Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

OTWAY, a well known English dramatic writer, (as the sailors say) was generally kept steering upon a wind. He for a little time lived in a solitary house in a place called East-Cheap, at that time near, now in London. His plays did afford him a narrow subsistence. One night two or three thieves broke into his house, under an idea that the man must have great riches, who was so much talked of as the author of "The Orphan." He treated them with complaisance, and shewed them empty trunks and bare walls, adding, I wonder gentlemen robbers, what you expect to find in my house in the night, for by my soul, I can find nothing in it myself in the day time.