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Benefits for the Family of John Palmer, at Liverpool and
in London - The Stranger Acted by Kemble Safely
Throughout — The Melancholy Leave Which Palmer, in
the Summer, Took of the Author_“Cambro-Britons"
Jackson of Exeter — The Author's Second Ghost an
Absolute Apotheosis — Powell from Norwich -“Cap-
tive of Spilsberg” – Mrs. Siddons Absent, from Family
Calamity — " Aurelio and Miranda” -- Fine Acting of
Kemble — “ Banquet Gallery An Antiquary - His
Annoyances Displayed - The “ Secret," by Morris -
Rosa Acted by Mrs. Jordan - Admirable Epilogue
Spoken Twice by Mrs. Jordan Begs the Author's
Opinion of the “East Indian” – An Interview upon
the Subject - Her Son, the Present Colonel George
Fitzclarence — His “ Travels from India” Commended
- The “ Birthday" - Kotzebue and Sterne
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CHAPTER II.
The Summer Theatre - Antiquary Assails the “Red Cross
Knights” – Falls Foul of Poor O'Keefe's “Peeping
Tom" - His Anachronisms - Colman Not to Be Moved
by the Twaddler — The Winter Season of Drury Could
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Not Begin with “ Pizarro ". Kotzebue's Monopoly of
“ Seduction " Gluts the Market - A Fable of This Kind
Dished Up by Mrs. Inchbald, and Called the “ Wise
Man of the East " - Fable of the “ East Indian,” by
Lewis — Miss Biggs Assumes Mrs. Jordan's Character,
Zorayda - Mrs. Jordan's Confinement in December, at
Bushy - How Managers Suffer by These Natural Im-
pediments — Kemble without Heroines, Resorts to Mono-
drames — The Antiquary Admires His Richard, but Has
a Long List of Errors in the Getting Up of the Play-
France and Banting - King Henry Not Uncovered --
The Missal to Throw after the
and Aldermen
- No Armour in the Play, but in the Mouths of the
Actors - My Friend Elliston, the Real Patron of True
Armour - His Three Splendid Suits - The Civic Festi.
val — Gog and Magog — Kean – A Basso-relievo of
Richard Dying Pointed out to Him - Mrs. Jordan's
Return to Drury
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CHAPTER III.
Season of 1800-01 - Kemble Opened with His Hamlet -
Probable Result of His Purchasing - The "Indian”.
Doctor Houlton's Prologue - Innocent Operas — Vaux-
hall Hooke - The Plowdens Virginia,” An Opera –
Kemble Ready to Withdraw It - "Bold Stroke for a
Wife,” the Stop-gap - "Antonio," Another Sacrifice -
The Procession of Tragedies — Mrs. Siddons - Shake-
speare Revivals – Hopes of the Renters — Want of
Colours and Canvas in the Painting-room - Aversion
to Modern Plays - Even Colman Not Engaged to
Write Comedy — Apparent Jealousy - Mrs. Jordan,
Even Cumberland Short of Her Powers - The Modern
Writers Ignorant of Female Character - Cumberland
and Burgoyne - The Latter Would Have Written for
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Jordan - Jealousy of Kemble - Cooke invited to Co-
vent Garden - Sketch of That Strange Being - Made
a Rival to Kemble in Richard - Permitted a Year's
Triumph — Kemble and Cooke as Macbeth - Cooke's
True Power — His Dislike of Kemble - The Country
Girl Returns to the Stage in March .
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CHAPTER IV.
Decided Hostilities of 1801-02 - Kemble Now Challenges
Comparison — No Coals from Newcastle - Lewis's
Apology - The Faculty Bulletins - Cooke's Marriage
Annulled — Next Month He Really Arrives, and Tri-
umphs - Prevalence of Drunkenness Mrs. Billington
Sings for Both Houses — Siddons, Henry, and His “In-
tegrity” — As an Actor - Marries Miss Murray - Isa.
bella's Own Son - Mrs. Billington's Accident - Quick,
the Cunning Isaac, at Drury – Difficult Music — Nasó-
lini — Kemble's Zanga, and Fifth Henry - Reynolds at
the Other House - Nothing Written for Mrs. Jordan
– Poaching at Strawberry Hill — The “Fashionable
Friends" Seduction and Sentiment — Lady Selina,
Miss Decamp — Sketch of That Character - Cobbett
would Not Illuminate on the Peace — Applies for a
Guard - Answer of the Minister – M. Otto's House
and Mr. Bull's Mistake -- Concord Declared an Insult
by Acclamation - M. Otto Found the Schoolmaster Not
Abroad — Amity versus Concord, Adopted - Mrs. Jor.
dan in Lady Teazle- Mrs. Jordan at Richmond and
Margate - Season 1802-03 – Mrs. Jordan's Painter,
Romney
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CHAPTER V.
Bannister's Administration, or All the Talents He Could
Get - Collins - S. Kemble - Natural Falstaffs — Obes-
PAGR
ity Never Pleasing - Midas and the Immortals Really
Ascending - Foote's Hamlet -- Pope — Sir Richard Ford
Issues His Warrant for Colonel Despard - C. Kemble's
Foil — Mr. Turner - Angelo's Opinion of Him as a
Fencer - Holcroft's “Hear both Sides” Heard, but
Not Liked – A Preface; Every One Will Not Sell for
a Guinea — " John Bull,” Written by Colman for Covent
Garden - Curious Challenge of the Little Manager
The “Marriage Promise,” by Allingham - Mrs. Jordan's
Emma Harvey - The Author Curtails “ Falstaff's Wed-
ding," for R. Palmer Hamlet the Dane, His Excesses
Death of James Aickin, Misses Kemble in the Field
And the Author — Colman Opens on the 15th of
May - Charles Mathews at Home - Old Wiggins —
Mrs. Litchfield Reëstablishes the Dane again - Joins
with Mrs. Jordan in a Kindness to Poor Lee Lewes
- The Violante Nervous – Mrs. Litchfield's Attention
to Her — Astley's Theatre Burnt — Death of Tate Wil-
kinson — Death of Jos. Richardson, a Proprietor of
Drury - Richardson's Funeral – Mrs. Jordan Estab-
lishes Her First Family in Golden Square
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CHAPTER VI.
The Reservoirs of Some Use at Drury Lane - The “ Cara-
van" and the Dog Carlo — Story of the Piece — Sheri.
dan and His Preserver - -“ Cinderella ” and her Slipper,
with Venus and the Graces — Cherry's “Soldier's Daugh-
ter” Mrs. Jordan in the Widow Cheerly Her
Epilogue, a Female Army - The “Sailor's Daughter,"
by Cumberland - Mrs. Jordan's Benefit The “ Middle
Dish ” — Bannister Returns to the Haymarket - Fawcett
Makes a Ballet from the Action of Shakespeare's “ Tem.
pest - The “Gay Deceivers ” — Elliston and His Ad.
dress — Master Betty at Edinburgh - Home and His
Douglas " - A Really Great Genius of the North
Descending to Works below Him — Rewriting All Our
Literature Substitutes - Standard Works to Be Care-
fully Reprinted — The Followers of Didot - His Appli-
cation at Seventy-three - Elliston at the Opera House
- Mrs. Jordan Herself Opens the Season of 1804-05
in Widow Cheerly — Mathews and Elliston Now at
Drury – Miss Duncan's First Night - Phantom Lathom
and His “ Dash” – A Fête Royal at Weymouth -
Elliston and Miss Decamp — The Royal Game, and the
Michaelmas Goose on a Birthday - Another Farce for
Mrs. Jordan, Called “ Matrimony” .
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CHAPTER VII.
The Young Roscius Acts Norval to Great Houses — The
Nightly Average - The Receipts of His Twenty-eight
Nights at Drury - Talk of Erecting Statues — Opie and
Northcote Paint Whole-lengths — Duke of Clarence
Accepts the Dedication of Northcote's Picture - Medi.
cal Men Usually Wild about the Stage - The Profes.
sional Policy - One Physician Supremely Ridiculous -
Betty Taken to the “ Adelphi ” – A Westminster Dormi-
tory - Introduced to the Archbishop of York - Probable
Advice from Markham - Old Actors Affect to Admire
the Boy, Because They Hated Kemble - Mrs. Litchfield
Strikes a Blow for Her Own Benefit - How It Benefited
Others — Kemble Appears in “Othello” – The Town
Begins to Awake -“ Richard the Third” Acted by the
Little Duke of York — The Boy for the First Time
Hissed · Siddons, after Long Absence, Returns
Kemble Now Presumes to Act “ Macbeth". Miss Mudie
- The Fund Applies to Betty to Act a Night for His
Poor Brethren – Aid Refused - A Peep at Coventry in
Passion Week - Hough, the Prompter, versus Betty -