Opposite the George stood the theatrical booth of the elder Yeates, who had been absent from the fair for a few years, and whom Mr. Henry Morley confounds with his son, now in partnership with Warner and Mrs. Lee. He produced _The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green_, with singing and dancing between the acts, and the pantomime of _The Amours of Harlequin_. Cross and Bridges, whose booth stood opposite the gate of the hospital, produced a new drama, called _The Fair Lunatic_, "founded on a story in real life, as related in the memoirs of the celebrated Mrs. Constantia Phillips," with dancing by Master Matthews and Mrs. Annesley. Next to this booth stood that of Lee, Yeates, and Warner, in which was revived the "true and ancient history of _Whittington_, Lord Mayor of London," as performed in Lee's booth fourteen years before, with singing and dancing between the acts. Cushing whom we have seen playing Harlequin three years before in Warner and Fawkes's booth, but who was now performing at Covent Garden, set up a booth opposite the King's Head, and produced _King John_, the part of Lady Constance being sustained by Miss Yates, a Drury Lane actress, while Cushing's wife personated Prince Arthur, and the manager the mirth-provoking Sir Lubberly Lackbrains. At a house in Hosier Lane (No. 20), a performing Arabian pony was exhibited. There were also shows in the fair, which did not advertise, and the memory of which has, in consequence, not been preserved. Of one, owned by a person named Phillips, the only record is a very brief newspaper report of a fatal accident, occasioned by the breaking down of the gallery, by which four persons were killed, and several others severely injured. Garrick, who had married the dancer Violette two months previously, took his bride to Bartholomew Fair, where they visited the theatrical booth of Yates, which was the best in the fair. He was one of the few great actors of the period who had not performed in the fair; and was probably impelled by curiosity, rather than by the expectation of seeing good acting, though it was not many years since he had made his first appearance on any stage at Goodman's Fields, playing Harlequin at a moment's notice when Yates was seized with a sudden indisposition as he was about to go on the stage. The crowd pressing upon his wife and himself very unpleasantly as he approached the portable theatre, he called out to Palmer, the Drury Lane bill-sticker, who was acting as money-taker at the booth, to protect them. "I can't help you here, sir," said Palmer, shaking his head. "There aren't many people in Smithfield as knows Mr. Garrick." It was probably not at Yates's booth, but at one of much inferior grade, that the money-taker rejected Garrick's offer to pay for admission, with the remark, "We never take money of one another." The story would be pointless if the incident occurred at any booth in which dramatic performances were given by comedians from the principal London theatres.