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his last professional visit to Bath-his parts were— Howard in Will-Venetian Outlaw, &c.

Mathews acted 3 nights-he was excellent in

Cypher, and very good in Mingle.

Dec. 7. Peasant Boy. Julian

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Hippolito Hill, late of C. G.: Ludovico Woulds. Braham acted about 9 nights.

Jan.

24. Recruiting Officer, revived. Plume = Stanley : Sylvia Miss Jameson :-they both acted very well.

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Feb. 15. Earl of Essex. Essex Betty, his 1st app. in public these 4 years :-Betty came to Bath without any intention of acting-he was much solicited to return to the stage by some ladies, and he consented to do so-there was no alteration in him, except that he was now grown a stout young man he was much frightened when he first came on, which was by no means to his discredit, but rather on the contrary.

18 and 20. Betty acted Achmet, and Hamlet.

It would have been unfair to have given a decided opinion about Betty on his first performance, but after he had acted Hamlet, it might be said, without any scruple, that he was the worst actor who ever came before the public (except in a part for trial) as a first rate performer-Betty acted 4 nights more.

29. Blue Beard-Harris having on the 26th of December introduced a live Elephant on his stage, now lent his dead Elephant to the Bath managerthe bill for this evening announced that Abomelique would make his entry on the Elephant originally used at C. G.

March 3. Boarding House, or Five Hours at Brighton- this musical F. was written by Beazley

-it was brought out at the Lyceum Aug. 26th 1811 -the 2d edition is printed with the following castFidget (keeper of the Boarding House) = Lovegrove : Simon Spatterdash (a local militia man) Knight:

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Young Contract (a pugilist) = Oxberry: Alderman Contract (guardian to Caroline Heartley) = Wewitzer: Admiral Culpepper (her uncle) = Penson : Capt. Belfast J. Smith: Caroline Heartley Miss H. Kelly Caroline Wheatsheaf Mrs. Orger :Capt. Belfast and Caroline Heartley are mutually in love-her guardian wants her to marry Young Contract-Young Contract had deserted Caroline Wheatsheaf-she follows him to Brighton, and tells her story to Caroline Heartley-Caroline Heartley pretends to consent to her union with Young Contract, on condition that he will give a written promise to marry her he writes the promise with the name of Caroline only inserted in it-Caroline Heartley gives the written promise to Caroline Wheatsheaf-at the conclusion, Capt. Belfast and Young Contract marry Miss Heartley and Caroline Wheatsheaf-Fidget is the best character.

5. Doubtful Son. Malvogli= Sowerby :—he played this part very well.

7. For bt. of Woulds and Mrs. Chatterley. Road to Ruin. Goldfinch Woulds: Dornton Chatterley Harry Dornton Abbott: Silky = Evans : Widow Warren Mrs. Chatterley: Mrs. Chatterley: Sophia Miss Kelly-with Lethe, in one act. Lord Chalkstone = Chatterley: Frenchman Gattie: Drunken Man

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Woulds: Mrs. Riot Mrs. Chatterley:- and, never acted there, False Friend, or the Assassin of the Rocks. Mandeville Vining: Zaluch (a friendly

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Jew) Woulds: Horatio = Stanley Will Surge= Chatterley Julia Mrs. Vining :-this Melo-dramatic Ballet of Action was written by Cross, and brought out Sep. 7 1806-Horatio and Mandeville are in love with Julia-she is in love with Horatio -Mandeville pretends to be a friend to Horatio, but nearly assassinates him among some rocks-at the conclusion, Mandeville's villany is discovered, and he stabs himself-in the last scene, Mandeville drops a picture-Zaluch snatches it up, and calls on Mandeville to touch the secret spring-Mandeville endeavours in vain to find it - Zaluch touches the secret spring, and discovers the miniature of Horatio -this incident is borrowed from Julia, or the Italian Lover.

14. Miss Jameson's bt. Which is the Man? Beauchamp = Abbott: Lady Bell Bloomer Miss Jameson.

17. More ways than One. Carlton = Stanley: Dr. Feelove = Chatterley Miss Archer Miss

Jameson.

19. Stanley's bt. Merchant of Venice. Shylock Sowerby Gratiano = : Gratiano Stanley: Portia = Miss Jameson-with Captain Cook by Stanley.

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21. For the bt. of Charlton, acting manager. Lady of the Lake. Roderick Dhu = Sowerby: Fitz-James Abbott: Allan-Bane Charlton: Earl Douglas Ash: Brian Stanley Malcolm Græme = Comer: John of Brent = Cunningham: Malise = Lodge: Murdock Coburn: Norman Benson : Ellen Mrs. Vining: Blanche of Devan = Miss Kelly Lady Margaret = Mrs. Chatterley: Alice= Mrs. Woodhouse: Isabel = Miss Matthews :—with

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Quadrupeds of Quedlinburgh. Bathos Woulds: Rogero Chatterley: Casimere Evans: Matilda Pottingen Miss Jameson :-the Farce was badly gotten up, and was not repeated.

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The celebrity of Walter Scott's poem, called the Lady of the Lake, induced several persons to adapt it to the stage-Morton on Feb. 5th 1811 brought out at C. G. the Knight of Snowdoun-Eyre, at the request of Henry Siddons, wrote his Lady of the Lake this Melo-dramatic Romance was brought out at Edinburgh in 1811-Roderick Dhu= Terry : Fitz-James H. Siddons: Ellen Mrs. H. Siddons: Blanche of Devan Mrs. Young:-Eyre has adhered pretty closely to the story-but by writing in blank verse, he has given a stiffness to the dialogue, without retaining the beauties of the original language-his play however is much better than Morton's -the latter is in prose- -Dibdin is said to have brought out his Lady of the theatre in 1810-Fitz-James Dhu T. P. Cooke: Ellen Dibdin has (for the most part) adopted the words of the poem-but by writing his piece in 2 acts instead of 3, he has mutilated the story, particularly in that part of it, which concerns Roderick Dhu-on the whole Dibdin's piece does him credit.

Lake at the Surrey

Elliston: Roderick
Miss S. Booth :-

The Lady of the Lake, as performed at Bath on this evening is a most pleasing and judicious adaptation of Scott's work to the stage-the original poem constituting the dialogue with little or no alteration-previously to the representation several persons thought that the audience would not approve of a play in rhyme, but the Manager with his usual

good judgment determined to make the experiment —and the success was as complete as he could wish -the Lady of the Lake was thrown into the shape of a play by ***-Dimond added the Music from the Knight of Snowdoun-it was very well gotten up with appropriate scenes and dresses-Sowerby acted particularly well-Charlton figured his part to perfection, and spoke judiciously.

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March 31. Not acted 40 years, Twin Rivals. Elder Wou'dbe = Abbott: Younger Wou'dbe Cunningham: Trueman = Stanley Teague = = Egan : Mrs. Midnight Mrs. Egan: Aurelia Miss Kelly: Constance Miss Jameson:-the Bath audience is peculiarly squeamish-some disapprobation was expressed in the early part of the play, but when Mrs. Egan in the 5th act said—" there is only a poor "gentlewoman in labour "-the hissing was so violent as to stop the play-Egan, who was on the stage as Teague, was so silly as to come forward, and address the audience in behalf of his wife, who had only spoken the words which were in her part-on the 19th of the following June, Evans, as Don Manuel, said "kings, queens and-common whores "must die "—he was much hissed-it is to be hoped that the persons who hissed him, acted consistently -and that they hissed the first Parson whom they might hear reading a lesson in the Bible, with the obnoxious word in it.

April. Betty was engaged for 7 nights.

25. The Public are respectfully informed, that in compliance with the solicitations of several parties of distinction, Mr. Betty will perform 3 times more.

May 5. For bt. of Loder, Leader of the Band.

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