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On the 17th January a final advertisement* gives fuller par- 
ticulars of the performance at the second entertainment for the 
roth. It was as before in three parts. Part i, 1. Some passages 
from Milton’s Lycidas. 2. A song beginning : One day I heard 
ary say. 3. Grey’s verses on the distant prospect of Eton 
Part ii. r. Mallet’s Edwin and Emma. 2. The noon- 
tide air, asong. 3. The two soliloquies, Hamlet and Cato. Part 
A Scotch song, called, Low down i’? the broom. 2. A 
discourse on the powers of oratory with regard to the improve- 
; ent of human nature. 3-. Mad Bess, from Purcel. To this 
ow an additional note that particular care will be taken 
ollege. 
ai. 1. 
there was n: 
to have the room made as warm as possible. 
Notwithstanding the judicious aid and the excellent advertise- 
ment by the association with the popular Miss Linley this 
entertainment seems to have been unsuccessful. The programme 
certainly does not read as very strong. Of Mr. Sheridan it is 
recorded that he was pedantic, and as a reader was “elaborate, 
varying merely his tones,” and presumably 
noisy, and sonorous, 
Dr. Johnson is credited with the 
jid not generally attract. 
ark that Mr. Sheridan’s mode of oratory, if followed, 
vould clear a room. But the programmes give a desired 
information, some idea of the musical style or practice of Miss 
Linley which is here seen to be the ballad. On other occasions 
ith her sisters, as a family all were foremost in the oratorio. 
fr. Sheridan does not again appear locally prominent. It is only 
nown that he had certainly one pupil, the Hon. George Grenville, 
fterwards 2nd Earl Temple and rst Marquess of Buckingham, 
ho boarded with him in 1771 as hoping to be cured of a stammer 
r some difficulty in speech. He came again in 1772 accom- 
anied, for pleasure only, by his brother Thomas, whose well- 
library now graces the British Museum. Mr. Sheridan 
ontinued resident at Bath, travelling when required, reading his 
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* Bath Chronicle, p. 3, col. I. 
