Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Morning Herald, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 9, Tottenham-court-road

Event Comment: Paid Mr Dibdin's draft on Managers, #50; Mrs Weston 4 nights in the Garter in full, 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Mr Daigueville, First Dancer and Ballet Master at Drury Lane House, gives notice to the Nobility and Gentry, that he has an elegant dancing room, No. 38 Cow Lane, Snowhill; where he continues to teach every day the Dauphin's Minuet and others...Teaches abroad also when required; and at the request of his scholars, he will give a Ball on the 10th instant. The Gentlemen are desired to call at his house for the tickets 10s. 6d. each, to admit one Gentleman and a Lady. If any Gentleman wants the Ballroom for private assembly or concert they may have it for one or two nights in the week. Receipts: #159 6s. (Treasurer Book)

Event Comment: Paid Street, Woollen Draper, in full #133 18s. 6d.; Chorus to 11th Inst. #8 5s.; Yarroway, Timber Merchant, in full #143 6s. Receipts: #293 2s. 6d. (209.3.6; 82.11.0; 1.8.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by William Macready, based on The Artful Husband, by William Taverner. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Robert Houlton (see text)]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 1076; not published]: The Music part new and part compiled by Shield. Morning Herald, 4 June 1795: This Day is published The Bank Note (2s.). Morning Chronicle, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #434 19s. 6d. (168.1.0; 8.0.6; tickets: 258.18.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Smith, Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [The change in benefit piece from Cymbeline and the Wish remains unexplained. (See 22 and 27 April.) Larpent MS 387 is the Wish, scene a Sultan's Gardenv. Parts: Ammath; Nourjahad; Mandana; Zelia and Sanbeg. It seems never to have been performed.] Paid licenses for Bob Ton & Inflexible Captive, & Book #4 5s. 6d. Receipts: #119 1s. Charges: #67 12s. Profits to Mrs Smith: #51 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. The Farce of The Knights intended and advertis'd to be acted is oblig'd to be laid aside on account of Mr Phillip's dangerous indisposition, who was to have perform'd the character of Sir Gregory Gazette. Tickets of Yates at Mr Walsh's Music shop in Catherine St. in the Strand, and at the stage door (playbill, 29 March). Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Young. Afterpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Music by Dr Arne. [See John Lockman's Reflections concerning Operas, &c." in his introduction to his edition of Rosalinda (London, 1760), p. iv: 'A gentleman, well known for his musical compositions, is of opinion, that the reason why the Opera Rosamond tho' adorned with all the graces of lyric poetry, does not please from the stage, so much as might be expected, is owing to a circumstance that forms a beauty in the drama itself; I mean the suppos'd poisoning of Rosamond at the end of the second act, and her appearing no more upon the stage. Whilst this sheet was at press, I was told that Mr Arne has reduc'd this opera into one act, and set the whole anew; and so managed matters, that Rosamond appears throughout the whole drama. Tis said that the music of this new Rosamond is as delightful as that of another performance of Mr Arne's which now affords the town so agreeable an Entertainment."

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. A new Operetta. Farce dull & hiss'd at ye End (Cross). Music by D'Fesch. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. N.B. Tis hoped Gentlemen won't take it ill that they can't be admitted into the Orchestra, as it will be impossible to perform the Entertainment without the whole band of Music. Tickets to be had of Mrs Clive at her Lodgings at the Wheatsheaf in Henrietta St. and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #240 [Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Vincent. House charges #64 15s. 6d. [Deficit Mrs Vincent #20 3s. 6d.] Rec'd by draft on Mr Clutterbuck #200, and from Sinking Fund #287; Paid Blandford (tallow chandler) #27 18s. 11d.; and French on account #12 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Fifteen minutes past 5 went to the 2s. gallery...(Widow Vincent's voice pleases me much. Holland did Oakly,-he imitates Garrick, but is very inferior to him (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #44 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid Tallow Chandler's 4th Bill #41 6s. 5d.; Spermacetti Candles, #132 18s. Mr Tomlinson for Men's cloaths #11 11s.; Mr J. French on acct #20; Miss Hopkins, 15 nights (19th Dec. incl.) #3 15s. (Treasurer's Book). [The sixth edition of Wm. Law's Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Representations was published this year (1st. edn. 1726) This day was published the Preliminary Number of the Westminster Magazine, which, monthly, included a section called The English Theatre, which observed generally on the state of the Stage, and commented specifically on new plays. Its view of the stage in general was not as sanguine as had been that of the writer for the Town and Country Magazine (1 April 1772). "We are of opinion, that the English Theatre is now in its decline. Whether it is that the stores of Dramatic Subjects or of Dramatic Genius are exhausted, is not immediately obvious; but there is a fault somewhere....We have seen the Morning star of Wit--the Noon too is past; we have now arriv'd at its evening...There is in Arts, as in Empires, a progress which leads to Refinement; and this refinement leads to Ruin." According to the writer the meridian glory of the English stage was during the reign of Queen Anne. Reviewer damns the Irish Widow, refuses to discuss the Gamesters (revived), damns the Rose and praises the Garrick alteration of Hamlet. This year also appeard Granny's Prediction, a 53-page pamphlet attack on Mrs Barry, condemning her on moral grounds (polygamy) and on aesthetic grounds, commenting on each of her characters. By a spiteful female relative Elizabeth Franchetti.] Receipts: #142 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Henry. [As afterpiece the playbill announces Arthur and Emmeline, but it was not acted. Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Diary, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Henry, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. Receipts: #153 12s. (38.6; 21.2; 0.19; tickets: 93.5) (charge: #111 13s. 9d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. House charges #66 3s. 6d. [Profit to Palmer #74 18s. 6d.] Afterpiece: Not acted for 14 years. [See 11 Feb. 1748.] Last till after the holidays. Paid George Garrick on account #50 and French on account #20; Salary list #290 12s. 8d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #141 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Grimaldi and Hurst. Rec'd from Sinking Fund #420; from Stopages #11 7s. 6d. Paid salary list #564 16s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #166 16s. 6d. Charges: #70 19s. Profits to Grimaldi and Hurst: #95 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Hopkins. Receipts: #57 4s. 6d. Charges: #66 3s. Deficit to the Hopkins: #8 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Riddle

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Mrs Wells had 1st acted Macheath at the hay, 14 Sept. 1781; Bannister had acted Polly at the same theatre, 16 Sept. 1785.] Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket. "There is now a most vehement rage of innovation in language, government, religion, and everything else...On the British stage, with infinite applause, young and beautiful actresses perform sometimes the Parts of highwaymen; and some singing actors squall in an affected voice resembling, and intended to imitate, that of women; the most humourous dramatic pieces are frittered away into songs; and I should not be surprised to hear that henceforth Miranda and Juliet are to be personated by grim-visaged grenadiers seven feet high, and Falstaff by a slender miss just entered her teens" (Universal Magazine, Mar. 1795, p. 171). Receipts: #285 14s. (162.4.6; 5.9.6; tickets: 118.0.0)

Event Comment: Paid four days salary at #82 3s. 1d. per diem-#328 12s. 4d.; Mrs W. Barry's half Salary #1 3s. 4d.; Mr Inchbald on note #20; Messrs Griffith and Atkins to make up salary #1 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #214 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid half year's rent to the Duke of Bedford to Mich. last #165 17s. 7d.; Mr J. French on Acct #26 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #217 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid properties, 3 weeks, #1 5s. 6d. Housekeeper's Bill ditto, #4 13s. 4d.; Mr Loutherbourg on acct #41 13s. 4d. Receipts: #203 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid 2 extra flutes 5 nights #2 10s.; Mr Pryer, (tuner) #58 17s. Receipts: #73 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1!4 Yrs Rent #78 11s. 6d. Receipts: #120 13s. 6d

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Hopkins (prompter) and Mrs Hopkins. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Lee will be taken. Mainpiece: For the last time this season

Event Comment: Benefit for the Dispensary for the Infant Poor, Soho Square. Paid Housekeeper's Bill #6 1s. 1d. Receipts: #180 16s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profit to Dispensary: #96 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody. Paid Paving, Cleaning and Lighting to Lady Day last #27 6d.; 3 extra trumpets 2 nights #2 5s. Charges: #83 13s. (Treasurer's Book)