Event Comment: [Messrs
Vincent and Gordon beg the Nobility
and Gentry that intend honouring them with their protection the ensuing season of Opera will pay their subscriptions to Messrs
Drummonds,
Bankers,
Charing Cross. The subscription is for 50 nights only. A letter from
Timotheus in the
Public Advertiser: "I repeatedly see in your paper an advertisement from the managers of the opera to solicit subscriptions from the Nobility
and Gentry to enable them to carry it on. Surely, from the specimin they have already given us of their performance in the serious way, never had managers less claim to the countenance
and favour of the public. In the whole company but one voice,
and that just tolerable
and no more; compared indeed to the rest a nightengale. Then, Sir, for their dancers, they seem so perfectly so well suited to the singers, that 't is difficult to pronounce to which of them the palm should be allotted. For the Figurers, one only excepted, they seem in that article to have paid a due attention to their want of every Talent requisite, by reducing them to so small a number that they look like so many mice scudding about an empty barn. In short, Singers, Dancers, Figurers, Cloaths, Decorations, etc., etc., are all so much of a piece, that if the directors either can't or won't engage better performers, the sooner an end is put to the exhibition of Operas the better it will be." See comment in reply, 8 Nov.