"All who behold my mutilated pile
Shall brand its ravager with classic rage,
And soon a titled bard from Britain's Isle,
Thy country's praise and suffrage shall engage,
And fire with Athens' wrongs an angry age!"
Horace Smith's unsuccessful comedy,
First Impressions; or, Trade in the West
, was performed at Drury Lane. The prologue, spoken by Powell, beseeches a judgment from the audience:
"Such as mild Justice might herself dispense,
To Inexperience and a First Offence."