BY An Octogenarian, WHO STOOD BY HIS KNEE IN YOUTH AND SAT AT HIS TABLE IN MANHOOD. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. "Whatever Sheridan has done, or chosen to do, has been par excellence always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy, the best opera, the best farce (it is only too good for a farce), and the best address-the monologue on Garrick. And to crown all, delivered the very best oration, the famous Begum Speech, ever conceived, or heard in this country." BYRON. "Such was Sheridan! He could soften an Attorney! There has been nothing like it since the days of Orpheus." BYRON. J. F. HOPE, 16, GT. MARLBOROUGH STREET. MDCCCLIX. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY [Entered at Stationers' Hall, and United States District Attorney's Office, Southern District, State of New York.] Political Independence-American Colonists-Refuses £20,000-Attack on Rigby -Rockingham Administra- The King-Debates on the Regency-Recovery-Revo- lution in France-Disaffection at Home-Pulling down Old Drury-Death Extraordinary-Scheme for Re- building-Embarrassments Sheridan's Philosophy not Socratic-Death of Mrs. Tickel Desolate Condition-Parliament-Supports the French Revolution-American Independence-Its Commercial Advantages-Hatfield fires at the King-The Prince of Wales-Mrs. Fitzherbert-Mutiny at the Nore- Death of Pitt-Sheridan Treasurer of the Navy- Returned for Westminster-Defeated at Westminster |