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The excellent spectacle of William Tell, a grand ballet called the Bashaw, and a new pantomime called the Phoenix, or Harlequin and Lillipo, formed a part of the change of amusements produced at the Royal Amphitheatre last night, and if ever a selection of entertainments seemed to afford a more than common degree of pleasure to a most brilliant and crouded [sic] audience, it was on this occasion. The new pantomime, which is the production of Mr. Astley, junior, teems with the most picturesque and beautiful scenery, while the effect produced by a balloon (with the real car in which Captain Sowden and Garnerin ascended) attacked to it, is a deception the most wonderful!
