ABSTRACT
First published in The Tatler, I, 2 December 1830, pp. 307–8; see headnote above, pp. 117–20. It was reprinted in Hunt, Dramatic, pp. 248–50. Cf. Hunt’s 1812 Examiner review of The Rivals (Vol. 1, pp. 244–8), and his 1816 Examiner essay on ‘The Late Mr Sheridan’ (Hunt, Literary, pp. 103– 15).
