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"You will see him in a day or two," ? Brummell answers "but I have recommended him to walk only in the back streets until his Brummell's exnew clothes come home." ample was bettered by the dandy who gave the

and fencibles, amounted to thousand men, each conof Hour per week in hairind live hundred

club

foot, horse, militia,

two

jjm

i

tons weight of



iifty

i

ifficient to

make

fty-nine thousand three

hun-

11

A respectablecut direct to his own father. looking elderly man had nodded to him in the " " Who's was the inPark. your friend ? " That ?" and the dandy unblushingly quiry.

dred and fifty-three quartern loaves, which, it was sai<l, would supply fifty thousand persons In 1800, a for a twelvemonth. i

f great

" Oh a very good sort pointed to his parent. of fellow ; one of my Cheshire farmers." In his encounter with Lord Mayor Combe, the brewer,

consumption of flour

scarcity, the

!

in the royal houseThe distillers

Mr. Brummell only came off second-best, however. They were playing hazard at Brookes's, and the Beau, who had' been calling the brewer " Mash-tub " all the evening, after winning some three hundred guineas, pocketed the " Thank money with a low bow, and said, you, Mr. Alderman in future I will never drink " I wish, sir," Combe any porter but yours." answers sturdily, "that every other blackguard in London would do the same." Brummell was not a fighting man, or some giving and " receiving of "satisfaction might have followed " I am net this retort. naturally of an heroic He appeared once at turn," he confessed. Chalk Farm, where, to his intense relief, his

the fares of hackney-coaches

.

and Wedge-

nty-five per cent.,

wood manufactured

dishes with an earthenware

imitation of pie-crust. not seem that any change- was

Yet

in

made

it

does

in the

hair-dressing of the army.

were by no means witty. Even Brumniell's "good things" have little to recomthem beyond their impudence, there



—

humour about

a sort of

summate impudence. the

and con-

cool

Certain of his speeches

g air of being a burlesque upon pretensions of his associates,

f

it Is

though

not clear that he so intended them, man could have "he once ate a pea," unless it was

limcult to believe that a th;it

I

opponent did not present himself at the apBrummell and his second waited second evidently much disap" I think we pointed. may go now, George," " You have taken a load he said at length. off my mind," Brummell exclaimed "let us

Of the same kind y of extravaganza. must have been his statement that he had a severe cold by being inadvertently next "a damp stranger." His calling

-i i

pointed time. an hour, the i

"more cider" at a house where the agne was indifferent his professed conbetween the names "Johnson and

out for

j

go immediately." Brummell was a member of Brookes's Club, and also of Watier's, a new club which had been instituted but a few years. At a dinnerparty at Carlton House, at which several members of White's and Brookes's were present,



ipson,

Thompson and Johnson;"

his ac-

the offer of the City gentleman's ear" to go to a ball, with the inquiry, But, pray, how do you propose to go yourself? ig

scarcely



like to get up behind, and it will do to be seen in the same

re with you," are so

Inch

no

many pieces man would But an

•ciety.

to

ks

the Prince of Wales had made inquiry concerning the kind of dinners provided by the Sir Thomas Stepney explained existing clubs. " The that these were invariably the same. eternal joints or beef-steaks, the boiled fowl with apple sauce, and an apple tart, that's all

of gross

venture extraor-

—

have been perone noble lord

we have,

things" on his feet? i

fully stoops

they?" and down to examine The slippers."



and thumb, inquires i

this

l

humoured '

—

wh >



,

whom

they

and very monotonous

The Prince thereupon sent for his him to found its

dinners a

Watier was not unwilling ; took a house at the corner of Bolton Street, and appointed Madison, the Prince's page, manager, and Labourie, of the royal kitchen, cook. For a time Watier's was very successful. Byron of it as " a superb club." There was the same objection to it, however, that applied to Mr. Toots's tailors, Messrs. Burgess <fe Co., though "fashionable, it was very dear." Labourie vied with the best Parisian cookR. The club was speciality.

unines him from head front then, taking the really call

at our clubs,

cook, Watier, and proposed to a new club, which should make

an ..pinion on his

<

sir,

fare it is."

re

•

[Feb. 20, 1S64.