Note 8 — MRS. SIDDONS
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(return) She afterwards played Lady Randolph for Mr. Charles Kemble's benefit, and performed Lady Macbeth at the request of the Princess Charlotte in 1816. This was her final appearance. She was then sixty-one, and her powers unabated. I recollect a characteristic passage in one of her letters relating to this circumstance: she says, "The princess honoured me with several gracious (not graceful) nods; but the newspapers gave me credit for much more sensibility than I either felt or displayed on the occasion. I was by no means so much overwhelmed by her Royal Highness's kindness, as they were pleased to represent me."