New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-10


them. Pope has painted her most innitably in that
essay where he says know an agreeable woman
whom when all the world conspires to praise her, she
closes her ears and will not hear" etc. Mary Beng
ham, of the same period, writes to her saying How
do you do! Mrs. Howard. I will give you list of
what am preparing to eat sheep, geese, pigs chick
ens partridges, seto. and now, Howard, if you've
mind to stick knife in anything I've named, come
on" Other maids Of honor wrote pleasantly concern
ing her sayngof the court, that to get up at day
light and eat Westphala ham, to go out to ride, Or
walk, and come home tired, with red mark on the
forehead and to eat dinner and then 60 to bed, was
the regular routine no lonely place, more lonely Or
more undressing, than the court"
It was undoubtedly merrier England before this
period than it ever has been SINCE 1have calculated
where and how they lived before this time; have seen
the marks of the tennsballs left even now in those
places where the king and his court used to sport.
But imagine Mr.. Pierce and Mir. Cushing before
breakfast, now, knocking tenns-balls down Pennsyl
vania Avenue and some idea can be gathered of that
era and the style of its amusements.
| Formerly, every town had its sports Mayday
with mummers Dances in which girls with light attire
participated grave priests looking gravey on bears
led about and gentlemen giving Entertainments for
WHICH tney Seub LO tIe SeIVlCSS "a
mental band Beau Fielding, when counting his wife,
sent for band of music to make the work more
pleasant. Imagine scene such as was then popular:
a great hail. Lit up with tallow candles, and some
| two Or three people dancing solemnly about. Can
anything possibly be more ridiculous?
Very few people, at that time, ever left the country
If they did take journey it was to Bath Or Scarbo
| rough. John Gay writes about balls at Tunbridge
and one of the beauties there only seventeen years
DID, conferred all her wishes q pot of good ale
Them every town had its assembly rooms-York and
Threwsbury, and in the county of Cheshire, day at
county house, may stand for all. A merry party
is there assembled at nine o'clock they Dress at ten
the great bell rings for dinner when big boots stamp
inand sit down. and after the disclosed with dane
ing and supper. Beau Nash and all, are then in a
grand embroidered, but respectable folly. We should
like to have seen the great Peterborough there all
covered with gold-lace and decorations, holding a
chicken in his hand; Mary Wortley; Chudley, the
great scholar; Walpole, dandifed, but tender and
generous to his friends and, if he were alive, we
should now take off our hats when that long, lean
wigg'd, frowning, Roman nosed man. the elder Pitt
passed by! At dinner, then, John Quinn and Swift
and Col. Ringwood, and a hundred other celebrities
met and conversed.
Whoever would recall social England at this period
must remember cards. They were then universally
used, and Seymour says that he who cannot play il
hardly fit for company In those times hardly any
one read. George II was always angry when ht
caught any one reading and the queen was therefore
compelled to seek her. closet to read. Spades ant
diamonds were the literature of that period. Don
talk about books, only know cards. was the gen
eral expression. Roger de Coverly is made to send
pack of cards, among other things, as Christina
present. Even the strict liked hant
at whist. Martin Luther played chess, and those 0
the court played cards then. We read history o
the same in the Court Chronicle, taken as custom
from the " Three Kings" At night all played
1 each player with different stakes. We read in thi
period, on January LIST, 17l, how q man wa
sentenced to be hung, quartered and staked in
highway, for murder how, on the Sd, post-bo,
was shot by an IrishInan how man who had con,
mitted suicide was found hanging, by another man
and cut down; but, leaving his knife behind him
was executed such slight circumstantial evidence
how, in Ireland, two men had grudge met in public
and fired at each other simultaneously both parties
being killed, TO the general satisfaction; how wheat
sold at 1925 per pound; Hyson at 50, and Bohea al
| $6,25. At that time great feast occurred, and 8
beef was cooked whole two men wege convicted O
forgery and put in the pllory woman convicted o
| murder was burned at the stake, as were two @
three i'll George Ills time. A foot-pad was reprevet
and freed from his sentence.
On the Queens birth day it was customary then, 70
every TO appear in a new dress. Walpole speak
of the fact Of clothes being fashionable tina
day. In the True Patriot, No. 8, Fielding suppose
the Pretender to be in London, and introduces ttl
girl to inform him. on this day, that his new clothe
have GOMEZ!
The routine of things was so regular and unvarie
in those times that, by means of watch and an Of
almanac now one could almost, tell exactly what wa
happening, at the same hour, then how the gree
lords were sleeping about, and the ladies playin
cards; the King gets up; pool finishes some g
home to bed, and some take: a drive, and the " ev
ming and morning make tiay."
The King, during all this time, and through all
these scenes, preserved AN answering love for tN
things for Hanover and for-Bologna sausages! TT
latter affection struck strongly upon the Engis
mind that, when Prince Albert came over, great sa
sages were exposed in every shop window, it beir
supposed that all German gentlemen loved sausage
George questioned e.nd found fault with everythir
English; its roast-f,eef horses drivers mutton al
ale. When he left on HIS German tour everythiI
went on as though he were present. large portra
OF him was placed in chair, and nobility came al
bowed to it precisely as though it were the King hi
self. In 1929, 49, '35, '3G--eight times in aid
George return to Hanover. DR.. Doran gives pie
SAINT description of those times how there was
opera twice a we elk ; how all the manners and CT
toms of the peri cd were fixed and regular.
The King Ike pit his promise he made to tire Que
when she was dying, and never married again.
| lao two OF his daughters, Anne--described We
WILDLY by " alpole, and Maria--were married. T.
King gave fetes, dances and dinners after dinE
there were balls, and at night, supper was served
the gre at ball then more dancing, and at three
the Forming, the company got home. The King,
this occasion, wore Turkish dress and caper
Ill nbly about after the death of Caroline, until final
re choked He then ordered, just before dying, that
side should be taken out Of his coffin, and that
his wife and they be laid to sleep side by side. 0
little turkey-cock! where are you now? But he hi
some true feelings and said of his wife, that he new
knew a woman that was fit to tie her shoe. In t
] seventysixth year of his age, one morning pa
D went to take his morning cup of chocolate to hi
and 10! the King was dead "God save the King
After his death was announce poet and emine
man wrote some verses concerning him. commencing
while at his feet. expiring, irtue lay,
+, No farther blessing could on ea1 tn be gwen,
The next degree was surely heaven" ETC.