Event Comment: Benefit for the Fund, established
for the Relief of those Per
formers who, through Infirmity, shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. State of the Theatrical Fund, instituted at
Covent Garden in the year 1765, and confirmed by Act of
Parliament, 1776. This Institution, calculated to provide
for, and relieve aged and infirm Per
formers and their Families, has not been successful enough during the course of 33 years, to acquire any particular Patronage, but has been raised and supported (some few private Donations and Bequests excepted) merely through the liberal Contributions of its Members. Several aged Persons are now, and have been
for many years, oeconomically maintained by it, although the Interest arising from the general Sum already amassed is not equal to one half of the Claims of its Annuitants. The other Portion is entirely supplied from the weekly Contributions of the Per
formers. Applications to the Public in behalf of this salutary Institution have rarely been made, and sometimes very ineffectually. On these Considerations there
fore the Lovers of Dramatic Entertainments are respectfully addressed
for their Encouragement at This Evening's Per
formance. (See
Genest, VII, 365-66.) Receipts: #131 7s. (122.13; 1.16; tickets: 6.18)