1823.] 
for by Mr; Harris, manager of Covent 
Garden theatre, and made her appear- 
ance there with great success in 
Richard III., being honoured on the 
fourth evening of her performance with 
the presence of his present Majesty, 
(then Prince Regent,) and the first 
time of his appearing in public after 
“th® loss of the Princess Charlotte ; the 
Duke of York, Prince William of 
Gloucester, and many other branches 
of the royal family, being present on the 
same evening. Mr. Elliston, the pre- 
sent patentee of Drury Lane theatre, 
engaged Miss Clara Fisher on the 
most liberal terms to perform twelve 
nights at Birmingham, where she ap- 
peared with great success in March, 
1818. 
Her fame as an actress by this time 
haying reached the most distant parts 
of the kingdom, numerous engage- 
ments poured in from every respecta- 
ble theatre in England and Scotland ; 
and, in nearly every city and town of 
consequence in both kingdoms, she has 
appeared with brilliant success. At 
Edinburgh, her reception was of the 
most flattering description: persons of 
the highest respectability, after her 
first appearance, soliciting her acquain- 
tance; and a society of gentlemen, 
who are studying Drs. Gall and 
Spurzheim’s System of Phrenology, 
requested to have a cast taken from 
her head, which, being granted, is now 
one amongst the number lectured on, 
to illustrate the System. On her 
second yisit to Edinburgh the follow- 
ing year, she was again received with 
every mark of kindness and respect, 
the houses were crowded nightly with 
beauty and fashion, the critics were 
lavish of their praises in every news- 
paper and periodical publication in 
that literary quarter of the kingdom, 
and nothing was omitted that could in 
any way testify their approbation of 
our little heroine. She afterwards 
played in Glasgow, Greenock, Dundee, 
Cupar, Montrose, St. Andrew’s, and 
Aberdeen, with the greatest success; 
visiting, in her tour, York, Hull, Dur- 
ham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Shields, 
Scarborough, WHarrowgate, Halifax, 
Doncaster, Nottingham, Derby, Lan- 
caster, Preston, Warrington, Bolton, 
Chester, Stockport, Manchester, Liver- 
pool, Stamlord, Margate, Canterbury, 
Tunbridge Wells, Dover, Brighton, 
Worthing, Chichester, Portsmouth, 
Southampton, Winchester, ’aunton, 
Salisbury, Isle of Wight, Weymouth, 
Lymington, Exeter, Plymouth, and 
MontruLy Mac. No. 376. 
The dramatic Phenomenon, Miss Clara Fisher, 
513 
London. She has just finished a very 
successful engagement at the English 
Opera-house, where her attraction has 
been most powerful, drawing crowds 
nightly to the theatre to witness her 
extraordinary powers in singing, 
dancing, serious and cemic acting. 
The writers in all the papers and publi- 
cations, where theatres are mentioned, 
always speaking of her powers as an 
actress in the most unqualified terms 
of praise and admiration. In the 
course of her theatric tour she has 
travelled upwards of fifteen thousand 
miles! performed the character of 
King Richard III. more than three 
hundred and fifty times! besides the 
following most extraordinary list of 
parts: Falstaff, Shylock, Douglas, 
Scrub, Marplot, Ollapod, Dr. Pangloss, 
Sir Peter Teazle, Crack, Captain 
Allclack, Bombastes Furioso, Lord 
Flimnap, Myrtillo, Mock Doctor, 
Midas, Little Pickle, Moggy M‘Gilpin, 
and Actress of All Work, with a versa- 
tility and correctness which cannot be 
surpassed, and must be witnessed to be 
believed : with comic songs, prologues, 
epilogues, Scotch, Spanish, and Eng- 
lish, dances of various descriptions, and 
all in very superior style. Her me- 
mory is so very retentive, that study, or 
learning of any kind, is no trouble; 
and she has only to read a character 
a few times, to be what is theatrically 
termed, letter perfect; and so anxious 
is she to form a correct knowledge of 
the part she is to represent, that she 
always studies the whole play in which 
she is to perform. It has been 
affirmed by many, that she is a copyist 
of some of our great actors and actres- 
ses; but, so far from that being the 
fact, she never saw a play in which 
she performs a part, excepting Richard 
111., when, five nights after she had 
acted it at Drury Lane theatre, she 
was requested by the manager to go in 
front and see Mr. Kean go through the 
character. 
Vanity of no kind has as yet taken 
possession of her heart, nor does she ap- 
pear in any way conscious of her ac- 
knowledged superior abilities. Her 
temper is mild, gentle, and affection- 
ate, doatingly fond of her parents, sis- 
ters, and brothers, as may be naturally 
supposed they are of her. She enjoys 
an excellent state of health, and is 
never so happy as when on the stage. 
In her Icisure hours from study she 
amuses herself, like other children, in 
dressing and nursing her doll; but no 
childish or frivolous remark ever es- 
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