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Public Amusements.

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .

THEATRE ROYAL , COVENT-GARDEN .. Jan . ii . HPHE New Comedy brought forward this evening , under the ' 1798 . A title of ' SECRETS WORTH KNOWING , ' is the production of Mr . Morton , author of 'A Cure for the Heart Ache , ' ' The Way . to get Married , '' and other works of acknowledged merit .. The following is a sketch of the fable , . . Charles Greville , a young man of worth and talents , returns to this -

country on the death of his father , to take possession of the family estate . In his absence , Undermine , a man of the most artful and unprincipled kind , had worked upon the mind of Old Greville , arid prejudiced him against his . own . son . Old Greville had made a Will , leaving the whole of his property to his son ; but , prejudiced by the . instigations ofUndermine ,: had made the latter his heir , provided Young Greville should enter intoany matrimonial engagement before he reached the age of twenty-five . Old " Greville , however , relenting , made a second Will , leaving his son sole heir , without any condition . '

The last Will Undermine desires his Clerk Nicholas to burn , and promises to reward him with a thousand pounds . Nicholas knows too much of the villainy of his Master to trust him , -and , therefore , instead of destroying the , last Will , he sews it within the lining of his coat , to be used as necessity may require . Charles Greville , while abroad , had married a very amiable Lady , the sister of Mr . Egerton , who had been ruined by . the artifices ofUndermine . Greville , on reading the prohibitory provision , is naturally thrown

into great agitation , which is increased by the necessity of suppressing it in ' the presence of Undermine . In this perplexity , the only scheme he can devise to frustrate the claim of Undermine is , to conceal his marriage , and to pass off his Wife as a Mistress . Mrs . Greville , after a struggle of virtuous anxiety , assents to her husband ' s plan ; but Sally Downright , an old servantof Mrs .. Greville , refuses to deny the marriage , and resolves to preserve the reputation of her Mistress . At length , however , Sully agrees to hold her

tongue , whenever she is questioned upon the subjeft . Undermine , baffled , in his views of immediately succeeding to the Greville ' possessions , visits the bouse , in hopes that some circumstance will transpire that may prove the marriage , fie tries to get the secret from Sally by a bribe , but in vain ; she

takes his purse , but remains silent . He then takes his Nephew Rostrum , an Auctioneer , with him , and desires the latter to treat Mrs . Greville with gallantry , conceiving that the resentment of the husband will bring forth the . secret . This last scheme proves successful ; Greville , even with the certainty of ruin , cannot bear to see . his wife insulted , and therefore avows his marriage . Undermine , of course , desires Mr . Greville v- 'ill leave the house , and let him take possession . Egerton , the Brother of Mrs . Greville , having lost

his fortune b y the knavery of Undermine , is obliged to go abroad as a private soldier ; but having struck his Officer , has escaped to this country . He meets Sally Downright , of whom he enquires after his sister , and , among other questions , asks if she is married ? Sally observes a ri gid taciturnity on this point ; and the honour of the soldier operates in a determination to destroy the supposed seducer of his sister . Rostrum , the young Au & ioneer , is too generous a character to be warped by the base counsels of his uncle Undermine , who-wants him to marry Rose Sydney , to whom Undermine , ' and-April , steward to the Greville estate , are joint guardians . April , on the other hand , wishes her to marry Plethora , his grandson 5 but being a man of

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LONDON: Article 3
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 4
PREFACE TO VOLUME THE TENTH. Article 5
REFLECTIONS ON THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR M,DCC,XCVIII. Article 7
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON LONGEVITY. Article 10
A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE LITERATURE OF THE YEAR 1797. Article 13
A COLLECTION OF CHINESE PROVERBS AND APOTHEGMS, Article 16
ON THE INVASION. Article 17
COMPARISON BETIVEEN THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. Article 19
DESCRIPTION OF CANADA. Article 21
FURTHER MEMOIR OF JOHN WILKES. Article 24
ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND SEIGNOR, SULTAN SELIM III. Article 30
THE COLLECTOR. Article 32
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 38
SYMBOLIC MASONRY. Article 41
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 42
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 43
POETRY. Article 51
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 55
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 58
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 59
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 60
OBITUARY. Article 71
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Public Amusements.

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .

THEATRE ROYAL , COVENT-GARDEN .. Jan . ii . HPHE New Comedy brought forward this evening , under the ' 1798 . A title of ' SECRETS WORTH KNOWING , ' is the production of Mr . Morton , author of 'A Cure for the Heart Ache , ' ' The Way . to get Married , '' and other works of acknowledged merit .. The following is a sketch of the fable , . . Charles Greville , a young man of worth and talents , returns to this -

country on the death of his father , to take possession of the family estate . In his absence , Undermine , a man of the most artful and unprincipled kind , had worked upon the mind of Old Greville , arid prejudiced him against his . own . son . Old Greville had made a Will , leaving the whole of his property to his son ; but , prejudiced by the . instigations ofUndermine ,: had made the latter his heir , provided Young Greville should enter intoany matrimonial engagement before he reached the age of twenty-five . Old " Greville , however , relenting , made a second Will , leaving his son sole heir , without any condition . '

The last Will Undermine desires his Clerk Nicholas to burn , and promises to reward him with a thousand pounds . Nicholas knows too much of the villainy of his Master to trust him , -and , therefore , instead of destroying the , last Will , he sews it within the lining of his coat , to be used as necessity may require . Charles Greville , while abroad , had married a very amiable Lady , the sister of Mr . Egerton , who had been ruined by . the artifices ofUndermine . Greville , on reading the prohibitory provision , is naturally thrown

into great agitation , which is increased by the necessity of suppressing it in ' the presence of Undermine . In this perplexity , the only scheme he can devise to frustrate the claim of Undermine is , to conceal his marriage , and to pass off his Wife as a Mistress . Mrs . Greville , after a struggle of virtuous anxiety , assents to her husband ' s plan ; but Sally Downright , an old servantof Mrs .. Greville , refuses to deny the marriage , and resolves to preserve the reputation of her Mistress . At length , however , Sully agrees to hold her

tongue , whenever she is questioned upon the subjeft . Undermine , baffled , in his views of immediately succeeding to the Greville ' possessions , visits the bouse , in hopes that some circumstance will transpire that may prove the marriage , fie tries to get the secret from Sally by a bribe , but in vain ; she

takes his purse , but remains silent . He then takes his Nephew Rostrum , an Auctioneer , with him , and desires the latter to treat Mrs . Greville with gallantry , conceiving that the resentment of the husband will bring forth the . secret . This last scheme proves successful ; Greville , even with the certainty of ruin , cannot bear to see . his wife insulted , and therefore avows his marriage . Undermine , of course , desires Mr . Greville v- 'ill leave the house , and let him take possession . Egerton , the Brother of Mrs . Greville , having lost

his fortune b y the knavery of Undermine , is obliged to go abroad as a private soldier ; but having struck his Officer , has escaped to this country . He meets Sally Downright , of whom he enquires after his sister , and , among other questions , asks if she is married ? Sally observes a ri gid taciturnity on this point ; and the honour of the soldier operates in a determination to destroy the supposed seducer of his sister . Rostrum , the young Au & ioneer , is too generous a character to be warped by the base counsels of his uncle Undermine , who-wants him to marry Rose Sydney , to whom Undermine , ' and-April , steward to the Greville estate , are joint guardians . April , on the other hand , wishes her to marry Plethora , his grandson 5 but being a man of

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