Event Comment: Benefit for 
the Fund, established for 
the Relief of those Performers 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 Performers 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 o
ther Portion is entirely supplied from 
the weekly Contributions of 
the Performers.  Applications to 
the Public in behalf of this salutary Institution have rarely been made, and sometimes very ineffectually.  On 
these Considerations 
therefore 
the Lovers of Dramatic Entertainments are respectfully addressed for 
their Encouragement at This Evening's Performance.  (See 
Genest, VII, 365-66.)  Receipts: #131 7s. (122.13; 1.16; tickets: 6.18)