of his remorseless persecutors.

What is here stated, was asserted in a cotemporaneous pamphlet,
published in this city on the occasion. The New-York reviewers, grossly
violating every principle of decency, propriety and justice, assailed
the writer, as if he had been guilty of a base fabrication, and had
invented this hideous charge, to dishonour the Philadelphia audience.
Without any fair opportunity of investigating the facts, they had the
decency and modesty to pronounce sentence with an assumption of oracular
infallibility. Probably the annals of literature can hardly produce a
more unfair attack upon any writer than the review to which I here
allude.

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_A Dramatic Bull._

In a sorry tragedy, called the Fall of Tarquin, written by one Hunt,
there is a description of a forest, in which the author has this
ludicrous line--

And the tall trees stood _circling_ in a _row._[P]

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_She would and she would not_--_or the kind Impostor._

The humour of this comedy, in many of the scenes, has hardly ever been
exceeded by any writer in any language. The dialogue between Don Manuel
and Don Philip, in which the former undertakes to "bamboozle" the son of
his friend, whom he conceives to be an arrant impostor, is absolutely a
masterpiece of humour. There are several other scenes of nearly equal
merit. It is difficult even at this day, to form a correct judgement of
Cibber--as the disgrace attached to him by Pope in the Dunciad excited
against him a prejudice which at this distance of time continues to
operate on the mind of the reader.

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_High life below Stairs._

It is generally known, I believe, that the livery servants, a very
numerous and formidable body, formed a combination to suppress this
elegant and humorous satire on their vices and follies, the first night
it was performed. But fortunately for good taste and good sense, these
heroes of the epaulette were suppressed, and the piece had much more
success than it probably would have had, but for this ill-judged
attempt.

It is not, however, so generally known that this after piece owes its
origin to one of the papers in the Spectator, in which a number of
servants of the nobility are introduced, aping the manners, the airs,
and graces of their masters. The perusal of this essay suggested the
idea which has been so felicitously expan