Event Comment: Benefit for the Four
Youngest Orphans of the late
Mr Palmer [see
dl, 18 June]. As it is presumed that the well-known liberality of the Publick will be strongly excited on the present occasion, the Proprietor of the [
Haymarket] Theatre has requested the use of the Opera-House for this Evening, that the largest number of persons who wish to patronize the undertaking may be accomodated with places. The Proprietor of the Opera-House has, with the utmost readiness, granted the request. Tickets to be had of
the Miss Palmers, at
Dixon's, Upholsterer, the corner of
Bedford-Court,
Bedford-Street,
Covent-Garden; of
Messrs Ransom, Morland and Co., Bankers,
Pall-Mall; of
Jewell, No. 26,
Suffolk-Street,
Charing-Cross, of whom, and of
Rice, at the Box-Office, Places for the Boxes may be taken. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. "[His brother] R. Palmer attempted to deliver an address at the end of the play, but he was so much overpowered that he...left the address unrecited, and [his] part in the farce was given up to another performer" (
Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1798, p. 117, which also records that the receipts were approximately #700)