Excerpt from The Beggar of Bethnal Green: A Comedy in Three Acts, Altered From the Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green

If I may be allowed to express my own opinion of the Play upon which the present Drama has been founded, I should say that it was not entitled to much success, nor yet to utter condemnation - but let that pass. I have endeavoured to profit by the animadversions of my critics, and have expunged, condensed, and added, where I thought I could do so with effect.

I must here repeat my thanks to the Editor of the Atlas, for the generous zeal with which he sympathised in my former bad success.

I am much indebted to Mr. Broad, the ready and indefatigable Acting Manager of the Victoria, for his attention to the getting up of the Beggar of Bethnal Green, and to my staunch and zealous friend, Mr. Forster, of the Temple, I express my cordial acknowledgments for his critical revision of the play.

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