Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-03-08
BRUMMELLIANA.

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Beau Nash and his witticisms but
certainly we never met with any thing
of his which was at all equal to the
oracular sentences Of the gentleman
who gives name TO this article. OF
all the beaux that ever nourshed-
at least, Of all that ever hourished to
the same score-cxcmplary Of waist
coat, and having authoritative boots
from which there was no appcal-hc
appears to have been the only one
who made proper and perfect union
Of the coxcombical and ingenious.
Other men may have been as scien-
ti!ic on the sub cct of bibs, in dra
per-like point Of view and others
have said as good things, which had
none Of the coloring arising out Of the
co nsCiousness of fashionable pre-cmi-
ncncc. Beau Fielding, we believe,
stands on record as the handsomest OF
bcaux. There is beau Skcifinston,
now rather Sir Lumlcy. who, under
iall his double breasted coats and
.waistcoats, never had any other than
single-hcartcd soul he is 20 be re-
corded as the most amiablc Of bcaux
but Beau Brummcll for your more
than finished coxcomb. He could be
grave enough, but he was any thing
but solemn coxcomb. He played
with his own spectre. Ii was found a
grand thing to be able TO be a consum
mate fop, and yet have the credit Of
being something greater and he was
both. Never was any thing more cx-
Iuisitely conscious, yet Indifferent !;
extravagant, yet judicious. His su-
pcriority in dress, gave such import
ance to his genins, and his genius so
divcstcd of insipidity his superiority
in dress, that the poets hyperbole
about the lady might be applied to his
coat and
"You might almost say the body thought"
1t was moot point which had the
more tact, his gloves or his fingers
ends. He played the balls Of wit and
folly so rapidly about his head, that
they lest their distinctions in one
crowning and brillI,nt halo.
Mr.. Brulnmcll, it is true, is no long
er in favor as a setter Of fashions
Why, it is not our business 10 inquire.
But though it may be said Of his
waistcoat, like Troy, that it uas; his
wit is, and will remain; and here, for
the first time, a few specimens Of il
are collected. If George Etheridge
himself would not have acknowledged
brother in George Brummeil, then
are no two gloves Of color.
To begin with what is reckoncd the
prince of his good things, Mr.. Brum,
nell having fallen out Of favor with
an illustrious person, was Of course to
be cui, as the phrase is, when met in
public. Riding one day with friend,
who happened to be otherwise regard.
ed, and encountering the parsonage in
question, who spoke to the friend
without noticing Mr.. BrummelI, he
affected the air of one who waits aloof
while stranger is present; and then,
when the great man was moving off,
said TO his companion, loud enough
for the other to hear, and placidly
adjusting his bibs, "Eh who is our
fat friend ?"
Having taken into his head, at one
time, to eat no vegetables, and being
asked by a lady if he had never eaten
any in his life, he said, " Yes, madam
| once ate pea"
Being met limping in Bond-street,
and asked what was the matter, he
said he had hurt his leg, and "the
worst Of it was, it was his favourte
leg"
Somebody inquiring where he was
going to dine next day, was told that
he really did not know; "thcy put
me in my coach and take me some
where"
lie pronounced Of a fashionable tai
lor that he made a good coat, an ex-
ccedingly good coat, all but the col
lars; nobody could achieve a good
collar but Jenkins"
Having borrowed some money Of
city beau, whom he patronized in re-
turn, he was one day asked to repay
it; upon which he thus complained
to friend, Do yon know what has
happened ?" "No." Why, do you
know; there's that fellow, Tompkins
who lent me five hundred pounds, has
had the face to ask me for it ; and yet
had called the dog 4" Tom," and let