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ASTLEY’S.
This theatre opened for the season with entire novelties. The first piece, in which, if Mr. Batty has not, in the exact sense of the phrase,--
“Stooped to truth and moralized his scene,”
he has provided for the holyday visitors of a piece of serious history, is the Wars of the Jews; or, the Fall of Jerusalem, a version of Josephus, or rather of the agreeable pages of Mr. Milman. The tragical incidents attending the capture of Jerusalem by the Romans, the divisions amongst its defenders, and the sanguinary feuds of the partisans of Eleazar and John of Gischala, which made the people pray for the arrival of the Pagans, and the terrible scenes which preceded the fall of the sacred city, offer many passages
