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Music is said to charm the savage beast;--Astley’s Musical representation of the Royal Fugitives does more,--sympathetic tears bedew the cheeks of the spectators; for who can behold such anxiety of mind and not bestow some pity? The writer of this paragraph (a cosmopolitan) desires Mr. Astley to prolong the scenes where the French King embraces his children: the feelings of parents in this scene are greatly affected, and on the objects (the cause of it) being so suddenly removed, there is scarcely time enough for the mind to be relieved.
