"The popular Dramatist, in his rage for hunting down the follies of the day, we hope will not forget to be _in_ at the _death_ of our masculine women of fashion. Their hunting, shooting, driving, cricketing, faroing, and skating, present a monstrous chaos of absurdity, not only making day, and night, hideous, but the sex itself equivocal. Lady men, or men ladies, 'you'll say 'tis Persian, but let it be changed.'"--(_Times, Oct. 18, 1794._) * * * * * "Much has been said upon the Bath Fracas, but the circumstance has never yet been explained. It is briefly this: The Hon. Mrs. Twisleton was at the Ball-room, and stood up to dance: she stickled a little for _precedence_ as an _Honorable_: the Master of the Ceremonies began to object to her dancing at all, as a _Public Performer_. Her partner instanced a Performer, M. Yanievitz, who was in the constant habit of appearing there. The Master of the Ceremonies went up to this amiable, and distinguished, foreigner, and intimated that his appearance there was thought too frequent, by the Subscribers. Mr. Yanievitz, demanded who had given the Master of Ceremonies this intimation: a satisfaction which was refused. Next morning Mr. Yanievitz wrote a proper letter to the M. C. expressive of his sentiments upon this occasion. "A meeting of subscribers was called, and they resolved, that, in future, no Public Performer, of any description, should be permitted to appear in any of the Public rooms."--(_Times, March 4, 1795._) * * * * * "Annual tickets, and orders are accompanied with a very great inconvenience: the side boxes are filled, at present, with butlers, and valets-de-chambre. It is not that these persons conduct themselves amiss, but they deter gentlemen from entering, whose appearance might prove distressing to them."--(_Times, Sept. 26, 1795._) * * * * * "On an information being likely to be made against many of the performers in both Theatres, on the Act against _profane cursing, and swearing_--it became a question, as the Act is a discriminating one, whether they swore as _gentlemen_: when it was decided that they should be treated according to the Character they personified."--(_Times, Dec. 17, 1795._) * * * * * "The Theatres were shut on Saturday evening, to commemorate, with the greater solemnity, the _Martyrdom_ of King Charles."--(_Times, Feb. 1, 1796._) * * * * *