Excerpt from The British Theatre, or a Collection of Plays, Which Are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Haymarket, and Lyceum, Vol. 14 of 20 As Steele took all the liberty with the press which the press would give, and sometimes a little more ao, as he ranged himself with the strong or with the weak, on the ministerial or on the opposition side of the question, was be alternately punished or re warded. About the middle of Queen Anne's reign, this author was both a placeman and pensioner - towards the end of it, he found the resignation of all such pro fit necessary; and having procured a seat in parlia ment, was expelled from that house for writing sedio tious libels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.