Event Comment: Benefit the Author. 5s. To begin at six and end at eight

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Phillips, Pidgeon, Levy, Doorkeepers

Event Comment: +RRylands MS.: The Rehearsal was design'd but Mrs Kilby not being able to perform in Orpheus, and Advertisement was put into Papers on Tuesday taking leave of the Town, and so we concluded for this Season

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. The Stage will be tubn'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., but be had at Tom's Coffee-House, Cornhill; and at Mrs Garrick's in Mansfield St., Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: HHorace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 Feb.: Handel has set up an Oratorio against the Operas and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces [i.e., Kitty Clive] and the singers of Roast Beef [i.e., Lowe] from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice [i.e., Beard] and a girl without ever a one [i.e., Mrs Cibber]; and so they sing.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 180

Event Comment: The Earl of Egmont and Mrs Delany both were present (Deutsch, Handel, p. 588)

Event Comment: The Company in the Haymarket being busily employ'd in reviving several pieces, are oblig'd to defer playing till further notice (General Advertiser). [T. Cibber stated that when his troupe had a successful run of Romeo and Juliet, and when Mrs Clive arranged for a benefit performance there, the Patentees applied to the Lord Chamberlain and, in consequence, the Lord Chamberlain's Office legally stopped the performances at the Haymarket. Cibber's next move was the Academy device of 1 Nov.--Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology, p. 10.

Event Comment: A concert. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive

Event Comment: A letter in Daily Advertiser 4 March complains of Mrs Cibber's absence from this revival

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Haughton. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. 1st gallery 1s. 6d. Upper gallery 1s. Tickets at Miss Haughton's Lodgings, at Mrs Simpson's, Church Lane

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cushing

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Frederica

Event Comment: There will be no play 'till tomorrow on account of one to be performed this evening at the other theatre; the receipt of which is to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at the Guildhall. We hear Mrs Cibber is soon to perform the part of Polly, three nights at cg, and the Proprietor has agreed to lend his house, free of all charges; and we hear the company will contribute their pay on those days, that the performance may be entirely charge-free; the receipts of each night to be subscribed to the Veteran's scheme at Guildhall

Event Comment: A Musical Drama, in Two Parts...with Dances and other Decorations Entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Opera Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. A New Opera [composed by Gluck; text by F. Vanneschi]. The Subscribers to the Opera are desired to make the last Payment of their Subscription Money to the Treasurer, at the Opera Office in the Haymarket, where Attendance will be given this and every Day, from Ten till Two, to receive the same, and deliver out the Silver Tickets. [Repeated until 28 Jan.] The new Musical Italian Drama; entitled La Caduta de Giganti, or the Fall of the Giants, writ on Occasion of the expulsion of the Rebels, was perform'd last Night at King's Theatre in the Haymarket. The performance was received and carried on with great Attention, Tranquility, and Applause: and not a little enliven'd by the Presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.--Daily Advertiser, 8 Jan

Event Comment: HHickford's Great Room, Brewer St. Benefit Brown. Tickets 5s. Tickets at Walsh, in Catherine St., Strand; Mrs Wamsley's/Musick/shop the Corner of Picadilly; Simpson's Musick shop in Swithin's Alley, Cornhill; Johnson's Musick shop, Cheapside; Brown's in Margaret St., near Cavendish Square; and at the place of performance

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hussey. Shepherd's Market near Piccadilly. A Concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit or Gallery 1s. 6 p.m

Event Comment: TTiled Booth, Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. Benefit Mrs Bambridge. Particular care is taken that the Parts will be performed by comedians from both Houses

Event Comment: AAll for Love is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Woffington.--General Advertiser

Event Comment: All for love obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Woffington's Indisposition. [Notice in General Advertiser lists Macbeth and The Double Disappointment for tomorrow, but no bill appears on 6 Feb.

Event Comment: [G+General Advertiser, 20 April: The Play of Henry V and the new farce which were to have been acted of Friday the 24th for Mrs Macklin's benefit are necessarily deferred until farther notice--which will be inserted in this paper.

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Mrs Phillips. A Concert. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. (Daily Advertiser)

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the Great Tiled Booth. Benefit Yeates Jun. and Mrs Warner (his sister). Prices: 2s., 1s., 6d. To begin at six o'clock (Daily Advertiser)

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth in the Borough. Benefit for Mrs Adams. To begin at 7 p.m

Event Comment: CCross: Mrs Butler died