Event Comment: [
T+The Theatrical Monitor, No. V (21 Nov.) includes a letter from
Bathyllus: As Dancing has ever been receiv'd by the greatest of dramatic writers, with encomiums suitable to its distinguished merit; you will be pleased through the channel of your justly spirited paper, to express the satisfaction I met with from
Mr Aldridge in the
Merry Sailor: his stature, strength, agility, and swiftness, are beyond anything I ever saw on
Covent Garden theatre: he stands tip-toe on the pinnacle of perfection, and gives us an idea of
Homer's pyrrhick dance delineated on the shield of
Achilles"] Receipts: #74 17s. (Account Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy
Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus
Dance: III: A new dance call'd The Merry Sailors-Aldridge