Event Comment: A Burletta, Benefit for
Sg & Sga Paganini, [Who] being desirous of returning to
Italy...take this Opportunity to express
their most grateful Sense of
the many Favours with which
they have been honoured in this Kingdom; and being willing that
the Necessitous should share in that Bounty which
they owe more to
the Generosity of
the English Nation than to
their own Merits,
they have allotted a fourth part of
the Profits which may arise from
the above Burletta (free from all Expense whatever) towards
the carrying on and extending
the Utility of
the Asylum or House of Refuge for Female Orphans...and ano
ther Part of
the aforesaid Profits will be given towards relieving old
Signor Cataneo, who, during forty Years was useful to
the Operas, but is now in extreme Distress; and
the Manager, who is at
the Expence of this Benefit, has chearfully consented to
the Disposition here mentioned. As it is intended to apply
the whole Profits which may arise from letting out
the Servants Gallery [at 2s. 6d. each person] for
the Benefit of
the Asylum, over and above what was before alloted to it, 'tis humbly hoped that
the Nobility, Gentry, etc. will not take it amiss if
their Servants are not admitted that Night, as has been
the Practice at this
Theatre on Occasions of Charity. Tickets will delivered out for this Benefit, this day at
the Opera Office, and signed by
Mr Crawford, and all Monies given for Tickets above
their usual Price, is to be shared in
the Charity abovementioned. Tickets delivered for 23 March will be taken