*p1799 04 12 cg The Count of Burgundy. Principal Characters by Pope, Munden, Murray, Hull, Clarke, Davenport, Thompson, Claremont, Abbot, Miss Chapman, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Pope. [Cast from <i>Larpent MS</i>: Henry-Pope; Chevalier Walter von Blonay-Munden; Brother Peter-Murray; Chevalier Cuno von Hallwyl-Hull; Count Hugo von Werdenberg-Clarke [in MS: $Whitfield=]; Bruno-Davenport; Benedict-Thompson; Guido-Claremont [in MS: $Gilbert=]; Nicholas-Abbot; Matilda-Miss Chapman; Gertrude-Mrs Davenport; Elizabeth-Mrs Pope.*a1799 04 12 cg Three Weeks after Marriage. ^As17981105^, but Lady Racket (1st and only Time [of appearing] this Season)-Mrs Abington (who has kindly favored $Pope= with her Performance).*a1799 04 12 cg Netley Abbey. Captain Oakland-Incledon; Oakland-Munden; Gunnel-Fawcett; Jeffery-Townsend; Sterling-Abbot; M'Scrape-Johnstone; Ellen Woodbine-Miss Walcup; Lucy Oakland-Mrs Follett; Catherine-Mrs Martyr.*s1799 04 12 cg End: <i>Black Ey'd Susan</i>-Incledon; End 2nd piece: <i>The Mid Watch</i>-Incledon.*c1799 04 12 cg Benefit for $Pope=. 1st piece [1st time; D 4. <i>Larpent MS 1249</i>; not published synopsis of plot in <i>Universal Magazine</i>, Apr. 1799, p. 273]: Translated from [<i>Der Graf von Burgund</i>, by $August Friedrich Ferdinand von? Kotzebue= (Author of <i>The Stranger</i>, <i>Lover's Vows</i>, &c.) by $Miss Anne? Plumptre=, and adapted to the <i>English Stage</i> by $Alexander? Pope=. <i>Morning Chronicle</i>, 25 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house, No. 5, <i>Half Moon-street</i>, <i>Piccadilly</i>. [This was $Mrs Abington='s last appearance on the stage.] "The perpetuated evidence of youth was in character with her person and her powers; the slimness of her figure, the fulness of her voice, the freshness of her spirits, the sparkle of her eye, and the elasticity of her limbs, savoured alike of a juvenility that puzzled the mind, whilst it pleased it: of her it was justly said that 'she had been on the stage thirty years; she was one-and-twenty when she came, and one-and-twenty when she went!'" ($John Bernard=, <i>Retrospections of the Stage</i>, 1830, II, 228-29). Receipts: #334 19s. 6d. (194.1.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 138.13.6).