APOLOGY

FOR THE

LIF E

O F

GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY,

LATE OF COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

WRITTEN BY HERSELF.

To the fifth Volume of which is annexed,

Her original Letter to JOHN CALCRAFT, Efq.
advertised to be published in October 1767,
but which was then violently fuppreffed.

"The Web of our Life is of a mingled Yarn, Good and Ill
"together; our Virtues would be proud, if our Faults whipt
them not; and our Crimes would defpair, if they were not
"cherished by our Virtues."

All's Well that Ends Well, A&t 4, Scene iii.

And fold by J. BELL, at the British-Library, STRAND.

M DCC LXXXV.

210. m. 840.

DEDICATIO N.

This VOLUME is moft humbly dedicated to one of the moft generous of Men, an unknown Benefactor.

SIR,

HE very few moments I was ho

Tnoured with your company, would

not permit me to exprefs my thanks, could I have found words, and had I known the value of your donation. Permit me, however, to affure you, Sir, by the only channel that is left open for me, that after your prohibition, I shall never attempt to discover to whom I am indebted for fo liberal a benefaction; and that my bofom fwells with gratitude for the timely affistance it afforded me.

As I have every reafon to believe, no perfon on earth but yourself can know