Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-09-05
Bean BlnmInell.

The London correspondent of the Sunday
Times gives the following account of Beau
Brnmmcll:
The real story of Brummcll, had the people
been 50 nstute us to seize its leading points, is
amusing us "A romance. The oudaeious insolencc
with which he trampled down the haughtness
Of the high nobility of England was splondid-be-
cause successful His grandfather kept small
confectionery shop in Bury street ST. James's,
London, and let lodgings. The first Lord Liver
pool, then almost obscure, lodging in his house,
took his son rs secretary, got him office under
Lord North, and allowed him to feather his nest
50 well that on his death, III 1874, there was
G65, 600 to divide among two sons AMI daughter
George, the second, was educated Mt Eton and
dressed 80 we'll while early in his teens, that the
prefix of "Beau' WINS then put to his name. In
Oxford he affected to be exclusive, and ON his faith
er's deathln II9l mt the age of slNteto was pres
ented with II cornctcy,n the 10th llussnrs by the
Prince of Wales, colonel of that regiment. Hence
torth,hc was the princes constant companion. In
two years he was captan,and then threw up his
commission, and set up n gentleman at large
This was before he was twenty one, and the only
reason assigned was that the regiment was order
ed to Manchester which he considered decidedly
Vulgar.
lie started, as an independent gentleman, on
f3O, 0OO--n small SUN for carrying on such pro-
tession ridiculously small for one whose wardrobe
cost LS,OuO II year, and who entertained fashion
and oven royalty mt his table. No man dressed
better; simply, but rich, with elegance aud TASTE
In this he oclipsed his much pulled successor, ID
Orsay, whose snowy attire made him look what
he was--n tailors walking advertisements The
Prince of Wales, whose wardrobe has cost ElOO,
oo0was Brumell's greatest rival, until corpulonce
which lac hntred,destroyed all his reasonable pre-
tensions to the throne of dandyism Simplicity of
the most studied kind,wns Brummelfs great sys
tenn.
lie mixed and visited in the first circles, for he
was young, handsome, satirical, and the fashion
lie rode well and was good shot, but affected to
despise Melton aud the phcasants,on the plea that
both were too troublesome. His great reform
WAS in the neekeloth, which then sort of
white muslin padding. He introduced the mod
crate use of starch, which gave the necessary
stiffness, and dispensed with the pad. He was
curious in his tie; if the cravat did not glide into
ii at the first touch he threw it aside and tried
another His valet, who was met with heap of
these rumped neekcoths ON his arm, solcmuly
sud, These are our failures"
The Prince of Wales quarreled with him, af
ter nearly twenty years intimacy, The story
/ runs that, IN the Princes drawing room he said,
''Wales, ring the bell" which was done, and
when the servant came in, the Prince said -
"Order MIR. Brummells carriage Tho beau
! denied this. and attributed his quarrel to some
thing he had said about Mrs. Fitzherbcrt stout
ness. This was about 1871. Brummcll CON
tinued king of fashion though he had quarreled
with the prince. But he took 10 gaming. In
ISL. he lost all he had and fl0,000 morc raised
what money he could and retreated to Calais at
trihuted his bad luck to his having parted with
IN lucky siXpence," which. he maintained, Roths-
child must have got possession of: was support
ed in his exile by his brother and sister wa, so
! liberal, when his remitances came, that the beg
CARS called him "Le Roi de Caais:" was made
British consul at Caen, ON the mediation of
Wellington with George "; was removed.with-
out compensation, when that consulate was u
polished lost his senses, spent his last hours in
"A hospital for lunatic mendicants; and died
! March ID 1910.
Bfummell