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 and Valentine Versatile in Lunn's ‘Lofty Projects,’ 22 April. He was announced to appear at Vauxhall on 24 July 1822 in an entertainment written for him by ‘a most eminent and favourite author,’ to be called ‘Hasty Sketches, or Vauxhall Scenery,’ but broke his leg at rehearsal on the day of performance. Subsequently he gave this entertainment at Brighton. He had fallen in public estimation when his Cornet Carmine restored him to favour. In this piece the conduct of the 10th hussars was satirised, and the allusions to well-known proceedings on their part caught the town. He also appeared in a piece no longer traceable, called ‘The Boyhood and Old Age of Mr. Yates.’ He was in the country in the autumn of 1823, and he married Elizabeth Brunton [see ] at Bath in the November of that year.

In March 1825 the Adelphi Theatre was purchased for the sum of 25,000l. by Terry and Yates, who opened it on 10 Oct. with a drama called ‘Killigrew,’ in which both of them appeared, together with Wrench, John Reeve, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. The first season was a success, its most conspicuous feature being Fitzball's adaptation of the ‘Pilot’ (31 Oct. 1825), which was played two hundred nights. T. P. Cooke was the Long Tom Coffin, Terry the Pilot, and Yates Barnstable. The theatre reopened with the ‘Pilot’ and Buckstone's ‘Luke the Labourer,’ followed in December by Fitzball's ‘Flying Dutchman,’ with Yates as Toby Varnish. ‘Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life’ and ‘Paris and London’ were also given. Terry's financial embarrassments led to his retirement from the partnership and death [see ], and the theatre opened on 29 Sept. 1825 under the management of Charles Mathews and Yates. In the ‘Earthquake,’ by Fitzball, Mrs. Yates appeared at the Adelphi, Yates himself playing Dr. Kallibos. In Fitzball's ‘Red Rover,’ given in 1828 and revived in 1831, he was the Red Rover, and in the revival of the ‘Floating Beacon’ of the same author he was Angerstoff, captain of the beacon. Mathews and Yates also gave a joint entertainment. In Buckstone's ‘Wreck Ashore’ (21 Oct. 1830) Yates was Miles Bertram. In the ‘Henriettte the Forsaken’ of the same author he was Ferdinand de Monval; in his ‘Victorine’ (October 1832) Alexandre; and in his ‘Isabelle’ (27 Jan. 1834) Eugène le Marc. He had also been seen as Rip van Winkle, Alfred in Mathews's ‘Truth,’ and in Holl's ‘Grace Huntley’ and other pieces, and had given what he called ‘Lenten entertainments.’ At the Surrey, on 26 May 1834, he was the first Black Walter in Fitzball's ‘Tom Cringle.’ In 1835 Yates played, at the Adelphi, Robert Macaire in a version of ‘L'Auberge des Adrets.’ The death of Mathews, on 28 June 1835, was followed by the retirement of Yates, who for one season stage-managed Drury Lane for Bunn. In October 1836 the Adelphi opened under the sole management of Yates, who was seen as Sir Roger in J. F. Smith's ‘Sir Roger de Coverley.’ In November, in Leman Rede's ‘Flight to America,’ he was a Frenchman to the negro of T. D. Rice (Jim Crow). In 1837 he was Pickwick in the ‘Peregrinations of Pickwick.’ In Lover's ‘Rory O'More’ (29 Sept.) he was the first De Welskin; on 8 Jan. Lord Mincington in Selby's ‘Dancing Barber;’ on 16 Jan. Flutter in Coyne's ‘All for Love, or the Lost Pleiad;’ on 19 Feb. Doddleton in Selby's ‘Rifle Brigade;’ on 16 April Mabel Griffin in Mrs. S. C. Hall's ‘Groves of Blarney;’ and on 19 Nov. had a great success as Mantalini in Stirling's arrangement of ‘Nicholas Nickleby.’ In May 1840 he repeated the character last named in Stirling's ‘Fortunes of Smike.’ He had previously played Henry Belasquez in Peake's ‘H. B.,’ and Lord Danegelt at the Surrey in Reynoldson's ‘Curse of Mammon,’ founded on Hogarth's ‘Marriage à la Mode;’ and at the Adelphi Fagin in ‘Oliver Twist,’ One-eyed Sam, Abraham Mendez, and Mr. Gay in Buckstone's ‘Jack Sheppard,’ and was seen in Buckstone's ‘Forgery,’ and in the ‘Heart of London.’ Yates doubled in ‘Barnaby Rudge’ the parts of Mr. Chester and Miss Miggs in January 1842, and at the close of the season, in March, delivered an address. This was the last time he was seen in London.

He had in 1827 given in Edinburgh ‘Yates's Reminiscences,’ and had been partner with William Henry Murray [q. v.] in 1830–1 in the management of the Caledonian Theatre, now renamed the Adelphi, in Leith Walk. Here he played Mazeppa, in which he had been seen in London, and other parts. With Braham he managed in 1831 the Colosseum in Regent's Park, but, fortunately for himself, was bought out. Gladstane was his partner in 1841 in Adelphi management, and the same two partners undertook the management of the Pavilion, from which Yates soon retired. While playing, in the winter of 1841–2, in a piece called ‘Agnes St. Aubyn’ he broke a blood-vessel, having broken one previously while acting Robert Macaire. He went in 1842 to Dublin, and, while rehearsing Lord Skindeep in Jerrold's ‘Bubbles of the Day,’ again broke a blood-vessel. Returning after a long