Chronicle' returns to the subject:

"A wag has already published a small volume of 'Addresses rejected',
in which, with admirable wit, all the poets of the day are assembled,
contesting for the Prize Address at Drury Lane. And certainly he has
assigned to the pen of Lord B. a superior 'poem' to that which has
gained the prize."

The Address was also severely handled in 'A Critique on the Address
written by Lord Byron, which was Spoken at the opening of the New
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, October' 10, 1812. By Lord--------(London,
no date). The author is "astonished at the glaring faults and general
insipidity" of the address, and, after a detailed criticism, concludes
that "public indignation" will sympathize with the rejected poets, and
"pursue the rival patrons and the rival bard."

Rogers, writing to Moore, October 22, 1812 ('Memoirs, etc., of Thomas
Moore', vol. viii. p. 123), says,

"Poor Byron! what I hear and read of his prologue makes me very angry.
Of such value is public favour! So a man is to be tried by a copy of
verses thrown off perhaps at hazard, and 'invita Minerva!'"]





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