Sir Charles Raymond, Mr Barry; Faddle, Mr Wodward; Col. Raymond, Mr Havard; Sir Roger Belmont, Mr Yates; Villian, Mr Winstone; Rosetta, Mrs Pritchard, and Fidelia by Mrs Cibber With Entertainments, viz. Act I. (By Desire) A piece of Music on the flute by _the child_. Again on the 23rd January in the same paper we find _A New Way to pay Old Debts_ advertised to be performed at the same theatre, and among the items included in the entertainment section are, Act I. A Concerto on the Flute by _The Child_. Act II. A Piece of Musick by _The Child_. The ‘Piece of Musick by the Child’ was evidently a youthful composition and may be the identical MS. mentioned by Musgrave in his “Obituary.” Musgrave’s entries meant a great deal to himself, but they are very puzzling to those not initiated into the secret. Thus the entry “Benjamin Hallet, MS. (Music)” without date and no indication as to where it may be found, led us to a good deal of research which proved quite fruitless. To be associated with such shining lights as Garrick, Yates, and the charming Mrs Cibber was an excellent send-off for “the child” and he was doubtless the recipient of much petting from the men and women of birth and genius who frequented the theatre. Who little Hallet’s parents were, we have been unable to discover, the only likely clue to his father is found at the foot of Benjamin’s “benefit” programme quoted later. There it is announced that tickets may be had of Mr Hallet in Exeter Court, near Exeter Exchange, in the Strand, but what was the exact relationship between this gentleman and the prodigy is only a matter of conjecture. The London Directory for 1749, gives the name of “Crowley Hallet, Old Swan Lane, Thames Street,” and that of the year 1752 announces that “Crowley Hallet was living near Fishmongers’ Hall, Thames Street.” In the year 1754 there was a “Captain John Hallet, Royal Exchange, Assurance Director, and Ships’ Husband” living in “Love Lane, Aldermanbury.” Of these two, Crowley Hallet--whose address presupposes him to have been a tradesman--was more likely to have been Benjamin’s father, for the advertising genius of the day was a great stickler for _class distinction_. If a person of genteel birth appeared--by chance--on the stage or concert platform, they were invariably announced as a “gentleman,” or “gentlewoman,” or as in the following advertisement of a seventeenth-century prodigy, in _The London Gazette_ for 26th November 1694:--“The Consort of Musick in Charles Street Covent Garden will begin again next Thursday with the addition of two new voices, _one a young gentlewoman of 12 years of age_.”