disowned him when he took to the stage. He then acted at Richmond. He devoted himself in London to literary and scientific schemes. He had reappeared at Covent Garden 16 October 1790 as Othello, and played there in the following season. In 1792 he married Miss H. B. Porter, third daughter of Dr. Porter. In America In 1793 he accepted an offer from Wignell, manager of the Philadelphia Theatre, and started for America. Between 1797 and 1806 he acted at many theatres in New York, Boston, and elsewhere without establishing a position. He gave readings and recitations at College Hall, Philadelphia, and for a time kept an academy at Charlestown, Massachusetts. In 1814 he established salt-works near New London, Connecticut, and sometimes, in intervals of other occupations, resorted to manual labour. He also tried to establish in Philadelphia a school similar to Eton or Westminster. William Dunlap in his History of the American Theatres, pp. 231–3, and elsewhere, says he was a remarkably handsome man, over six feet in height, with light complexion and hair, and light grey eyes. Dunlap declares that he never paid his bills in Paris or Philadelphia, that he lived by fraud, and passed his life between a palace and a prison. He had been in 1794 the idol of the literary youth of Philadelphia. Death In 1815, at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, he was allowed to attempt Lear, but his memory was gone. He died 14 June 1816. The picture affixed to his 'Apology' shows a handsome but rather narrow head. Wherever he went he made friends. In Edinburgh, Home, the author of Douglas, Henry Mackenzie, author of The Man of Feeling, and other literary men consorted with him. Works He is said to have edited the Theatrical Guardian, of which six weekly numbers are believed to have appeared in London, March and April 1791. While at Richmond he brought out his Linda and Clara, or the British Officer, a comedy in three acts, subsequently enlarged to five, and published London, 1791. A trip to Paris in 1791 led to the publication of A Review of the Proceedings at Paris during the last Summer, London, n.d. [1792]. He refers to a play entitled a 'Picture of Paris,’ which was acted once. Of this no trace is discoverable. He wrote some verse epistles, one of them printed, and composed an 'Apology' for his life, Philadelphia,