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SCG-C.770.025
24 May 1770:21 (1807)
London, March 22. This day was revived, At the New Theatre
in the City, Under the management of the New Manager, Mr.
Beckford,
By a company of his Majesty's late strolling servants,
The Tragedy of Catiline.
The part of Catiline, by a gentleman who never appeared upon
any stage before. Friends to Catiline, by Messrs. Temple,
Chatham, Sawbridge, Townsend, &c. Conspirators, Mr. Burke,
Mr. Wentworth, Mr. Wedderbourne, Mr. Barre', &c. In which
will be introduced, The Triumphal Entry of John Wilkes into
the city of London, in the following order, Forty-Five
English Girls, strewing Laurels, Drums, Trumpets, and
Kettle-Drums, playing the Britons, Strike Home. Mrs.
Macaulay, In the character of the Genius of England, with
her foot upon Lord Bute's Neck. Earl Temple in a Silver
Chariot drawn by George Onslow and Fitsarbit. Lord Chatham
drawn by Norton and Marchmont. Lord Rockingham drawn by
Talbot and March. Mr. Wilkes in a Blue Car, drawn by 45
Scots. Jemmy Twitcher, Mr. Martin, Carteret Webb, &c. tied
behind. Old Slyboots, dressed up in a coat of his old
publications of Anti-Sejanus, with a label upon his
forehead, with that dirty monosyllable, Scot. Bloomsbury
Jack, bareheaded, and hung with English shuttles. A thousand
weavers, bawling, No French Silks. Lord Camden in a Gold
Chariot, adorned with Magna Charta, drawn by Grafton,
Mansfield, and Luttrell. An Axe, Carried by Mr. Allen.
Forty-Five Malefactors white caps carried by Forty-Five Sons
of the Clergy. And a halter by Alderman Harley. The
procession closed with the Freeholders of Middlesex.
After which was performed,
As altered from the Massinger by the late Charles Dingley,
of pious memory,
The City Madam: A Farce of Two Acts,
The Principal Characters,
By Mr. Ladbrooke, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Harley. The City Madam by
the Heavenly Mrs. Harlet, &c.
N.B. In a few days, by particular desire, will be performed,
A New Tragedy, called
The Regicide: Not as written by Mr. Home.
When a new Prologue will be spoken by Lord Chatham.
* * * Tickets to be had at the Mansion-House only. It was an
error in press, when mentioned to be had in St. James's-
Street.
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