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The fireworks which were played off on the Thames at Westminster Bridge in honour of his Majesty’s birth-day, by Mr. Astley, were exceedingly beautiful: the most brilliant was the Prince of Wales’s plume of feathers. A multiplicity of others costly devices, &c. were played off, to the entire satisfaction of at least two hundred thousand spectators. The materials and labour of the fireworks are said to have cost above one hundred pounds.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, June 1.
