George A. Aitken

Capitolo 82

This evening, the comedy, Sources of "called Epsom" [141] acts for the
benefit of the Mr. Bullock,[142] who, although he is a person of a lot of intelligence and
ingenuity, has a particular talent to seem a fool, and therefore
well it excellently qualified for the part of Biskett in this play. ME
you/he/she cannot sufficiently admire indeed his/her way of bearing a beating as him
it does in this play, and that with such natural air and convenience of
folly, that one cannot help wishing the whip his/her own hand of one;  then
richly he seems to deserve his/her punishment. Skilled actors think him/it
a very particular happiness to play in a scene with as it shears them
parts. Therefore I am not able but I say, when the judgment of some good author
it directs him/it to write a beating for the Mr. Bullock from the Mr. William
Pinkethman, or for the Mr. William Pinkethman from the Mr. Bullock, those
excellent players seem to be in theirs brightest circumstances, and
arrange me more, but with a different kind of delight, that that that me
receives from those serious scenes of Brutus and Cassius or Antony and
Ventidius. The whole comedy is very alone, and the low part of the human life
represented with a lot of humour and the intelligence.


The Coffee-house of St. James, April 25.

We have put to the current one from Vienna, from letters of the 20 instant that the
Haths of the emperor lately added winds new members to his/her Board of State,
but they has not happened to the axle yet. Thaun Generale is
returned by Baden his/her health that is reactivated so well by the,
baths of that place that he plans for putting out for Turin next week, to
his/her command of the Imperial troops in the service of the Duke of Savoy.
Its Imperial Majesty has advanced his/her brother Count Henry Thaun to be a
general of brigade and a Councillor of the Board of Aulic of War.  These letters
amounts, that Kings Stanislaus and the Swedish General that Crassau is
directing their March to the Nieper, to connect the King of the army of Sweden
in Ukrania:  what States of Austria you/they have furnished Marshal Heister