Event Comment: [The
Public Advertiser published a long
New Historical Epilogue, intended by the Author as a proper sequel to the Tragedy of the
Brothers. It speaks of the authentic history in the play, and of the effective moral lesson, closing: @As public woes a Prince's crimes pursue,@So public blessings are his Virtues' due.@Shout Britons, shout!--auspicious Fortune Bless!@And cry, Long live--OUR title to success!@ This was followed by a Letter from
Mr Booth in the Shades to
Dr Young, on his Tragedy call'd the
Brothers (an elaborate puff). In it Booth forgives Young for withdrawing the play from rehearsal thirty years earlier, and thus precluding his playing the part of Demetrius: "And I the more readily pardon you, as you have not disgraced me by giving the part to any of my successors, till this
Garrick appeared, whose reputation, I can assure you, is by no means confined to your world, and who, I am told, hath more than supply'd my place, hath rendered the loss even of
Betterton himself very supportable." He then lets Young in on a secret that there will be a performance of his play in the shades by all the old actors as soon as
Curll can steal a copy of it for them.] We are assured that on Thursday the 22nd instant will be publish'd a Comedy in 2 acts, call'd
The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats, witten by
Mrs Clive, and to be performed that evening, after the
Mourning Bride, for her Benefit at
Drury Lane.
Mr Yates's Benefit will be on Thursday the 5th of April, when the tragedy of the
Gamester will be played, being the twelfth day. A new farce will be added to it, the preparing of which has oblig'd Yates to defer his Benefit till the above day.
Receipts: #150 (
Cross)