+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber’s note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ DRURY LANE VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET IN AND ABOUT DRURY LANE _AND OTHER PAPERS_ REPRINTED FROM THE PAGES OF THE ‘TEMPLE BAR’ MAGAZINE BY DR DORAN AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS AND SOMETHING ON THEM’ ‘JACOBITE LONDON’ ‘QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER’ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration: Logo FIDE·ET·FIDUCIA RB] LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1881 _All rights reserved_ CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PAGE LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1 THE POSTMAN’S KNOCK 26 THE TWENTY-THOUSAND-POUND WIDOW 53 TO BRIGHTON AND BACK AGAIN 78 ON SOME CLUBS, AND THEIR ENDS 105 THROUGH THE PARKS 134 SOME SCOTSWOMEN 160 THE DIBDINS 190 HORATIO NELSON AND EMMA HAMILTON 222 EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGU 285 ROYAL AND IMPERIAL JOKERS 327 _LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY._ But for Pepys and Evelyn we should know but little of the social life of the seventeenth century. A host of letter writers--Walpole, Mrs. Delany, and Mrs. Montagu, at the head of them--may be said to have photographed the next century for us. Lord Malmesbury, Lord Auckland, and some others succeeded; and now we are beginning to have revelations exclusively of the first years of the nineteenth century. The most important contributor to our knowledge in this respect is the late Sir George Jackson, whose volumes, ably edited by his widow, will afford us samples of the times in which our grandmothers were young and had swains at their feet--unless war called them away. Gay people on the Continent had a bad time of it when war broke out in 1803, and the French government issued orders for the arrest of all English persons on whom hands could be laid. Bath expected to be more brilliant than ever by the return of the absentees; but their difficulty was _how_ to return. All who were in France were made prisoners. A precipitate flight of crowds of English travellers from Geneva took place. They were not safe on any part of the Continent; but some, in disguise and on foot, reached Berlin, others got to the sea and arrived in England; but Bath was not sensible of any increase in numbers or gaiety, for the times were out of joint, though dowagers still played whist and young couples danced minuets.