The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-01-01
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A DAY IN LONDON.

A DAY IN LONDON.
From, a sDork jIsf published in Nezp YORK.
ss In the following description Of some OF the
moral features Of London, we may sec moro
10 crafty curiosity than excite either envy
or al Giralion.
= aIn the morning oil is ealm--not mouse
stirring before ten o'clock the shops begin
20 open. Milk women, with their pals per-
fcr,ly neat, suspended at the two exremeties
ofa yoke, carefully shaped to hi the shool-
ders, and surrounded with samll tin measures
of cream, ring at every door with reiterated
HulIs, 70 hasten the house servants, who come
Aslf asleep TO receive measure as big as an
egg, being the allowance of a family Tor II 10
recessary TO explain, that milk Is DOT nero si'
eher food or drink, but tinctuie--an e'ixir ex-
hibited in drops, FIVE or six al most 10 cup
Z of tea, morning and evening. IL would be
difficult TO say what taste or what quality ihese
drops may impart but 20 Il is, and body
thinks ofqucstioning the proprieiy OF the Gus
som.. Not single carriage, not cart is seen
passipg. The frst considerable SUR Is the
dtum and military music fthe guards, march
sng from their barracks TO Hyde Park, having
their head three or four negro giants, stri-
ing high gracefully and strong the resohod-
z cymbsl About ; or 4 o'clock, the fash
,nable world gives some signs Of life, issu-
* forth to visit, or rather leave cards al the
orS of friends, never seen but in the crowd
assemblies (; TO got the shops, sec sights
lounge in Bond-s,reet, an ugly, inconycn.
snt street, the attractions OF which 1t Is difF'
xuls TO understand. A S OF 6, they retura
home 10 dross for disher. The streets are
then lighted from one end to the other OF
rather edged ON either aide with two long
lines Of little brigh dots, indicative Of light,
but yielding IN faci vsry i.le shcse arc the
lamps. They are not suspended In the mid
die Of the streets, as at Pa is, but liked On
Irons eight or niue feet high, ranged along
the houses. The wan, Of reflection 10 prob
ably the cause of their giving SO little light,
From to 8, the noise OF wheels increase II
II the dinner hour. A multitude OF carriages,
with two eyes Of fame staring IN the dark
before each Of them, shake the pavement and
the very houses following and ciossing each
other at full speed. Stopping suddcnly,
footnan jumps down runs to Ahc door, and
sifts shs beavy knockos-.-sfvos gress k"eak,
hen several smaller ones in quick succession
~thcn with oil his might, Hourishing as on
drum, with an art, and an air, and delioacy
ftosch, which denote the quality, the rank
lnd,thc fortune oi his mss,er.
For two hours, OF nearly, fhsre 10 q pause
n 10 q redoabiemeDt comes on. This is the
,rest crisis of dress, OF noise and OF rapidity--
: universal hubbub a sor,cf uniform gri0diog
!. Nd shaking, like that in great mill with 6fly
A~jr of stones aud if was NO, st.aid OF ap-,
,ea,iog to exaggerete, J should say, thai II
xame upon tho cur like the ia,i ct Niagara,
heard a, two miles distance This Irtsis Con-
kinues undi diminished rih IL cr O'Clock then
less and less daring The fcs' oi the oisne-~till,
at the pproach Of day, single carriage ~
heayd now end ,ben AZ great distance
.uGioat asse mblies are called routs or par
lies but the people who give them, in Shrir
Invitations only sby, thst tbey viii be ar hore
such day, and this some weeks beforehand.
Tus mouse IN which This takes place Is ire
ousntly stippej from top 10 bottom beds,
4. awers, and ali pol ornamental furniture, are
Carried out ef sight to make room tor a
c,owd Of weli dressed people, received at tho
doo Of the house, standiRg, who smiles at ev-
cry oew conner wih look OF acquaintance.
Nobody siis : there IL no conversation, no
cards, no music only clbowing turoing and
winding from room to room then, st the end
ofa auarser Of an hour, escaping To the hall
dooc 20 wait for the carriage, spending more
sine upon tho threshold among footman, than
Sou have above stai!s with their masters.
From This rout you drive to anothepwhers az
ter waiting your turn to arrive a. the door,psr.
haps baf an hour, The streets being full OF car
fages, you alight. begin the same round, and
and ia the same manner"
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