Again in _The London Daily Post, Oct._ 21, 1741, Mrs. _Careless_ advertises _The Beggar's Opera_, at the theatre in _James-Street, Haymarket_, for her benefit, _Oct._ 27. At the bottom of the advertisement she says, "Mrs. _Careless_ takes this benefit because she finds a small pressing occasion for one: and as she has the happiness of knowing she has a great many friends, hopes not to find an instance to the contrary by their being absent the above-mentioned evening; and as it would be entirely inconvenient, and consequently disagreeable, if they should, she ventures to believe they won't fail to let her have the honour of their company." In the bill of the day she says--"N. B. Mrs. _Careless_ hopes her friends will favour her according to their promise, to relieve her from terrible fits of the vapours proceeding from bad dreams, though the comfort is they generally go by the contraries. "Tickets to be had at Mrs. _Careless's_ Coffee-house, the _Playhouse-Passage, Bridges-Street_." Would the public, at this period of refinement, have patiently endured the familiar address of such a shameless, superannuated, advertising strumpet? The reader will perhaps smile, when, after so much grave ratiocination, and this long deduction of particulars, he is informed that the letters are not E. C. but F. C. the initials of _Fanny Cock_, daughter to the celebrated auctioneer of that name, with whom our artist had had some casual disagreement. The following, somewhat different, explanation has also been communicated to me by _Charles Rogers_, esq. who says it came from _Sullivan_, one of _Hogarth's_ engravers: "The nobleman threatens to cane a quack-doctor for having given pills which proved ineffectual in curing a girl he had debauched; and brings with him a woman, from whom he alledges he caught the infection; at which she, in a rage, is preparing to stab him with her clasp knife. This wretch is one of the lowest class, as is manifest by the letters of her name marked with gunpowder on her breast. She, however, is brought to the _French_ barber-surgeon for his examination and inspection, and for which purpose he is wiping his spectacles with his coarse muckender."