Conclusion.
Before closing our Manual we will just notice some of our public displays of Fire-works in London, for a week scarcely passes but we are arrested in our progress through the busy town by placards of some three or four feet long, with huge letters of alternate black and red, advising us of a grand display of Fire-works at Vauxhall or some other place of amusement.
These frequent repetitions certainly stagger the pretty generally received opinion, that the Pyrotechnic art is upon the decline in England. Our Theatres Royal do not disdain to call Pyrotechny to their aid, for we have lately seen a very good display at Drury Lane, by way of climax to the Extravaganza of Giovanni in London. The Fire-works at Sadler’s Wells during the last season upon the whole were very good, although a confined Theatre is certainly not the most advantageous place for Pyrotechnic exhibitions. This Theatre having the advantage of real water, they have good opportunities of forming a junction of the two opposite elements; and which on the last evening of their performance they certainly did, with the aid of Fountains and Water Rockets;—this display concluded with the appropriate motto of “Farewell,” in brilliant fire.
The merits of the Fire-works at Vauxhall last season were very great, and as such were duly appreciated by the Public. They were on a larger scale than formerly, and have only been excelled by royal magnificence at the display in the Park in 1814.
W. TYLER, PRINTER, 5, BRIDGEWATER SQUARE.