ADVERTISEMENT.

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HE liberality and candour with which this Comedy was received on its representation, flatters the Author with the hope that the fame indulgence may attend it to the closet.To the performers, he is not a little gratified by this opportunity of returning his warmest thanks. On thefe occafions great obligation is generally due, not only to them, but to the manager; and when an author has found, as in the present inftance, a nice difcriminating judgment, exerted with the most friendly zeal in his favour, he cannot but feel moft fenfibly, how far acknowledgments fall short, in expreffing his fentiments of Mr. Kemble, as a scholar, and a gentleman,

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Written by CHARLES MORRIS, Efq.
Spoken by Mr. WROUGHTON.

O paint dramatic fcribblers' hopes and fears,
Has been the Prologue's heavy task for years;
To-night, a kind reception is our aim,

For one who on "Falfe Colours" builds his fame.
In times like thefe, when high on ev'ry fide,
Britain's True Colours float in martial pride,
Awhile let's drop the customary lay,

And to our country's worth due tribute pay ;
Where focial compact binds in filken chains
True Freedom's fons, and Britons' rights maintains.
At home fecure, her prince in foreign lands
Leads on to glorious deeds her valiant bands ;
At honor's call the deareft objects yield,

He braves the dangers of the hoftile field,

And round a nation fpreads Britannia's fev❜nfold field.
To factious Gaul the Mufe indignant turns ;
With loyal pride her proffer'd mischief spurns-
There, gloomy Difcord dims fair Freedom's ray,
And Defolation marks her iron sway :
Peace flies the hated spot; aghaft she flood;
Her garment crimson'd with a monarch's blood-
Quick fall the veil-let comic fcenes appear,
To chafe from honeft cheeks the gen'rous tear.
Our bard, three winters fince, tried critic feas;
His bark, Th' Adventurers, gain'd a fav'ring breeze,
Fann'd by the genial breath, it reach'd the coaft,
Where many a flouter vessel has been loft.
Buoy'd up by hope, again he trufts to fate
Another launch, and risks a deeper freight.
Let no rude ftorms her tender frame affail,
But candor gently raise a profp'rous gale ;
With approbation crown his beft endeavour,
And grant the wifh'd-for passport-Public Far our.

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SCENE. At or near Sir Paul's Seat in Cumberland. TIME. Of Representation.