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Astley’s Amphitheatre we hear will open on Easter Monday. The whole Building is elegantly decorated, and a large chandelier on a new construction, is placed in the center, which illuminates it in a most beautiful manner. Mr. Astley’s annual residence in Paris enables him to collect fresh entertainments for the amusement of the public; which added (with what he has selected from the great fairs, St. Laurance and St. Germaine) to those of London, must give him the superiority over other genteel places of public resort. From St. Germaine he has engaged Signior and Signora Messica, with the original troop of Dancing Dogs: also a monkey which performs wonderful feats on the tight rope, &c. This amazing little animal has been the admiration of Paris for two years past. Mr. Astley rests himself upon the candour and support of a generous public, and flatters himself he may, without too much presumption, law some claim to their countenance, as he has exerted the utmost of his abilities in the selection of fresh amusements for them.
