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damp your spirits, and you will sink beneath yourself. Therefore take my advide for your proceeding on the stage. The violent thunder of applause last Saturday on your first appearance was not at all deserved, it was only beaevolently bestowed to give you the pleasing information that they were well delighted, and that you had their warmest wishes that you would hereafter merit the kindness that they had bestowed upon you *."

Mrs. Clive seldom did or thought like any other person, or surely it would have struck her that this admonition, however friendly it might have been meant, given to a young actress upon the second night of her maturer appearance, just as she was going upon the stage, was much more likely to depress, than to promote the expansion of genius; because, if she followed, she must think of it; and if, in the course of her performance, she thought of it, she could derive little encouragement from the violent thunder of approbation so exhilarating to a juvenile mind, and so stimulative to histrionic exertions that accompanied her every action; therefore we are of opinion, that however valuable those precepts might have been, they had better have been delivered in a cooler moment than that which her monitor chose for them; a moment when fear, hope, and expectation were upon the wing, when the bosom fluttered with contending emotions, and the young debutante was about to enter upon a task more arduous than even her first essay, as she must have been anxious not only to keep the reputation that she had acquired, but to add to it by allowing her native humour its full expansion. However, the good sense and real genius of Miss Pope completely triumphed. She charmed her spectators; and like Mrs. Bracegirdle, upon every appearance, and with every new character, continued to rise in the opinion of her audiences, until she arrived at that point of professional eminence whereon she is now seated.

Of her performance of the Musical Lady, that very excellent judge of theatrical talents, the late Isaac Reed, Esa. has spoken so correctly our own sentiments, that we cannot resist the self-fiattery of quoting his opinion.

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Miss Pope supported the character of Sophia with a sprightliness tem

* Thespian Dictionary.
+ Acted 1762.

pered with judgment, and an elegance heightened by ease, that might have done honour to a performer of three times the experience in life that her years have afforded her the opportunity of acquiring."

In "THE DEUSE IS IN HIM," and a number of other pieces of those times, she was equally excellent..

When Mrs. Clive retired from the stage, Miss Pope succeeded to many of her characters: in consequence, a new line of acting opened to her view; though, from what we can remember of the former actress, we are confident that they have not suffered any dirainution of humour or spirit from being in the possession of the latter. If we were inclined to catch one prominent trait of each, we should say that CLIVE, whose great excellence lay in those two qualities, was frequently too broad, and too masculine; but that POPF, while giving the utmost scope to her comic powers, never loses sight of chastened propriety, and true feminine delicacy. Indeed, while she displays such brilliant specimens of the genuine vis comica of what is termed the "old school," which, by the bye, is but an affected discrimination of the age of Garrick; she also assimilates her humour to the NEW, in the very few pieces where the present race of dramatic authors will afford her the least opportunity for its exertion; so that, however ponderous the modern materials may be that she has to work upon, she does contrive to strike a few sparks from them, that render her as much admired by the present, as she was by her former audiences +. She is, we think,

*The last parts performed by Mrs. CLIVE were-FLORA, in The Wonder, and, The Fine Lady in Lethe, for her Benefit, April 24, 1769.

"In characters of arch and splenetic humour," (says a critic in the year 1783,) “in those of ill bred coquettes, of impertinent chambermaids, and satirical defamers, Miss Pope has not her equal on the stage. She studied the manner of Mrs. Clive, and the pupil is worthy of her mistress. Her articulation is good, her voice powerful, and her delivery equally distinct, whether it be required to be voluble or slow. Her imagination is lively, and her judgment excellent; and a part must indeed be barren of humour, if Miss Pope cannot make it pleasant.--Dolly Sp, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Foresight, Forble, Phillis, Cherry, &c. &c., are recent in every one's memory. English Review,

Vel. 1, p439.

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the only actress that has in this reign been honoured with a Royal Command, which, by the subsequent Bill, it appears she received with respect to the performance of a part in which her predecessor, Mrs. Clive, was eminently grccessful, and in a play of which she is the only survivor of the original cast, now on the stage.

Be Caremand of Their Majesties. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANT. This present Thursday, May 6, 180!, Ten Majesnes' Servants will act a Comedy

called

THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE.
Land 0 Jeby, Mr. King.
Sir John Melville Mr. Barrymore.
Sterling, Mr. Dowton.
Lovewell, Mr. C. Kemble.
Serjeant Flower, Mr. Packer.
Traverse, Alr. Caulfield,

Tenetrar, Mr. Surmont.

Canton, Alr. Wewnzer.

Brush, Mr. Palmer.

of suggesting to your entertaining and interesting correspondent, Mr. Moser, a hint for his useful lucubrations: the comparative state of the number of houses, and population of London, or of some of its parishes at different, and distant periods. I am aware that this inquiry is involved in difficulty, yet every document and hint towards its elucidation, will be useful and acceptable. Another subject of perhaps more real utility and public interest, would arise from an investigation into the original formation, extent, and population of parishes, with a develope-" ment of the present immense revenues of some, from accumulation of modera buildings; and the degraded poverty of others from the loss of trade, manufacture, or some other cause of emigration. It is a notorious and deplorable fact, that while one Protestant Minister in a populous parish is enjoș

Mrs. Heidelberg, (By Command) Miss Pope. ing his annual thousands, another in

Fanny, Miss Campbell.

Trusiy, Mis. Maddocks.

Beity, Miss Meilon. Chambermaid, Mrs. Scott. In conclusion of this brief memoir, we must observe, that it gives us pleasare to reflect, that a lady who has acted her part with as much applause on the stage of the world, as she has on the stage of Drury, where she has charmed us forty years, still continues to improve her female compatriots by her example; therefore, however extravagant, we could wish, forber sake and our own, that she might, by her acting, continue to "charm us forty

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a forsaken district is doomed to live in a genteel style on sixty or seventy pounds a year. Such is the present state of things; but this, like many other long established evils, demands the prudent and honest interference of the British Parliament.

To return to St. Pancras, &c. In a mass of MSS. now before me, some of which appear to have been written in 1745, I find the following notices relating to this parish.

"Pancras is a village situated on the banks of the ancient river of the Wells, otherwise called the river Bagnigg. At present it contains, besides its church, only three houses*. Here are two Hells, the old and the new, which are well resorted to in the sea800. The parish church is at this time in very good repair, and the inside is kept very clean and decent. They have preaching here only every first Sunday in the month. The churchyard is adorned with an infinite number of "tombs of eminent Roman Catholics,

HE View represented in the annexed Prist,is intended to d splay the principal front of a new Chapel, which has recently been erected in a street, called Tavistock-place, in the vicinity of Russel-square, London; it is built on → This number of houses must mean only ground belonging to the Foundling those in the immediate viemity of the Hospital. and is within the precincts Church, or in the Iillage called St. Pancras, of the parish of St. Faperas; whener as a portion of the parish; for Kentish Town, it is properly one of the Chapels-of-case Tottenham Count, part of Highgate, &c., are stated as Hamlets in the parish. In the Poto that extensive and now very population Report, printed by the House of Jous parish. The rapid and extraordinary increase in the population of this parochial district, may be adduced as one of the singular features of modern London; and shall take the liberty

Coramions in 1809, the number of houses in this parish is stated to be 4,4265; and since that period, it may safely be said, that above 600 additional houses have been but. The number of persons then was 31,779.

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Published by J.Asperne, at the Bible, Crown, & Constitution, Cornhill, May 1.1807.

brought out of London, to be here interred; that order of people chusing to lie here, which is of great benefit to the parish."

This manuscript relates several other circumstances concerning the parish, with Kentish Town, which then had "about 100 houses, and in it are two or three gentlemen who keep their couches." Also some particulars relating to Whittington, and an inscription ou a stone raised to his memory, &e. It contains also several curious anecdotes, and descriptions of places, which are now greatly and singularly altered in character and appropriation. At a future period I purpose giving you some further extracts, with comparative remarks on the then existing, and the present state of places and things. I must also defer an account of Tavistock Chapel to a fature number, and shall conclude this communication with a few observations on the present state, &c. of the Buildings recently erected in the Vicinity Bloomsbury.

THAT a situation so convenient for mersatile and legal basiness. and for pleasure, as the neighbourhood of the Foundling Hospal, should so long have continued unbuilt pon, when the most remote and inauspicous parts of the town have been most closely covered over, has been a subject of great surprise. The means that were used by an interested party, by whom the charity was so long kept from those adrantages its situation commanded, to protract the commencement of a plan from which such an immense revenue will now be derived, being overcome by the exertions of its friends, the buildings were commenced in the year 1790 in Guilford-street, to the Eastward of Lamb's Conduit street: and from that time have been unceasingly prosecuted to their present state.

It is also unfortunate, that, from the same source of opposition, the continuation of Queen square of an equal width, was not effected to the Northern extremity of the

Founding Estate, which had been projects. It as much to be regretted, that the plan of air. Cockerell the architect was not adop edy which the Hospital was to form the centre of one large sqaure, extending the whole size of Brunswick-square, a corresponding space Eastward, and to Guilfordstreet Southward; the useless dwarf buildings round the Hospital being removed to make way for a noble area, designed to have been dresse 1, planted, and surrounded by iron palisadoes, which would then bave formed by far the grandest square in London, and a superb ornament to the metropolis.

Perhaps also it may be considered unfortunate, that the original intentions of the late Duke of Bedford were not carried into effect. By these it was proposed to rebuild the mansion-house on a taxgenticent scale, removed further from Bloomsburysquare, and to radiate two lines of capital houses Northward from thence to the New Road, on each side of a lawn of aboat 30 acres enclosed and planted, having soak cross roads to communicate wild Gowerstreet. Under this impression, the new houses on the East side of Russed-square, and the detached houses Northward, were built. But the subsequent determinadon of the Duke to reside nearer the Court produced the present arrangement: by which so great an increase has already been made to his Grace's rental, and which will sa prodigiously enlarge the income of his succes

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In 1000 Bedford House was pulled down. and in 1703 all the new houses between Russel-quare and Bloomsbery-quare, on the site of the old house and gardens, weTO erected; since 1801, all the new bakings, exclusive of those already entroned, on what was formerly known as the Long Fiends, bave been erected. Russel-square as siderably larger than any other m Loudon, Lincoln's Inn Fields excepted. Lis druetsions nearly (for it is not perfectly at night angles, in consequence of the alteration of the plan already mentioned) are 678 test on each side. Bolton House, occupied 1803 by the late Eirl Rosslyn, has recerely been divided into two, and as ceart-pani covered by three excellent houses, which square. compictes the Eastern side of the s

Very soon after the commencement of these buildings, the proprietor of the Dough ty Estate adjoining Estward, and the late Duke of Bedford to the West, united in carrying into effect those plans which have now revealed themselves to the public; but it will long be a subject of deep regret, that any part of the short-sighted policy which retarded the commencement of these plans, Much pains have been used, andexpense should have again evinced itself, and an incurret, m hying out and planting the injunction obtained from the Court of Chan- area of this square; which, when the trees cery, to prevent the making, under any and plants shall have arrived at a greater modifications whatever, a communication degree of maturity, will render it one of the between Queen-square and Guilford-street; must agreeable in London On the Serta the inlets to which cannot now, without the side, unmediately opposite Bedford-plate aid of Parliament, be materially amended a pedestrian statue in bronze of the late for many centuries; and the square must con- exHeat Dule Francis, is to be set up y sequently be accessible only by the present Alr. We tmscot, by puhue sumoriptiða, and miserable avenues from the South and West. will much add to the beauty of this place, t

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