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lie makes use of Mr. Lewis’s name ; in answer to which I
think it incumbent on me to declare, that Mr. Lewis neither
lett, or had any concern whatsoever, directly or indirectly,
in letting, or advising about letting my Theatre on Mon-
day last. John Potter.
January 19.—To the Public.—-All the facts related in Mr,
Foote’s advertisement of yesterday, are true, except that
the conversation was with Mr. Lewis’s Clerk, who is Ne-
phew to Mr. Potter, and transacted the business of the
Theatre for Mr. Potter; and not Mr. Lewis, as by mistake
was inserted. Sam. Foote.
From Mr. John Potter, the Proprietor of the New
Theatre in the Hay-market.
As the resentment of the town for the disappointment of
the performance advertised to be exhibited in my Theatre,
on Monday last, falls entirely upon me, I hope I may be
allowed to acquaint the Public with the nature of my case.
It is never yet been expected, (nor I presume is it rea-
sonable) that I should answer for the misbehaviour of any
person that takes my House, nor did I ever think any thing
(in that respect) incumbent on me, more than to caution
the persons who took it, against acting contrary to the
laws in being, and to acquaint them with the consequences
thereof; which I have always done. But in this particular
case, as the performance proposed was so very extraor-
dinary, I was under some apprehension of an imposition,
and therefore insisted, that there should be a person of my
own appointment in the Office ; and in case there should
be no performance, or that there should appear any noto-
rious equivocation in it, that the money should be returned;
all which the person readily consented to. And as he paid
the rent of the house, and must consequently be at some
other necessary expences before the doors would be opened,
I was thereby strongly induced to believe, that he intended
po real impositipn, but that something (of that kind) would
be
lie makes use of Mr. Lewis’s name ; in answer to which I
think it incumbent on me to declare, that Mr. Lewis neither
lett, or had any concern whatsoever, directly or indirectly,
in letting, or advising about letting my Theatre on Mon-
day last. John Potter.
January 19.—To the Public.—-All the facts related in Mr,
Foote’s advertisement of yesterday, are true, except that
the conversation was with Mr. Lewis’s Clerk, who is Ne-
phew to Mr. Potter, and transacted the business of the
Theatre for Mr. Potter; and not Mr. Lewis, as by mistake
was inserted. Sam. Foote.
From Mr. John Potter, the Proprietor of the New
Theatre in the Hay-market.
As the resentment of the town for the disappointment of
the performance advertised to be exhibited in my Theatre,
on Monday last, falls entirely upon me, I hope I may be
allowed to acquaint the Public with the nature of my case.
It is never yet been expected, (nor I presume is it rea-
sonable) that I should answer for the misbehaviour of any
person that takes my House, nor did I ever think any thing
(in that respect) incumbent on me, more than to caution
the persons who took it, against acting contrary to the
laws in being, and to acquaint them with the consequences
thereof; which I have always done. But in this particular
case, as the performance proposed was so very extraor-
dinary, I was under some apprehension of an imposition,
and therefore insisted, that there should be a person of my
own appointment in the Office ; and in case there should
be no performance, or that there should appear any noto-
rious equivocation in it, that the money should be returned;
all which the person readily consented to. And as he paid
the rent of the house, and must consequently be at some
other necessary expences before the doors would be opened,
I was thereby strongly induced to believe, that he intended
po real impositipn, but that something (of that kind) would
be