1797. | r 
T. Webb, efq. of Lincoln’s-Inn, to Mis M. 
Little, of Grofvenor-Place. 
Deaths in and near London. 
Lady Erfkine, fifter to the Lord High Chan- 
cellor. 
At Old Brompton, Sir R. Seymour, bart. 
At Harnes, in Surrey, F. A. Caftrio:to, efq. 
Mrs.,A. Beddome, of Fenchurch-ftreet. 
At Barnes, in an advanced age, the Right 
Hon. Dorothy, Countefs Dowager of Sandwich. 
_—In March, 1740, her ladyfhip was married to 
the late Ear] of Sandwich, by whom fhe has 
left the prefent Earl, her only furviving ifiue. 
At Captain Higginfon’s, Thornhaugh-ttreet, 
Mrs, J. Freeman, widow of the late J. F. efq. 
of Plymouth, 
Mr. If, Fawcett, of Pancras-lane. 
Mrs. King, of Alderfgatesftreet. 
At his feat at Plaftow, an Kent, P. Thellu- 
fon, efq. of Brod{worth, Yorkfhire. ~ 
Mrs. E. Finch, of Kentifh Town. 
At Anfwell, Herts, Mrs. Mylne, wife of R. 
M. efq. of the New-River-Head. 
On the 7th of | uly, at Richmond, in Surrey, 
in her 5tfit weary Mrs, Mariflal, wife of Mr. 
Jehn Nae daughter of the late rev.T. 
Lewis Barbauld. It is unneceffary to fay more 
concerning the character of this truly amiable 
woman, than is, with equal truth and beauty, 
exprefled in the following lines, written for 
‘the infcription on her tomb, by a near rela- 
tive. 
Farewel, mild faint! meelr child of love, fure- 
wel ! 
Tl! can this ftone thy finifh'd virtues teil. 
Reft, reft in peace! the tafk of life is o’er ; 
Sorrows fhall fting, and ficknefs wafte, no 
more. 
But hard our tafk from one fo lov'd to part, 
While fond remembrance clings, around the 
heart ; 
Hard to refign the fifler, friend, and wife, 
And a!I that cheers, and all that foftens life. 
Farewel! for thee the gates of _blifs unclofe, 
And endlefs joy fucceeds to tranfient woes. 
At his lodgings, in Taviftock Row, Mr. C, 
Macklin: this veteran of the ftage had num- 
bered nearly a century of years. His firft the- 
atrical appearance, in London, was in the year 
1734, and he formeily took leave of the ftage 
in 1753; but fo late as the roth of January, 
1788, he appeared in the character of Shy- 
lock ; fome parts of which he executed with 
fupericr force: his memory, however, failing 
him in others, he then finally quitted the 
fiage. Mr. M. was a native ot Ireland, and 
Was born in the laft century; though the period 
of his birth be not afcertained, time having 
efaced all traces of it ‘even from his own re- 
membrance. He came to England when 
about 16 years of age; and acted in the capa- 
city of a waiter at fome tavern in London. 
At his mother’s defire he returned to Ireland, 
and travelled fome time abeut that country as 
a ftrolling actor. Ina yeag or two after he paid a 
Deaths in and near Londama 
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fecond vifit to England, wandering about the 
country in various itinerant companies, till at 
lait he reached the metropolis, and obtained a 
fituation in one of the London theatres. Here 
he appeared in the loweft rank of performers, 
yet was confidered as a man of promifing abi- 
lities ; although with no education, uniefs what 
he had acquired by irregular induftry. When 
Lord Lanfdowne made an alteration of the 
Merchant of Venice, nobedy was found capable 
of performing the charaéter of Shylock, till 
Macklin offered to come forward ; and being 
favoured by nature with a fet of features woll 
calculated to exprefs the walignity of the chae. 
racter, it was allotted to hin. As- Lord 
Lanfdowne attended all the rehearfals, Macklin 
became acquainted with his lordfhip, and ex- 
perienced fome liberal marks of his patronage. 
Macklin was not deficient in felf-confidence, 
but he declared, that when he was to go upon 
the ftage, in the chara&ter of Shylock, his . 
alarm and perturbation were ready to get the 
better of his refolution: “ for,’’ faid he, ‘the . 
pit, in thofe days, was the refort of learning, 
wealth, and dignity ; lawyers, merchants, col- 
lege doétors, and church dignitaries, conftitut- 
ing fo formidable a tribunal, as might have 
fhaken the nerves of the hardieft veteran of 
the ftage, much more a Tyro in the art.”” His 
fucce{s in the part, and the extempore coup- 
ict that was pronounced in the theatre the fame 
evening, by the immortal Pope, 
This is the few 
6 That Shat{peare drew,” 
raifed him at once into notice, and he was, in 
due time, employed by Mr. Fleetwocd, asa 
deputy-manager at Drury Line theatre. While 
in this fituation, he quarrelled with Quin, 
then the defpot of the theatre, and, being ex- 
pert in the pugiliftic art, left fuch marks of his 
prowefs upon him, that the latter could not pro- 
ceed in the part of Manly, in the Plain Dealer, 
without making an apology to the audience. 
This affair had nearly terminated ina duel, if 
the kindnefs of Fleetwood had not intervened, 
and effected at leaft an apparent reconciliation. 
Quin once obierved, fpeaking of Macklin, that 
‘> if God writes a legible hand, that fellow’s a 
villain ;”’ and once ferioufly addreffed Macklin 
himfelf, in the ftoilowing manner:—‘* Mr. 
Macklin, by the /imes, 1 thoutd rather fav, by 
the cordage of your face, you ouzht to be hang- 
ed!” After Garrick, by the wonderful dif- 
play of his theatrical powers, had fully efta- 
blifhed his reputation as the firft aor exifting, 
though in the bloom of youth, he received 
tempting propofals to join the company in 
Diury-lane; but having formed a fricndfhip 
with Macklin, it was agreed between them, 
thatone fhould not engage without the other; 
Macklin having quarrelied with the Drury-lane 
manager, and having no likelihood of being 
engaged, unlefs Garrick made a pofitive refolu- 
tion not to ener into terms without him. The 
manager had been .much difgufted with the 
rough impraéticable temper of Mackiin, \Gar- 
rick 
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