Event Comment: MMr Hartry is oblig'd to postpone his Comic Lecture...being engaged in making many alterations
therein.
The serious part will be consideredly shortened, some o
ther pieces expunged, and many scenes of humour added, which he hopes will be entertaining. He is extremely troubled that anything in his Lecture on Tuesday should have given offence to any one person present, and is no less concerned that those Ladies and Gentlemen who were desirous to hear him perform (that part which appeared exceptionable to o
thers) were disappointed. He is sorry
there was any disaffection ei
ther way. He is not conscious of having attempted anything with an intention to offend, or that has not already been allowed of inclusion though more unpardonable.
The foibles and peculations of private characters have been brought on
the stage by o
thers, those only of public men by him. He hopes it will not appear vain or arrogant to say that after such unequaled peals of applause which he met with for some time while uninterrupted, it would be paying an ill compliment to so crowded and brilliant an audience not to flatter himself will possessing some degree of merit: And if he afterwards failed in any or every particular it was altoge
ther owing (notwithstanding
the seeming spirit he assumed) to
the confusion he was in at
the Party Affair which followed. It was his first appearance in public, and in such a situation it is no wonder he was robb'd of his comic powers; but he hopes when his Lecture is alter'd
there will be found in it nothing which can give offense, or deprive him of that generous indulgence to a
young performer which characterizes a British audience. [No fur
ther performance of
the Lecture seems to have been given.