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Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
Nov . 7 . A NEW Comedy was brought forward at Covent-Garden Theatre , j [\_ under the Title of Speculation : , THE CHARACTERS OF WHICH WERE AS FOLLOW : Tom Tanjore , - Mr . LEWIS , Mr . Project , - - - Mr . MUKDEN * , Alderman Arable , - - - Mr . QUICK , Captain Arable - Mr . MIDDLETON
, , Jack Arable , - Mr ; FAWCETT , Sir Frederic Faintly , - Mr . CLAREMONT . jEmmeline , .... Miss WALLIS , Cecilia , - - Miss MANSELL , Lady Catharine Project , - - Mrs . DAVENPORT ,
Scene , London and its Vicinity . FABLE . Mr . Project is the Character who gives the name to this Comedy . He is a vile , worthless wretch , who is ever upon the watch to avail himself of some Specula ^ iion , and , in the pursuit of his schemes , has no regard to friendship and feeling , but would rise upon the ruin-of his nearest connections . His wife , Lady Catharine , is unprincipled enough to enter into all his schemes ; but being a woman of
intrigue , has some separate machinations in view ; Project , by his hypocrisy , had worked himself into the favour of the deceased Sir Charles Slanmore , who left his daughter Emmclincunder the guardianship of the insiduous Speculator . Emmelins had conceived an attachment for Captain Arable , the son of her uncle , Alderman Arable , an attachment that was fully returned by the Captain . The Alderman ,. Iiowever , on account of a , family pique , refuses his consent to a marriage between the lovers , and the-disappointment fills Emmclinc with such anxiety , that Jor some time her reason is impaired . Projecther Guardiantakes advantage of
, , this temporary derangement in the mind of Emmclinc , to confine her under pretence that her understanding is not sufficiently restored for her to be capable of managing her own fortune , which it appears that he has entirely dissipated in pursuit of various speculations , all of which have proved abortive . —Cecilia , a veryamiable girl , who is another ward of Project , and who lives in his house , enter-.
tains tile warmest partiality lor tne unliappy junmetme , sootnes ner in ner tnvoiun-• tary retirement , and is anxious to extricate her from the power of their abandoned Guardian . Tom Tanjore , the brother of Cecilia , after being tricked out of a fortune by the artifices of Project , is sent to the East Indies , through the . interest of Sir Charles Stanmore , the deceased father of Emm ' eline . Tom Tanjore , who is a generous , spirited fellow , amidstall his dissipated habits , indulges his extravagant propensities in India , and was confined for debt in Calcutta ; but by the assistance of an English Captain , obtains his liberty , and is generously
conveyed to this country . It seems that , at Calcutta , there was another Mr . Tanjore , a man of vast property , and as Project has heard of this Gentleman , he confounds jhim with poor Tony Tanjore , who returns without a farthing , and , imagining that lie shall find a fine Asiatic pigeon to pluck , invites the latter on his arrival to make use of his house , and sends him his carriage and some splendid clothes , for hi in to appear in a proper Nabobic state . Tom Tanjore * having 110 other resource , profits by this interested speculation oi Project , takes up his residence at the house of the latter , and gives , such directions for the mode of domestic expence , as is suitable tg the extravagant ngtians which Project lias farmed of lii * wealth , pro-
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Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
Nov . 7 . A NEW Comedy was brought forward at Covent-Garden Theatre , j [\_ under the Title of Speculation : , THE CHARACTERS OF WHICH WERE AS FOLLOW : Tom Tanjore , - Mr . LEWIS , Mr . Project , - - - Mr . MUKDEN * , Alderman Arable , - - - Mr . QUICK , Captain Arable - Mr . MIDDLETON
, , Jack Arable , - Mr ; FAWCETT , Sir Frederic Faintly , - Mr . CLAREMONT . jEmmeline , .... Miss WALLIS , Cecilia , - - Miss MANSELL , Lady Catharine Project , - - Mrs . DAVENPORT ,
Scene , London and its Vicinity . FABLE . Mr . Project is the Character who gives the name to this Comedy . He is a vile , worthless wretch , who is ever upon the watch to avail himself of some Specula ^ iion , and , in the pursuit of his schemes , has no regard to friendship and feeling , but would rise upon the ruin-of his nearest connections . His wife , Lady Catharine , is unprincipled enough to enter into all his schemes ; but being a woman of
intrigue , has some separate machinations in view ; Project , by his hypocrisy , had worked himself into the favour of the deceased Sir Charles Slanmore , who left his daughter Emmclincunder the guardianship of the insiduous Speculator . Emmelins had conceived an attachment for Captain Arable , the son of her uncle , Alderman Arable , an attachment that was fully returned by the Captain . The Alderman ,. Iiowever , on account of a , family pique , refuses his consent to a marriage between the lovers , and the-disappointment fills Emmclinc with such anxiety , that Jor some time her reason is impaired . Projecther Guardiantakes advantage of
, , this temporary derangement in the mind of Emmclinc , to confine her under pretence that her understanding is not sufficiently restored for her to be capable of managing her own fortune , which it appears that he has entirely dissipated in pursuit of various speculations , all of which have proved abortive . —Cecilia , a veryamiable girl , who is another ward of Project , and who lives in his house , enter-.
tains tile warmest partiality lor tne unliappy junmetme , sootnes ner in ner tnvoiun-• tary retirement , and is anxious to extricate her from the power of their abandoned Guardian . Tom Tanjore , the brother of Cecilia , after being tricked out of a fortune by the artifices of Project , is sent to the East Indies , through the . interest of Sir Charles Stanmore , the deceased father of Emm ' eline . Tom Tanjore , who is a generous , spirited fellow , amidstall his dissipated habits , indulges his extravagant propensities in India , and was confined for debt in Calcutta ; but by the assistance of an English Captain , obtains his liberty , and is generously
conveyed to this country . It seems that , at Calcutta , there was another Mr . Tanjore , a man of vast property , and as Project has heard of this Gentleman , he confounds jhim with poor Tony Tanjore , who returns without a farthing , and , imagining that lie shall find a fine Asiatic pigeon to pluck , invites the latter on his arrival to make use of his house , and sends him his carriage and some splendid clothes , for hi in to appear in a proper Nabobic state . Tom Tanjore * having 110 other resource , profits by this interested speculation oi Project , takes up his residence at the house of the latter , and gives , such directions for the mode of domestic expence , as is suitable tg the extravagant ngtians which Project lias farmed of lii * wealth , pro-