To that charity he had often sacrificed his time, and had given up the little leisure which he had from important business.

He was always ready to attend on every occasion of this kind, and it was in that view that he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York .-- Drunk in solemn silence.
The CHAIRMAN then requested that gentlemen would fill a bumper as full as it would hold, while he would say only a few words.

He was in the habit of hearing speeches, and he knew the feeling with which long ones were regarded.

He was sure that it was perfectly unnecessary for him to enter into any vindication of the dramatic art, which they had come here to support.

This, however, he considered to be the proper time and proper occasion for him to say a few words on that love of representation which was an innate feeling in human nature.