Event Comment: ["
The Play to-night was to have been
The Confederacy, by Desire of
the Duchess of Leinster, with
The Spoiled Child (both advertised on playbill of 7 May), for
Mrs Jordan's benefit...but she suspecting
the House would be thin, pretended to be ill, would not act" (
Kemble Mem.). "
Love for Love (announced in playbill of this present night) and
The Spoiled Child were deferred on account of
the indisposition of Mrs Jordan, and
The West Indian and
The Island of St. Marguerite substituted...
Aickin and
Packer...could not be met with, and no o
ther means of presenting
The West Indian remained than Messrs
Williames and
Maddocks being permitted to read
the parts of
Stockwell and
Capt. Dudley. This
the audience refused to comply with, and insisted on having
their money returned, which was at last done.
The pit was cleared, not even one person remaining; but during
the second act, four people came in...About thirty stayed in
the boxes, and not a sufficient number to fill
the front rows in
the galleries...
The West Indian, with two parts in it read, and a house thus uncomfortably thin, dragged dismally through
the three first acts.
The half-price produced considerable amendment in
the appearance of
the house" (
London Chronicle, 10 May).] Receipts: #45 0s. 6d. (11.13.0; 32.5.0; 1.2.6)