The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-04-16

passed through tho train before IL left the
,iepYt " Centre street In search 81, Macready.
Ills iarflOs %atrnT,. Mssreaay ,eo"tdsS the
iIlImTsss &, at r .y hos so sh IN SSs' York III Ho. Saa cit t & &c &c
went MI h sSrs1 from 4s no a once a.f in D tEs afternoon Smsf Z
found hin, sitting In the parlor with my mother.
w %nqn,ns St. s s%,sS Tor , mG; On v IF f%S FL Mn:
Of ,hs city, called and said that the
to project him II he would again act in Boston.
Lut Maeready said, that he had been tho
Innocent cause OF the shedding OF Hood. aud
that he would never again act in America. In
aIew hours aiterward " letter came signed by
making him tho same offer: lie reluested me
~ make tn" same ans wcr to their letter that
lie hid nude e. the Mayor verbally. DC. 70.
manned at my house on. week. | asked him
IL lie would allow mo to invite nifty or sixty vi
ny friends. ladies' and gentlemen. to come To
rend some passages from Milton's Paradise
Lost" lie consented 10 this, and the company
bringing out tho meaning with great Felicity.
lilo remained with me unit, the middle Of that
lam on one OF the Cunatd steamers.
Whenever he mad a sca voyage he always had
with him a small bookcase q his own cnntri-
when placed in mis- statcroom. afforded him
oecupation tor the voyage. One Of his ~favorite
the last time he printed mt his own expense
n" whole Of .lopc's .%poetical works in small
ct duration he carefully supcrintonied
But must supple,ncnt what is said in An
rletnn.. EnfyslopT,lia' concerning the Astor
count Of the circumstance which lod to it.
Bnth, the writer in the encyclopaedia Of the
on Forrest SPEAK in very enphonloas terms OF
tiat occurrence. The writer Of the article on
iin ma 81 sos spea ysu qs d du ira I "%i tstwesn F%r.
; article "a .n 55HEfes Elisa, sa,is it = rupture IT, q
that to tbs zeal with which tho friends Of
Forrest espoused his quarrel was due the dis.
graceful riot IN Astor place. The truth Is that
the friends OF Forrest ospouscd his quarrel O.
s,nso they knew that he wished to drive
Iact. fmstigated the Whole affair. lie. could
have STONED 1t 1t he had, chosen. but he did
truth. that checks of Forrest for various sums
Of money were seen in the hands OF the lend-
When Forrest went to London to net in 1S45
Marready, shovel him n Gront deal Of ,n:ten-
ti2n., he invited Forrest to dine at his house.
eonrany to meet the American actor. c%onsi.t.
ib.Trs OF fSriiament. So far. ihercior". the re-
lntions between Forrest and Maeready were
Sarr MnsrsadS was there. It was ass said That on
one night Macrcady Kissed some part OF For
rests nerfotmance. am not aware whether
did hiss lio certainly exercised q priv
ileCe which has been claimed and excr-
cised by British. theatrical audiences Tor sew
believed that Macready. had Kissed him. and
he thereuIon determined to crush MacronIy
ct the first opportunity. No opportunity
occurred until Macreaty was acting in this
country in 1919. II 70 happened that when
Philadelphia he was called out one might BY tho
audience alter the performance. lie rather
indiscreetly made an allusion 70 the opposition
which he was then enconntering and imputed
It to Forrest. This increascd tho zeal OF For
rests friends In the ospousnl OF his cause. and
when Macrcady acted vt the Aston Place Opera
House IN May 10. 1919. u riot cnsued.
1t remnins for mo now to speak OF Mncrea!y's
professionai and personal cliara cter: to give
an account OF. his acting hrfore tho Queen at
Windsor Castle. and to suggest the reasons
why l think the honor OF knighthool was not