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days when Pitt was seen walking up Regent 

 Street with his nose in the air ; and Lady 

 Morgan, the 'Wild Irish Girl,' in her yellow 

 turban, can no longer seek to emulate the 

 glories and the sprightly wit which flashed 

 upon the outer world from beneath the pea- 

 cock hangings of Mrs. Montague, in Port- 

 man Square. 



" 'Adelphi Wright,' as the galleries of 

 every theatre still fondly call him, will never 

 again display his jolly face and his immortal 

 blue coat, white trousers, pumps, and straps 

 at the side scenes, and get, like Liston, three 

 rattling rounds of applause without uttering 

 a word in the character of ' Billy Leck-a-day/ 

 ' John Grumley,' 'Jack Grinnidge,' or ' Sim- 

 mons, the Weaver.' With him ' Marmaduke 

 Magog,' whose pomposities once lured us 

 three nights in succession to the pit (a 

 thing that nothing save old Farren and 

 Mrs. Glover in 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' 

 ever did before), and those inimitable scenes 

 with the property baby, have all passed 

 away. Let us not think of him as he ap- 

 peared after being wheeled about a whole 

 summer at Margate with dropsy daily gain- 

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