*p1744 04 23 dl The Double Dealer. Brisk-Cibber Jun.; Sir Paul Plyant-Yates; Lady Froth-Mrs Mills; Maskwell-Berry; Mellefont-Havard; Careless-Mills; Lord Froth-Neale; Lord Touchwood-Winstone; Lady Plyant-Mrs Roberts; Saygrace-Turbutt; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Cross; Cynthia-Mrs Ridout.*a1744 04 23 dl The Jovial Crew. ^As17440409^.*d1744 04 23 dl Muilment, Mrs Auguste.*s1744 04 23 dl <i>BBritons Strike Home</i>-.*c1744 04 23 dl Mainpiece Written by the late $Mr Congreve=. Benefit $Mrs Mills=. Tickets to be had of Mills at his house in <i>Nassau St.</i>, <i>Soho</i>. To the Author of the <i>General Advertiser</i>: It is with great Pleasure I find by the Publick Papers that a tragedy founded on $Voltaire='s <i>Mahomet</i> is now in rehearsal at <i>Drury Lane Theatre</i>. The Original was by Authority forbid to be played in <i>France</i> on account of the free and noble sentiments with regard to Bigotry and Enthusiasm, which shine through it; and which that Nation found as applicable to itself, as to the bloody propagators of $Mahomet='s Religion. Indeed the Fable on which it is built demanded such sentiments; the design of it being to shew the dreadful effects of Bigotry and Enthusiasm, even upon minds naturally well inclined when work'd up to such a pitch, as a beautiful concurrence of amazing, yet probable Circumstances hath there carried them to: So that it was equally impossible for the poet, by cutting and mangling his play, to lop it to their standard of <i>Orthodox poetry</i>, as it were for their Inquisitors, by torturing and burning a poor <i>Protestant</i>, to convince him of their <i>Christian love and charity</i>....They foresaw that the most obvious Reflection, that every sensible Spectator could not but make, would be, that he every day saw the same effects produced from two the most different causes, <i>Mahometanism</i> and <i>Christianity</i>; and the consequence must be, either that they were both alike Imposters, or that a crafty, mercenary, and cruel Clergy had dared to add a spirit to Christianity, which Christianity never knew. It is not doubted but these every Sentiments, which in France, prevented the Representation of this piece, will, in <i>England</i> speak loudly in its favor (providdd our <i>English poet</i> is not unequal to his subject) especially since so audacious an attempt has been lately made by the Common Enemy of <i>Europe</i> to establish at once a Civil and Spiritual Tyranny over those injur'd Nations, by the old Mohametan and <i>Roman Arguments of Fire and Sword</i>. I am, &c.