Whatever ability he had was slow in ripening, and he had to rehearse for fourteen days the part of Francis in the 'Stranger' before he could be allowed to essay it.
When Robert William Elliston in 1804 quit Bath, he was replaced by Wrench, who made his appearance on 5 January 1805 as Gossamer in 'Laugh when you can,' and Walter in 'Children in the Wood.'[REF]