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_ did, or intended, towards establishing himself, may best be learned 
by giving his first advertisement in full. This reads* :— 
At Simpson’s Concert Room on Saturday next, 24th. 
instant will be the first Attic Entertainment, consisting of 
reading and singing, the reading part by Mr. Sheridan, the 
singing by Miss Linley. In three parts. Parti. 1. A dis- 
course on Oratory in which the necessity of that art towards 
forwarding the perfection of man’s nature is shewn in a new 
light by Mr. Sheridan. 2. A Scotch ballad beginning : I oft 
have heard Mary say—by Miss Linley. 3. Pope’s verses to 
the memory of an unfortunate lady, by Mr. Sheridan. Part 
ll. 1. Two dialogues between Adam and Eve from the 4th 
book of Paradise Lost, the first beginning at line 411, and 
the other at line 508. 2. Elin a Roon, an Irish song by Miss 
Linley. 3. Milton’s Allegro, by Mr. Sheridan. 
Part iii. 1. The Hermit from Dr. Goldsmith’s Vicar of 
Wakefield, by Mr. Sheridan. 2. Black eyed Susan an 
English ballad, by Miss Linley. 3. Dryden’s Ode, by Mr. 
Sheridan. 4. Rosey Bowers, from Purcel, by Miss Linley. 
The entertainment will be continued on the Thursday and 
Saturday in the following week and the pieces and songs will 
be entirely different each day, the particulars of which will 
be mentioned in the bills previeus to each performance. 
The subscription to be a guinea for which six tickets will be 
delivered two for each morning or to be used on any of the 
days in such proportions as the subscribers shall think 
proper. Three subscription tickets for ladies only will be 
delivered for half a guinea, single tickets 5s. each. Subscrip- 
tions will be received and tickets delivered by the Book- 
sellers, at the Coffee Houses, and at the Rooms. 
On the 27th December another advertisementt announced that 
monday, the 7th January, 1771, this attic entertainment would 
ge repeated, the reading again by Mr. Sheridan, the singing by 
* bath Chronicle, 22nd November, 1770, p 3, col. 2. 
+ Bath Chronicle, p. 3, col. 4. 
