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and was allowed burial in a Protestant cemetery. Writing from 
Blois, rst August, 1766, he says :—“Mrs. Sheridan has writ a 
“comedy called ‘A Trip to Bath,’ in which some good judges in 
England find a great deal of merit.” This little thing obtained 
the sanction of Garrick and Murphy, and through them it was 
believed that Dr. Johnson perused it and gave his judgment 
decidedly in its favour. Notwithstanding this high approval it 
- was never acted nor published. Three acts in manuscript are 
preserved for us, and hereon it must be noted the title reads, “ A 
Journey to Bath; a Comedy.”* It has always, however, been 
mentioned, and so is better known, under the first title, “A Trip 
to Bath.” The whole thus preserved is contained in 70 pages, or 
37 leaves including the title. The scenes are laid in Bath, on 
the Parade, and in Spring Gardens, and the third act shows the 
Rooms with different parties at cards, one table to be filled with 
children at “Lottery Tickets.” The influence of this play may 
__ perhaps be traced in her son’s comedy “ The Rivals.” The same 
son wrote another comedy known now as “The School for 
Scandal,” but which in its first state was named “‘ The Slanderers ; 
A Pump Room Scene.”t This son, known as Richard Brinsley 
_ Sheridan, was born in Dublin, says one account, on the 3oth 
_ October, 1751,f and baptized on the 4th of November in the 
parish church of St. Mary.§ 
Moore, in his life of him, actually begins his first lines with 
an error when he says he was born in September, 1751, in Dublin, 
and baptized on the 4th of the following month, which would be 
October. Then with one account is given a literal extract from 
q the registers, as reading :—“ Richard Brinsley, son of Thomas 
and Frances Sheridan, baptized November, 4th, 1751.”|| Another 
3 account gives it, “as appears from the following extract from the 
* Brit. Mus. : Add MSS. tT Earle’s “ Bath.” 
) L. Sanders’ ‘‘ Life of Sheridan.” § Watkins’ ‘‘ Memoirs of Sheridan.” 
, || ‘* Life of R. B, Sheridan” (Anon.). 
