with him, discontinued the use of it in a great degree, and took milk, (which he had always boiled) inftead of tea. He also had bread boiled in his milk, which he fweetened with brown fugar, till it was almost a syrup. Having loft all his teeth, about the year 1764, he was reduced in his fuftenance entirely to fish (which he was very fond of) herbage, puddings, and spoon meat; he liked all kinds of ftews, hashes, and foups, particularly giblet foup, which he used to have two or three times a week. He was a great lover of eggs, custards, and jellies. His drink at his meals, for the last forty years of his life, was white wine and water, made very fweet. Being attacked by the rheumatism, in the year 1770, he discontinued the use of sheets, to avoid it, and slept in blankets.---He did not fleep upon a feather bed, but upon a mattress: his bed was a kind of couch without curtains, which was placed in the middle of a large room.---On this he repofed, whenever he found himself inclined to fleep.---He always lay with his head very high, but never ftripped off his cloaths, for the laft twenty years of his life, except to change them, to put on clean linen,

or to have himself washed, and rubbed all over with napkins dipped in warm brandy or gin: a practice which he repeated very often. He was alfo in the habit of steeping his feet, for a confiderable time, in warm waWhenever he went abroad, he changed all his cloaths, as foon as he returned home, and never fat in his own houfe in the dress

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that he went out. Whenever he perfpired, he always put on fresh linen. We have known him, at the playhouse, to change his fhirt three or four times during the performance; and, when he went home, to change it again. He was much given to perspiration, which he always promoted, never checked. This, he faid, contributed very much to preserve his health, and prolong his life: but, we are perfuaded, that he ftood particularly indebted to his amiable wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Macklin, for her indefatigable care of and attention to him. Her fondness anticipated all his wants, and her thorough knowledge of his difpofition and constitution, enabled her to do more for him than the most eminent physician. For the last ten years of his existence, he had

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no fixed hours for his meals---he followed elofely the dictates of nature. He ate when he was hungry (fome times at two, three, or four o'clock in the morning, and Mrs. Macklin always got out of bed to wait upon him) drank when he was dry, and flept when he found himself fleepy. Mr. Macklin knew well the value of his wife, and always fpoke of her in the highest poffible terms. In fact, by her extraordinary skill and attention, she contributed to keep the old man alive much longer than it was in the power of any other human being to effect. We have no he fitation in pronouncing her one of the best nurfes in England; and we are happy in having the opportunity to declare, that there never was in fociety a more amiable wife, a more affectionate mother, nor does there exift a more ftedfast friend, a more obliging neighbour, or a more deferving woman, than Mrs. Elizabeth Macklin.

APPENDIX.

Lift of Mr. Macklin's Dramatic Works.

ING HENRY THE SEVENTH, or THE POPISH IMPOSTOR, a Tragedy; first acted at Drury-Lane, on the 18th January, 1746.---Not printed.

WILL OR NO WILL, or A NEW CASE FOR THE LAWYERS-a Farce---acted at DruryLane, 23d April, 1746.---Not printed.

THE SUSPICIOUS HUSBAND CRITICISED, or THE PLAGUE OF ENVY---a Farce---acted at Drury-Lane at the conclufion of the feafon 1746-47.---Not printed.

THE CLUB OF FORTUNE-HUNTERS, or WIDOW BEWITCHED---a Farce---acted at Drury-Lane, in 1747.---Not printed.

LOVE-A-LA-MODE----a Farce----acted at Drury-Lane, in 1759, with unbounded plause.---Printed. 4to.

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THE MARRIED LIBERTINE---a Comedy--acted at Covent-Garden Theatre, in 1761.--Not printed.

THE TRUE-BORN IRISHMAN---a Farce--first acted at Smock-alley Theatre, Dublin, in 1763, and afterwards performed at CoventGarden in 1767, under the title of THE IRISH FINE LADY.---Not printed.

THE MAN OF THE WORLD---a Comedy--first acted at Crow-Street Theatre, in Dublin, in 1772, under the title of THE TRUE-BORN SCOTCHMAN, and afterwards performed at Covent-Garden, in 1781, under its prefent title.---Printed. 4to.

He has left behind him feveral plays, which have never been acted, and also several pieces unfinished.