2 Ye lye! ye lye! ungrateful as thou art, Not content with this deviation from her own ftyle in acting, fhe would fain try her abilities in the more lofty tread of the bufkin. Nature has feldom given to the fame per fon the power to raise admiration and to excite mirth: to unite the faculties of Milton and Butler, is a happiness fuperior to the common lot of humanity. The art of expreffing with equal force the effufion of comic gaiety and tragic terror, was a talent peculiar in its fullest extent to Garrick, and to him alone; for even Mrs. Pritchard enjoyed thefe different powers of excelling in an inferior degree. ill The uncommon applaufe which Mrs. Clive obtained in Shakespeare's Portia, was owing to her mifreprefentation of the character mimicry in a pleader, when a Client's life is in danger, is but misplaced buffoonery. This inclination to figure * in parts adapted not only to her genius, but her age and perfon, accompanied this great actress to the laft, and fometimes involved her in difagreeable difputes, from which the had the good fortune to extricate herself by her undaunted fpirit. Mr. Garrick dreaded an altercation with her as much as a quarrel with an author whofe play he had rejected whenever he had a difference with Mrs. Clive, he was happy to make a drawn battle of it. At a time of life when she was utterly unfit to reprefent a girl of fixteen, he prevailed upon her to furrender Mifs Prue, in Love for Love, by making her a present of Mrs. Frail, in the fame play, a part almoft as improper for Mrs. Clive as the other. It was the wifh of her life to act female characters of importance with Mr. Garrick: Dear Kate, it is vanity both us bewitches, We few-what we ought to concea fhe attributed to his dread of her getting the better of him. She certainly was true game, as Mr. Lacey expreffed it, and would have died upon the fpot rather than have yielded the field of battle to any body. Mr. Garrick complained that the difconcerted him by not looking at him in the time of action, and neglecting to watch the motion of his eye; a practice he was fure to obferve to others. Clive would fuffer her eye to wander from This accufation is partly true, for Mrs. the flage into the boxes in fearch of her great acquaintance, and now and then give them a comedy nod or curtly: fhe was in this guilty of the very fault which the ridiculed dies of the Opera; but yet it must not be fo archly in Mingotti, and other Italian Ladenied, that though fhe feemed abfent by her look, fhe was prefent by her fpirits; the foul of humour was active on the ftage, tho' the bodily organs feemed to be elsewhere employed. characters extremely different, were closely Mrs. Pritchard and Mrs. Clive, though of united in bonds of friendship for almost forty years. But No actress ever laboured more affiduoufly Mrs. Pritchard. In this Mrs. Clive followed to make her family affluent and happy than her example, and more effectually.-whilft one feemed to confine all her attention to her relations, which indeed were very numerous, the other occafionally exerted her intereft in the fervice of others. Mrs. Clive refigned the part of Polly, which was no afterwards Mrs. Mozeen, whom the inftructg facrifice, in favour of Mifs Edwards, ed and encouraged; and to promote the general interefts of the community, fhe undertook the part of Lucy, a character fo truly equalled. To her leffons, care, and counplayed by her, that it has never fince been tenance, as well as to her own induftry and abilities, we owe the proficiency of that valuable actress Mifs Pope. trifli bove cenfure, that her conduct in every reMrs. Clive, in private life, was fo far a lation of it was not only laudable, but exem, plary, * Her company was always courted N Q T E. quoted fays, "but as great a favourite as Mr. Fielding in the dedication already you at prefent are with the audience, you would be much more fo, were they acquainted with your private character; could they fee you laying out great part of the profits which arife to you from entertaining them fo well, in the fupport of an aged få ther; did they fee you, who can charm them on the flage with perfonating the foolish and vicious characters of your fex, acting in real life the part of the beft wife, the beft daughter, the beft fifter, and the best friend.” by by women of high rank and character, to whom the rendered herfelf very agreeable. Her converfation was a mixture of uncommon vivacity, droll mirth, and honeft bluntne. In hort, fhe poffeffed powers which have not been feen on the ftage fince the quitted it; and qualities which will always adorn life, and dignify every fituation in it, from the higheft even to the most humble. Hilaries of the Tête-à-Téte annexed; or, Memoirs of the Profligate Prief, and the Pious Profelyte. WE inceffantly meet with fuch eccen tric, and even profligate characters in every department of life, that it is not furprising the fatirift fhould find an inexhauftible fund to difplay his wit as well as fpleen. There are fome fituations in life, in which peccadilloes may be overlooked; but when the clergy afford matter of reprehenfion for the mere moralift, it excites our ire, and awakens one, as it were, in defpite of one's felf, to hold up the mirror of truth, and fhew them, blind as they are, their features and complexions. Our hero, if so he may be called, was refalarly bred to the church, and has as regurly followed it to its fhame and difgrace. He is pollelled of a small living, which, if the voice of fame may be credited, he obtained by countenancing the amorous purfuits of a certain nobleman with regard to his own fifter. If this be true, which we do pot pofitively aver, it was an appofite prologue to his future career in life, which he has invariably pursued with attention and unremitting affiduity. Probably most of our readers have heard of the celebrated Moll Cleverlegs-fhe was profeffionally a milliner, and refided in Duke's-court near the Meufe. But fhe did not live by the fale of her ribbons, or her caps-her fhop was a rendezvous for demireps about the third clafs, who were compelled to vend their charms for a mere fupport. Moll knew her bufinefs in every refpect, and turned all opportunities to her own advantage. Her houfe was moftly frequented by the Levitic tribe; he never refufed their light gold; and they, on the other hand, never fcrutinized into her bills, but always paid them at fight, without availing themselves of their mercantile three days 13 her pas graves and ballones, that fhe never miffed her head drefs, till after the had completed a minuet de la cour. A lady, who took compaffion on her, prefented the cap and peruke, which now greatly diftreffed Moll Cleverlegs. She pretended to fwoon, and was conded out of the rooms by a gentleman who had a penchant for her, in` defpite of her bald pate. There are fome circumftances that hurt a female, however initiated in the trammels of vice, beyond the most grofs detection. Having fhewn her head thus gratuitement at St. James's, fhe could not be prevailed upon to fhew her head any where elfe for feveral days. In the mean time the Profligate Priest afforded her all the confolation in his power. He told her a ftory which he said occurred when he was at Paris. The mayor of that city waited upon the king concerning fome public bulinefs; he had an audience, and was permitted to be feated. A wicked page, who paid no reverence to dignity, in a mechanic line, pinned the magiftrate's wig to the chair, and when he at tempted to take his departure, he appeared like poor Moll Cleverlegs. The guilty page was ordered to make immediate reparation to the magiftrate, by waiting upon him, and requefting his pardon in the moft obfequious manner. He accordingly fet off from Ver failles at midnight, and reached the capital at three in the morning, when he immediately repaired to the mayor's, and knocking violently at the gate, faid he must have admittance, for that he came from the king on special business. The page gained an audience, and made his apology in the moft refpectful manner. "Sir, faid the magiftrate, your apology is infinitely worse than your offence---I beg you will retire immediately that I may gain fome repofe.' But it is time we should attend the Profligate Prieft into fcenes of far greater diffipation. Let it not be imagined that our hero was confined to Moll Cleverlegs---no, he roamed at large, and when a run of good luck at the gaming table prevailed, the fair and brown Thaifes in the environs of King's Place, and the purlieus of Marybone participated of the favours of the blind goddess. At other times he has been driven to the greateft diftrefs, and the Laifes on whom he had lavished hundreds, would neither afford him a night's lodging, or a temporary retreat. The bulks in St. Giles's can teftify his misfortunes, and where he has frequently been found at mid-day, paying his devoirs to Morpheus, who fpurned his devotions. Lord Del-ne met him in one of these rambles completely intoxicated, with his breeches pockets turned out, to prove, it may be fuppofed, that his banker was not yet rifen; they had not gone ten yards before th they met Ned Shuter in high glee, They repaired to a certain tavern in Holborn, and fent for three nymphs. Some of them were taken by furprize, and had not time to repair the damages their faces had fuftained the preceding night from the inclement weather, and their ftill more inclement admirers. They, however, now found themselves in good warm quarters, and Ned ordered a fupper for them at seven in the morning, which greatly folaced them. It was what was usually ftyled a wh---'s fupper; broiled fowls and mushroom fauce; but Shuter knew his guests too well to confine his order to a fingle bird -no, they had four, done in the twinkling of an eye, and eat with almost as much rapidity. The catastrophe of this piece is not fit to be here introduced, and we fhall, therefore, drop the curtain. Suffice it to fay they were as happy as wine and imaginary love could make them. The sequel of this adventure was rather fatal to doctor his inebriety was carried to fo great a pitch, that he fell down and diftorted his face: he was that day to have preached a charity fermon; but it was neceflary now that charity fhould begin at home. He had two remarkable eruptive carhuncles, which Foote ufed to ftyle Mount Etna and Mount Vefuvius. They in general were fubfervient to the geographical fyftem, and feldoin appeared eruptive together. But here the cafe was for once altered, and Vefuvius and Etna difcharged their lava both at the fame time. It is time, we think, now to introduce our heroine upon the tapis. We have ironically called her the Pious Profelyte; but our readers, upon recollection, may know the has not the fmalleft pretenfions to this appellation. Born of a good family, and entitled to an eafy fortune, fhe yielded to all the influence of the amorous goddefs; the expended a good pittance upon the fineft fellows of the day--he revelled at large in voluptuous delight, and all the delicacies of the table, conftantly awaited her board. Rapture was her motto, and Gratification her creft. In fuch delectable purfuits, a good fortune, as well as a good conftitution, may eafily be exhausted---but her conftitution rofe fuperior to all the affailments of gallantry and intrigue, and she still triumphs in her charms. No wonder our clerical hero fhould yield to them; he owns their influence, and when the long thuffle prevails in his favour, fhe is fure to feel the fweets arifing from the four acès. He does not, like count Baffet, in the play, drive his chariot upon the four aces, though he derives his chief fupport from them. To conclude this tête-à-tête in a few words, we will not fay that the parties are British Theatre, December 14. HE Fool, a Farce of which we gave Tome act ount on its firft reprefentation at Drury-lane Theatre for Mrs. Wells's benefit, laft feafon, was performed at Covent Garden. The chief aim of it is to display the powerful comic talents of that actress in Mr. Topham, the author of this farce, has characters of real or affected fimplicity. altered it and made fome additions to it fince laft year; but he has not improved it by his alterations. The characters were in general of Mrs. Wells, is a moft capital piece of well performed; that of Laura in the hands acting. The Fool was introduced by a new proof its kind, was extremely full of wkimfical logue, which though not the most finished point, and produced a repetition of roars of laughter and applaufe, to the excitement of by his excellent and happy manner of delivering it. which Mr. Lewis did not little contribute MONDAY Evening, Dec, 26, a new Pantomime, called Hurly Burly, or the Fairy in the Well, was performed at Drury-Lane Theatre. This novel fpecies of entertainment is founded on the Italian comedy and English pantomime-the wooden wit of Harlequin Lun and jeu de mots of Monfieur Harlequin blended. The Hurly Burly arifes from the endeavours of Nordin the magician (the avowed patron of Harlequin Lack) to counteract the views of Harlequin Clack, who is on his journey from France in an Air Balloon; and the opening fcene difcovers Nordin in his cave imparting the tidings to Harlequin Lack. At the fame time, by art magic, Clack is difcovered feated in the aerial car a form is raised- -the balloon catches fire, and the unfortunate adventurer is feen tumbling in the fea---the fword of poor Clack is prefented by Nordin to Lack, and the fcene changes to a park, where Clack, after deferibing the horrors of his voyage, and almost fainting with thirft, is prefented with a cup of water by the Fairy of the Well.---She gives him a ring in lieu of his loft fword, of fo wonderful a property, that when pressed it will enable the owner to feem in voice and appearance the perfon he wishes to resemble. The Fairy, after promifing protection, and recommending |