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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

IMMORTALS.

• Neptune (Captain of “The Ocean”) ... Mr. J. Bland
• Triton (his First Lieutenant) ... Mr. Huggins
• Ditto (of the Minnows, or Middies) ... Master Fenton
• Amphitrite (the Captain's Lady) ... Miss Ferguson
• Minerva ... Miss Ireland
• Nereides (a fair sample of the Sisterhood so called—Ladies who (mirabile dictu!) candidly owned to being fifty:—Mesdames Nicholson, Tully; Misses Crawford, Norman, Greener, Harrington, H. Ireland, Melbourne, and Goward.
• “Ut sunt divorum, Mars, Bacchus, Apollo,” &c., Messrs. Dowsing, Tully, Hitchinson, Fry, Griffin, Eaton, &c.
• A shoal of Tritons, and other Odd Fish, by the rest of the Company.

MORTALS.

• Cepheus (King of Ethiopia—a very fair Monarch, considering) ... Mr. Mason
• Phineus (his Brother—in love with Andromeda) ... Mr. Wyman
• Perseus (Son of Jupiter and Danäe—ditto with ditto) ... Madame Vestris
• Attendant ... Mr. James
• Cassiope (the fair Queen of Ethiopia) ... Mrs. Knight
• Andromeda (Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope, bound to her Uncle and chained to a Rock, but attached to Perseus) Miss Fitzwalter
• The Black Cook of the Ocean (a “white-livered runagate”) ... Mr. Ireland
• The Great American Sea Serpent (a Yankee-Doodle come to Town—“half man,” with a Sea-gar in his mouth—“half horse,” with an azure mane—and “half alligator” with an endless tale) ... Mr. James Vining
• Pegasus, by a Real Pony—“Auspice Ducrow.”
• Priests of Jupiter, Soldiers, &c.

The Sea-nery by Mr. Gordon.

The Weeds by Miss Ireland, Miss Glover, and Assistants.

The Marine Stores by Mr. Blamire. The Machines by Mr. Mackintosh.

The Sea Breezes and other Airs, sea-lected by the Authors, and arranged by Mr. Tully.

In the Overture will be introduced Handel's celebrated “Water Piece.”