"The performance opened by a prelude: after which a little piece was represented, entitled Fanfan and Colas, the characters by the Margravine, young Keppel Craven, Mons. and Medame Texier, and Count d'Alet, _Lord High Chamberlain of the Household_. The third _petite piece_ was a very humorous dialogue called Le Poulet, between Mrs. Hobart, as an English servant maid, and Mons. Le Texier, as a French Valet. Both were inquisitive after news: the one told all the _chit chat_ of the town in her English dialect: the other told the great exploits going forward in France, in French. Mrs. Hobart played her part to admiration, and very aptly introduced, among other things, the story of her own public _Fete_, last summer, at Ham, where the torrents of rain poured down, in such abundance, as to turn all her fine creams into poor milk and water. "The supper, after the play, was magnificent in the extreme, and consisted of a profusion of all the delicacies of the season. Besides Soups, and every dainty meat, there were pine apples, new grapes, cherries, strawberries, &c. "After the supper, there was a Masquerade, and Ball, which was quite unexpected to the Company. The Margravine had provided new dresses for all the company, and the Ladies, and Gentlemen, each dressed in separate rooms. The Duke of Clarence changed his dress seven different times, and greatly added to the hilarity of the entertainment. The Prince was in a domino."--(_Times, April 27, 1793._) * * * * * "It having been observed, in some public prints, that the Hon. Mrs. Twisleton was the first female of fashion who had made the stage her profession, it is but justice to notice, that Mrs. Holman (the _ci-devant_ Mrs. Hughes) who made her debut in Dublin, some years since, has a priority to public notice on this account: if real rank by _birth_, education, and fortune, give a title to distinction, if admission to the first orders of fashionable society have pretensions, the friends of that Lady have certainly a right to enter her claims on this subject."--(_Times, Feb. 13, 1794._) * * * * * OPENING OF NEW DRURY.