To The Writer Of A Letter...
Sir,-To write such a letter as theone you heve addressed to the public, it appears to me youshould, in sucht a case, have bad better information, not to put me under the necessity of saying its contents are false; as I can prove to you, that in all your letter the orny truth it contains is ink and prrper. FACTs.-Mr. Valabreque, the husband of Mladayne Catalani, came to announce to the administration, at 12 o'cloclc, on the 9th of this month, that Alladame Catalani was prevented from peribrmi- ing that evening by sudden indisposition. I represented'to him beforeseveral persons the bad cffects her absence vould have on the mind of the public, desiring at the same time that he shonld engage her to sing at least one air: to this he replied that she was in the utter impossibility of articulating a single note, and that he would send the doctor's certificate to prove wbatbeasserted. I immediately sent for Mir. Glindon, printer to the theatre, 51, Rupert-street, or- dering him to alter instantly all the bills, and I myself corrected the books to be reprinted without the name and airs of Madame Cata- lani, which was completed in three hours' time. The same can be veriSed at the above-mentiened Mr. Glindon's. At five-p'clock .rm., I received the doctor's eertificate, whlich was immediately printed, with an apology, and afterwards distributed in the boxes, pit, gal- lery, and particularly at the doors and where the tickets are paid. It is evident that I did every thing in snv power to have a sight to claim the indulgence of the public. Wiih respect to the epithet of being avaricious, which you have been pleased to confer on me,l have to say in answer, that if you take the trouble to look over the list of performers which I have engaged for the present season, besides the enormous expenses which every departa,ent of this theatre has cost this year, it wiU convince you that your letter is a series of base in. vectives, an(t assertions stated as facts without any proof. Sir, to conclute: should I be inclined to return to Italy, as you lhave suggested, you must be well aware that f should not carry ith me a letter such as yours;* but rather a sentence fnom a court of3ustite, which would empower me to announce to my countrymen that the laws of England equally protect foreigners as wel as its own citizens, weho endeavour to merit by their industry and talents the approbation of this hospitable 1ation. I am. &c. King's Theatre,p April 3, 1824. rT. BENELI.T TO TRJE WRITER OF LETTER IN MONDAY'S PAPER.