Dec. 1. 1849.] 
chaplains, Beadon is one. This leads me naturally 
to Lord Bute, who, though the professed favourite 
of the King, has hitherto escaped the popular cla- 
mour pretty well? the immense fortune that is 
come into his family by the death of old Wortley 
Montague, has added much to his consequence, 
and made him be looked upon as more of an 
Englishman, at least they can no longer call him 
@ poor Scot. 
His wife was created a peeress of Great Britain 
at the same time that Mr. Spencer, Mr. Dodding- 
ton, Sir Richard Grosvenor, Sir Nat. Curzen, 
Sir Thomas Robinson, and Sir William Irby were 
created peers. He has married his eldest daughter 
to Sir James Lowther and is himself, from being 
Groom of the Stole, become Secretary of State — 
Lord Holderness being removed with very little 
ceremony indeed, but with a pension, to make 
room for him. He and Mr. Pitt together have 
made good courtiers of the Tories ; Lords Oxford, 
Litchfield, and Bruce, being supernumerary lords, 
and Norbonne Berkeley, Northey, and 1 think 
George Pitt, supernumerary Grooms of the Bed- 
chamber. Sir Francis Dashwood is Treasurer of 
the Chamber, in the room of Charles Townshend, 
who was made Secretary at War upon Lord Bar- 
rington’s succeeding Mr. Legge as Chancellor of 
the Exchequer. Lord Talbot, who is in high 
favour, is Steward of the Household, and with his 
usual spirit has executed a scheme of economy, 
which, though much laughed at at first, is now 
much commended. They made room for him upon 
Lord Bute’s being made Secretary, at which time 
Lord Huntingdon was made Groom of the Stole, 
and succeeded as master of the Horse by the Duke 
of Rutland, who was before Steward of the Houses 
hold. Thus have I concluded this series of re- 
movals, which was first begun, after the old King’s 
death, by Lord Bute’s being Groom of the Stole 
in the room of Lord Rochford, who has a pension, 
and Lord Huntingdon’s being made Master of the 
Horse instead of Lord Gower, who was made 
Master of the Wardrobe in the room of Sir Thomas 
Robinson, who has his peerage for a recompense ; 
and written you a long letter, which may perhaps 
be no better for you upon the whole than an old 
newspaper. However, I was determined your 
euriosity should be no sufferer by my long silence 
if [ could help it. 
T must not conclude without saying something 
of our new Queen. She seems to me to behave 
with equal propriety and civility, though the com- 
mon people are quite exasperated at her not being 
handsome, and the people at Court laugh at her 
courtesies. All our friends are well, and have had 
nothing happen to them that I know of which re- 
quires particular mention. Gisborne either has 
or will write to you very soon. Convince me, 
dear Robinson, by writing soon that you forgive 
my long silence, and believe me to be, with the 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
67 
sincerest regard for you and yours, your most 
affectionate friend, . Crucu.* 
Mrs. Wilson’s, Lancaster Court, 
QOct*, 12¢. 
( Addressed ) 
To 
The Ho®% Mr. Will™ Robinson 
Recomende a Messieurs Tierney & Merry} 
a Naples. 
(Memorandum indorsed ) 
Ring just recd that of 22q Sept. 
16/2 Octr. 1761. 
€HARACTERS OF ACTORS IN CIBBER’S APOLOGY. 
Reverting to a Query in your Second Number, 
p- 29, your correspondent Dramaricus may rest 
assured that Colley Cibber’s characters of actors 
and actresses (his contemporaries and immediate 
predecessors) jirst appeared in his Apology, 4to. 
1740, and were transferred verbatim, as far as I 
have. been able to consult them, to the subsequent 
editions of that very entertaining and excellent 
work. If Colley Cibber were not a first-rate 
dramatist, he was a first-rate critic upon per- 
formers; and I am disposed to place his abilities 
as a play-wright much higher than the usual 
estimate. 
Probably the. doubt of your correspondent arose 
from the fact, not hitherto at all noticed, that 
these characters no sooner made their appearance, 
than they were pirated, and the pirated work may 
have been taken for the original. It is a scarce 
tract, and bears the following title— The Theatrical 
Lives and Characters of the following celebrated 
Actors; and then follow sixteen names, beginning 
with Betterton, and ending with Mrs. Butler, and 
we are also told that A General History of the Stage 
during their time is included. The whole of this, 
with certain omissions, principally of classical 
quotations, is taken from Cibber's Apology, and it 
professed to be “Printed for J. Miller, in Fleet 
Street, and sold at the pamphlet shops,” without 
date. ‘he whole is nothing but an impudent pla- 
giarism, and it is crowned and topped by a scrap 
purporting to be from Shakspeare, but merely the 
invention of the compiler. In truth, it is the only 
original morsel in the whole seventy pages. At the 
end of the character of Betterton, the following is 
subjoined, and it induces a Query, whether any 
such work, real or pretended, as regards Betterton, 
is in existence ? 
«N. B. The author of this work has, since he began 
it, had a very curious manuscript of Mr. Betterton’s 
* The name is not easy to, be made out ; but as far 
as it is determinable by comparison of hand-writing, it 
| is “ Cruch,” The letter passed through the post-office. 
+ The part printed in ttulies was added by some 
other person than the writer of the letter. 
