and greeted with the
applause and kindness due to a stranger of respectable powers: but in
efficient benefit to the house and to himself he failed; wherefore,
passing on to Liverpool, he played a few nights in that town with great
applause, then took shipping and returned to America, where he was
received with open arms.

After his departure the theatre of New-York fell into a state of decline
for want of a proper manager and proper company. The deceased Hodgkinson
having been joined in the management of the Charleston theatre, and
brought along with him some of the best performers, it was resolved by
the proprietors of the New-York theatre, to give it upon encouraging
terms to a manager of sufficient qualifications to conduct the business
of it successfully. Hodgkinson was elected to the management of it
almost unanimously; but soon after died of the yellow fever. Mr. Cooper
then undertook it--bought the theatre at a vast expense--improved and
embellished the house, and was amply remunerated by the immense receipts
of the first season; at the end of which he sold out his property in it
to another gentleman, who we believe now owns and manages it.

No actor ever made so much money in America as Mr. Cooper. By a skilful
distribution of his time and exertions, he takes care never to stay so
long in one place as to satiate the public appetite. Regardless of the
fatigues of travelling, and always supplied with the best cattle, he
flies from city to city over this extended union, like a comet; one day
he is seen at New-York, the very next he performs in Philadelphia. A few
days after, we have an account of his playing at Boston, and perhaps
before a month elapses we again have intelligence of his acting at
Charleston, (S.C.) in each of which places he receives an enormous
salary, and always has a full benefit. Thus if he possesses the gift of
retention as he does that of gaining, he must necessarily become very
rich. There are modes of getting rid of money, however, to which gossip
Fame, we regret to say it, whispers he is much addicted. That he may be
more extravagant than he ought to be, we can suppose without injury to
his moral character. Whether he be so or not is not our business to
discuss--but it is our duty to relate those things which may be set down
as a counterpoise to the blamable disregard of economy of which he is
impeached by many who are perhaps little capable of estimating his means
or his motives. He is