Event Comment: The Publick is most respectfully informed that on account of
the sudden Indisposition of a Principal Performer,
the new Tragedy of
The Conspiracy [advertised on playbill of 11 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred. "A new tragedy, entitled
The Conspiracy, written by
Mr Jephson, was announced for representation on Saturday evening; but (as
the apology stated) on account of
the indisposition of a principal performer,
The Grecian Daughter was substituted in its room. All
the principal performers advertised for
the new play having, however, appeared in
The Grecian Daughter, it is supposed, and generally understood, that it was
the interference of
the Lord Chamberlain's interdiction (who, by
the mighty virtues of
his white wand, valiantly frustrated
the meditated Conspiracy), that produced
the sudden change of performance" (
Morning Herald, 14 Nov.), Receipts: #256 7s. 6d. (167.6.6; 84.11.0; 4.10.0)