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GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY,

late of Covent Garden Theatre.

The face copied after a Picture by Coates in the Possession of Sir George Metham. the figure modernized by Kamberg, and the whole engraved by Bartolozi.

London Printed for John Bell British Library Strand June 5 1785.

AN

APOLOGY

FOR THE

LIFE

O F

GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY,

LATE OF COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

WRITTEN BY HERSELF.

To which is annexed,

Her original Letter to JOHN CALCRAFT, Efq. advertised to be published in October 1767, but which was then violently fuppreffed.

"The Web of our Life is of a mingled Yarn, Good and Ill "together; our Virtues would be proud, if our Faults whipt "them not; and our Crimes would defpair, if they were not "cherished by our Virtues."

All's Well that Ends Well, A&t 4, Scene iii.

THE THIRD EDITION.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

And fold by J. BELL, at the British-Library, STRAND,

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HE moment I was informed of Mr. Quin's return to town, I waited on him to apologize for the unpardonable neglect I had been guilty of in leaving England without paying my refpects to him. I found at his apartments Sir George (fince Lord) Lyttelton, Thomfon, Mallet, and Smollett. As I had been already introduced to thofe gentlemen, and was upon a footing of intimacy with them, I was not forry at their being prefent upon the occafion. Having faluted him, I affured him that I was happy in the opportunity of clearing myfelf of the error I had committed, before his friends, who had honoured me with their notice upon his account. I acknowledged that appearances were against me; yet, though they were B

VOL. II.

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but appearances, I dreaded his cenfure for them, more than that of the whole world. I conjured him at the fame time, to acquit me of the fin of ingratitude, which, though he may have judged me guilty of it, my heart was utterly incapable of.

Whether fincerity fpoke in my eyes, and pleaded my cause for me, I cannot fay; but he immediately gave me a kifs of reconciliation; faying, after he had done fo, " My "dear girl, I was hurt at your contempt "and inattention, as I fincerely had your "welfare at heart." Notwithstanding this feeming cordiality gave me pleasure, the word had, on which he laid an emphafis, alarmed my fears, and prevented my being fo happy as I fhould othewife have been. The gentlemen in company were all glad to fee me, efpecially Thomfon, who enquired for his relation and my friend, Mrs. Jackfon. But I could give him no information, as fhe had retired into the country, and all my attempts to find her out had been ineffectual. Mr. Quin advised me to make my appearance in Belvidera. And as I had not a doubt of fucceeding in any character I undertook, it was equal to me what was fixed on.

Upon our fettling in lodgings, Mifs O'Hara, Lord Tyrawley's eldest daughter, who by fome means or other had disobliged his Lordship, This circumstance came to live with us.

was very agreeable to me, as well as to my mo

ther.

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