Event Comment: Benefit for
the Voluntary Contribution now open at
the Bank, for
the Defence of our Country. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had and Places to be taken of
Brandon, at
the Stage-Door in
Hart-street. Tickets also to be had at
the Bar of
Lloyd's Coffee-House. [Prologue by
William Boscawen (
Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1798, p. 178. Author of Address unknown.] "A subscription was set on foot behind
the scenes," to which most of
the performers contributed #10 apiece (
Monthly Mirror, ibid). Account-Book, 12 May: Paid into
the Bank of England in aid of
the Voluntary Contribution #394 15s. Receipts: #518 8s. (280.9; 12.2; tickets: 225.17) [
the difference of #123 13s. appears to have been
the house charge]
Performances
Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd
Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor; or, Little Bob and Little Ben
Performance Comment: Lieutenant Battledor (the Poor Sailor)-Incledon; Compass-Davenport; Bumbo-Farley; O'Daub-Waddy; Freakish-Townsend; Lieutenant-Gray; Capt. Battledor-Munden; Little Bob-Young Standen; Miss Ann Battledor-Mrs Davenport; Nancy-Miss Wheatley; Eliza (alias Little Ben)-Mrs Martyr.Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand
Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde
Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope
Performance Comment: Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope.