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London, England, 1819-11-11 00:00:00

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Mill, their appearance ant,
was salt more extiniaitely: Amanita* &hist&
I hive seen all kinds of desesa, f. • atitteet at.
S 4. James's to a harvest-Mime biotin in the ken
of Hafod—but I never sow ■ny thing that could
m8..01 this Glasgow Assembly. I bad dined that
do very quietly (comparatively speaking), and
we at quite in my senses; but I don't believe there
were kilf-a-doses men in the room besides, that
cotild be sail to be within trot degrees of sobriety.
The nitric, of every sicw comer was auuounced to
the Sdk des presetstations, not more diatinctly by
the voice of the lacqury, than I►y the additional
infosion of punch-stew• into the composition of
the atmosphere all around. And then how the
eyes of the boobies rolled in their heads, as they
'staggered up to the lady of the evening to make
their coutiting-hawse bows ! Their dress was the
'ere plus ultra of dazzle, glitter, and tastelessness.
Their neckcloth• were tied like sheets about their
clumsy c'•ins—their coats hung fr their backs as
if then- had been' owlet' from a window in Mani-
iuoatb-sireet—their breeches—or, what was mare
common, their trousers—aerated to sit about their
tattuchrs with the gripe of a torturing machine—
their elec•e/arrt were clustered up on the tops of
then- heads like so many cauliflowers, leaving the
great red ears flapping below in the whole naked ,
horrors of their hugeness. The ladies were as fine
,e ti.e men—hut many of them were really pretty
creaiures, and, but for the influence of that mai-
collie contamination to which they must be so
grierou'ly exposed, I doubt not some of them
won•J have been charming women in every reelect.
A few seemed to present a striking contrast of mo-
dest loveliness to the inainiers of the multitude—
but the general impression produced by their op.
pesrance, was certainly very far from being a deli-
cate one. The most remarkable of their peculi-
arities is the Inudoess of their voices—or rather the
free unresttained use they make of them—fur I
girt you my honour, sitting round the table at
supper, I coul.l hear every word some of them ut-
tered, ■t the distance of thurty fort at least from
where I sat. What a scene of tumult was this sup-
per ! There was plenty of excellent wines and ex-
celient dishes, but I really could not get tune to
attend to them with the Wart of my usual devotion.
Here was one reaching his arm across the table,
and helping himself to something. with au accom-
paniment of jocular exedation. There was another
bellowing for a boiled cabbage and a glass of chain-
paigue, both in the same breath. Here was s young
lady eating a whole plate-full of hut veal cutlets,
and talking between every mouthful as loud as $
campaigner. There was an old fat dowager scream•
ing fur a bottle of porter—or interchanging rough
repa.tees with a hiccuping haillit at the oppo.tie
aide of the table. What a rumpus war here! What
poking of pves with their gigantic battlements of
crust! What sudden demolition of what Iva-
/tibia of potatoes! What levelling of forests of
crier/ I ll bat wheeling of regiments of decanters!
Wbst a cannonade of swipes! What a crash of
teeth! What -a clatter of knives ! Old Babel
must Nave been a joke to this confusion of sounds !
" The dancing was almost as novel a thing-1
mean on the part of the gentlemen—for I must do
the ladies the justice to say that they in general
danced well, and flat some of them danced quite
exquisitely. The men stem to have no idea be.
yaJ the rudest conception of something Ike keep-
low, time—and a passion fur kicking their li-gs shout
t;:trin, apparently dictated by the same kiwi of bi-
lenity which would have pruml•ted them elsewhere
to string of black bottles against the mantle-piece,
or a choral ululation or ' here's to jolly Bacchus !'
or . variety is charming.' Yet some of the cattle—
yes, some of the most clumsy of them all, had the
assurance to attempt a quadrille—a dance which
•reins to have made still less progress here than in
Edinburgh, for it appeared to be hailed mod ap-
plauded as a kind of wonder. The moment the
set was formed, which took place in a smaller
apartment, communtrating whir the great dancing-
naan, the whole of the company crowded to see it,
and .soon formed a complete ►erried phalanx of
phziers all. about the performers. Nay. such was
the enthusiastic curiosity of' some of the ladies in'
particular, that they did not scruple to get upon
their feet on the benches and sofas all :iround the
ann.—from which commanding situation there is
no question they had a better opportunity both of
seeing ■nd being seen. At some of the pauses to
the dance, the agility of the ligiarantes was re-
warded, tint with ►ilent breathings of admiration—
but with loud roars of hoarse delight, and furious
c:appisig of handy and drumming of heels all about
—not did these violent raptures of approbatona
tippet, to give the slightest uneasiness to those in
whose honour they were displayed. In short, my
dear Potts, the las► glimmering twilight hour of
the Lord Mayor's ball, when the dregs of civic
finery gesticulate, as is their will and pleasure,
beneath the -dying chandeliers in the Egyptian Hall
—ever that horrible hour is nothing to the central
ni.•l most ambitious &splay of this ' at home' of
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The following is from an unknown Correilron-
dent :—FEVER AT CADIZ.--11 is with great plea-
Sure ,we have to inform the public that Government
have taken the above dreadful calamity into con-
sideration, and have appointed the celebrated Dr.
ItoneaT JacesoN, Anther of several invaluable
wc....ka on the nature and cure of contagious fever,
to ..orestigsre, are, if poesible, to arrest the ravages
of that alarming disorder.
We lament to find by 'dykes from Cadiz to as
ice a date as the 19th ult., that the violence of the
'V bad out abated, as in the last accounts
It. `hied it would have done. The new Cale*
it 5111 • 'led 106, and the number of the diaeased
daily averk.„ -4 'to 12.000. It trains that the
" "%levet"- lotaltliv persons soune*t full vic-
,orotigest end mos. "lody. The old, infirm, and
thus to this dreadful tn. .. pb,y attacked, but are
weakly, not only suffer.kw -•. The proportion
leas liable to catch the. disorder. „led
with it
was
of males to the females whe are alsu
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!Inv aae ee..,elel ;uterine,
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