The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-10
CELEBRATED BEAUX.
An Interesting Account of Beau Mash nn'
Beau Brummel.

Beau Brummel.
Society is never without leaders Of
the ton, dictators in dress and fashion.
Most of these are local celebrities.
Worth, the Partisan "man milliner," is
known to both hemispheres. Nature is
an economist OF greatness. The frugal
dame allows us only one great states
man, one great poet, one great singer,
one great general in century. In the
line of beaux and dandies she is equally
parsimonious. Of this indispensable
genus British history chronicles two
distinguished names in the past three
centuries: Beau Nash, 1874 to 1761 F;
Beau Brummel, 1778 to 1910.
Nash had no less biographer than
Oliver Goldsmith, one of the most ele-
CANT prose writer's in the English Ian
guage. He was Welshman by birth,
son OF O gentleman Of moderate means,
who sent him to Oxford with view to
the law, but before he was seventeen,
the promising boy was expelled from
college for negotiating an improper
matrimonial connection ! Then he tried
the military profession and afterward
the law, but soon quilted hard work to
become diner out, gamester and q
fashionable man about town." He
was popular in London, and so useful
to King William in matters Of taste
that he offered him knighthood.
In 17O4 he transferred his residence to
Bath, whose hot springs have made it
the British Saratoga from the days OF
julius Cesar. He became at once the
Morrissey Of this fashionable watering
place, living by gaming, but benevo-
lently advising young men not to gam.
BILE, and giving away lavishly the pro-
ceeds of his skill at hazard. He became
master of ceremonies in bathrooms and
dancing saloons, and maintained auto.
cratic rule in the realm of fashion and
dress at that gay capital for fifty years
He built an elegant assembly room, AND
was conspicuous for his attentions tc
the fair sex, and the protection he al
forded the younger women from the
wiles of cunning seducers and unprin
cipled adventurers. The numerous vic
tins of the much-married Marvin
needed Nash at their elbow to sugges
the danger of matrimony on short &C
quaintance. Nash, of course, affected
great style in dress and equipage, ant
rode in chariot drawn by six horses
with grooms and outriders. His sou
briouet was "king of Bath" In persol
he was "big, clumsy, awkward, will
| harsh and irregular features, and tawdr.
though exp ,nsive DRESS" he had SOM
reputation for wit. In 1879, in tn
height of his prosperity, he encountere'
the celebrated street preacher and evan
i gelist, John Wesley, at the outset of hi
career, and insolently attempted t.
browbeat the little Grecian-faced
gowned, Oxford clergyman Of the estab
lishment into silence. "You frightel
people out Of their wits byyour preach
ing" roared the bully-fop. "You neve
heard me preach; how do you know ?
"By common report" says Nash. "
should hate to Judge you by common re
port" was the keen retort that shame'
him into silence in the presence Of
crowd that knew him for notoriou
sensualist and gambler. He establishe
o hospital in Bath, grew old and poo
and peevish and lived neglected, bu
was honored with public funeral whe
he died at the age eighty-seven, to b
embalmed in English literature by tn
author Of "The Deserted Village an
s'The Vicar Of Wakefield" whose pc
was probably never employed, even 9
o booksellers hack, on more worth
less subject.
Beau Brummel succeeded Be1u Mas
, in the regular order of Darwinian d.
veIopment. He, too, was an Oxfor
scholar and the heir to o conciderabl
3 fortune, which he found no difficulty
squandering in the whirl an
vortex of London fashionable di
sipation. His biography was wri
ten shortly after his decease, pul
lished in 1874, in two volumes, OCTAVE
by an officer Of the British army, Oal
tain William Jesse, and again
abridged form by the same author, du
decimo, 1854. This famous fop w
gifted with handsome person and O.
quisite taste in matters of dress an
etiquette. he was witty and impudel
icc to degree, and derives no sma
! portion Of his notoriety from b
. intimacy with the Prince Of Vale
g afterward King George ~. He to
. was early bankrupted by his extrav
Te gance and losses at the gaming tabl
!. !. and fed Engand finally to get aw
from bailiffs pursuing him in the inte
est Of tailors and washerwomen! Il
reign was brief in London compar'
: with Nash's at Bath, but was quite
/, powerful while it lasted. This ''incs
nation Of dandyism, who speedily s
away with q patrimony OF $4,000