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Liberal Gift-Refined Judgment and Taste -Mr. Cherry.

out the 'state of the house, which was then so bad, that he resolved to stay where he was. A peremptory order from the deputy manager was the consequence, that he should come and fulfil his engagement; whereupon he arose, went angrily to the theatre, put on a red coat and waistcoat, and a wig, retaining his black satin breeches, white stockings, and dirty shoes, which he had worn all day. In the quarrelling scene, he gave the deputy, who played Lothario, so severe a blow, that he absolutely sent him off the stage. When he afterwards required the reason of the insult, Ross, with affected ignorance, replied " Insult! I don't remember how." " Why, sir, the blow you gave me." Blow, sir ?" rejoined the other, considering.-" blow !-Oh, Sir I felt the animation of the part, that was all-but no blow, sir, no blow."

LIBERAL GIFT.

A comedian at Covent garden advised one of the scene shifters, who had met with an accident, to the plan of a subscrip tion; and a few days afterwards he asked for the list of names, which, when he had read over, he returned. “ Why, sir," says the poor fellow, " Won't you give me something?" " Wh zounds, man," replied the comedian," didn't I give you the hint?"

REFINED JUDGMENT AND TASIE.

Mrs. Clark says in her life, that she was once requested by a person in the pit, while playing the part of Pyrrhus, to give some speeches out of Scrub, which she had performed the night before with great success:-a curious specimen of refined judgment and theatrical taste, in the amateurs of former days.

MR. CHERRY.

Mr. A. Cherry, the comedian, was written to a few years ago, with an offer of a very good engagement from a manager, who, on a former occasion had not behaved altogether well to him. Cherry sent him word, that he had been bit by him once, and he was resolved that he should not make two bites of A. Cherry.

Spiller's Poverty-Quick's Apology-Taswell and Mrs. Clive.

SPILLER'S POVERTY.

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Spiller, the comedian, for whose benefit Hogarth engraved ticket, was, about the year 1720, in such estimation, that he had what was then deemed a very great salary; his improvident disposition, and unbounded extravagance, (especially in his amours,) always kept him poor. With his poveity he was frequently reproached, and once with some severity, by a female performer, who having a good person, and a very tender heart, contrived to make a fisure with a very inferior salary. Of this she boasted, and asked him why he could not manage in the same away. "Madam," replied the irritated performer, " that which makes you rich keeps me perpetually poor!"

QUICK'S APOLOGY.

Mr. Quick, (now of such well-earned celebrity,) while performing the part of Romeo,* was seized with an in voluntary fit of laughter, which subjected him to the severe rebuke of his auditors. It happened in the scene of Romeo and the Apothecary, who, going for the phial of poison, found it broken; not to detain the scene, he snatched, in a hurry, a pot of soft pomatum. Quick was no sooner presented with it, than he fell into a most convulsive fit of laughter. But being soon recalled to a sense of his duty by the reproofs of the audience, he came forward and made the following whimsical apology; -" Ladies and gentlemen, I could not resist the idea that struck me when the pot of pomatum, instead of the phial of poison, was presented. Had he at the same time given me a tea-spoon, it would not have been so improper; for the poison might have been made up as a lenitive electuary. But if you please, ladies and gentlemen, we will begin the scene again wi

without laughing."

TASWELL AND MRS. CLIVE.

Old Taswell, the comedian, having a dispute with Mrs. Clive, concinded his remarks on her, saying, "Madam, I have heard of tartar, and brimstone: and by G-d you are the cream of one, and the flour of the other."

In the early part of his theatrical career, he played all the first - tragedy characters.

Counsellor Clive and the Washerwoman - Origin of Mrs. Clive,

COUNSELLOR CLIVE AND THE WASHERWOMAN.

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The marriage of Mrs. Clive with the counsellor of that name was attended with continual jars and squabbles, which chiefly arose from the shrewish disposition of the lady. In a few months they parted by mutual consent, to the great satisfaction of the hen-pecked couns ellor; who, upon his return soon after to his chambers in Lincoln's-inn from the western circuit, finding his washerwoman had pawned some of his linen in his absence, despatched his footman to engage another person in that capacity, whose honesty might be depended upon. A laundress was found, and on her waiting upon Mr. Clive, while the servant was counting out the dirty clothes to her, he made some inquiries, which occasioned the good woman to give him an ac. count of the many respectable people she washed for; and, sir," says she, "I also wash for a namesake of your's, and a mighty good sort of woman she is, though she be one of the player-folks." "Oh! what you wash for Mrs. Clive, the actress, do you?" "Yes, sir, and she is one of the best customers I have." "Is she so? replied the counsellor, -" Stop, stop. toss the cl thes back into the closet again. Here, woman, I am sorry you have had this trouble; take this halfcrown, you can never wash for me; for I'll be d-d if ever I suffer my shirt to be rubbed against her shift any more, as long as I live."

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ORIGIN OF MRS. CRIVE.

Mrs. Clive was originally servant to Miss Eleanor Knowles, afterwards Mrs. Young, mother to the present Sir George Young, and Mr. Thomas Young, who, in 1774, came out at Covent-garden thea're in Macbeth, which he performed nine nights with much celebrity. When Mrs. Clive lived with Miss Knowles, who then lodged at Mrs. Snell's a fan-painter, in Churchrow, Hounsditch, Mr. Watson, many vears box-keeper at Drury lane, kept the Bell Tavern, directly opposite to Mrs. Snell's. At this house was held the Beef-steak Club, instituted by Mr. Beard, Mr. Dunstall, Mr. Woodward. &c. &c. Kitty Rafter, afterwards Mrs. Clive, being one day washing the steps of the door, and singing, the windows of the club-room being open,

Mrs. White as Lady Anne-Mr. Herbert as Duke of York, &c.

they were instantly crowded by the company, who were all enchanted with her natural grace and simplicity. This circumstance alone led her to the stage, under the auspices of Mr. Beard and Mr. Dunstall.

MISS WHITE AS LADY ANNE.

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At Portsmouth, gentleman says representation of Richard the Third, (under the ma of Kennedy); in which, on Richard exclaiming "Oh, take more pity in thine eyes, and see him here"-Miss White, in Lady Anne, indignantly exclaimed, -" Would they were battleaxe, to strike thee dead."

MR. HERBERT AS THE DUKE OF YORK.

Mr. Herbert, a celebrated country comedian, when a child, and just able to speak sufficiently for the stage. represented the part of the Duke of York, in Richard the Third; when he should have said, "Oh, mother! mother!" he made a pause. The lady who performed the Queen, gave him the sentence several times, to which he at last replied "You are not my mother; give me my leather breeches, and let me go home."

JEMMY WHITELY.

Old Jemmy Whitely, in a journey to Stamford, to save expenses, walked, and carried his portmanteau on his arm: within a few miles of the place of destination, he saw a hearse, and bargained with the diver to take him up. Being weary, he got into the interior and fell fast asleep, having previously desired John to call him when he approached the town. The arch whip, anticipatin, the pleasure of a joke, drove into the inn yard (the George) at Stamford, and collecting together as many of Whitely's friends as he could muster, told them "he'd show'em fun;" then opening the door, waked the snoring manager with news of his journey's end. Jemmy got out. and, to his astonishment, perceived himself surrounded by a number of people, who all at once vociferated -"Ah, master Whitely! how do you do? welcome to Stamford." To which the disconcerted wight replied, in his usual phrase " You

Garrick and Quin-Quin and the Pudding, &c.

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lie, you lie, you thieves, I am not master Whitely: I don't know any such person," and coolly walked off with his portmanteau.

GARRICK AND QUIN.

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Mr. Quin's pronunciation was of the old school; in this Mr. Garrick had made an alteration. The one sounded the a open, the other sounded it like an e; which occasioned the following ludricous mistake:- In the piece, when the Roman ladies come in procession to solicit Coriolanus to return to Rome, attended by the Tribunes and the Centurions of the Volscian army bearing fasces, their ensigns of authority, they are ordered by the hero, who was Mr. Quin, to lower them as a token of respect; but the men who personated the Centurions, imagining, through Mr. Quin's mode of pronunciation, that he said their faces instead of their fasces, all bowed their heads together.

QUIN AND THE PUDDING.

Quin, when once dining with a friend, calle d lustily for the pudding. The cook had forgot it. "Oh! the sabbathbreaking brimstone," exclaimed he, "no wonder we have earthquakes!"

THE GHOST OF GIMLET.

The same, when at Bath, dined along with some gentlemen at a lady's house, who was a great admirer of his ability as an actor. In the course of conversation, she addressed him after the following manner:-"Mr. Gwynn, I was once vastly entertained with your playing the Ghost of Gimlet, at Drurylane, when you rose up through the stage, with a white face and red eyes. and spoke of quails upon the rightful porcupine:do, pray, spout a little the Ghost or Gimlet." * Madam," said Quin, with a glance of ineffable disdain, "The Ghost of Gilmet is laid never to rise again." "Well, to be sure, Mr. Gwynn, you looked and talked so like a real Ghost; and then the cock crowed so natural - I wonder how you could teach him to crow so exact in the very nick of time; but I suppose he's game an't he game, Mr. Gwynn?" "Dung-hill, madam." Well, dung-hill, or not dung-hill, he has got such a clear counter

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