A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber.

Date:
1781
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] “ SALISBURY SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT. The fubfcribers are defired to meet on Friday the nineteenth day of this inftant January, at ‘‘ twelve o’clock at noon precifely, at the New Affembly-room in Salilbury, to confider of and determine on fuch regulations relative to the future management and conduct of the faid Con- cert as may be deemed necelTary.” It appears that deliberatmi was fpecified as a main part of the bufmefs of the meeting; and I will venture to add, that no meeting of that fort (not even a turnpike meeting, or a veftry in the meaneft parifli) was ever convened, in which deliberation did not precede the Resolutions. However, at this meeting, a fubfcriber of the party of Mr. CoRFE, foon flopped all debate, by his unexampled declaration that fpeeches only impeded bufmefs and by calling for the queflion.-Speeches (with an affedled infolence in his manner;)—what more contemptuous could have been faid of the pompous effufions of a mountebank, or of the noify rants of a flrolling player ? He alluded to what had been jufl delivered by two mofl refpedtable fubfcribers, in a very fenlible and genteel manner, in favor of an accommodation. They (I will be bold to fay) never found them- felves treated in fuch a manner before, either in a public or private fociety. No perfons are more univerfally acceptable; and I never heard any of their acquaintance complain, except when they fpeak too little. Mr. Pa rry’s letter to the Steward of the Concert
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