Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. [1st piece: Prologue by the author (see text).] 3rd piece: To conclude with Robinson Crusoe's departure from the Island. Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 6, Craven-street, Strand. Receipts: #489 14s. 6d. (164.8.0; 67.15.6; 0.16.6; odd money: 6.14.6; tickets: 250.0.0) (charge: #213 2s. 4d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Mainpiece: With additions from Dryden. The Musick by Purcell and Arne, and the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Linley Jun. Morning Chronicle, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick, No. 18, Clement's-inn. Receipts: #390 8s. 6d. (97.13.6; 56.4.6; odd and after-money: 2.13;0; tickets: 233.17.6) (charge: #217 2s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #533 15s. 6d. (80.15.6; 54.10.6; 2.9.0; odd money: 7.6.0; tickets: 388.14.6) (charge: #230 10s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Marinari, Rooker

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Claudius to Packer, but "Archer, on the sudden indisposition of Packer, put on the robes of majesty, which seemed to sit sufficiently easy upon him" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1799, p. 175.] "The agitation of Hamlet in the course of the Play which he prepares to try the King, and his violent transports on gaining the certainty of his uncle's villainy by the effect of the piece were strongly characterized" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #330 17s. (245.19; 84.14; 0.4)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Richard the Third, advertised on playbill of 28 Sept.] Receipts: #274 17s. (177.3; 97.6; 0.8)

Event Comment: "...Richard III, which I saw performed at Drury-lane theatre at the beginning of the present season...The dresses of the characters which here make their appearance are in the usual half-and-half mode, made up from portraits of Charles I's reign, and from unrestrained fancy. Richard's habit, indeed, shews a faint hint, at the costume of his day; but how modernized! A fancy cap and feather,with a milliner's white-ribband rose, sewed thereon. A deep ruff, of that make not known until the reign of James I From the neck depends a ribband With the George: this decoration never seen in paintings till about the fashions of the abovementioned monarch's court. On his legs and feet, white silk stockings, white shoes, and red roses. These latter ornaments unknown before Elizabeth or James I's modes of dress prevailed; at any rate, they should have been white ones to have accorded with the party-badge in his cap." Writer signing himself "An Artist and an Antiquary" in Gentleman's Magazine, Apr. 1800, p. 319. Receipts: #225 16s. 6d. (178.3.6; 47.12.0; 0.1.0)