Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . Canongaie.] MRS. BELLAMY. 25 house at Bonnington, near Leith. It is rememberedthat Mrs. Bellamy was extremely fond of singingbirds, and when visiting Glasgow was wont to havethem carried by a ])orter all the way, lest theymight suffer by the jolting of a carriage, andpeople wondered to hear of ten guineas beingexpended for such a purpose. Persons underthe social ban for their irregular lives often win thelove of individuals by their benevolence and sweet-ness of disposition—qualities, it is to be remarked, front land, t
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . Canongaie.] MRS. BELLAMY. 25 house at Bonnington, near Leith. It is rememberedthat Mrs. Bellamy was extremely fond of singingbirds, and when visiting Glasgow was wont to havethem carried by a ])orter all the way, lest theymight suffer by the jolting of a carriage, andpeople wondered to hear of ten guineas beingexpended for such a purpose. Persons underthe social ban for their irregular lives often win thelove of individuals by their benevolence and sweet-ness of disposition—qualities, it is to be remarked, front land, through which an arch gives access tothe old Playhouse Close, is a fine specimen of theScottish street architecture in the time of Charles LIt. has a row of dormer windows, with another ofstorm-windows on a steep roof, that reminds oneof those in Bruges and Antwerp. Over a doorwaywithin the close is an ornamental tablet, theinscription on which has become defaced, and theold theatre itself has long since given place toprivate dwellings. In one of these lived, in 17S4,. ; /;<./ii/«4 h ) not unlikely to have been concerned in their firsttrespasses. This was the case with Mrs. waiting-maid, Anne Waterstone, who is men-tioned in her Memoirs, lived many years after inEdinburgh, and continued to the last to adore thememory of her mistress. Nay, she was, from thiscause, a zealous friend of all players, and wouldnever allow a slighting remark upon them to passunreproved. It was curious to find in a poor oldScotchwoman of the humbler class such a sympathywith the follies and eccentricities of the childrenof Thespis. The erection of the New Theatre Royal in theextended royalty eclipsed its predecessor in theCanongate, which was deserted in 1767. The62 a man named \\ilson Gavin, whose name a))pearsin Peter Williamsons Directory as an and Leather Tormentor. The adjoining alley, St. Johns Close, is opentowards St. Johns Street
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