Sir Anthony Absolute _Mr. Shuter_.
Captain Absolute _Mr. Woodward_.
Falkland _Mr. Lewis_.
Acres _Mr. Quick_.
Sir Lucius O'Trigger _Mr. Lee_.
Fag _Mr. Lee Lewes_.
David _Mr. Dunstal_.
Coachman _Mr. Fearon_.

Mrs. Malaprop _Mrs. Green_.
Lydia Languish _Miss Barsanti_.
Julia _Mrs. Bulkley_.
Lucy _Mrs. Lessingham_.

This comedy, as is well known, failed on its first representation,--
chiefly from the bad acting of Mr. Lee in Sir Lucius O'Trigger. Another
actor, however, Mr. Clinch, was substituted in his place, and the play
being lightened of this and some other incumbrances, rose at once into
that high region of public favor, where it has continued to float so
buoyantly and gracefully ever since.

The following extracts from letters written at that time by Miss Linley
(afterwards Mrs. Tickell) to her sister, Mrs. Sheridan, though
containing nothing remarkable, yet, as warm with the feelings of a
moment so interesting in Sheridan's literary life, will be read,
perhaps, with some degree of pleasure. The slightest outline of a
celebrated place, taken on the spot, has often a charm beyond the most
elaborate picture finished at a distance.