Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. By the Author of the Duenna. Acted but once this season. Tickets deliver'd for the Lady's Last Stake will be Admitted. x Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at the Tilt-yard Coffee-house, Horse Guards. Receipts: #167 8s. 6d. [60.15.6; tickets: 106.13.0) (charge: #64 10s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Second Course [1st time; M. INT I, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 567; not published]: With Songs and a New Overture. Entrement [1st time: INT I, by Charles Stuart. Larpent MS 566; not published]. Desert: Never acted here; by Permission of Harris [proprietor of cg. The playbill assigns Princess Huncamunca to Mrs Kennedy, but "Huncamunca was very well performed by a Lady who resembled Mrs Kennedy in her voice" (Public Advertiser, 23 Aug.; and see 24 Aug.)]

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Mrs Page to Mrs Wilson, and Mrs Ford to Miss Younge, but on the Kemble playbill both these names are deleted. Mrs Whitfield's name is written above Mrs Wilson's, but the name of Miss Younge's substitute has been cut by the binder; she was almost certainly Mrs Mattocks (see 25 Jan. 1782).] Receipts: #155 1s. (149/18; 5/3)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lord Lumbcrcourt to Wilson, but "Lee Lewes was the substitute for Wilson, and far indeed better than the man he appeared for" (Public Advertiser, 31 Jan.).] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, by John O'KeerFe]: The Music composed by Shield. The Scenery designed by Richards and Carver, and executed by them, Hodgins, and others. The 1st Part of this Pantomime is an Alteration of the Last New One [Friar Bacon (see 23 Dec. 1783)], and the 2nd Part entirely new and never before exhibited. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. "If Macklin once loses the Catch Word he is gone irretrievably." At the end of the 3rd act, at half price, some apprentices coming into the pit talked so loudly that "Macklin stopped; he lost himself. ... He came to the Side of the Stage, and stooping down to the Talkers, said, 'Gentlemen, I must beg you to be silent; my Hearing and Recollection are not so perfect as they were; I cannot proceed for your Talking'" (Public Advertiser, 5 Feb.). Receipts: #286 14s. (282/15; 3/19)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson and Williames [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. [The monologue refers to a criminal, Rynwick Williams, popularly known as "The Monster," who with a knife had recently attacked many women on the streets of London (see An Authentic Account of the Barbarities..(S. Bladon, 1790); World, 5 May, et seq.).] Gazetteer, 1 and 6 May : Tickets to be had of Williames and Mrs Wilson, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #225 5s. (40.13; 21.14; 2.16; tickets: 160.2) (charge: #108 2s. 3d.)

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Child of Nature, advertised on playbill of 17 Dec. In 3rd piece the playbill retains Wilson, but "Owing to the indisposition of Wilson, Powel supplied his place in The Divertisement" (World, 19 Dec.).] Receipts: #129 10s. 6d. (121.16.0; 7.14.6)

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Child of Nature, advertised on playbill of 17 Dec. In 3rd piece the playbill retains Wilson, but "Owing to the indisposition of Wilson, Powel supplied his place in The Divertisement" (World, 19 Dec.).] Receipts: #129 10s. 6d. (121.16.0; 7.14.6)