Event Comment: Benefit for
the Author. [At
the half-price riots (25 Jan.) Moody had stopped a man from setting fire to
the house. When called upon to apologize for interfering with a gentleman and for taking
the manager's part he thought to restore good humor by assuming
the tone of a low-bred
Irishman, saying he was sorry he had displeased
them by saving
their lives and putting out
the fire.
The reply inflamed
the rioters more (
Genest, V, p. 15). On 5 Feb. Moody inserted
the following apology in
the Public Advertiser:
Mr Moody begs leave to inform
the Public that
the impropriety of his behavoir at
the theatre was intirely owing to
the confusion of mind he was
then under; which unhappily for him was misconstrued into disrespect; tho' nothing could at that, or that, or at any o
ther time, be far
ther from his thoughts. He
therefore earnestly hopes and entreats that he may be permitted to appear before
them again; as he hereby most humbly asks
their pardon for whatever he inadvertently said or did to incur
their displeasure."
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