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PART III.

An animating View of MONSIEUR,
late COMTE d'ARTOIS,

Marching to Paris with TWELVE HUNDRED Men.
This may be deemed an almost incredible optical
Delufion.

An interefting Reprefentation of
Didone abandonnata,

Or an aimiable Princefs neglected and defpifed,
with the Triumph of
My GRANDMOTHER,
And a Bird's-eye View of

The Pavilion at Brighton.

This beautiful scenic Exhibition may be truly faid to
call forth all the finer feelings of the Heart.
The Pop-Gun Plot, or

The Syftem of Terror revived.
Difplaying in lively Colours,

The intemperate Paffions of the felf-called Great
WEYMOUTH,
With a Royal Card Party in the back Ground-
A true Picture of the Times.

A melancholy View of the Lofs of
Our Weft-India Islands,

With a diftant Profpect of their being re-taken. This is a moft affecting difplay of Signior Pittachio's Powers, and forcibly demands the Approbation of A generous and enlightened Public.

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At the Conclufion, Signior Gulielmo will aftonish his Auditors by a new and fweet Song, called, "Twenty-Seven Millions More!!!"

N. B. Immediately after the Meeting of Parliament Signior Pittachio pledges himself to bring forward his original Puppets with fuperior Eclat, and to recommence his Capital Deceptions.

[Telegraph.]

VIVANT REX & REGINA.

WONDERFUL

WONDERFUL EXHIBITION!

SIGNIOR GULIELMO PITTACHIO,
The SUBLIME WONDER of the WORLD!!!

Condefcends to inform the Public at large, and his Friends in particular, that immediately after Chriftmas, he will open his grand Hall of Exhibitions at Westminster, with a grand difplay of his

ASTONISHING and MAGNIFICENT DECEPTIONS; Which have been approved by all the crowned Heads in the Univerfe, and which are unparallelled in the History of Mankind.

Firft---The Signior will bring forward

A Magical ALARM BELL,

At the ringing of which, all the Company fhall become Mad or Foolish.

Secondly---He will produce his juftly celebrated CURIOUS SPY GLASSES, which diftort and mifreprefent all Objects that are looked at through them, and occa on in the Company A SUDDEN AND SOCIAL DISMAY; fuch as has never before been witneffed in this Country.

Thirdly---By Means of an ENCHANTED DRUM, he will fet all the Company a FIGHTING, for the avowed Purpofe of preferving

ORDER AND TRANQUILLITY. During the Battle, Signior Pittachio will convey their MONEY OUT of their POCKETS in a New and Entertaining Manner.

Fourthly---He will produce a moft extraordinary Effect in the Optics of the Spectators, by means of fome Gold Duft, fo that they fhall not be able to diftinguish Colors; but fhall call (at the Signor's comm nd BLACK WHITE, and WHITE BLACK, to the Edification of all Beholders. Fifthly---He will make fome Marvellous Experi

ments upon

his own

MEMORY,

By

By forgetting the most Material Incidents of his Lite, with an almost incredible Precifion.----N. B. To remove Doubts, thefe Experiments upon MEMORY will be made upon OATH.

Sixthly---By his Oratorical Efforts, he will, in the Courfe of a few Minutes, perfuade the greater Part of his Audience to falute him à pofteriori, then to give him three cheers and nominate him

THE HEAVEN-BORN CONJUROR;

With various Slight-of-hand Performances and
Whimsical Exuberances, too tedious to mention.
In the Courfe of the Entertainments the Sublime
Pittachio will exhibit
UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED AUTO-
MATA, OR MOVING PUPPETS,

Who will rife up, fit down, fay Yes or No, Receive Money, Rake among the Cinders, or do any Dirty Work he may think proper to put them to---N. B. This is a moft fafcinating Trick.

Afterwards Signor Gulielmo Pittachio will difcover to the Company the unrivalled Treasures of his PRIVATE CABINET, formed on a mere Mechanical Principal, without Hinges, Joints, Dovetail, or Glue.

The Whole to conclude with a Dramatic Piece in One Act, called

The Humbug; or John Bull a Jack Afs, In which Signor Pittachio (not having yet engaged any female Performers) will indulge the Company with a Solo on the Viol d'Amour.

N. B. The Hall is commodious, but the Company will be kept as much in the DARK as possible, to give greater Effect to

The DECEPTIONS.

Signor Pittachio is extremely forry to inform the Public, that owing to fome unaccountable Mifmanagement in the Perfons he employed, he has been difappointed of feveral capital Performers whom he

had

had hoped to have brought forward, for the Purpose of exhibiting various Feats of Activity on the TIGHT ROPE, this Part of the ENTERTAINMENT therefore MUST be deferred.

To Supply this Deficiency Signor Pittachio will close his Wonderful Performances by exhibiting his own Perfon on

The TIGHT ROPE,

For the BENEFIT of the SWINISH MULTITUDE. VIVANT REX ET REGINA.

Courier.

OSRIC-THE LION!

A ROMANCE.

SWIFT roll the Rhine's billows, and water the

plains,

Where Falkenftein's Caftle's majestic remains
Their moss-cover'd turrets ftill rear:

Oft loves the gaunt wolf 'midst the ruins to prowl,
What Time from the battlements pours the lone owl
Her plaints in the paffenger's ear.

No longer refound through the vaults of yon hall,
The fong of the Minstrel, and mirth of the ball;
Those pleasures for ever are fled;

There now dwells the bat with her light-fhunning brood;

There ravens and vultures now clamour for foɔd,
And all is dark, filent, and dread!

Ha! Doft thou not fee, by the Moon's trembling light
Directing his fteps, where advances a Knight,
His eye big with vengeance and fate?
'Tis Ofric-the Lion, his Nephew who leads,
And fwift up the crackling old staircafe proceeds,
Gains the hall, and quick clofes the gate.

Now

Now round him young Carloman cafting his eyes,
Surveys the fad fcene with difmay and furprize,
And fear fteals the rofe from his cheeks;
His fpirits forfake him, his courage is flown;
The hand of Sir Ofric he clafps in his own,
And while his voice faulters thus fpeaks.

"Dear Uncle," he murmurs, "why linger we here?
'Tis late, and these chambers are damp and are drear,
Keen blows through the ruins the blast!
Oh! let us away, and our journey pursue;
Fair Blumenberg's Caftle will rife on our view,
Soon as Falkenftein foreft is past.

"Why roll thus your eye-balls? Why glare they fo

wild?

Oh! chide not my weakness, nor frown, that a child Should view thefe apartments with dread;

For know, that full oft have I heard from my Nurse, There ftill on this Caftle has refted a curfe

Since innocent blood here was shed!

"She faid, too, bad fpirits, and ghofts all in white, Here use to refort at the dead time of night, Nor vanish till breaking of day;

And still at their coming is heard the deep tone Of a bell-loud and awful-Hark! hark! 'twas a groan!

Good Uncle, oh! let us away!"

"Peace, ferpent!" thus Ofric-the Lion replies,
While rage and malignity gloom in his eyes;
"Thy journey and life here must close:
Thy Castle's proud turrets no more fhalt thou fee;
No more betwixt Blumenberg's Lordship and me
Shalt thou ftand and my greatness oppofe.
"My brother lies breathlefs on Paleftine's plains,
And thou once remov'd, to his noble domains
My right can no rival deny :

Then, ftripling, prepare on my dagger to bleed!
No fuccour is near, and thy fate is decreed,
› Commend theé to Jefus, and die!”

Thus

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