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chair to a lady, if from some distance, make three pauses, pushing it along some feet each time, skipping with an entre- chat en (want, then a pirouette when placed. One of his songs, truly ridiculous, his black face and powdered woolly head not suitable to the words, was a Vauxhall song then, “ As now my bloom comes on apace, the girls begin to tease me ”; when he came to tease, making a curtsey to the ground, and affecting to blush, placing his hands before his face, an encore was sure to follow. As an orator, his favourite exhibi- tion was {omeo in the garden scene. When he came to that part, “ O that I were a glove upon that hand, that,I might touch that cheek,” the black face, the contrast of his teeth, turning up the white of his eyes as he mouthed, a general laugh always ensued, which indeed was not discouraging to his vanity, and did not prevent him pursuing his rhetorical opinions of himself. Fancying he was admired by the ladies, he boasted much of his amours, and his epistolary correspond- ence. At the time, I sketched, on copper, a caricature of him, called the Mungo Macaroni, which was exhibited in Darley’s shop, in Rupert Court, St. Martin’s Lane; his portrait, by Zofani, which belonged to the DucheSS of Queensberr, given to my mother, I made a present to my friend, Mr. Burgess, Solicitor, Curzon Street.

FENCING. Extract from the Morning Herald, April 9th, 1787.

On Monday, a grand assault was made at Carlton House, before the Prince of Wales, the Duc de Lausanne, Madame d’Eon, and a few of his Highness’s select friends. The principal

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