*p1790 11 23 cg Venice Preserved. Jaffier (1st time)-Holman; Priuli-Hull; Renault-Powel; Bedamar-Davies; Duke-Thompson; Spinosa-Cubitt; Elliot-Macready; Pierre (1st time)-Harley; Belvidera (1st time [in <i>London</i>])-Mrs Esten.*a1790 11 23 cg A Divertisement. [The Speaking Characters by Bannister, Johnstone, Wilson, Blanchard, Bernard, Rees (1st appearance on this stage), Mrs Harlowe, Mrs Martyr. Cast from Songs (For the Author [1790]); Clueline-Bannister; Capt. Frederick-Johnstone; Sir Fidget Fearful-Wilson; Gregory-Blanchard; Flambeau-Bernard; Whim-Rees; Squire Thicket-Incledon; Sophia-Mrs Harlowe; Peggy-Mrs Martyr; Female Indian-Mrs Mountain; [With Dialogue-; [to introduce the following favourite <i>Songs</i>, selected, written and composed (with new accompaniments) by $Dibdin=: PART I. The Lamplighter[, <i>I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter</i>-Bernard; Peggy Perkins[, <i>Let Bards elate</i>-Blanchard; Irish Drinking Song[, <i>Of the Ancients its speaking</i>-Johnstone; Tom Bowling[, <i>Here a shere Hulk lies poor Tom Bowling</i>-Bannister; Comic Song[, <i>How much I love thee</i>-Wilson; Taffy and Griddy[, <i>Abergavenny is fine</i>-Mrs Martyr; [PART II. Hunting Song[, <i>To Batchelor's Hall</i>-Incledon; Sea Song[, <i>Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna</i>-Bannister; The Portrait[, <i>Come, Painter, with thy happiest flight</i>-Incledon; The Soldier's Grave[, <i>Of all Sensations Pity brings</i>-Incledon; [Conclude with Rural Masquerade-[in which the following <i>Airs</i> will be sung in character; The Greenwich Pensioner[, <i>'Twas in the good ship Rover</i>-Bannister; Indian Song[, <i>Dear Yanco says, and true he says</i>-Mrs Mountain; The Masquerade[, <i>Sure an't the World a Masquerade</i>-Johnstone, Chorus; Occasional <i>Prologue</i>-Farren.*d1790 11 23 cg In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin.*c1790 11 23 cg Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. $Mrs Esten= has 1st acted <i>Belvidera</i>r at <i>Bath</i> in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by $John Cartwright Cross=. <i>Larpent MS 883</i>; not published. Prologue by $John Taylor= (his <i>Taylor, Poems</i>, I, 43). $Rees=' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by $Dibdin=. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," <i>The Oddities</i>, 1st performed at the <i>Lyceum</i>, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6).