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Mr. Smith to his Son. 
My dear Son, Norwich, Sept. 20, 1788. 
I congratulate you most heartily upon your re- 
turn to London in such good health. You will 
hear from your other correspondents how much 
Norwich has been amused and pleased with Mrs. 
Siddons, performing nine nights to audiences so 
crowded, so heated, that I could get in only once, 
and that was to the upper gallery, to see her in 
Belvidera, in Venice Preserved. I never was so 
charmed with acting, no not by Garrick; and had 
I not consulted my health, ease, and pocket, should 
have attended at every different part she performed, 
which is saying a great deal for me, who am not, nor 
ever was, fond of the theatre, nor play-reading. 
We are to be very full next week at the music 
Dr. Jebb was deserted by many who appeared for some time to 
coincide in his sentiments, and he met with very unkind treat- 
ment; but he was firm to his integrity tothe last. When he 
left the Church, he studied physic, in which his biographer 
says he acquired much skill and considerable practice. He 
was born Feb. 16, 1736; married Miss Torkington of Little 
Stukeley near Huntingdon, Dec. 29, 1764; and died in Parlia- 
ment-street, Westminster, March 2, 1786, in the fifty-first year 
of his age; eminently esteemed by the truly great and the 
virtuous in all the British dominions, and the United States of 
America ; and extremely beloved by those who were so happy 
as to be acquainted with him ; for he had the character of being 
a very amiable man. 
“The definitions in the third volume, beginning at page 253, 
and ending page 258, of an Atheist, a Deist, a Jew, a Mahome- 
tan, a Christian, a Papist, a Dissenter, and a Church-of-England- 
man, are admirable.” 
PAs 
