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This Play was revived the 14th of February in this year. As the cast of the characters may, at this time, be an object of curiosity, we shall here insert. it. The 19th night of its performance was for Mr. Macklin's benefit.

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APPENDIX.

Copy of an Original Letter from Mr. Macklin to his Daughter, dated Dublin, February 21, 1764, and addressed to Miss Maria Macklin, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London.

Dublin, Tuesday, February 21, 1764.

DEAR POLL,

Yours of the 28th of January I received some time ago, and this inst. that of the 16th inst. and I am glad to find that even the expectation of a new Farce from me, or the hopes of seeing me in London to play for your Benefit, has had sufficient influence on you to make you punctual in answering my letter. As to lending you a new Farce, I cannot pay so ill a compliment to you, the public, or my own fame, as to send you one that I had not been nice about; nay, rather more so than if it had been for my own benefit or emolument as an author. Your character has been nicely conducted hitherto, even in your profession, as well as in that of real life; and I hope you will scorn to offer the public a piece merely

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to fill your Galleries, or your Houses. No, you have been nicely conducted, I say, hitherto; continue it even about your Benefit. I have always

loved the conscious worth of a good action more than the profit that would arise from a mean, or a bad one; and, depend upon it, there is a wealth in that way of thinking; and I feel the value of it at this instant, and in every vicissitude of my life, but particularly in those of the adverse kind. Had it been in my power to have sent you a piece worthy of your Night and Fame, be assured I would, but it was not in my power. I have written a great deal this winter; but I find the more I write, and the older I grow, the harder I am to be pleased. I do not know whether I told you in my last that I am reduced, in my sustenance, entirely to fish, herbage, puddings, or spoon-meat, not being able to chew any meat harder than a French bouillée. And now I have told you, what am I the better? But old age, and invalids, think all their friends are obliged to attend to their infirmities. I am mightily glad to think that your House will be tolerable, at all events; for, I would not have you have a bad one for more than the value of it. Pray send me word what you think of taking for your Benefit, and your day, as soon as ever it is fixt. Do not miss a post, and send me an exact account of the fate of Midas. You are the worst correspondent in the world. You sent me no account

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