Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who, from their Infirmities, shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. [Prologue by Thomas Hull.]
Gazetteer, 19 May: Tickets to be had of
Hull, Treasurer to the Institution, No. 31,
Bow-street,
Covent-Garden. The Fund at
Covent Garden Theatre was instituted in the Year 1765,
and confirmed by
Act of
Parliament, 1776. It has been almost entirely supported by the weekly Contributions of the respective Members,
and no Application has been made ot the Public towards its Increase for the space of 19 Years. Notwithst
anding the utmost Oeconomy has been pr
actised to promote the Advancement of this Fund, the whole capital Sum hitherto amassed is now become so inadequate to the unavoidable annual Disbursements that the Committee hold it incumbent on them to solicit the Patronage
and Encouragement of the Public, at the within specified Performance. "The capital of this fund, invested in various stocks, amounted to #27,710 in the year 1824" (
Brayley, 14). Receipts: #128 11s. (104.15; 15.16; tickets: 8.0)