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The world rings with accounts of the extravagance of London. 

 There is extravagance, but it is among the sti-ugglers for high hfe, the 

 gens de banque, who, thank the just stars ! are so often the gens dejban- 

 queroutc, the half-breeds, the Mrs. Boehm tribe, the Barings and 

 Trotters, and Masseh Manassah Lopezes, and so forth, through the 

 whole Judaic pedigree. But the established monde, having no necessity 

 for this canvass through the gastric region, and feeling necessities of 

 every other kind, contrive to manage matters with an oeconomy that 

 might have done honour to old Elves. We give_from^the fashionable 

 chronicles, a Collection of " Exempla varia." 



" The Blarquis of Hertford has hermeticalli/ sealed up the doors and 

 windows of his pleasant cottage at the foot of Richmond-bridge, where 

 the late Duke of Queensbury enjoyed ' midnight song and revelry, 

 tipsy dance and jollity,' for half a century. The good^ tradespeople of 

 Richmond sigh for the return of the marquis." 



The marquis has done more ; for he has shut up his house in Picca- 

 dilly, and, with a hundred thousand pounds a-year, has shut up himself 

 in that region of retired tailors, and grocers past their labours — the 

 Regent's Park. 



The Marquis of Cholmondeley, with 50,000/. a-year, '^has let the 

 handsome family mansion in Piccadilly,, and has gone to some hut or 

 other, to save his soul ! a practice happily coincident with saving his 

 pocket too. 



" The Duke of Gloucester has regularly conveyed to each tlieatre he 

 may please to visit his lea equipage ; and the Duchess of St. Albans, in 

 imitation of royalty, has adopted the same plan. — There are rooms 

 attached to the private boxes occupied by these personages, where the 

 hissing-nrn or more humble lea-kettle are put into requisition." 



The unlucky coffee-room keepers at the playhouses have calculated 

 that his Royal Highness cannot save more than a farthing a cup by the 

 importation of his own tea and sugar into their territory. 



" Lord Stair, one of the very accomplished gourmands of the present 

 day, arrived in town, from Paris, last Tuesday. — On Wednesday, his 

 lordship gave a dinner at the Albion, in Aldersgate-street, to two dis- 

 tinguished individuals of well known gout, which consisted of cold 

 oysters, by way of a whet, turtle dressed in a variety of ways, and after- 

 wards three regular courses of the most choice viands pecidiar to Mr. 

 Kay's establishment. The party finished the evening at Vauxliall." 



Thus were gourniandise and economy exquisitely united. The noble 

 lord feasted himself and his two distinguished oyster-eaters without the 

 bore of a dinner eslablishment at home. About five pounds discharged 

 liim of the obligations to IMr. Kay, and four shillings expended at \^aux- 

 hall made a handsome completion of a day of patrician pleasure. 



The Herald lately published an account of the rebuff of the Dover 

 corporation, by the Dictator, and attempted to explain the reason in the 

 following style. The corporation had waited on his grace at Walmer 

 Castle to congratulate him on his appointment. 



" ' Tell their worships,' said the man wot drives the Sovereign, to tlie 

 man wot brought the message — ' tell their worships that I am ready to 

 receive tliem if they have any business of imparlance to communicate, 

 or any thing useful to suggest to me torching the wardensliip of the 

 Cinque Ports ; otlicrwise I have no leisure at this time to attentl to then) ' 



