The Manager of Drury-Lane tho’ he can’t but know I am disengag’d from the other Theatre, has not made any Application to me to act with him, which he has done to several others who quitted that Stage at the Time I did:  The Reasons which obliged me to leave him still subsist:  He owes me a Hundred and Sixty Pounds, twelve Shillings, which he has acknowledged to be justly due, and promised Payment of it by last Christmas to a Person of too great Consequence for me to mention here, the greater Part of it Money I expended for Cloaths for his Use.  He offer’d me, last Season, not near half as much as he afterwards agreed to give another Performer, and less than he then gave to some others in his Company; so that I must conclude, as every one knows there are Agreements betwixt the Managers, that there is a Design to distress me, and reduce me to such Terms as I cannot comply with.

I am sorry I am reduced to say any thing in favour of myself; but, as I think I merit as much as another Performer, and the Managers are so desirous to convince me of the contrary, I hope I shall be excused; especially when I declare, that at this time, I am not in the least vain of my Profession.

As to my Performances, the Audience are the only, proper Judges:  But I may venture to affirm, That my Labour, and Application, have been greater than any other Performers on the Stage.  I have not only acted in almost all the Plays, but in Farces and Musical Entertainments; and very frequently two Parts in a Night, even to the Prejudice of my Health.  I have been at a very great Expence in Masters for Singing; for which Article alone, the Managers now give five and six Pounds a Week.  My additional Expences, in belonging to the Theatre, amount to upwards of one Hundred Pounds a Year, in Clothes, and other Necessaries; and the pretended great Salaries, of ten and twelve Pounds a Week, which have been so artfully, and falsly represented to the Town, to the Prejudice of the Actors, will, upon Enquiry, appear to be no more than half as much, since they performed half Season, at the Theatres, very seldom above three or four Days a Week; so taking in the long Vacation, when there are no Plays at all, to those Days the present Managers omit acting, a Salary which appears to be great, will be found, in effect, to be very moderate; and those which are less, not a Sufficiency.

I have now finished all I proposed; I have shown in how aggravating a manner, without any Reason assigned, and at a Time a very considerable Sum of Money was owing to me, I have been turn’d out of Covent-Garden Theatre.  The Manager of Drury-Lane, tho’ he can’t but know what just Reasons I had for quitting him, has never apply’d to me to return, nor made the least Excuse for not paying my Arrears, tho’ due so long, and after promising Payment near a Year, notwithstanding I have, for many Years, not only endeavour’d, but succeeded, in greatly promoting that Manager’s Interest, as is known to himself and his whole Company.