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[three star symbol] In consequence of the great applause bestowed on the following extraordinary Exercises, produced last night for Miss Saunders’s Benefit, the whole will be repeated This and following Evening.
ASTLEY’s, WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—Under the Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of WALES and Duke of YORK.
THIS present Friday, August 9, will be presented various new and elegant feats on the Tight Rope, by Master and Miss Saunders, in which they will introduce the double rope, and will be agreeably relieved and contrasted by Messrs. Link and Porter, as Buffo Caricattos. Slack Rope Vaulting, by Master Blackmore (a child only eight years old) who will introduce the Fly on the Jack, and the celebrated manoeuvre of Roasting the Pig, with a velocity unequalled; likewise his Polandrie Performances. The Horsemanship will be strengthened by an auxiliary Troop. The youthful Indian’s feats on a single horse, with the incomparable exercises of young Saunders, who will particularly exert himself, by giving a variety of feats peculiar to himself. Miss Saunders, that distinguished Female Equestrian, will give a variety of new and pleasing performances on the Slack Wire, incontestably unrivalled in this or any other Kingdom. In the course of the evening the following stage amusements will take place, the grand serious Spectacle of the LONDON APPRENTICE; principal character by Mrs. Astley. To conclude with the comic Harlequinade of TAKE WARNING; Harlequin, Mr. Taylor; Columbine, Mrs. Wybrow; and Clown, Mr. Laurent.—Doors to be opened at Half past Five, to begin at Half past Six o’Clock. Boxes 4s. Second Price 2s.—Pit 2s. Second Price 1s.—Gallery 1s. Second Price 6d. Second Price to commence at Half past Eight o’Clock precisely.—Places to be taken at the Theatre, from Ten till Four o’Clock.—No places can be kept after Half past Seven.
