month, and the annual meeting, the
first week in September.

The Assembly-rooms, usually called Chapel-field-house, where assemblies,
&c. are held, built in 1754. The rooms are spacious and brilliant.

The Theatre was built in 1757, and much enlarged, and improved by the
present Patentee, W. Wilkins, Esq. in 1800, at which time, distinct
entrances were made to each part of the house; it is convenient, and
tastefully fitted up. It contains two circles of boxes, besides those
above which range with the gallery. The box-lobbies are commodious, and
at the back of the upper-circle, is a bar-room, where refreshments of
every kind may be procured. The stage is large, and the house has every
necessary convenience of green-room, dressings-rooms, scene-rooms,
painters-room, property-rooms, music-room, carpenter's shop, several
rooms occupied by the person who keeps the house, &c. It will
conveniently hold 130. pounds and has been a nursery for many performers
of celebrity, who have afterwards become favorites in the metropolitan
theatres, among whom where Mr. Murray, Harley, C. Bannister, Powell,
Townshend, Waddy, Blanchard, &c. The house when well filled, appears to
the best advantage, and then any person who has a taste for theatrical
amusements, neatness and elegance, cannot fail being agreeably
entertained with the appearance of the audience, the performers and the
house.

The principal place of Summer-amusement and resort, is Ranelagh garden,
just without side the City walls, on the London road. Here is a large
octangular building, the Pantheon, which is 70 feet in diameter and is
fitted up with two tier of boxes, for the reception of company, and an
orchestra with rooms behind, for the accommodation of the musicians,
leaving a large area in the middle; it is capable of conveniently holding
1200 persons, and here on some public occasions, and annually in the
Assize week, which in the regular way commences on the Monday, eight
weeks after Trinity Sunday; the proprietor entertains the public with
some of the principal vocal performers from the London theatres, and a
suitable band. In the garden is also a bowling-green and an orchestra
for the reception of a military band, and the garden and pantheon on this
occasion is elegantly lighted up with thirty thousand lamps, in a style
superior to any thing of the kind out of the metropolis; the pantheon is
at other times occasionally used for very large dinner parties, and