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The Last Week of the present Amusements,
Entirely New Ones being in Rehearsal, agreeable to the approved Plan of perpetual Change.
ASTLEY’s, WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.
Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES and DUKE of YORK’s Servants.
THIS present EVENING, September 5, 1798, will be presented the following Amusements:
1.New Exercises, but the Strong Man.
2. Operatical Dance of the Caledonian Lovers.
3. New Entertainments of Bland Man’s Buss.
4. New Song of Bartholomew Fair.
5. Equestrian Exercises, being also the Last Week of Mess. Handy, Smith, and Crossman’s Troops.
6. Divertissement of the English Bull Dogs, or Savage Eight.
7. The favourite Pantomime of The Devil in a Bottle.
To begin at Half past Six.—Second Price at Half past Eight.
[three star symbol] On Monday next, September 10, divers New Exercises, by several New Equestrians, lately engaged; the wonderful Performances of the Antipodean Whirligig; New Grand Troop of Tumblers, Rope Dancers, &c. New Serious and Comic Pantomimes.
Also New Dresses, New Music, New Scenery and Machinery, New Decorations, &c. of the most splendid nature, consistent with operatical costume, entirely new in England.