175D (Vol. 2)

ASTLEY, long celebrated for the production of Military Spectacle on the Stage, seems for once to have gone out of the old path, and turned his penetrating eye towards the glory atchieved [sic] by the Heroes of the Sea, which he has represented and brought out in so masterly a manner in the FOUR ENGAGEMENTS, at the Amphitheatre of Arts, as bids fair to prove it one of the most interesting and attractive Pieces produced on any stage for a number of years.