His 1819 play, Wanted a Wife; or, a Checque on My Banker, was a comedy that gently ridiculed "lonely heart" ads.
The following year, his play The Lear of Private Life, starring Junius Brutus Booth as the lead, enjoyed a long run.
[1] He also wrote the romantic melodrama The Cataract of the Ganges; or, The Rajah’s Daughter (1823) for Drury Lane, which featured real horses and a waterfall on stage.
In 1830, he conceived the operatic drama Van Dieman's Land, concerning the notorious bushranger Michael Howe.
He managed Vauxhall Gardens in 1827 and leased the City Theatre, Milton Street in 1833.