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The Annual Prize-wherry, given by the Manager of the Royal Amphitheatre, Westminster-bridge, in honour of his Majesty’s Birth-day, was rowed for on the Thames yesterday afternoon. The sport, as was expected, turned out most excellent, since a better or more able contest we never remember to have witnessed. The grand attraction of the evening, however, lay at the Theatre, which, though large and specious to a degree, was found too small on this occasion to admit the thousands that restored to it. The new Spectacle of the Fatal Pile, the superior and elegant Horsemanship of Crossman, and the grand Equestrian Troop, together with the charming Pantomime of Quixote and Sancho, or Harlequin Warrior, were severally received with the most flattering applause; but it is not for the pen to describe the effect produced by the appearance of the two Squadrons of Horse, where the troops of the invincible Quixtoe are opposed to his rival, Harlequin.
