Event Comment: At Powel and Yates' Tiled Booth

Event Comment: Receipts: #28 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 26 paid and 4 orders; pit, 65 paid and 48 orders; slips, 13 paid and 6 orders; first gallery' 67 paid and 20 orders; second gallery, 70 paid and 3 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 87 paid and 10 orders; pit, 231 paid and 14 orders; slips, 18 paid and 5 ordrs; first gallery, 213 paid and 27 orders; second gallery, 111 paid and 3 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #21 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 paid and 5 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 43 paid and 25 orders; slips, 3 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 113 paid and 31 orders; second gallery, 80 paid and 7 orders

Event Comment: [By Richard Barford.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #67 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 90 paid and 14 orders; pit, 243 paid and 10 orders; slips, 12 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 158 paid and 10 orders; second gallery, 96 paid

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco, Vallois. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Event Comment: Benefit Richardson, Miss Jones, Miss Roberts, Biggs, and Master Nansan. Afterpiece: By Capt Gulliver's Company of Lilliputians

Event Comment: Benefit Vallois and the two Misses Scot, Scholars to Vallois. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Event Comment: TTurbutt (from the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane) and Yates (from the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields). At Turbutt's and Yate's Great Theatrical Booth, Opposite the King's Head and Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. [The Fair runs from 22 through 26 Aug.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy [by John Hoole] never perform'd. [The author in his Advertisement to the 1775 Edition express "singular obligations to Mrs Hartley, who most readily undertook the part of Cleonice, which she has continued to support, with unremitted assiduity and friendly alacrity, amidst the repeated attacks of severe indisposition." Reviewed, but without praise in the Westminster Magazine, March.

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. 3rd piece [DO 2. Larpent MS 1251; not published]: Never acted at a Public Theatre [1st acted privately at Brandenburgh House, Hammersmith, 28 Feb. 1798]; Written by her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach. The Music partly by the Margravine, and partly by Sarti, Guglielmi, Paisiello, and Saphio. Grand Overture, La Chasse, by Reeve. The Scenery painted by Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, &c. The Machinery by Sloper. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. Morning Chronicle, 17 Apr.: Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach having, with unprecedented Kindness and Liberality, lent Mr Fawcett the Manuscript of the above magnificent and interesting Opera, he begs leave to state that nothing shall be wanted on his Part to render it as acceptable to the Public as it was to the Nobility who had the pleasure of seeing it at the Brandenburgh house Theatre. Ibid, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 41, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #532 6s. 6d. (239.1.6; 2.9.0; tickets: 290.16.0)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 36th Time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. The Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations new Painted and Augmented. The Music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve. [The playbill assigns, in Europeans, Captain Sidney to Incledon, but he was ill (see 16 Oct., 7 Nov.). He did not act again until 14 Nov.] Receipts: #252 12s. 6d. (249.13.0; 2.19.6)