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The FIFTH WEEK’s EXHIBITION, consisting of various extraordinary exercises, selected from different exhibitions, during Mr. Astley’s residence abroad, will continue till Saturday, the 30th of April, after which a new arrangement will take place.
ASTLEY’s AMPHITHEATRE, WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE,
THIS EVENING, (by desire)
JOHN GILPIN’s Description of his celebrated JOURNEY to EDMONTON.
Which, in a few days, will be laid aside, to make room for a new Musical Piece.
And, for the First Time, Mademoiselle NAMPOTO’s performance on the Slack Wire.
Likewise, for the First Time, a new Pastoral Ballet, called,
The SERENADE: or, The Elopement.
Composed by Mr. DUQUESNEY, Senior.
The principal characters by Monsieur DUQUESNEY, jun. Monsieur FERRERE, jun. and Mademoiselle GARNIER.
The Music, Scenery, Dresses, Machinery, &c. Entirely new.
R O P E D A N C I N G,
By those eminent performers, Monsieur RICHERE, Mr. LAWRENCE (the Young Devil) Clown, Mr. MAGITO, from the Theatre, Amsterdam.
Also, by Desire, a comic Musical Piece, in Two Parts, called
The COBLERS AVERSION to AIR BALLOONS.
In the second Part will be introduced a Balloon and Carr, with three persons launched into the Atmosphere, to which will be added, the favourite Songs by the Cobler, particularly,
Away with your freaks and your whimsies my love,
We Coblers can never find business above;
For those who can fly their feet ne’er will use,
And then I shall have no more custom for those.
Derry down, &c.
H O R S E M A N S H I P,
By the most eminent performers in England, with all the Exercises of the celebrated CLOWN.
The Surprising Monkey, called GENERAL JACKOO,
From the FAIR of St. GERMAIN’s, in PARIS:
Who has been celebrated for these two years last past, for his amazing Performance on the TIGHT ROPE, and other Exercises beyond Conception.
PHILOSOPHICAL AMUSEMENTS;
Or, The MAGIC TABLE.
By Mr. ASTLEY.
Particularly this Evening, a Watch pounded in a Mortar; the Rings dancing in a Glass; the Sympathetic Clock, which strikes any Number privately appointed; and the grand Experiment of the Diamond Ring, fired our of a Pistol, and afterwards found in the beak of a Pigeon, locked and sealed up in a box.
In the course of the Evening’s Entertainments will be presented the Amazing Exhibition of
The D A N C I N G D O G S,
From France and Italy, by Signor and Signora Maisa.
- Two Dogs, as Chairmen, carrying a Monkey to a Masquerade.
- Two Dogs with a Yoke of Milk Pails.
- A Company of Dogs, carrying from a Vineyard Baskets of Grapes, and accompanied by a Savoyard, with a Magic Lanthorn.
- A Dog as a Lady of Quality in her equipage, attended by others in elegant liveries.
- A Dog a Spinning.
- A Dog that walks on any two of his legs.
- Two Dogs, as a Tumbler and his attendant Clown.
- A Dog, dressed in a Spanish habit, taking another little dog to a boarding school; with a variety of others, too numerous for insertion.
This Exhibition will conclude with a Variety of Dogs dressed EN MILITAIRE, besieging a Town; one of them represents a Corporal returning with the Colours of the Citadel in his Mouth to his General: he halts on three legs, being supposed to have received a musket ball in one of his fore feet. Two Bull Dogs, (the best in the world, and Mr. ASTLEY challenges all Europe, for 100 Guineas, to exhibit the like) the English Bull Dog, rather than quit his hold, suffers himself to be drawn Thirty Feet high, whilst the machine is surrounded with Fire Works, representing a heavy discharge of small arms and artillery.
TUMBLING, and other NEW EXERCISES,
By the most Capital and eminent Group of Tumblers that were ever seen in England, viz.
Mr. Lawrence, Signor Bellmott, Signor Casemere, Mons. Phillips, Master Lawrance, Master Bell, &c. &c. Clown, Mr. Burt.
To which will be added a New Pantomime, called
H A R L E Q U I N ‘ s R E V E N G E :
Or, The CAMP in an UPROAR.
With Additions and Alterations.
Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gal. 1s. Side Gal. 6d.
Doors to be opened at half past Five. To begin at half past Six o’Clock.
Places to be taken at the Amphitheatre.
N.B. In rehearsal, and will be produced in the course of a few days, a new Musical Piece, called, “The Nine Taylors at a Fox-Hunt,” on Masquerade Horses; in which will be introduced a real Fox, and several Couple of Fox hounds. A surprising leap of the Taylors and their Horses, to join the chase at the View Heloo. The Music, Dresses, Horses, and Decorations are new.
[3 asterisks in a downward triangle] This Day is published, price 2s. 6d. An entire new Work, intitled[sic], Natural Magic Revealed, by Mr. Astley, sen. Westminster-Bridge; containing upwards of Twenty Experiments, exhibited by the most celebrated Performers of the present age. To be had at the Amphitheatre, and of most of the principal Booksellers in England.
