Excerpt from The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsed: A Dramatic Piece, in Two Acts The character of Sir Fretful, Plagiary is generally believed to have been intended for Cumberland, author of The West Indian, and one or two more successful, and some dozen un successful plays. The surmise is probably not unfounded. A day or two after the production of one of Sheridan's Comedies, it is said, a friend met the author, and told him he had seen Cum berland at the theatre on its representation. Ah, well, re plied Sheridan, what did he say to it I He wasn't seen to Smile from the beginning to the end of the Comedy, said the friend. Come, now, that's very ungrateful of him, retorted Sheridan; for I went to see his tragedy the other evening, and laughed through the whole of it.

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