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You will admit that I avail myfelf of the 

 prefent moment, and negled not the paffing 

 occafion, when I tell you that, fince my re- 

 turn hither on the i6:h inftant, I have made 

 vifits to the environs of the town— rode 

 through the foreft, and to the camp — pafled 

 two evenings at the theatre, and one at the 

 public rooms. 



I am farry to remark, contrary to the 

 good order of Southampton, that, each of the 

 two nights, when I happened to vifit the 

 thedtre, the tranquillity of the audience was 

 difturbed, the performance interrupted, and 

 the whole houfe brought into a fcene of riotous 

 confufion. The firft time, it arofe from fome 

 idle etiquette, which I could not exaQly com- 

 prehend-, refpediing one of the a£trefles com- 

 ing forward to announce her own benefit ; 

 and did not fubfide until, with great reluc- 

 tance, and after much delay, fhe, fubmiffively, 

 made her appearance. The fecond time, it 

 proceeded from a number of officers and 

 other fpedators crowding upon the ftage fo 

 as to interrupt the performers ; and only 

 ceafed, after much delay and confufion, by 



