Event Comment: Benefit for
the Four Youngest Orphans of
the late
Mr Palmer [see
dl, 18 June]. As it is presumed that
the well-known liberality of
the Publick will be strongly excited on
the present occasion,
the Proprietor of
the [
Haymarket]
Theatre has requested
the use of
the Opera-House for this Evening, that
the largest number of persons who wish to patronize
the undertaking may be accomodated with places.
The Proprietor of
the Opera-House has, with
the utmost readiness, granted
the request. Tickets to be had of
the Miss Palmers, at
Dixon's, Upholsterer,
the corner of
Bedford-Court,
Bedford-Street,
Covent-Garden; of
Messrs Ransom, Morland and Co., Bankers,
Pall-Mall; of
Jewell, No. 26,
Suffolk-Street,
Charing-Cross, of whom, and of
Rice, at
the Box-Office, Places for
the Boxes may be taken. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. "[His bro
ther] R. Palmer attempted to deliver an address at
the end of
the play, but he was so much overpowered that he...left
the address unrecited, and [his] part in
the farce was given up to ano
ther performer" (
Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1798, p. 117, which also records that
the receipts were approximately #700)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heir At Law
Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood