At Southwark Fair this year, Lee's booth, now conducted by his widow, stood in Axe and Bottle Yard, and presented the _Siege of Troy_, "which," says the advertisement, "in its decorations, machinery, and paintings, far exceeds anything of the like kind that ever was seen in the fairs before, the scenes and clothes being entirely new. All the parts to be performed to the best advantage, by persons from the theatres. The part of Paris by Mr. Hulett; King Menelaus, Mr. Roberts; Ulysses, Mr. Aston; Simon, Mr. Hind; Captain of the Guard, Mr. Mackenzie; Bustle the Cobler, Mr. Morgan; Butcher, Mr. Pearce; Taylor, Mr. Hicks; Cassandra, Mrs. Spiller; Venus, Mrs. Lacy; Helen, Mrs. Purden; Cobler's Wife, Mrs. Morgan. With several Entertainments of Singing and Dancing by the best masters. "N.B. There being a puppet-show in Mermaid Court, leading down to the Green, called _The Siege of Troy_; These are to forewarn the Publick, that they may not be imposed on by counterfeits, the only celebrated droll of that kind was first brought to perfection by the late famous Mrs. Mynns, and can only be performed by her daughter, Mrs. Lee." Mrs. Lee seems to have had a formidable rival in another theatrical booth, which appeared anonymously, and from this circumstance, combined with the fact of its occupying the site on which Lee and Harper's canvas theatre had stood for several successive years, may not unreasonably be regarded as the venture of Harper. All I have found concerning it is the bill, which, as being a good specimen of the announcements issued by the proprietors of the theatrical booths attending the London fairs, is given entire. "_At the Great_ THEATRICAL BOOTH On the Bowling-Green behind the Marshalsea, down Mermaid-Court next the Queen's-Arms Tavern, during the Time of Southwark Fair, (which began the 8th instant and ends the 21st), will be presented that diverting Droll call'd, _The True and Ancient History of_ Maudlin, _the Merchant's Daughter_ of Bristol, AND _Her Constant Lover_ Antonio, Who she follow'd into Italy, disguising herself in Man's Habit; shewing the Hardships she underwent by being Shipwreck'd on the coast of Algier, where she met her Lover, who was doom'd to be burnt at a Stake by the King of that Country, who fell in Love with her and proffer'd her his Crown, which she despised, and chose rather to share the Fate of her Antonio than renounce the Christian Religion to embrace that of their Impostor Prophet, Mahomet. With the Comical Humours of _Roger_, Antonio's Man, And variety of Singing and Dancing between the Acts by Mr. Sandham, Mrs. Woodward, and Miss Sandham.