Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Honest Thieves, advertised on playbill of 17 Sept.] "The shameful neglect of Whitfield in the etiquette of dress in the character of Hastings must not pass unnoticed. He came on arranged in every point for the drawing-room, although he is supposed to be on his journey, and is informed by his companion Young Marlow that they must change their travelling dresses...An audience must naturally look to the Manager for due observance of stage decorum...and we trust that on future occasions the actor will not be allowed to sport with propriety by any fantastical display of his own, which is in direct oppostion to the character he ought to represent, and to the text with which he must be acquainted" (Times, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #197 1s. 6d. (186.0.6; 11.1.0)

Event Comment: "[In Pizarro] the effeminacy of Alonzo's dress, better adopted for a ball-room than for scenes of warfare; the magnificence of the Spanish dungeon, in a country where the Spanish invaders were fain to put up with tents for their own accomodation; the vile manner in which the scene is bungled together, where Cora leaves her infant child to the fury of the pitiless storm, whilst a hut stands most invitingly in sight; the absurd introduction of Cora's song to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning--but, above all, the disgraceful additions made by Mr Sheridan himself, with the farcical termination of this sublime tragedy, by an Irish howl over the dead body of Rolla;--all these glaring defects, sufficient to damn any writer of less notoriety than Sheridan, still continue to outrage good-sense, and the feelings of every spectator of taste and discernment...We are firmly of opinion that the crowded houses this play still continues to draw are principally to be attributed to the masterly acting of the elder Kemble" (Dramatic Censor, I, 23-24). Receipts: #429 9s. (388.1; 40.1; 1.7)

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Speed the Plough, but A Cure for the Heart Ache "was sustituted in the room of Speed the Plough, in consequence of an accident which befel H. E. Johnston" (Dramatic Censor, I, 10).] Receipts: #215 13s. (206.12; 9.1)

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Tobacconist, advertised on playbill of 25 July. In 3rd piece the playbill assigns Sheepface to Wathen, but "Sheepface [was acted] by Emery, in the room of Wathen" (Dramatic Censor, III, 79).

Event Comment: As we perform only on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, any Gentleman, &c. may here may here have a Room[y] Building, Clothes, and Scenes for a private Play for four Guineas, on other nights