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 That this was probably a success is proved by its repetition on the Charleston boards on January 28th, and again February 4th, with the addition of "A new pantomime entertainment in grotesque characters called 'The Adventures of Harlequin and Scaremouch, with the Burgo-Master Trick'd.'"

No city on the continent had a higher standard of scholarship a few decades before and after the Revolution of 1776.

Many of its leading citizens had been educated at the English universities, and brought and established here the literary tastes and pursuits which had been contracted in those then greatest seats of learning in the world. South Carolina headed all the colonies in the list of the London Inns of Court, and up to the time of the Revolution had forty-five representatives out of the one hundred and fourteen American students of the "lawless science of the law."

Among other Carolina youth who were sent to England to complete their education were Arthur Middleton, Thomas Heyward, Thomas Lynch, Jr. (three of the signers of the Declaration of Independence), John and Hugh Rutledge, C. C. Pinckney, Thomas