The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-13 00:00:00

HISTORICAL FATE of the DANDIES.

'ln the reign of Elizabeth, some Beaux iiitroduced
long swords and high ruffs, which approached the
royal standard in 411(11 articles, When her Majesty
appointed officers `to breist every 111611'11 sword, and
clip all ruffs which were beyond a certain length.
The utmost comternation followed, hat the -Queelis
env, inexorable and the Beaux defeated.

The anidir's, in the reign of Charles the Fifst,
wore what Were called lope /inks at the left aide of
the head, which so incensed Mr. lbryinte, that he
wrote a quarto book against them, snit after a pro:
tracted struggle, attended with various success, the
Dandies, in the reign of Charles the Second, corn:
promised the love locks for k Vender pair of
whiskers.

Coteiry. in his ili.eourse " Of Grentneso," cen-
sures some enormities iii the dress 81 the female
Dandier of hi) time in the following initnurr:
u Is any thine more common than to are unr Lidice ut
Quality wear such kith shoes as they Cilllll/ Ili walk in with-
out one In lead them ; and a gown as long again as their
body, so that slier (*annul slir tv the next Junin without a
page or two so Uhl it up?"

What a inarvellous contrast does not the gown of
one of our present Lidies of Qoality present to
that which drew down the sioditmilveriion of the
Poet, and which {vas put ont of fashion by the
Dandies Icon. we chll them male Dandies ?) of thin
day, who entered ball-rooms in lung boots and
spun?
Soon iifter the Itestonolou the perriieig *kg intro-
duced from France to England, and worn among
the Dandies, to the great consternation of the
Budges, Divines, and Physicians of that day, who
understood the magic of the wig, and were wont to
give it all the advantage of length as *ell as sit".
Many Preachers inveighA sg-most the peiriisig
Trom the pulpit.; and Mr. W I owtrs that Naiha.
niel Vincent, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to the
King. preached before him It Newmarket in a per..
?twig, according to the then fashion, and that Ins
htojelty was so offended at it that lie commander!
+the Dote of Monmouth, Chancellor to the Culver:
64Y of Cambridge, to see the startites concerning
decenCy of apparel put in execiiti ~,,, whitt was
done accordingly. It .eenied 'the King aired little
to enforce a strict observance of form iu drew
of the female Dandiee, for just about the cline time
ib.t the Cambridge statutes were ouforcing decency
of apparel among the male Deadiesb poor Richard
Baxter was engaged in publishing a hook, entitled
A jot* tad seasonal* fterreittassists if naked
Breasts and Skarlders."

Dr. Grainger says that he scarce ever saw a por-
trait of r Lady by Sir Peter Lely, in this style of
dress, but he thought of the following passage of
Seneca :••••

Video anicasirestei, si vestes.vocande soot, in quibus
alba est quo defendi ant corpus, ant denique pudor posit :
quibus munptis, walla paru►e liquidu uodunt se nou cuss
3anabat."
%'hut fete awaits the Dandies of the tsresent (fay
it is (olk to surmise; we row Ito artist has tekeu
the trouble to preserve one of their .figures for the
bi►toriao's comment. The Proprietor of the Mena-
gerie et Exeter 'Change has given over the notiou
of perfuming one of them for preservation. Mr.
Bullock will, it is said, attempt the task for si
Dandy liletanty.

the French Fund. Isere on Thursday, g per
Cent.. 75 tr. 95 c.--Bank Stuck 1,651 fr. 50 c.

The most wondersworicing miracles are, avow&
ing to the Private Comeepondenee in some of the
Papers, about to he realised at Aix-la-Chapellf.—
Every thing is transacted with without hsrin.ony,
and aM parade is banished even among the mo.t
vain. ilow could it he otherwise in a town, the
founder of which erns made *Saint The legend
is, that CUAittEMACitlii while Innate% in the conni y
was thruwit from his horse by the animal's foot
sinking, suddenly in the ground—um regrioirg hue
legs, the Royal rider saw a .vapour arising from the
bole,iiis clutch was found a het spring which proved
a remedy-fur all complaints—he i inmethate lyfounds it
the city, and became, neat the Yuen' 4‘Jary-.-its
tutelar 'Deity.
0 AS. SP() ari.- At • Cat greox between FAUN-
•CIe I. of France, and .HiItNRY Vl'll. of England,
the two Sovereigns had wrestling matclosi
A SiCdTCJII Buti,.—T.he Edinburgh Reviews's,
in Nato 6W, article Farts, ray, " lie (I)ANTE) died
In Ili), and in 1324 we find mcuUun made of
commentary hy ho sone, PLUS and JANIS. Ott
another anontnons writer."