Event Comment: Benefit for
Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Receipts: #171 15s. 6d. plus #112 17s. from tickets (Box 272; Pit 299). Paid
Hughes and
Batten for 4 1!2 yds muslin for sleeves for women dancers 18s. 9d. (Account Book). [
Shuter's
Interlude is
Larpent MS 188, a verse monologue with songs, giving the geneology of
Bucks from
Nimrod's heirs-hunters who now seek ladies in Boxes rather than foxes. A patriotic song on successes at
Minden,
Quebec,
Cape Breton, &c. ending]: @We wish as we ought that Great Britain may thrive@That freedom and friendship may faction survive@On sea and on shore, as we have may we shine@And this year sixty-one equal fam'd forty-nine.@ Charges: #63 (Account Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure
Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin
Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr
Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-