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There is at present a more extensive variety of amusements at ASTLEY’s than ever was remembered. The extra Troops of Equestrians are positively re-engaged for one month longer. It appears that ASTLEY gives Smith and Crossman’s Troop (late of the Circus) 60 guineas per week, and 20 guineas per week to Handy himself, for playing the part of Equestrian Buffo. This spirited and unprecedented engagement does ASTLEY the highest credit, and prevents those famous English horsemen from emigrating to Hamburgh, Berlin, Vienna, and perhaps to Paris. ASTLEY, who estimates the value of things as well as most men, had his eye upon the great probability of the two extra Troops, by performing t one and the same time at the same place, producing a most interesting evening’s entertainment, which has turned out equal to his most sanguine expectations; indeed, such attention as ASTLEY pays to the public amusement, both in the stage and equestrian departments, must always prove highly gratifying to the town, and advantageous to himself, by nightly crouding [sic] the Amphitheatre of Arts, Westminster-bridge, with the most distinguished circles.
