“_For the Benefit of a Person who has a mind to get Money_: AT THE NEW THEATRE in James-street near the Haymarket, on Monday next, will be performed a CONCERT of vocal and instrumental Musick, divided into TWO PARTS. Boxes 3_s._ Pit 2_s._ Gallery 1_s._ Between the two parts of the Concert will be performed a _Tragedy_, call’d THE FATAL CURIOSITY, written by the late Mr. Lillo, author of George Barnwell. The part of Mrs. Wilmot by _Mrs._ CHARKE (who originally performed it at the Haymarket;) _The rest of the parts by a Set of People who will perform as well as they can, if not as well as they wou’d, and the best can do no more_. With variety of Entertainments, viz. Act I. A Preamble on the Kettle drums, by Mr. Job Baker, particularly, _Larry Grovy_, accompanied with French Horns. Act II. A new Peasant Dance by Mons. Chemont and Madem Peran, just arriv’d piping hot from the Opera at Paris. To which will be added a Ballad-Opera, call’d THE DEVIL TO PAY; The part of Nell by _Miss_ CHARKE _who performed Princess Elizabeth at Southwark_. Servants will be allow’d to keep places on the stage--Particular care will be taken to perform with the utmost decency, and to prevent mistakes, the Bills for the day will be blue and black, &c.” * * * * * * THE BLOODY HAND. _For the Table Book._ One December evening, the year before last, returning to T--, in the northern extremity of W--, in a drisling rain, as I approached the second milestone, I observed two men, an elder and a younger, walking side by side in the horse-road. The elder, whose appearance indicated that of a labourer in very comfortable circumstances, was in the path directly in front of my horse, and seemed to have some intention of stopping me; on my advancing, however, he quietly withdrew from the middle of the road to the side of it, but kept his eyes firmly fixed on me, which caused also, on my part, a particular attention to him. He then accosted me, “Sir, I beg your pardon.”--“For what, my man?”--“For speaking to you, sir.”--“What have you said, then?”--“I want to know the way to S--.”--“Pass on beyond those trees, and you will see the spire before you.”--“How far is it off, sir?”--“Less than two miles.”--“Do you know it, sir?”--“I was there twenty minutes ago.”--“Do you know the gentleman there, sir, that wants a man to go under ground for him?”--“For what purpose?” (imagining, from the direction in which I met the man, that he came from the mining districts of S--, I expected that his object was to explore the neighbourhood for coals.) His answer immediately turned the whole train of my ideas. “To go under ground for him, to take off the _bloody hand_ from his carriage.”--“And what is that to be done for?”--“For a thousand pounds, sir. Have you not heard any thing of it, sir?”--“Not a word.”--“Well, sir, I was told that the gentleman lives here, at S--, at the hall, and that he offers a thousand