called LOVE FOR LOVE *. Thofe excellent players, Mrs. BARRY †, Mrs. BRACEGIRDLE, and Mr. DOGGET, though not at present concerned in the house, acted on that occafion. There has not been known fo great a concourse of perfons of diftinction as at that time; the stage itself was covered with Gentlemen and Ladies, and when the curtain was drawn, it dis. covered even there a very fplendid audience. This unusual encouragement, which was given to a Play for the advantage of so great an actor, gives an undeniable inftance, that the true relish for manly entertainments and rational pleasures is not wholly loft. All the parts were acted to perfection: the actors were careful of their carriage, and no one was guilty of the affectation to infert witticifins of his own; but a due refpect was had to the audience, for encouraging this accomplished player. It is not now doubted but Plays will revive, and take

By W. Congreve. Published in quarto 1695.

The Theatre and company in Lincoln's-Inn Fields opened with this play, which met with fo much fuccefs, that BETTERTON and the other managers made an offer to the author, which he accepted, of a whole share with them in their profits, on condition of his furnishing them with a new play every year. The character of Forefight in this play was then no uncom mon one. DRYDEN calculated nativitics; CROMWELL and K. WILLIAM had their lucky days; and SHAFTESBURY himfelf, though he had no religion, was faid to have regarded predictions. B. D.

+ Mrs. Barry on this occasion spoke an epilogue, written by Mr. Rowe, and which is printed in his works.

their ufual place in the opinion of perfons of wit and merit, notwithstanding their late apoftacy in favour of drefs and found. This place is very much altered fince Mr. DRYDEN frequented it; where you used to see Songs, Epigrams, and Satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expreffion, the elegance of the ftyle, and the like, the Learned now difpute only about the truth of the game. But however the company is altered, all have fhewn a great refpect for Mr. BETTERTON: and the very gaming part of. 'this houfe have been fo touched with a sense of the uncertainty of human affairs (which alter with themselves every moment) that in this gentleman they pitied MARK ANTHONY of Rome, HAMLET of Denmark, MITHRIDATES of Pontus, THEODOSIUS of Greece, and HENRY the Eighth of England. It is well known, he has been in the condition of each of those illuftrious perfonages for feveral hours together, and behaved himself in thofe high ftations, in all the changes of the fcene, with suitable dignity. For thefe reafons, we intend to repeat this late favour to him on a proper occafion, left he, who can inftruct us fo well in perfonating feigned forrows, fhould be loft to us by fuffering under real ones. The town is at present

in

THOMAS BETTERTON, juftly esteemed the Rofcius of his age, was born in 1535, came upon the ftage in 1656, and con

in very great expectation of feeing a comedy now in rehearsal, which is the twenty-fifth pro duction of my honoured friend Mr. THOMAS D'URFEY; who, befides his great abilities in the dramatic, has a peculiar talent in the lyric way of writing, and that with a manner wholly new and unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans, wherein he is but faintly imitated in the tranflations of the modern Italian Operas.

St. James's Coffee-house, April 11.

Letters from the Hague of the fixteenth say, that Major General Cadogan was gone to Bruffels, with orders to difperfe proper instructions for affembling the whole force of the Allies in Flanders, in the beginning of the next month. The late offers concerning peace were made in the ftyle of perfons who think themselves upon equal terms: but the Allies have fo juft a fenfe of their prefent advantages, that they will not

tinued on it with great reputation more than 50 years. He died April 28, 1710. There is a metzotinto of him by Williams, which, Cibber says, "refembled him extremely."

Sir RICHARD STEELE, who attended his funeral, published a paper to his memory in the TAT. NO 167.

"The Modern Prophets," C. quarto, 1709, his twentyfeventh production according to the lift of his plays in Biog. Dram. See TAT. No 11. and Note; and No 43.1

Mr. D'URFEY obtained his greatest reputation by a peculiarly happy talent for writing irregular Odes, witty Catches, Satires, and Songs of Humour, fuited to the spirit of the times, which he fung in a lively and entertaining manner. GUARD: N° 29, and N° 67.

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admit of a treaty, except France offers what is more fuitable to her prefent condition. At the same time we make preparations, as if we were alarmed by a greater force than that which we are carrying into the field. Thus this point. seems now to be argued fword in hand. This was what a great General * alluded to, when being asked the names of those who were to be plenipotentiaries for the enfuing peace, he, anfwered with a serious air, "There are about an "hundred thoufand of us." Mr. Kidney t who has the ear of the greatest politicians that come hither, tells me, there is a mail come in to-day with letters, dated Hague, April the nineteenth N. S. which fay, a defign of bringing part of our troops into the field, at the latter end of this month, is now altered to a refolution of marching towards the camp about the twentieth of the next. Prince Eugene was then returned thither from Amfterdam. He fets out from Bruffels on Tuesday: the greater number of the general officers at the Hague, have orders to go at the fame time. The fquadron at Dunkirk confifts of feven veffels. There happened the other day, in the road of Scheveling, an engagement between a privateer of Zeeland and one of Dunkirk. The Dunkirker, carrying thirty three pieces of cannon, was taken

*The Duke of Marlborough.

The waiter at St. James's Coffee-houfe. See p. 4.

and

and brought into the Texel. It is said the courier of Monfieur Rouille is returned to him from the Court of France. Monfieur Vendofme, being re-inftated in the favour of the Dutchess of Burgundy, is to command in Flanders.

Mr. Kidney added, that there were letters of the seventeenth from Ghent, which give an account, that the enemy had formed a defign to surprise two battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft: but thofe battalions received advice of their march, and retired to Dendermond. Lieutenant General Wood appeared on this occafion at the head of five thousand foot and one thousand horfe; upon which the enemy withdrew, without making any farther attempt.

From my own Apartment.

I am forry I am obliged to trouble the Public with fo much difcourfe upon a matter which I at the very first mentioned as a trifle, viz. the death of Mr. Partridge *, under whofe name there

Dr. SWIFT, in his "Predictions for 1708," foretold that Partridge the Almanack-maker would infallibly die on the 29th of March, about eleven at night, of a raging fever. The wits refolved to fupport this Prediction, and uniformly infifted that PARTRIDGE actually died at that time. See TATLER N° 7. and Note. No 11. No 35. and N° 44. See alfo Lord ORRERY'S "Remarks on the Life and Writings of SWIFT," p. 62.

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