Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-23
lQmtester 1ailp Spp.
From rhackerays Four Georges
Pictures Of Royal Observation-Disclosures in
the life of The First Gentlemen IN Europe

ing upon the pavement, iuebriated We sub.
scrlbed guinea at supper for him, and a half
crown Tor his clerk" tho doubt there was a
large bar, and that SCOTS joke did not cost
nm much) land sent him, when we walked
next morning brief, for instructions to move
for what we denominaled the writ of qu1re ad-
hest pdyimeHt0 with observations duly cacu-
lated to induce him to think that it required
great learning to explain the necessity of
granting it, to the judge before whom he was
to move" Boswell sent all round the town to
attorneys for books, that might enable him to
distinguish himself-but in vain. He moved,
however for the writ, making the best use he
could of the observations in the brief. The
The Judge was perfectly astonished, and the
audience amazed The judge said 81 never
heard of such writ-what can il be that ad
heres paU'mento? Are any of you gentlemen
at the bar able to explain this z"
The bar laughed. A last one of them said
My lord, Mr.. Boswell last night adhasit
pa0tmento There was no moving him for
some time. AT last he was carried TO bed, and
he has been dreaming about himself and the
pavement"
The canny old gentleman reshes these
Jokes. When the Bishop of Lincoln was
moving from the deanery of st. Paul's, he saws
ne asked learned friend by name VIII Hay
how he should move some especially fine ca.
Aet, duOuG WHICH lie was anxious.
Pray, my lord bishop" SAYS HAY, chow
much of the wine have you g"
The bishop said six dozen,
of that is all" Hay answered, "you have
but to ask me six times to dinner, and | will
carry it all away myself"
There were giants in those day; but this
joke about wine is not so fearful as one perpe-
trated by Orator Thelwall, in the heat of the
French revolution, ten years later, over
frothng pot of porter. He blew the head off
and said, "Ths is the way | would serve all
kings"
Now we come to yet higher personages, and
find their dOings recorded in the blushing
pages of timid little Miss Burneys Memoirs
She represents prince of the blood in quite
royal condition. The loudness, the bigness,
bosterous,less, creaking boots and rafting
oaths, OF the young princes, appeared to have
frightened the prim household of Windsor,
and set all the teacups twitterng on the tray.
On the night of a ball and birthday, when one
OF the pretty, kind princesses was to come
out, it was agreed that her brother, Prince
William Henry, should dance the opening
mlnuet with her, and he came to visit the
household at their dinner
cat dinner, Mrs. Schwellenberg presided,
attired magnifcenty; Miss GoIdsworthy, Mrs
Staniorth, Messrs. Du Luc and Stanhope,
fruit, the Duke of Clarence entered.
ale was just risen from the kings table,
and waiting for his equipage to go home and
prepare for the ball. TO give you an idea of
the energy of his royal highnesss language,
ought to set apart an objection to writing, or
rather intimating, certain forcible words, and
beg leave TO show you in genuine colors a royal
sailor.
owe all rose, of course, upon his entrance,
and the two gentlemen placed themselves be-
hind their chairs, while the tootmen lett the
room. But he ordered US all to sit down, and
i~Iled the men back to hand about some wine
He was in exceeding high spirits, and in the
utmost good humor. He placed himself at the
head of the table, next Mrs. Schwellenberg
looked remarkably well, gay, and full of sport
and mischief yet clever withaI, as well as
cOmical.
"'Well this is the first day have ever
dined with the king at St. James on his birth
day. Pray, have you all drunk his majesty's
health 2"
"'No, your royal highness; your royal
highness might make dem do dat, said Mrs.
SChwellenberg.
"'Oh, by =, will! Here, you ito the
footman) bring champagne I'll drink the
kings health again. if | die for it. Yes,
have done it pretty well already so has the
king promise you | believe his majesty
was never taken such good care of before :;
we have kept his spirits up, l promise you
we have enabled him to go through his ia
tgues and l should have done more still,
but for the ball and Mary 81 have promised
TO dance with Mary l must keep sober for
Mary
interchangeable Miss Burney continues for
dozen pages reporting H. r, ii. S conversation
and indicating, with a humor not unworthy
81, al. l,tet, Il.
crcasng state Of excitement OF the young
sailor prince, who drank more and more cham
payne, stopped old Mrs. Schwelenberg's re-
monstrances by giving the old lady kiss
and telling her TO hold her potato-trap, and
who did not "keep sober for Mary" Mary
had to find another partner that night, TOR
the royal William Henry could not keep his
legs,
viii you have a picture Of the amusements
of another royal prince 1t is the Duke of
York, the laundering general, the beloved
commander-in-chiet OF the army, the brother
with whom George " had had many mid.
night carouse, and who continued his habits
of pleasure almost till death seized his stout
body.
In Puckler Muskau's Letters, that German
prince describes bout with H. r. H., who
in his best time was such a powerful topper
that six bottles of claret after dinner scarce
made any percepuble change in his cou tie
nance"
81 remember, says Puckler, chat one eve
nng,-indeed, it was past midnight he took
some of his guests, among whom were the
Austrian ambassador, Count Meervelt Count
BerOldingen, and myself, into his beautiful ar
mory. We tried to swing several Turkish
sabres, but none of us had very firm grasp,
whence it happened that the duke and Nicer.
welt both scratched themselves with a sort OF
straight Indian sword SO as to draw blood.
Meervelt then wished to try if the sword cut
as well as Damascus, and attempted to cut
through one of the wax candles that stood on
the table. The experiment answered 50 i'll,
that both the candles, candlesticks and all,
tet"to the ground and were extinguished.
While we were cropping in the dark and try
ing to find the door, the dukes aide de camp
stammered out in great agitation, "By G.,
sir, remember the sword is poisoned y
"You may conceive the agreeable feelings OF
the wounded at this intelligence Happily,
on further examination, it appeared that claret,
and not poison, was at the bottom Of the
Colonefs exclamation"
And now | have one more story of the bac-
chanaan sort, in which Clarence and York
and the very highest parsonage of the realm
the great Prince Regent, all play parts The
least took place at the Pavilion at Brighton
and was described to me by gentleman who
was present at the scene. In Glray's carica
atures, and among Fox's jolly associates there
figures great n0bleman, the Duke of Nor
folk, called Jockey OF Norfolk in his time. ant
celebrated for his table exploits He had quar-
relied with the prince like the rest of IN,
wings; but sort OF reconciliation had taker
place and now, being a very old man, III,
prince invited him to dine and sleep at the Pa
wilton, and the old duke dro over from hi
Castle Of Arundel with his famous equpage O