The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-07-30
Beau Brumme1-The Most Exquis-
ite of all Dandies.

ite of all Dandies.
The London correspondent of the Sun
day Times gives the following sketch of
the famous Beau Brummel:
Tho real story of Brumnel, had the
people been so astute as to seize its
leading points, is amusing as a romance.
Tho audacious insolence with which he
trampled down the haughtiness of the
high nobility of England, was splendid
- because successful. His grandfather
kept a email confectionery shop, in Bury
street, S.: James, London, and let lodg-
ings. The first Lord Liverpool then al
most obscure, lodged in his house, took
his son as secretary, got him Office under
Lord North and allowed him to feather
bis nest so well, that on his death in
1894, there was G65000, to divide a.
mong two sons and daughter. George,
the second, was educated at Eton, and
dressed so we'll. while only in his teens,
that the prefix of Beau was then put
to his name. In Oxford he affected to
be exclusive, and; on his fathers death
in 1894, at the age of sixteen. was pre-
sars, 6y the Prince Of Wales, Colonel of
that regiment. Henceforth he was, the
Princes constant companion. In two
years he was a captain. and then-threw
up his commission. and set up as gen.
tlcman at large. This was before he was
twenty.one, and the only reason assigned
was, that the regiment was ordered to
Manchester, which be considered decid.
edly vulgar
He started as an Independent gentle.
man on G30,000-a small sum for carry
ing on such n professon-ridiculously
small for one whose wardrobe cost G8,-
COO 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 pulled successor DOrsay whose
SNOWY attire made him look like what he
was-a tailor's walking advertisement
The Prince of Wales, whose wardrobe
had cost EIo0 900, was Brummel's great
est rival, until corpulence, which he
hated, destroyed all his reasonable pre-.
tensions to the throne of dandyism Sim.
rlicity, Of the most studied kind, was
Bruumel's great system
He mixed and visited in the first cir
cIcs, for he was young, handsome satiri-
CAL and the fashion. He rode we'll and
was good shot but affected to despise
Melton and the peasants, on the plea
that both were too troublesome. His
.Grcat reform was in the neckclo'h, which
then was a sort of white muslin padding
lie introduced the moderate use of starch
Which gave the necessary stiffness, and
dispensed with the pad He was curl.
Gus 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 rumplcd
ncckclo'hs, solemnly said, These are
our failures
The Prince of Wales quarrcllcd with
him, after nearly twenty years intimacy.
The story rms, that in the Princes
drawing room be said order Mr. Brum.
mel's carriage The Beau denied this,
and attributed the quarrel to something
he had said about Mrs. Fitzhcrbert's
stou'ness This was about 1911. Brum-
mel continued King of Fashion, though
he had quarreled with the Prince. In
1914 he lost oil lie had, and l0000l
more raised what money he could and
retrcated to Calais attributed his bad
luck to bis having parted with lucky
sixpehce which he maintained Roth,
child must have got possession of was
supported in his exile by his brother and
sister; was SO liberal when his remit
tances came, that the begg.rs called him
lie Roi de Calais::' was made British
Consul at Caen, on the mediation of
Wellington with George "; was re.
moved, without compensation, when that
consulate was abolished; lost his senses;
spent his last hours in hospital for lu.
natic mendicants and died March End,
1910.
There, in nutshell, is tho true his,
tory of Beau Brummel.