A Hundred Years Ago
The " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 15TH, 1832.
The proprietors of the theatre at Antwerp have had a grand military spectacle got up for them by the two Great Powers, and are making a profit of what will be a losing concern to all the other parties. They have unroofed the theatre, from which there is a good and secure view of the operations of the siege, and let seats to thu public—from morning till night—by the hour, we suppose. La- porte and Ducrow will not be able to compete with Gerard and Chasse in the reality and noise of their exhibition ' • though they may rival them in show. The Battle of Waterloo at Astley's was quite deafening enough, however. The farce of " Diplomacy," that pre- ceded the " Siege of Antwerp," was too long and dull. It has been justly damned, notwithstanding the skilful acting of Talleyrand, the principal performer.
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