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THE ILLUMINATIONS,
Last night, were numerous and splendid.—Amongst the most conspicuous was the portico of Covent Garden Theatre, which had a magnificent Ducal crown, supported by a triumphal arch; underneath were festoons, beautifully variegated with lamps or or, very and azure, on a ground of gold foil; underneath, the word VALENCIENNES appeared in a transparency: the letters, in gold lamps, D.Y. were suspended by the festoons.
The whole was a most brilliant display of taste.
LUKIN, in Long-Acre, and HATCHET, had good appearances, particularly the latter.
EGG, Gun maker, of the Haymarket, had festoons of lamps, which reached to the second story, composed of gold, deep orange and blue, with P.F. in gold coloured lamps.
NEWCOME, in Pall Mall—an irradiated star, in a very grand stile: the Star Garter, much in the stile of the last, with a refulgent gold coloured coronet.
In St. James’s street, the Thatched House Tavern, and STINTON’s Tea Warehouse—BROOKES’S was well conceived, in green, gold, orange, and blue, and had a grand effect. His opposite neighbour, BOODLE, had two pyramids of common lamps, interspersed with scarlet and green.
MATHER, Perfumer, Edward-street, Portman-square, had the letters D.Y. and a coronet, with variegated coloured lamps, which had a very beautiful effect.
The whole of the front of ASTLEY’S Theatre was illuminated on the occasion, in the centre of which was a transparent painting, representing the DUKE OF YORK treading on the ruins of Vallenciennes.
