Event Comment: The School for Scandal [advertised on playbill of 8 Dec.] is deferred on account of Kemble's Illness. Receipts: #184 14s. (132.6.0; 45.3.6; 6.19.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Mainpiece: 6th Night [see 3, 8 Dec.]. Receipts: #245 15s. (205.18.0; 35.1.6; 4.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #125 10s.)

Event Comment: Paid Kemble in lieu of Two Benefits last Season #364 Receipts: #192 14s. 6d. (154.17.0; 36.4.0; 1.13.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #247 14s. (187.18.0; 56.5.6; 3.10.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Romp, but "Mrs Jordan ill" (Kemble Mem., which lists the substitute play).] Receipts: #245 4s. 6d. (202.8.0; 41.9.6; 1.7.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Benefit for the Boxkeepers. A New Edition of the [mainpiece] to be had at the Theatre. "Went to play. Mrs Jordan in 'Rosalind.' I am still of opinion, there is more in her person and natural manners than in her acting. Her merit lies out of her part. The words set down by the author she does not repeat with great propriety of tone, emphasis, or gesture, than others. But she has of these, certain peculiarities, which indicate dispositions, such as take strong hold of the affections, at least of the male part of her audience; and therefore, when the part is of a sort to admit a large portion of these, she produces a great effect. The true acting of the part may, in many instances, not require what she throws into it, but it may admit it; and if the expression so thrown in is of the sort described, the effect of the whole will be improved, though the part is thereby neither better nor worse acted" (Windham Diary, 28 May 1791, 227). Receipts: #363 4s. 6d. (33.5.0; 9.5.6; 2.13.0; tickets: 318.1.0) (charge: #117 1s. 7d.)

Event Comment: Paid Johnston's bill #7 10s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #6 12s.; Chorus by R. Shaw #10; Mantuamaker #13 5s. 4d.; Foulis for Music Copying #2 8s.; Land Tax 1 Yr. #79 12s. 6d.; Billstickers #3 6s.; Booth, tailor, #14 13s. 1d. "Mrs Jordan has a voice, the tones of which are infinitely more musical and sweet than those of any professional singer we have. There is also an interest about her singing, arising not from what may be called musical feeling, but the impression of the subject. Thus, though sometimes a little untrue, we love her songs, and forbear to weigh them in the diatonic or chromatic scales" (Oracle, 3 Oct.). Receipts: #450 3s. (393.2; 56.3; 0.18)

Event Comment: [The playbill announces King Henry the Fifth and The Cave of Trophonius, but "The performances at this Theatre were changed last night on account of the indisposition of Kemble. Henry the Fifth gave way to The Siege of Belgrade, and The Cave of Trophonius was also superseded, as it was impossible for the vocal performers to sustain the whole effort of the night" (Morning Post, 18 Oct.). A MS annotation on Kemble playbill gives the name of the substitute afterpiece.] Receipts: #234 8s. (183.1; 49.18; 1.9)