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NYWJ.739.006
12 Feb 1739:32 (270)]
London. Oct. 14 . . . On Monday night last, there was a
sharp and blody battle at the little Theatre in the
Haymarket, between the new company of French Strollers, and
the Gentlemen of London, who did not care to see a parcel of
foreign varlets encouraged whilst numbers of their own
countrymen were restrain'd from getting their bread, in a
much more useful and innocent manner. For this purpose,
they saluted Monsieur Harliquin and company with a general
concerto of hisses cat calls, pelting, and other theatrical
musick, both vocal and instrumental, whilst a numerous army
withou doors laid a furions siege to the house, . . . [19
more lines, then:] It is confidently reported that General
Harlequin was seiz'd with a violent disorder in his bowels .
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