“The favour I have met with from the greatest men has made me far from repenting of my choice.  I am very intimate with Mr. Glover, who will bring out a Tragedy next winter on my account.  I have supp’d with the great Mr. Murray, Counsellor, and shall with Mr. Pope by his introduction.  I supp’d with Mr. Littleton, the prince’s favourite, last Thursday night, and met with the highest civility and complaisance; he told me he never knew what acting was till I appeared, and said I was only born to act what Shakspeare writ....  I believe nobody as an Actor was ever more caressed, and my character as a private man makes ’em more desirous of my company (all this entre nous as one brother to another).  I am not fixed for next year, but shall certainly be at the other end of the town.  I am offered 500 guineas and a clear benefit, or part of the management,” &c.

The whole collection forms, indeed, a curious and new contribution towards the biography of that distinguished actor.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

(In continuation of Lists in Nos. 5. and 6.)

ELEGIE COMPOSEE DANS UN CIMETIERE DE CAMPAGNE. 8vo. 1778.

LIVES OF ALCHYMISTICAL PHILOSOPHERS, ETC. 8vo.  London, 1815.

FLAMMA SINE FUMO, or POEMS WITHOUT FICTIONS, by R.W. 12mo. 1662.

HOOKER’S CHILDBIRTH, or WOMAN’S LECTURE. 4to.  Bl. lett. 1590.

GREENE’S NEVER TOO LATE, ETC. 4to. 1590.

THE CELESTIAL BEDS, a Poem. 1781.

WANSTEAD GARDENS, a Poem. 1712.

Odd Volumes.

SHAKSPEARE’S WORKS.  Vols.  IV. and XIV. of Malone’s Edition. 8vo.  Dublin. 1794.

LARCHER’S NOTES ON HERODOTUS.  Cooley’s Edition.  Vol.  I. 8vo. 1844

MURRAY’S HISTORY OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES.  Vol.  II. 8vo.  Edinburgh, 1822.

JUGEMENS DES SAVANS SUR LES MAITRES DE L’ELOQUENCE.  Vols.  I. and II. 12mo.  Paris, 1719.  Vellum.

TACITUS.  Vol.  IV. 4to.  Edinburgh, 1796.

HERODOTUS.  Vol.  I. 12mo.  Glasgow, Foulis, 1761.

*.* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be sent to Mr. BELL, publisher of “NOTES AND QUERIES,” 186.  Fleet Street.

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AUCTOR.—­We quite agree with our Correspondent that such contributions as that of BETA in No. 5, entitled “Prison Discipline and Execution of Justice,” illustrate the manners and customs of the olden times far better than a whole volume of dissertations; and we gladly adopt his suggestion of inviting similar communications.