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For the Benefit of Mess. CABANALS, who have been more than nine years Machinists to Mr. ASTLEY.
ROYAL SALOON.
ASTLEY’s AMPHITHEATRE, WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.
THIS EVENING, MONDAY, the 18th instant, 1793,
Will be presented, by way of Prelude, a Pantomimical Ballet of Action, called
THE CARMAGNOLS ROUTED;
In which will be introduced the Skirts of the British Camo, contrasted with those of the Carmagnols near Lannoy, on the 29th of October last, where a small detachment of the brave British Troops, dispatched by order of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, totally defeated a part of the Jacobin Army.
Likewise a Representation of the Loyal French Peasantry, flying from their late deplorable situation, seeking an asylum in the English Camp, and taking up arms to relieve their country from those calamities which at present overwhelm it.
At the conclusion of the Ballet will be presented a view of the Town of Lannoy, and the gallant General Abercrombie, leading the heroic British Troops into action.
Also, the brave Colonel Churchill, at the head of only one squadron of the 15th Light Dragoons, dashing on the Carmagnols, on the great road between Lannoy and Lisle.
Likewise the Honourable Colonel Fox, pursuing the French on the way to Roubais, at the head of a squadron of the 7th Light Dragoons.
Together with the position of the cannon taken at the moment that the French cannoneers were endeavouring to obtain possession of a rising ground, in order to sweep General Abercrombie’s left flank.
The Company of HORSEMEN will go through several
EXTRAORDINARY EQUESTRIAN EXERCISES.
A Musical Piece, called
THE HAUNTED VILLAGE.
A Comic Dance, called
THE DEVIL AMONG THE TAYLORS.
The whole to conclude with a new grand Military Spectacle, in Three Parts; interspersed with Songs, Duets, Chorusses [sic], and various striking and interesting War Operations, as practised with great art by the Besiegers and Besieged, called
THE SIEGE OF VALENCIENNES;
Or, The Entrance of the
BRITISH TROOPS INTO FRANCE.
Displaying the brilliant, gallant, and successful manoeuvres of the Allied Armies, more particularly the British and Hanoverian forces,
Under the Command of his Royal Highness the
DUKE OF YORK.
Doors to be opened at half past Five, Curtain rises at half past Six.
Boxes 3s.—Pit 2s.—Gallery 1s.
Places for the Boxes to be taken, from Ten till Three o’Clock, at the Royal Saloon.
