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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS, 



APRIL, 1S09. 



ARTICLE I. 



Plan fur an improved Theatre: by Sir George Cayley, 

 Bart. In a Letter from the Author. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 



SIR, Brompton Malton, Yorkshire, March 1, 1809. 



JLn consequence of this second theatrical disaster within P]an for a th ^. 

 so short a period, I take the liberty of enclosing, for the use atre. 

 of your valuable Journal (if you think proper), a plan, and 

 letter of explanation respecting it, which I submitted to the 

 proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre some time ago, but 

 which I am just informed by Mr. Kemble has not been 

 able to be adopted in any degree by Mr. Smirke, their 

 architect. If you think the paper worth printing, or any 

 extract* from it (which might be more proper) it is much 

 at your service ; if not, you will have the goodness to re- 

 turn it. As a new theatre will soon have to be built, and Imperfect 

 as the public is so much interested in having it as conve- *" nts mav bc 

 nient a3 possible, publishing a few hints of this kind, how- improve upon ' 

 ever imperfect, may call forth others of more value ; and 

 thus at length some good may arise. 



Vol. XXII. No. 99— April, 1809. R The 



