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RNYG.780.063
8 Mar 1780:22,23 (359)
From the Morning Chronicle. In compliance with the promise
which I made to you on your inserting my former letter, I
have once more taken a review of the occurrences which my
fancy presented to me, the other evening, and have been
fortunate enough as to recollect several which had at first
escaped me.
Without any further preface, I shall now give you the
remaining part of my dream. E-- B----t was very angry with
the D-- of N------------d, for taking from him his song of
"Old women can do as much as old men," declaring it was the
only song he had sung for some years past, either in public
or private: but a member of the Administration hinting the
impropriety of such a declaration from himself (in his
present situation ) however well convinced the world in
general might be of the fact, his Lordship with some
difficulty recollected, "Oh! the days when I was young." I
should have observed to you that L--- W-------h previous to
his singing "Bar, ban, Can caliban," attempted "the festive
board," in which he had been always thought to be quite at
home, and did very well till he came to "Business,
[illegible word], pomp, and state," where he stopt short,
and not being able to go through with "Business," was
obliged to give it up, when by way of forced put, he sung
his resignation song from the tempest. The E--- of S-------
-e objected to exhibiting in a single song, as he said, that
for obvious reasons he had lately practiced duets; but the
company being resolved to admit of no excuse, he very
elegantly sung, "Which way shall I turn me? How shall I
decide?" By the way, I could not but remark, that the noble
Earl sung in a more courtly strain than he had done for some
time past. The D--- of D-------e was all that could be
wished in "Diogenes surly and proud." His Grace of D-------
-t gave the House a derry down song, which his friend Lumpey
taught him the last time they played Hampshire against all
England, on Broad-halfpenny--N.B. All the minority were
very loud in their chorus of "Down, derry down," and the
majority totally silent on the occasion. The D--- of Q-----
-----y was then solicited for a specimen of his voice. His
Grace had just settled a bett with the E-- of A-----don, to
run a female tabby cat of his own stud, against the Earl's
tortoiseshell board, a hundred yards heat, with a kitten in
her mouth. The conditions of the bett had been inserted in
the margin of a flaming speech, which the Earl had just
penned, and produced a curious cross-reading. In the speech
was "Ministry, Minority-Country raised-in the margin--"Done
and done on both sides." On the right hand of the sheet,
'Ministerial hirelings." -- opposite to it "Five to four" in
the speech,--"Patriotism". . . [Article comprises 2/3 of
col. 2 and most of col. 3]
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