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NEW COMIC PANTOMIME.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, ASTLEY’s, Westminster-bridge.
Under the Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES and DUKE of YORK.
THIS EVENING, will be presented, first time, a comic Pantomime, with extensive scenery, machinery, decorations, mechanical changes, and deceptions, called The PHOENIX; or, Harlequin and Lillipo. In the course of which a grand variety of scenery will be displayed, of which the following are the most striking, the regions of fire with its transformation to a manor house and park. The family in an uproar. The enchanted library. Harlequin in and out of a book, the disastrous breakfast and the Clown in a bird cage. The lowly village, Columbine in a box, and out of a wheel-barrow, and the Clown caught by the nose. The cow and the snuffers, with a pump transformed into the temple of Ceres, the Clown in a pickle. A magical cottage, and the Clown’s misfortune with an old woman’s head. The sick-room to a church yard. The Clown turned doctor, and the tomb-stones animated. Mons. Garnerin and Captain Sowden’s aerial voyage in a baloon [sic], with an exact representation of its appearance over London, and its descent near Colchester. And lastly, the manor vault into a most magnificent fairy grove. The whole invented and produced under the direct and immediate superintendence of Mr.
