Brighton rapidly became fashionable, and we find the announcement on June 1, 1761, of Lord Abergavenny, Lord Bruce, Mr. and Lady Jane Evelyn, Lady Sophia Egerton, etc.; and on June 25, 1775, arrived here the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Ladies Caroline and Eliza Spencer, etc. In 1782 it was patronized by Royalty, for the somewhat eccentric Princess Amelia Sophia Eleonora, the second daughter of George II., paid the town a visit, and Henry Frederick, brother to George III. and Duke of Cumberland, took up his residence there at Grove House. An extract from a letter from Brighthelmstone published in the _Morning Herald_, September 28, 1782, describes the state of society there at that time: '_Sep. 26._--This place is, at last, as full as an egg, but the company is a motley groupe, I assure you. The Duke of C---- is at the head of the whole, and condescendingly associates with all, from the _Baron_ down to the _Blackleg_!--_Play_ runs high, particularly at Whist; his Royal Highness has touched a few hundreds by betting adverse to Major B----gs, who, apparently, is not like to make a very profitable campaign of it. We have every kind of amusement that fancy can desire for the train of folly and dissipation; and all are crowded beyond measure! _Barthelemon_ has had two or three _boreish concerts_ entirely of _his own_ music, by which he has made much more than he merited. Lady _Worsley_, who is among us, is the life and soul of _equestrian parties_, riding _sixteen miles within the hour_ every morning with all imaginable ease! Her Ladyship made a match the other day to ride over our revived course for fifty guineas, p. or p. against her aide du camp, Miss V----rs, and mounted her buckskins and half boots accordingly; but, to the mortification of a great number of spectators, who assembled to see this exhibition of _female jockeyship_, she declared off at the moment they were expected to start! Few people think of stirring from hence at present, so that it is probable we shall have a jolly season till the staghounds come down, about the middle of next month.'