Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #149 3s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross); #127 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 (Cross); #74 3s. (Powel)

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #143 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 (Cross); #81 12s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: By Command of His Majesty. Receipts: #185 (Cross); #175 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Tomorrow, By desire Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet is oblig'd to be deferr'd. Receipts: #90 (Cross); #110 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #174 8s. (Powel)

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Play not acted these 7 years. [See 23 Apr. 1744] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #156 17s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross); #126 1s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: [G$Garrick] promised me the Part of Tressel; when the Play was given out, and I prepar'd for it, I saw in the Bills next Morn, another Person's Name [Blakes].-Charles Adams to John Gilbert-Cooper, quodet in Theatre Notebook, XI (1957) p. 136. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #182 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Music, Dances and Other Decorations for afterpiece entirely new. [In a letter to John Gilbert-Cooper, the actor Charles Adams states that "the Prompter gave me a little Part in the Emperor of the Moon...I appear'd in it thrice." He was "paid Twenty Shilling Pr Week." See Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), p. 136. The only male parts left were Baliardo's servant Peter and the figures in the tableau of the final scene.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 11s. (Powel)

Event Comment: A Dramatick Satire call'd Lethe is now in Rehearsal at Drury Lane and will be acted in a few days (by Desire). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #127 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Play by Command of His Majesty. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #181 16s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #158 16s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #149 13s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 11 Apr. 1746.] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #119 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #124 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Letter from John Potter, Proprietor of the New Theatre in the Haymarket, to the author of the General Advertiser: As the resentment of the Town for the disappointment of the performance advertised to be exhibited at my theatre on Monday last, shall fall entirely upon me, I hope I may be allowed to acquaint the public with the nature of my case. [Suggests he should not be to blame for misbehavior of any person who hired his house, that he had some apprehensions in this case, but that the Bottle Conjurer paid the rent in advance and agreed to have a House officer in the box office to return the money if the audience was displeased.] All the caution above mentioned was taken, and the money locked up in the office, guarded by persons of reputation, who would have returned it, and publicly on the stage told them, that if the person did not appear, their money should be return'd. But instead of complying with that offer, my House was pulled down, the Office broken open, the money taken out, and the servants oblig'd to fly to save their lives. I hope therefore this may be deem'd a sufficient justification in my behalf, and all that could be reasonably expected from me; and that those gentlemen who are conscious of having injured me, will be so generous as to make me a reasonable Satisfaction, considering the damage I have suffer'd, which in a moderate computation will amount to upwards of four thousand pounds. This day is Publish'd, at 1s. Lethe, a Dramatic Satire, by David Garrick as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. By Paul Vaillant, facing Southampton Street in the Strand. [A letter from Samuel Foote to the Author of the General Advertiser clears himself from any imputation of confederacy in the Bottle Conjuror fraud. See also my Introduction, note 103.] Receipts: #100 (Cross); #119 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: By desire. [N.B. John Potter's letter of 18 Jan. is repeated in the General Advertiser for this day. Also further statements by Potter and Foote concerning the use of Mr Lewis's name (Potter's attorney).] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #103 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: [P$Potter reprinted his letter of 18 Jan., and added the footnote: "The person who took the House was a man of genteel appearance, said his name was William Nicholls, and directed letters to be left for him at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden."] [The Prologue and Epilogue spoken by the children of the Prince of Wales on their performing Cato at Leicester House, printed in the General Advertiser.] [This day published] A Letter to Mr G-k, relative to his treble Capacity of Manager, Actor, and Author; with some remarks upon Lethe. All Three! All three! Gay. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St.; and A. Dodd, at the Peacock opposite St. Clements Church in the Strand (General Advertiser). [This day published] Lethe, A Dramatick Satire, by David Garrick as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. Printed for P. Vaillant, facing Southampton Street in the Strand. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #144 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #145 3s. (Powel)

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #80 (Cross); #98 1s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #159 4s. 6d. (Powel)