious direction; they are lined and ceiled with wainscot, and are not papered, for the advantage of found; they are coloured red, as fuiting beft the audience. Their fronts project in a manner very accommodating to thofe who fit in the front rows; the ceilings are neatly painted.

The fecond and third circles of boxes are continued round the theatre, and differ from thofe below only in refpect of their height.

The gallery crowns the whole, and is continued round the theatre; the feats are confiderably elevated, fo as to give a complete uninterrupted view of the ftage. Its decorations have been fufficiently attended to; it is neat, airy, and lofty, and has a proper degree of elegance. In the gallery, as well as in all the boxes, the audience are feated at their ease, and fee and hear perfectly.

The general effect is that of a fmall theatre, and we understand it is not calculated to hold more than the old one. Every part of it is lined with the thinneft board, painted in water colours, as a means whereby the found may come improved to the ear.

The decorations are confiderable, tho' not overcharged; a heatre calls for drefs as much as a ftage. The ceiling is painted as a fky, the opening to which is furrounded by a balustrade, fupported by enriched frames, which have their bearings on the walls, and on the profceni

um.

The profcenium is compofed of pilafters and columns of the Corinthian order, fully enriched, having between them the ftage doors, over which are the balcony boxes. In the entablature to the order, is introduced the old motto, VELUTI IN SPECULUM; and over the entablature is a cove enriched with antique foliage on each fide of the royal The foffit of the entablature forms the founding-board to the profcenium, and the cove is calculated to throw the voice forward.

arms.

To decorate the fronts of the boxes, the method here purfued has been to make fwelling fronts fupported by confotes; all other columns or fupports are

avoided. The decorations are of white and gold, forming compartments, in each of which is a painting of gold colours on a pearl ground.

Round every circle of boxes, and to the gallery, are very fpacious corridors, acceffible by roomy ftaircases. In Hartftreet a very large building has been erected for the fcene painters, fcene rooms, green room, dreffing-rooms, &c. this building is a private entrance for the royal family to the ftate box. The ftage door, and box office, are alfo in a building in Hart-street.

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The whole of the avenues to the theatre have been altered and improved. The principal and new entrance is in Bowtreet, under an antique Doric portico, leading through a fpacious faloon, warmed by ftoves, to the lower circle of boxes, and to a double ftaircase that leads to the upper circles.

In Bow-ftreet, the old way to the pit and gallery is preferved. From the Piazza in Covent-garden, the old box entrance is preferved, leading by the front boxes round the house, and to the old coffee room, which is likewife preferved. It leads alfo by a new and roomy ftaircafe to all the circles of boxes.

A new entrance is made to the pit, and a new double ftaircase to the gallery. The Piazza to Hart-freet no longer continues a thoroughfare.

On the whole, great attention has been paid to convenience, to fecurity from fire, and to procure the good-will of the audience.

Unanimous Declaration of the Belfaft Firt Society of United Irishmen, Octo

ber 2, 1792.

"THE right of petitioning, that fa

is a natural right, which municipal law can neither give nor take away. Every age and nation have recognized it; it has been confecrated in thefe realms, under the fanction of common and itatute law, and it is exerted in Turkey, under the fabre of defpotifm. With refpect to the manner of preferring complaint, it would have become thofe Grand Juries who have confederated against the common right of the subject,

to point out any mode by which three millions of people could exprefs their grievances more peaceably than by delegation.

Attached as we are to one favourite principle-the good of the whole-the greatest happin fs of the many-it is neither petty, political fcandal, nor peremptory dictation, nor the throng of names and chorus of corporations, which can divest us from the unity and integrity of our political faith. To render authority either fecure or permanent, it muft be eftablished in the affections of the whole people; and we have no fcruple in declaring, that without fome Thare of political power, no people, nor any clafs of people, can have any fecurity for their perfonal freedom, their property, their trade or their religion. It is fo with proteftants-it must be to with catholics. The fl. fame principle which makes the former call for a reform, makes the latter anxious for the clective franchife, as a fhield from op preflion; and that principle we venerate, whether lodged in the bofom of a proteftant or a catholic; an African, or an American. To circumfcribe liberty is to deftroy it; and without free circulation, like the air we breathe, it lofes its fpring, ftagnates, corrupts, and then iffues out from the Grand Jury Rooms, hot and pettiferous, to check the rifing profpect of the nation, and to blaft the glories of 1782.

As for us, we difclaim, we abhor the idea of eftabliling a fovereignty over our fellow citizens; we refufe any fhare in an afcendancy which claims exclufive and eternal dominion, furmounts law and legiflature, and cuts off with merciless prefcription, a whole people from all hope of political equality. The law, in every free country, ought to know no exceptions; but to make the exceptions more general than the rule, is moftrous; and with concern we fay, it is Irish policy.

We, who in 1782, pledged our lives and fortunes to gain fovereignty to Ireland, will not at this day funtcribe to the fovereignty of any party, who under the pretext of religion, difpuife relitical jealoufy, and the fofifhrefs of

opoly; nor will we diefs up any

fuch proud affumption with the attributes of loyalty, and with the spoils of our countrymen. We, who in the hour of danger, and in the face of the enemy, were glad to take the catholics into our ranks, will not now throw them off as noxious incumbrances, and belying the nature and end of the volunteer inititution, blafpheming the writ of Dungannon, fet ourfelves in array against the very men, whom, the other day we embraced as brothers. We, who have always afferted the honeur, the intereft, and internal indepen dence of Ireland, to be maintainable only by the freedom, frequency, and power of parliament, will not compli ment the abufes of the conftitution at the expence of the community; nor will we, with heroic indifference to confiftency, pledge life and fortune to the fupport of a political fyftem in all its branches, while reiolutions ftill tingle in our cars, that without adequate reform there is no falvation for Ireland.

"Nor finally, will we add ourselves to the train of thofe upftarts in office, who acquire character and importance abroad, in the fame proportion as their country is lofing both at home; who fwell into unnatural fignificance with and by national humiliation :-We follow that excellent man, whofe perfonal glory is bound up with that of his country; who in this great queflion rifes above the fordid atmosphere of party; and we befecch him, and his liberal coadju tors, though they may be for a time unfuccefsful, to go on and complete the redemption of a long fuffering peo; ple.

"We have refolved, and we keep our refolution. We have chofen, and we purfue our choice. We act horeftly, and therefore conclude that we think juftiy. Let the law judge of our actions, but for our faith we appeal unto God-the God of all mankind, in whofe prefere there is no afcendancy but that of virtue and juftice: diltinction of religion, like diftinction of colours, is of his ordination. We will never vilify the religion of any man: end far lefs will we prefume to make thole varieties of faith, which are, perhaps, natural and neceffary, the engines

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