The New York herald., 1849-05-10


My answer again is-Decidedly. not.
| Nor did you in any manner, direct or indirect,
| with me personally, or to my knowledge with any
other person, attempt to interfere with, prevent,
| any arrangement that Mr.. Forrest might have de-
sired to make with me for his appearance at Paris.
| | heartily sympathiZe with you, my dear sir, in
| the anxieties to which you have been subjected,
| and sincerely hope, that the ample evidence open
to you may fully explain, as it must assuredly re-
| flute, the calumnics directed against you.
| With the most sincere and kind wishes,
| Believe me. my dear sir,
| Yours, most faithfully,
| JOHN MI THELL
w. C. MAcREADY, Esq.
[From the High Sheriff, Sci
| EDINBURGH, 10th December, 1873
Macready played Hamlet in Edinburgh
on Monday, I'd March, 1916.
| B '' 9th sc "
Proof of this-conference with Mr.. Murray, The
atre Royal: inspection of the bound up play-bills
of the theatfe, and of the Edinburgh newspapers
A. In reference to this performance enclose
copy Of the Scotsman newspaper, 4th March, 1916,
containing an account of what took place.
Extract from Theatrical Notice of Scotsman March A.
"All parts of the house, except the boxes, which
were respectfully filled, were crowded by an au-
dience loud and enthusiastic in their admiration.
"We feel compelled, however, to notice one
nous appreciation. A gentleman, occupying
prominent position in the house, made himself un-
enviaby conspicuous by loud and repeated solitary
hlsslng y with m the view OF expressing his his disap.
| gave effect to particular passage. We should
not have thought It worth while to mention such
circumstance, had it not been reported (though we
scarcely think 1t credible) that the offender was
brother .acter, and one, too, who probably con-
| siders himself rival We must distinctly state,
however, that the stigma does not apply to any
member OF our regular theatrical company"
Further-I know the writer of that statement,
| and have seen him. His testimony is above all
suspicion. He was close to. Forrest, when he
Kissed exactly as it is described, The audience
the moment Forrest alone hissed. You know how
silent an Edinburgh audience can be. When that
hiss was heard, there was an outbreak by the au-
dence for moment, to put down the person, who
versal feeling of the house. Not one human being
Kissed Macready on that night, except Forrest.
AgaMl have "a, s seen gentle gentleman now the Su,
is likewise beyond the reach of suspicion. He
was close to Forrest. "In the house, - he says,
"you might have heard pin fall Forrest alone
dence against him (ForresD; Nobody Missed
ga decided solitary Kissing, as if he did not care a
| rush for the rest of the audience"
Once more-1 have seen one of the confidential
| officers of the Theatre Royal. He was close to
Forrest, when he hissed alone, the audience being
at the time in profound quiet. Nobody on that
| night hlssed Nlacready except Forrest. HIS evil
dence have no reason to believe, to be in any way
less unlmpeachable than the testimony already re-
ferred to: 1t was not at first known on the stage
who the hisser was There is notion, that Mrs
Leigh Murray first recognised it to be Forrest
AT all events it was stated Immediately afterwards
IN the Green Room, that Forrest was the hsser
claimed, 'No, no. don't believe it-Forrest is too
much OF gentleman to do that.''
| 1t is matter of general notoriety here, that
Forrest always avowed that he had hissed on this
nd into nd r,rht fp do -ha
| cause he had paid money on that evening to get
INTO the theatre, and was, therefore, entitled, as
| one OF the audience, to give what expression he
| Ink ed 10 his feelings.
| 1t Is fact that after the Scotsman now sent to
you appeared, Forrest, In the theatre, questioned
one OF the gentlemen connected with that paper, in
very violent way, about the article describing his
| conduct AS matter of course he was not re-
warded with any information on the subject The
| facts described remained undenied even by For
rest.
but Forrest hlssed Macready, on March 2, 1876 is
falsehood
b. & c.. There is not the most distant shadow
of recollection In the minds of those connected
with the theatre, that either occasion any hiss
ing of any sort occurred. The Scotsman of llth
March, 1876, simply announces, that on Monday
the 9th, Macready ''payed Hamlet second time
a0 the bda I sd
silent, had anything however slight, taken place,
| either in continuation or illustration of the scene
OF the pTeEo1s ,h, & week Enquessi;onaaby it Is
either on the 9th or the 10Th of March, 1916.
| My uncle, Captain r., Hamlet either on
the 9th or 10Th. There was not single hiss during
mind the least doubt, that no kissing was heard
either on the 9Th or 10th. have seen good deal
OF the Edinburgh theatre for more years than
| shall name, ana sure / am, that if 'tthe whole
house" had hlssed Macready on the 9th. l. and a
| very tremendous ''whole house, would have been
| there on the 10Th TO for ourselves what it was
| which had elected IN our theatre such express
| sion OF universal condemnation as never, in my
memory, had greeted any actor-far less Mac
| ready. Believe me, there was but one hiss-and
| one hisser. Forrest was the hsser--Forrests was
| the hiss.
Nsc vcrba volent
Suifciunt quotiesque aliquos parat edere 1uestus
| SJiiat 4; hanc I'LL vocem Natura renquit.
See Ovid Metam ". 575.
] am, dear orster, thine as ever,
j. GORDON.
| Letter from VIM Murray. Esq Proprietor and Mana.
ger of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
THEATRE ROYAL, EDINBURGH,
December 23, 1913. {
SE--Inever heard of the slightest mark of disap-
probation being expressed by the Edinburgh au-
dlence towards Mr.. Macready during the whole
engagement alluded to. On the evening when Mr.
Forrest hlssed Mr.. Macready, IT was stated to the
latter gentleman in the green-room of the Theatre
Royal, Edinburgh, that Mr.. Forrest had done so
to which Mr.. Macready replied, &C cannot believe
IT, Mr. Forrest is TOO TOO much the gentleman TO adopt
] feel it but Justice to Mr.. Macready to state it.
j am, sir, yours very respectfully,
w. III. MURRAY.
J. III. RUTHERFORD, Esq., lS Queen street.
IAfhdavt of Mr. Ryder, Comcdianl
STATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham county.
Before me, Edward c. Wilson, Justice of the
Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid,
personally appeared John Ryder, who, being duly
swon,, deposeth and saith, that Mr.; Edwin Forrest
(and Mr. Edwin Forrest only did hiss Mr.. Will
liam Charles Macready in the Theatre Royal, Ed
lnburgh, in the character of Hamlet, on the night
OF Monday, March I'd, 1876, and that there was not
From this passage IL will be seen that Mr.. Fon-
banque himself was under the same i'm preston with
MIR. Macready, that no mention had been made in the
Examiner Of the performances at the rncesss Theatre
In the short paragraphs mot notices. as that word Is
used and understood by literary people In England)