Mr.
Mackay has done Mrs.Henry Siddons and myself the honour to ascribe the establishment to us.

But no, gentlemen, it owes its origin to a higher source--the publication of the novel of Rob Roy--the unprecedented success of the opera adapted from that popular production.

(Hear, hear.) It was that success which relieved the Edinburgh Theatre from its difficulties, and enabled Mrs.Siddons to carry into effect the establishment of a fund she had long desired, but was prevented from effecting from the unsettled state of her theatrical concerns.

I therefore hope that in future years, when the aged and infirm actor derives relief from this fund, he will, in the language of the gallant Highlander, "Cast his eye to good old Scotland, and not forget Rob Roy." (Loud applause.) Sir WALTER SCOTT here stated that Mrs.Siddons wanted the means but not the will of beginning the Theatrical Fund.

He here alluded to the great merits of Mr.Murray's management, and to his merits as an actor, which were of the first order, and of which every person who attends the Theatre must be sensible; and after alluding to the embarrassments with which the Theatre had been at one period threatened, he concluded by giving "The Health of Mr.Murray," which was drunk with three times three.
Mr.MURRAY .-- Gentlemen, I wish I could believe that in any degree I merited the compliments with which it has pleased Sir Walter Scott to preface the proposal of my health, or the very flattering manner in which you have done me the honour to receive it.