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ROGUES AND VAGABONDS
ROGUES AND VAGABONDS
CHAPTER I NEPTUNE’S GROTTO
SUPERIOR
FIRE WORKS
at the
NEPTUNE’S GROTTO
Tavern and Tea Gardens
PIMLICO
on Thursday Evening, 20th, July, 1829.
By
MADAME ORIANO
The Celebrated Pyrotechnic to HIS MAJESTY
The Exhibition will include
A Grand Display of various kinds of
WATER FIRE WORKS
On the Grosvenor Basin.
ORDER OF FIRING
1. A Battery of Maroons, or imitation Cannon
2. A Bengal Light
3. Sky Rockets
4. A Saxon Wheel
5. Tourbillions
6. Phenomenon Box and Mime
7. Line Rockets
8. A Metamorphose with alternate changes, and a
beautiful display of Chinese Lattice Work
9. Sky Rockets
10. Horizontal Wheel with Roman Candles and Mine
11. Tourbillions
12. A regulating piece in two mutations, displaying
a Vertical Wheel changing to five Vertical Wheels
and a figure piece in Straw and brilliant fires
13. Grand Battery of Roman Candles & Italian
Streamers
14. A regulating piece in four mutations displaying a
Vertical Wheel changing to a Pyramid of Wheels,
a Brilliant Sun, and a superb shower of fire
15. Sky rockets
GRAND FINALE
MADEMOISELLE LETIZIA ORIANO
Will with a temerity hitherto unknown in the blazing
annals of her profession slide down an inclined rope
350 feet high, erected on the firework platform,
wreathed in Fizgigs and Fiery Serpents and accompanied
by the awful thunder of a Battery of Maroons.
Admission 1_s_ each
Gardens open at half-past seven, and commences at
Nine o’clock precisely.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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