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ASTLEY’S.—The Siege of Troy rivals Mazeppa in its successful career, and Ducrow’s heroes fight with as much ardour in the cause, spite of the intolerable heat of the house, as if they themselves were the realities and not the mere representatives of those days of King Priam. Complaints have been made against the indecency of the Clowns in this establishment. We have not seen any, but understand there was some foundation for them. On Friday evening many persons were offended with Mr. Woolford, when performing some feats, for putting on that latterly used appendage of a female dress, a bustle, in a change of characters on horseback; applause, however, deafened the opposite storm, and we recollect that this season, at Covent-garden, the Clown, in the pantomime, did the same, and not a voice was raised against him, even the ladies in the boxes joining in the general laughter.
