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have appeared, you will believe that, as we 

 are fo foon to be placed at the mercy of the 

 reftlefs and turbulent waters, the ideas ex- 

 cited, by this fcenery, have not been of the 

 moft happy nature. 



A fort of relief to the dull round of Portf- 

 mouth has, lately, prefented itfelf,in a company 

 of equeftrians, who have opened a circus, or 

 theatre for horfemanlhip, in the hope of amuf- 

 ing the public, at more of profit than the bare 

 fupport of the riders and their horfes. But, 

 In this expedtation, it feems probable, they 

 may be difappointed, efpecially, if their vifit 

 fliould be at all protraded. 



To have dlfregarded this only amufement 

 of the place had been a great negled : but a 

 fmgle vifit has e^haufted all our curiofity. Of 

 the fpedators, no fmall proportion confifted 

 of failors, (drunk or fober,) and the lovely 

 Cyprians I have before defcribed to you. The 

 low buffoonery of the clown, you may be- 

 lieve, was fuited to his audience, and, cer- 

 tainly, it was coarfe and vulgar as, even, 

 Portfmouth might defire. 



