Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Play not acted: theatres closed for death of
Augusta Princess Dowager of Wales. [For comment
Theatrical Review, II, p. 93 attaches to the evening of 7 Feb.]: Another additional scene was introduc'd this evening, for the first
time in which
Mr Dunstall, in the character of a Female Ballad Singer, entertained the audience with the fol
lowing new song, relative to the tricks of the
Stockwell Conjuror, which it exposes with
some degree fo humour, and which
has a good effect, from the manner in which it is introduc'd; but from such poetry, Heaven delvier us!@
The Stockwell Wonder@Ye beaux, belles and flirts, who the Pantheon stock well,@Come and see the renown'd Pandemonium at Stockwell.@Where the house and the furniture's all in bon ton@And the pewter and crockery dance cottillon. Derry Down, down, down Derry Down.@A pickling-pan first, which exceeds all belief,@Jumps and skips to the tune of old English Roast Beef;@While a barrel so lively, it cannot be said,@That the beer that is in it can ever be dead, Derry Down &c.@ @The tables, chairs, jars, frisk about too, and soon@The pestle and warming-pan move to
some tune;@The clock too chimes in, and we very well know@That a clock that don't stand must undoubtedly go, Derry down, &c.@But let not amazement your fancies perplex@The enchantment arose from th'enchanting fair sex;@A sweet girl was the cause, and girls wonders are rich in@For we all know sweet girls-are extremely bewitching.@Derry down, &c.