Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser [see
Woodward's mimicry of
Foote, 22 Jan.]: We hear from
Drury Lane that on Monday night
Harry the Smuggler, who was tried and convicted last summer in
the Haymarket, was found hanging in one of
the cells of that prison: It seems he has long had a Design to make way with himself and at several times procured poison from
Foppington,
Harry Wildair,
Tom Thimble, &c. but
the Quantity, though it made him exceeding sick, not being sufficient to dispatch him, he at last tuck'd himself up in his own
Tit for Tat. When he was cut down he look'd very ghastly, and great groanings were heard in
the prison before, at, and after his committing
the Fact....It is very remarkable that he had on
the very coat, which, in Conjunction with one
Abel Drugger, not yet taken, he stole from
Sammy the Auctioneer; but from
the diligent search made after Drugger, it is believed he will soon be brought to Justice. Receipts: #60 (
Cross); #67 8s. (Treasurer's Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift
Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke
Dance: SSwedish Gardeners, as17491219
Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17500118, but Principal Savoyards-Miss Baker, Mrs _Addison