MRS. DAVENPORT'S FAREWELL.
IN spite of our most affectionate remonstrances, Mrs. DAVENPORT has actually quitted the stage ; leaving a blank in her department which there is not a single actress qualified to fill. Her farewell address—which we should have admired more, without the quota- tions—implied infirmity ; we have seen none in her acting. But perhaps, like the rest of the world, we are blind to the failings of our favourites, and of this number Mrs. DAVENPORT was of the chief—in the many years during which we, who recollect Miss POPE, have remembered her, she has never once offended our most fastidious taste, or disappointed our hope: it is no trifle to lose such a performer. On Tuesday- she took leave, after playing the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, with her accustomed excellence. At the moment of parting, she was seriously affected ; and we have the pleasure of telling her, that there were many young gentlemen in the house who sympathized with her. It was her first and only benefit during thirty-six years of public service. It should have been given at the Opera-house; Covent Garden was too small to hold all who did, and infinitely too small for all who should have paid up their arrears of gratitude.
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