"Some giggling daughter of the queen of love" pinching him in the ribs to acquaint him that he is "sitting on her boa!" While, from that "_refugium peccatorum_," the shilling gallery, infernal cries of "Down in the front!" "Music!" "Curse your pedigree!" "Hats off!" "How's your mother?" drown even the double-drums, and render the overture inaudible from the opening crash to the close. To remedy this nuisance,--to allow the excited feelings of an overcrowded house to subside sufficiently to enable the audience, by presenting them with the first act, to judge how far the music of the overture is adapted to the business of the stage,--these considerations have induced me thus to postpone its performance, and with what success the public will best decide. Another, and a more agreeable duty, now devolves upon me,--to express my ardent thanks to all and every to whom this drama is in any way indebted for its brilliant and unparalleled success. To Messrs. Flight and Robson; the commanding officers of the Foot and Fusileer Guards; the King of the Two Sicilies; the Hereditary Prince of Coolavin; and his serene highness the Duke of Darmstadt, I am eternally grateful. To the performers, male and female, the composers, the orchestra at large, scene-painters and scene-shifters, prompters and property-men, box-keepers and check-takers, sentries and police, I present my heartfelt acknowledgements. And to the most crowded and fashionable audience that ever graced a metropolitan theatre, I shall only say, that the rapturous and reiterated plaudits bestowed upon this drama shall never fade from the recollection of their most devoted, very humble, too fortunate, and ever grateful servant, THE AUTHOR. July 1, 1837. LOVE IN THE CITY; OR, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. A MELODRAMATIC EXTRAVAGANZA. ACT II. _Grand Overture_,--composed jointly by Spohr, Haynes Bayly, Newkom, and Rossini, and performed by the largest orchestra ever collected in a European theatre, assisted by the Duke of Darmstadt's brass band, and the entire drums of the Foot and Fusileer Guards. In the course of the overture the following novelties will be introduced. _A duet_ upon the _double-drums_ with _one stick only_, by Mons. TAMBOURETTE, Member of the Legion of Honour, K.T.S., and drum-major to the _King of the Two Sicilies_. _Planxty Mac Swain_, and "_What have you got in your jug?_" with brilliant variations for the _Irish pipes_, by _Kalkbrenner_,--Mr. PATRICK HALLIGAN, Minstrel in ordinary to the Prince of Coolavin. _A capriccio_ on the _German flute_, by a _distinguished amateur_, who has lost four fingers and a thumb. _A grand fantasia_ (Henry Hertz) on _one piano by eight performers_. _Director_, Sir GEORGE SMART. _Conductor_, on _The Apollonicon_,--lent to the lessee for that night only,--Mr. PURKIS. _Leader_, Mr. T. COOKE, _The overture having been twice encored, bell rings, and curtain draws up._