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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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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