The rabble shouts that greet my brazen name.
The Morning Post. October 29, 1812.
Samuel Whitbread, M.P., took a very active part in the rebuilding of Drury Lane Theatre, which had recently been destroyed by fire. Mr. Whitbread is frequently mentioned in The Rejected Addresses. He committed suicide in 1815.
The Mélange (Liverpool, 1834), also contains another parody on the same original. It is an address supposed to be delivered by a lad named William Leigh, who was wounded in the Peterloo massacre in 1819, when the Yeomanry Cavalry and Hussars brutally charged into a public meeting held to deliberate on the Reform Bill, and killed and wounded many people. The parody is now devoid of interest.
Canning’s History of Himself.
(Written in April 1822.)
My name is Canning; on the Thespian boards
My mother played her part—a thrifty dame,
Whose only care was to increase her store,