*p1767 03 24 cg The Beggar's Opera. ^As17661220^, but <i>Hornpipe</i>-Miss Daw.*a1767 03 24 cg The Upholsterer. ^As17661015^, but Harriet-Miss Vincent (playbill) [but she remains $Mrs Baker= in The <i>Public Advertiser</i>].*d1767 03 24 cg <i>TThe Female Archer</i>, ^as17661215^.*c1767 03 24 cg Benefit for Shuter. Tickets to be had of Shuter at Number 2, in <i>Martlet Court</i>, <i>Bow St.</i> <i>Covent Garden</i>; and of $Mr Sarjant=, Book-Keeper. Charges: #65 2s. [Profits to Shuter #150 6d., plus #70 11s. from tickets (Box 233; Pit 82).] Paid $Miss Elliott= the balance of her two nights Jan. 13 and Feb. 18, #90 13s. 6d. and gave her as a present from the managers by deducting the charge of the Farce for her 2nd night, Feb. 18th, #21 (Account Book). Receipts: #215 2s. 6d. (Account Book). About 5 with great difficulty got into the Pit at <i>Covent Garden</i> to see...the benefit for $Mr Shuter=. Stood all night at the bottom of the Pit in a most disagreeable situation, though I saw very well and heard too, unless when prevented by the noise on occasion of which Shuter very smartly applied the Passage, But if we all speak together, how shall we hear one another," and again when a great noise was made about someone in the Gallery, he cried 'Give him a knock o' the head and make him quiet,' and another bawling Silence," he cried Silence, Silence why don't you be quiet.'At the end of Act II, the <i>Cries of London</i>', with additions by Shuter. In going off he shook his head on hearing it encored, but was oblig'd to comply by repeating the greater part. End of Opera Shuter entertained us with his <i>Serious, Comic Post-Haste Observations in his Journey to Paris</i>, to hear which was a principal reason of my not dining at $Holliss='s. The <i>Barber</i>r in the <i>Upholsterer</i> inimitably played by $Woodward= (<i>Neville MS Diary</i>).