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On Monday evening Astley’s amphitheatre overflowed in every part from the variety of new amusements performed there, and which were received with repeated bursts of applause, by a brilliant audience. The new Pantomime, called Harlequin’s Proof of the Four Elements, or, The Vauxhall Jubilee, What is it? was much admired for its ingenuity, contrivance and ludicrous incidents, such as burying the doctor chin deep, then sending him into the air, burning the old man in the oven, which, with the Adventures o the Inn-yard, Pastry-cook’s Shop, Cobler’s Stall, Painter’s Shop, &c. kept the house in continual mirth; the scenes of Vauxhall, &c. so honour to the painter; the dresses are elegant, and the machinery excellent, and well managed. The two new burlettas, the one called the Marriage of the Knave of Hearts, and the other the Two Nannys, are very characteristic, abound with humour and satire, and were well received by the audience; in short, Mr. Astley seems to have been indefatigable, and to have spared no expense in providing such an entertainment as for novelty and variety cannot be equalled, and will, no doubt, repay him for his unremitting assiduity to please a generous publick [sic].
