*p1748 02 13 dl The Foundling. Garrick, Barry, Macklin, Havard, Yates, Sparks, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Cibber. Young Belmont-Garrick; Sir Charles Raymond-Barry; Faddle-Macklin; Col. Raymond-Havard; Sir Roger Belmont-Yates; Villiard-Sparks; Rosetta-Mrs Woffington; Fidelia-Mrs Cibber; <i>Prologue</i> [by $Mr Brooke=-Mrs Pritchard; <i>Epilogue</i> [by $Garrick=-Mrs Cibber [(edition of 1748, but listed in the order in which the actors' names appear in <i>General Advertiser</i>; General Advertiser omits notice of Prologue and Epilogue).]*c1748 02 13 dl This comedy was wrote by $Mr Moor=, & except ye part of Faddle meet with Universal Applause (ye Author's first play) ($Cross=). New Scenes and Cloaths (<i>General Advertiser</i>). This C. was written by Moore--it is a good play--it was acted 11 times successively--$Garrick='s peculiar qualifications and happy use of them, added amazing spirit to the piece, and gave more consequence to <i>Young Belmont</i>r than can well be imagined--$Macklin=, who never had in voice, figure or features much capacity for the fop cast, yet struck out some things in <i>Faddle</i>r, that have not been since equalled, particularly in marking the obsequious knave throughout--$Barry= in the fourth act supported his character with emphatic dignity and in the last with melting tenderness--the part of <i>Rosetta</i>r was undoubtedly conceived for Mrs Woffington, and she did it particular justice--the elegance, the notions of love, and the vanity of admiration, which are united in Rosetta, were natural to $Mrs Woffington=, so that she had the advantage of looking and speaking in her own character--the softness and pathos, which distinguished <i>Fidelia</i>r sat with much ease on $Mrs Cibber= (<i>Dramatic Censor</i>, II, 206). [For contemporary account of plot and discussion of the play, see <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> Feb. 1748, pp. 51-54; March 1748, pp. 114-17; May 1748, pp. 207-9; June 1748, pp. 257-59. See also $G. Stayley=, <i>An Answer to an unjust criticism on the Foundling</i>, listed in Register of Books, <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, May 1748, p. 240; <i>A Criticism of the Foundling, in a letter to the author</i>, listed in Register of Books, <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, March 1748, p. 144. The <i>Larpent MS</i> indicates many revisions. The substitution of Rake for Whoremaster, &c. Some Suggestive passages marked for excision. "The Disapprobation, which the Character of Faddle met with the first Night, made it necessary for me to shorten it in almost every Scene" (Dedication to 1st Edition).] Receipts: #200 ($Cross=); #200 5s. ($Powel=).