Event Comment: Receipts: #159 11s. (145.13; 12.7; 1.11)

Event Comment: Richard Coeur de Lion [advertised on playbill of 24 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #80 10s. (65.17.0; 13.7.6; 1.5.6)

Event Comment: Paid Miss Farren her Benefit Allowance [i.e. in lieu of a benefit] #200. Receipts: #238 16s. (221.10; 16.11; 0.15)

Event Comment: The Regent [advertised on playbill of 2 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Siddons. Receipts: #89 1s. (76.5.0; 11.19.0; 0.14.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Event Comment: Receipts: #142 2s. 6d. (107.12.0; 33.6.6; 1.4.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #112 7s. 6d. (94.6.0; 17.16.6; 0.5.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. 3rd piece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of a Regatta. [This was included in both subsequent performances.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, Red Lion-Square, the corner of Leigh-Street. Receipts: #243 16s. 6d. (62.9.0; 17.18.0; 0.9.6; tickets: 163.0.0) (charge: #107 9s. 3d.)

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 17s. 6d. (151.2.0; 27.15.6; 1.0.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #184 1s. (168.16.0; 13.18.6; 1.6.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Receipts: #142 7s. 6d. (123.1.0; 18.4.6; 1.2.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #318 13s. (216.6; 92.15; 9.12)

Event Comment: [Dowton was from the Tunbridge Wells theatre.] Receipts: #292 18s. 6d. (198.10.6; 90.4.0; 4.4.0)

Event Comment: Receipts: #192 19s. (120.12.0; 71.8.6; 0.18.6)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Force of Ridicule; afterpiece of Richard Coeur de Lion, both advertised on playbill of 28 Nov.] "The new Comedy last night was deferred upon the pretext of Miss Farren's illness...The Manager sent after Mrs Siddons, who was found at Covent-Garden Theatre, seeing Abroad and at Home. Brandon, however, ordered her a chair, and she kindly performed Isabella. Wroughton read the Father" (Oracle, 30 Nov.). "For near an hour the audience waited patiently...At half past seven Palmer addressed the audience" He said that Miss Farren was ill, that to those who preferred to leave the theatre their money would be returned, and that instead of the new play Mrs Siddons would act Isabella, "as soon as the dresses could be prepared for that purpose. This address was by no means favourably received, and hundreds of persons immediately left the house. A few minutes after eight, the Curtain drew up to the tragedy, which was well performed, and much applauded by the few who remained to witness it" (Morning Herald, 30 Nov.). "November 30. Miss Farren last night refused to appear in a new Play at Drury Lane which made much confusion in the House. The cause assigned was indisposition but that was not believed by the audience; and the fact Lysons says is, that as she cannot obtain payment from the Theatre, she resolutely told them she wd. not appear unless her demands were paid...Such is the unprincipled conduct of Sheridan" (Diary of Joseph Farington, 1922, I, 174). [On 1 Dec. Morning Herald prints a letter from Miss Farren, from Green-street, Grosvenor-square. saying that she really was ill. The editor of the paper adds a note in which he affirms his positive knowledge that rumours about a dispute as to Miss Farren's unpaid salary were without foundation.] Receipts: #134 2s. (82.2; 50.18; 1.2)