The question of suppressing both Bartholomew and Southwark Fairs was considered by the Court of Common Council in 1760, and the City Lands Committee was desired to report upon the tenures of the fairs, with a view to that end. Counsel's opinion was taken, and the committee reported the result of the inquiry, upon which the Court resolved that Southwark Fair should be abolished henceforth, but that the interests of Lord Kensington in the revenues of Bartholomew Fair prevented the same course from being pursued in Smithfield. The latter fair was voted a nuisance, however, and the Court expressed a determination to abate it with the utmost strictness. Shuter produced a masque, called _The Triumph of Hymen_, in honour of the approaching royal nuptials; it was the production of a forgotten poet named Wignell, in a collected edition of whose poems it was printed in 1762. Among the minor entertainers of this year at Bartholomew Fair were Powell, the fire-eater, and Roger Smith, who gave a musical performance upon eight bells, two of which were fixed upon his head-gear, and one upon each foot, while two were held in each hand. CHAPTER VII. Yates and Shuter--Cat Harris--Mechanical Singing Birds--Lecture on Heads--Pidcock's Menagerie--Breslaw, the Conjuror--Reappearance of the Corsican Fairy--Gaetano, the Bird Imitator--Rossignol's Performing Birds--Ambroise, the Showman--Brunn, the Juggler, on the Wire--Riot at Bartholomew Fair--Dancing Serpents--Flockton, the Puppet-Showman--Royal Visit to Bartholomew Fair--Lane, the Conjuror--Hall's Museum--O'Brien, the Irish Giant--Baker's Theatre--Joel Tarvey and Lewis Owen, the popular Clowns. The relations between Yates and Shuter in the last two or three years of their appearance as showmen at Bartholomew Fair are somewhat doubtful; but all the evidence that I have been able to obtain points to the conclusion that they did not co-operate subsequently to 1758. In 1761 they seemed to have been in rivalry, for the former's name appears singly as the director of the "company of comedians from both the theatres" that performed in the concert-room at the Greyhound, while an advertisement of one of the minor shows of the fair describes it as located in George Yard, "leading to Mr. Shuter's booth." I have not, however, been able to find an advertisement of Shuter's booth.