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deserted young children in Lamb’s Conduit Fields. The charge 
for admission was ros. 6d., and gentlemen were desired to 
come without swords and the ladies without hoops.* Her 
_ last appearance was at a grand concert of vocal and _ instru- 
mental music for the benefit of her brother Thomas at 
_ the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, on the 12th April; the 
eve of her marriage. Curiously enough, the contributor 
evidently not knowing what was about to happen, the same Bath 
paper in which the above letters appeared announced,f taking care 
to be emphatic—‘“ We have the best authority to assure the public 
that Mr. Richard Sheridan, now a student in the Middle Temple, 
was yesterday married in London to the justly celebrated and 
admired Miss Linley.” In this paragraph, as with others already 
noticed, the yesterday was the day before it was written, not 
the day before the Chronicle was published. Considering the 
doubtful and wild antecedents an absolute confirmation of their 
marriage has always been wanted. The Gentleman's Magazine,t 
“under marriages, 13th April, gives—“‘ Mr. Sheridan, of the Temple, 
to the celebrated Miss Linley, of Bath.” He had been in the 
Temple just a week. Another announcement,§ putting it under 
date 14th April, says—“ The celebrated Miss Linley, so well known 
n the musical world, to Mr. Sheridan, son of Mr. Sheridan, the 
actor.” The error in date here seems to arise from the printer 
omitting the figures 13th altogether. As no place for the 
ceremony has as yet been given complete proof of the event 
still wanting. Long afterwards, in 1792, one writer and 
the only one who ever ventured alluding to Sheridan’s life at 
Bath tells that “there he married the celebrated Miss Linley.” || 
With such a lead necessarily a search had to be made at 
Bath, a troublesome labour lost, as this was found to be 
* Public Advertiser, 5 April, 1773, p. 3,col.2. + Chronicle, p. 3, col. 4. 
t Vol. 43, p. 202. § London Magazine, Vol. 42, p. 205. 
|| Mew Lady's Magazine, Vol. 7. 
