Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for
the Relief of those who, from
their Infirmities, shall be obliged to retire from
the Stage. [Prologue by Thomas Hull.]
Gazetteer, 19 May: Tickets to be had of
Hull, Treasurer to
the Institution, No. 31,
Bow-street,
Covent-Garden.
The Fund at
Covent Garden Theatre was instituted in
the Year 1765, and confirmed by Act of
Parliament, 1776. It has been almost entirely supported by
the weekly Contributions of
the respective Members, and no Application has been made ot
the Public towards its Increase for
the space of 19 Years. Notwithstanding
the utmost Oeconomy has been practised to promote
the Advancement of this Fund,
the whole capital Sum hi
therto amassed is now become so inadequate to
the unavoidable annual Disbursements that
the Committee hold it incumbent on
them to solicit
the Patronage and Encouragement of
the Public, at
the within specified Performance. "
The capital of this fund, invested in various stocks, amounted to #27,710 in
the year 1824" (
Brayley, 14). Receipts: #128 11s. (104.15; 15.16; tickets: 8.0)