*p1776 02 27 cg Douglas. ^As17760115^, but Douglas-Webster; Old Norval-Clarke.*a1776 02 27 cg The Syrens. ^As17760226^.*c1776 02 27 cg Benefit for $Webster=. $Mr Barry= being ill, the tragedly of <i>King Lear</i> oblig'd to be deferr'd. [A comment in <i>Lloyd's Evening Post</i> for 29 Feb. refers to an incident in <i>cg</i> this evening: "A fellow who sat on the sixth row of the Upper Gallery...Threw a Keg (which he had brought full of liquor into the House) over the Gallery front. It fell upon a lady's head, who sat in that part of the Pit which was railed into the Boxes, but the Lady's hair being dress'd in high ton, the artifical mountain luckily prevented the mischief that otherwise might have been occasioned....The fellow who threw the cask was carried to the <i>Public Office</i>, in <i>Bow Street</i>, and from thence committed to <i>Tothill Fields</i>, <i>Bridewell</i>. As the custom of throwing mugs, bottles, apples, &c. from the galleries of the theatres is equally as wanton and wicked and is frequently the cause of great mischief, it is thought the present culprit will made an example of" (Quoted in <i>Hampden, Journal</i>).]