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Public Amusements.
o- i tiresome repetition of " D—n me , " and " Do you take me > without co . n" /¦ t i ' on or application . Indeed , the audience began at length to join in the mi-!^ rec-tion which they seemed inclined to extend to the whole piece . ISIiss F-ivren ' s Olivia contained many noble sentiments . She reproved the destructive practices at private gaming tables , and wittily said that " blushes and ! , I > om were become mere articles of perfumery . " , , . -, , The first ilct is , lie best in tlle P iece > alul wr , s "'e ! I recelved > thc second arKl dullthat the serpent began to twine with its fatal hiss round the
third were so , . i , 0 Wever it was uncurled by some generous inierpoing hands , and the fourth \ nd fifth acts going off svith some applause , the piece was announced for a second renres' -ntation with but few dissentient voices . _ A prologue , delivered by Palmer , had not much nesv observation . The Epilogue by Miss Farren , turning upon fashion , and the incidents of the day , had many ' good points ; amongst others , the couplet , An Orator of notewhose name is ( putting her hand to her mouth ) MUM ' .
" , To make us eloquent , has made us dumb !" A fesv hisses were vented against this passage , but the plaudits overcame them . On the same evening , at Covent Garden , a Nesv Comedy svas brought forward , under the title of " The . Way to get Married . " , CHARACTERS . Tangent , - Mr . L EWIS .
Toby Allspice , - - Mr . QUICK . . Capt . Faulkner , - - Mr . P OPE . Caustic , - . - - Mr . MUKDEN . Dick Dashall , - - Mr . FASVCETT . Felix M- 'Ouery , - - Mr . JOHNSTONE . Julia Faulkner , - - Miss WALLIS . Clementina Allspice , - Mrs . MATTOCKS . Lady Sorrel , - - Mrs . DAVENPORT .
Scene—A Country Village . Captain Faulkner , who has served the state svith great success , retires with his daughter Julia to a country-town , waiting in anxious expectation the decision of P law-suit in which he is involved , on account of an estate'withheld from him . The person by whom he is chiefly directed is M'Ouery , an Irish attorney , who , by the most sordid practices , has amassed , as he professes , a fortune of tsventy thousand pounds . It appears that this vile instrument of the law had officiously been in the service of his
obtruded himself upon Faulkner , who having engaged country al ) his life , is , though a man of a good understanding , not prepared against the artifices of mankind . —Faulkner had lost a dear friend in the East Indies , Charles Richmond , who svas killed by his side in action . Richmond had intrusted to the care of Faulkner a thousand pounds , which he had bequeathed to Mr . Tangent , a gay . young man of this country , Tangent and he having agreed that the survivor should take thc property of the other . The expences of the law-suit , and the delay that attends his lication for prize- brings upon poor Faulkner such
app money embarrassments as tempt him to employ for his osvn use the money which Richmond had left to Tangent . His integrity , however , is untainted , as the constant hope of a decision in his favour , and of receiving the svell-earned profit of his professional valour are his only inducements to use the money , which he means , as soon as possible , to convey to the rightful claimant . Faulkner ' s nice sense of honour rendei-s him very unhappy , under the consciousness of having thus employed the property of another , and , in the anguish of his feelings , he betrays the secret to the insidious attorney . Mr . Caustic , the uncle of Tangent , is , according
to the svill' of a whimsical old maid , lately deceased , invested with the honour of assigning thirty thousand pounds to any lady who marries with his approbation . Caustic , svhose severe manners render him an object of pecular dislike to the female ss-orld , before it is knosra that lie enjovs this enviable privilege , is now be-
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Public Amusements.
o- i tiresome repetition of " D—n me , " and " Do you take me > without co . n" /¦ t i ' on or application . Indeed , the audience began at length to join in the mi-!^ rec-tion which they seemed inclined to extend to the whole piece . ISIiss F-ivren ' s Olivia contained many noble sentiments . She reproved the destructive practices at private gaming tables , and wittily said that " blushes and ! , I > om were become mere articles of perfumery . " , , . -, , The first ilct is , lie best in tlle P iece > alul wr , s "'e ! I recelved > thc second arKl dullthat the serpent began to twine with its fatal hiss round the
third were so , . i , 0 Wever it was uncurled by some generous inierpoing hands , and the fourth \ nd fifth acts going off svith some applause , the piece was announced for a second renres' -ntation with but few dissentient voices . _ A prologue , delivered by Palmer , had not much nesv observation . The Epilogue by Miss Farren , turning upon fashion , and the incidents of the day , had many ' good points ; amongst others , the couplet , An Orator of notewhose name is ( putting her hand to her mouth ) MUM ' .
" , To make us eloquent , has made us dumb !" A fesv hisses were vented against this passage , but the plaudits overcame them . On the same evening , at Covent Garden , a Nesv Comedy svas brought forward , under the title of " The . Way to get Married . " , CHARACTERS . Tangent , - Mr . L EWIS .
Toby Allspice , - - Mr . QUICK . . Capt . Faulkner , - - Mr . P OPE . Caustic , - . - - Mr . MUKDEN . Dick Dashall , - - Mr . FASVCETT . Felix M- 'Ouery , - - Mr . JOHNSTONE . Julia Faulkner , - - Miss WALLIS . Clementina Allspice , - Mrs . MATTOCKS . Lady Sorrel , - - Mrs . DAVENPORT .
Scene—A Country Village . Captain Faulkner , who has served the state svith great success , retires with his daughter Julia to a country-town , waiting in anxious expectation the decision of P law-suit in which he is involved , on account of an estate'withheld from him . The person by whom he is chiefly directed is M'Ouery , an Irish attorney , who , by the most sordid practices , has amassed , as he professes , a fortune of tsventy thousand pounds . It appears that this vile instrument of the law had officiously been in the service of his
obtruded himself upon Faulkner , who having engaged country al ) his life , is , though a man of a good understanding , not prepared against the artifices of mankind . —Faulkner had lost a dear friend in the East Indies , Charles Richmond , who svas killed by his side in action . Richmond had intrusted to the care of Faulkner a thousand pounds , which he had bequeathed to Mr . Tangent , a gay . young man of this country , Tangent and he having agreed that the survivor should take thc property of the other . The expences of the law-suit , and the delay that attends his lication for prize- brings upon poor Faulkner such
app money embarrassments as tempt him to employ for his osvn use the money which Richmond had left to Tangent . His integrity , however , is untainted , as the constant hope of a decision in his favour , and of receiving the svell-earned profit of his professional valour are his only inducements to use the money , which he means , as soon as possible , to convey to the rightful claimant . Faulkner ' s nice sense of honour rendei-s him very unhappy , under the consciousness of having thus employed the property of another , and , in the anguish of his feelings , he betrays the secret to the insidious attorney . Mr . Caustic , the uncle of Tangent , is , according
to the svill' of a whimsical old maid , lately deceased , invested with the honour of assigning thirty thousand pounds to any lady who marries with his approbation . Caustic , svhose severe manners render him an object of pecular dislike to the female ss-orld , before it is knosra that lie enjovs this enviable privilege , is now be-