OF THE LIFE OF CHARLES MACKLIN, ESQ. PRINCIPALLY COMPILED FROM HIS OWN PAPERS AND MEMORANDUMS ; WHICH CONTAIN HIS CRITICISMS ON AND CHARACTERS AND ANECDOTES of BETTERTON, BOOTH, WILKS, CIBBER, GARRICK, BARRY, MOSSOP, SHERIDAN, FOOTE, Together with his Valuable Obfervations on the Drama, on the Science of Acting, THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPREHENSIVE BUT SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE STAGE; Which includes a Period of One Hundred Years. BY JAMES THOMAS KIRKMAN, OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN. ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS; Shakespeare. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, FINSBURY SQUARE. Entered at Stationers' Hall. Charles Sanders CONTENTS MR. MACKLIN comes from Dublin to London -engages at Covent-Garden-brings out his True Born Irishman, under a new title-its reception-Mr. Macklin addreffes the audience-an account of the disputes between the patentees of Covent-Garden- the praise-worthy conduct of Mr. Harris Mifs Macklin refuses to play Afpafia-Mr. Colman's beha- viour copy of a letter from Mr. Macklin to Mr. Colman-feveral curious extracts from Mr. Macklin's papers, relating to Mifs Macklin, and to the con- duct of Mr. Colman, as manager-Mr. Macklin's character of his daughter-he withdraws himself from Covent-Garden theatre-does not play-Mrs. Pritchard dies-Mr. O'Brien leaves the stage- MR. MACKLIN does not play, except for his daughter's benefit-his mother dies in the 99th year of |