t Mr.
Warrington's piece ever came on the stage. Mr. Johnson, it is true,
pressed the play on his friend Mr. Garrick for Drury Lane, but Garrick
had just made an arrangement with the famous Mr. Home for a tragedy from
the pen of the author of Douglas. Accordingly, Carpezan was carried to
Mr. Rich at Covent Garden, and accepted by that manager.

On the night of the production of the piece, Mr. Warrington gave an
elegant entertainment to his friends at the Bedford Head, in Covent
Garden, whence they adjourned in a body to the theatre; leaving only one
or two with our young author, who remained at the coffee-house,
where friends from time to time came to him with an account of the
performance. The part of Carpezan was filled by Barry, Shuter was the
old nobleman, Reddish, I need scarcely say, made an excellent Ulric, and
the King of Bohemia was by a young actor from Dublin, Mr. Geoghegan, or
Hagan as he was called on the stage, and who looked and performed the
part to admiration. Mrs. Woffington looked too old in the first act as
the heroine, but her murder in the fourth act, about which great doubts
were expressed, went off to the terror and delight of the audience. Miss
Wayn sang the ballad which is supposed to be sung by the king's page,
just at the moment of the unhappy wife's execution, and all agreed that
Barry was very terrible and pathetic as Carpezan, especially in the
execution scene. The grace and elegance of the young actor, Hagan, won
general applause. The piece was put very elegantly on the stage by Mr.
Rich, though there was some doubt whether, in the march of Janissaries
in the last, the manager was correct in introducing a favourite
elephant, which had figured in various pantomimes, and by which one of
Mr. Warrington's black servants marched in a Turkish habit. The other
sate in the footman's gallery, and uproariously wept and applauded at
the proper intervals.

The execution of Sybilla was the turning-point of the piece. Her head
off, George's friends breathed freely, and one messenger after another
came to him at the coffee-house, to announce the complete success of
the tragedy. Mr. Barry, amidst general applause, announced the play for
repetition, and that it was the work of a young gentleman of Virginia,
his first attempt in the dramatic style.

We should like to have been in the box where all our friends were seated
during the performance, to have watched Theo's flutter and anxiety
whilst the succe