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time built at our theatres for the reception and entertainment of prostitutes and their 

 attendant swains. This one may call neutralising." Its bad effect upon fashionable 

 attendance at the playhouses she notices very strongly. But there were many other 

 changes. 



By pcrtnissinn nf GeorgC IV. 



Walker and Bmtall. 



By 1815 " assemblys are become so numerous that two or three of a night it is 

 common to go to ... if it is not quite crowded it is not thought good or 

 agreeable ... no cards are admitted. Music, in which all are proficients, has 

 taken their place." This was very different to the old days when a crowd was rare 

 except at Bedford House, Northumberland House, Norfolk House, Lady 

 Hilsborough's, or Lady Shelburne's, and when the intimate circle, within which 



