Butte record., 1854-09-09
NUMBER ii
BEAU BRUMMELL.

The London correspondence Of the
Sunday Times, gives the following ac-
count Of Bean Brummell:
The real story Of Brummell, had the
people been so astute to seize It's leading
points, is amusing as n romance. The
audacious insolence with which h
trampled down the haughtinoss of the
high nobility of England was splendid
because successful. His grlndfa ther
kept small confectionery shop in Bury
street, ST. James, London, and let lodg
ings. The first Lord Liverpool, then
almost obscure. lodged in his house,
took his son as secretary, got him Office
under Lord North, and allowed him to
feather his nest SO well, that ON his
death, in 1913. tlIere-7vus-- if99t5jt,,6ee to
divide among two sons and a daughter
George, the second, was educated at
Eton, and dressed so well, while in his
teens, that the prefix of I" Beau was
then put 10 his name In Oxford he
affected to be exclusive, and on his faith
er's death, in 1874, at the age Of six
teen, was presented with cornetcy, in
the 10th Hussars, by the Prince Of
Wales, colonel of that regiment. Hence
forth, he was the Princes constant COM
panion. In two years he was a captain,
and then threw up his commission, and
set up as gentleman at large. This
was before he was twenty-one, and the
only reason assigned was, that the reg
iment was ordered to Manchester, which
be considered decidedly vulgar.
He started as an Independent gentle
man, on $50, ,000-a small sum for car
rying on such profession-ridicnlousIy
small for one whose wardrobe cost him
| $1,000 a year, and who entertained
fashion and even royalty at his table,
No man dressed better; simply, but
richly, with elegance and taste. In
this he eclipsed his much putfed success
sor, D'0rsay, whose snowy attire made
him look like what he was--a tailor's
walking advertisement. The Prince Of
| Wales, whose wardrobe cost &l00 -000,
was Brummel's greatest rival, until cor
pulency, which he hated, destroyed all
his reasonable pretensions to the throne
of Dandy yisssa;e. Simplicity Of the most
studied kind, was BrummelPs great sys-
tenn
He mixed and visited in the first cir
cles, for he was young, handsome, sa-
tirlcal and the fashion. lie rode well,
and was a good shot, but effected to de-
spise Melton and the pheasants, on the
plea that both were too troublesom. His
great reform was the neckcloth, which
was then sort of white muslin pad
ding He introduced the moderate use
of starch, which gave the necessary
stiffness, and dispensed with tho pad
He was curious in his tie if the cravat
| did not glide into it at the first touch,
he threw it aside and tried another
His valet, who was met with heap of
these rumpled neckcloths, solemnly
said, " These are our failures"
The Prince of Wales quarrelled with
him, after nearly twenty years intimacy
The story runs, that in the Princes
drawing-room, he said, "Order Mr..
Brummell's carriage Beau deried
this, and attributed his quarrel to some
thing he had said about Mrs. Fitzher-
bert's stoutness. This was about 1911.
Brummell continued king Of fashion
though he had quarreIed with the Prince.
But he took to gaming In 1914 he
lost all he had, and $4,000 more
raised what money he could and retreat
ed to Calias; attributed his bad luck to
his having parted with lucky sixpence
which he maintained Rothschild must
have got possession of it; was support
ed in his exile by his brother and sister
was so liberal when his remittances came,
that the beggars called him " lie Roi de
Calais - was made British Consul at
Caen, on the mediation of Wellington
with George w.; was removed without
compensation, when that consulate was
abolished lost his senses; spent his
last hours in a hospital for lunatic mems
dicants, and died March 2, 1910
TRADES AND PROFESSIONALLY
| are in the United States . 363 600 far.