230 Reminiscences of 



Breast of Chickens, Filleted. 

 Woodcock. Guinea Fowl. 



Asparagus (Argenteuil) . 

 Forequarter of Lamb, French Beans. 

 Duckling. Green Peas. 



Sweets: Savoury. Desert. 



Champagne: Ayala's Brut Vintage, 1884. 

 Madeira: Cossart's Secco Reserva Colheita de 1836. 

 Hock: Schloss Johannisberger Auslese Vintage, 1868. 

 Champagne: Pommery's Vintage, 1874. 

 Claret: Mouton Rothschild's Vintage, 1875. 

 Port: Dow's Dry, Vintage, 1863. 

 Claret: Chateau Margaux Vintage, 1875. 

 Sherry: Gonzalez's Vintage, 1847. 

 Port: Croft's Magnums Vintage, 1834. 



The floral furnishings of the table were of rare and 

 expensive exotics. After dinner the Prince of Wales 

 and most of the guests remained, upon adjournment 

 to the smoking and coffee room, until twelve o'clock, 

 all in pleasant conversation. I had occasion to remind 

 the Prince of his early visit to America and Boston in 

 his nineteenth year, and that I had the pleasure, being 

 Corporal of the Guard of the Independent Corps of 

 Cadets, of doing guard at the Massachusetts State 

 House, in the lunch room, partaken of by the Prince 

 and suite. At that time N. P. Banks was Governor of 

 the State, after whom the Prince particularly inquired, 

 and referred to his martial bearing on horseback in 

 the review of the State troops, and was desirous of 

 learning of his after career. 



Not long afterwards I attended the exhibition of 

 the English Cart Horse Society in London, of which I 

 was a member, and I invited our American Minister, 

 then Mr. Lincoln, to accompany me, which he did, and 



