Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth centuryAshton, John
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Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth century
Ashton, John
Great Britain -- Social life and customs
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"In days of yore, Lady Wallace would have been burnt for a witch
from the prophecies, now verified, which she published a year
ago, in a letter to her son:--She foretold that the _Prince_
would soon throw off the corrupt ministers to his youthful
pleasures, and shew himself the protector of that happy
Government, which alone can insure the wealth, freedom, and
glory, of England! She says, "he will emerge in all the splendour
which attends the noon-day sun, after having dispersed the clouds
exhaled from foul vapours beneath him." She foretold that the
united forces would not succeed in their attack upon France: that
England must inevitably be speedily involved in war, from the
convulsed state of the Continent:--She said, that if foreign
Powers would take no hostile part against the French, that they
would prey like wolves upon each other, and do more towards a
Counterrevolution, by their frenzy being vented in internal
discord, than all Europe would ever force them to do. It was her
Ladyship who first boldly exposed to a great personage, and
society, _Egalité's_ crimes, and foretold, that, after having
washed his daggers in Royal blood at Paris, he would send his
hireling ruffians to attempt like horrors here! truths which are
well known now, although they appeared then incredible. Her
information when on the Continent, and knowledge of foreign
politics, are most accurate, and valuable."--(_Times, Feb. 12,
1793._)
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"The _first speech_ Mr. Grey ever delivered in Parliament, was on
the subject of the Commercial Treaty with France. _At that time_
Mr. Grey expressed, in very forcible language, his abhorrence of
any connexion _whatever_ with the French, and, strongly insisting
on their inbred hatred to this country, declared, they were a
perfidious, and treacherous, people, and on no account to be
trusted."--(_Times, Feb. 14, 1793._)
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"On Mr. Grey, being the only Man not in Mourning in the House of
Commons, on a late melancholy occasion."--(_Times, Feb. 14,
1793._)
"'Twas unfeeling forsooth,
Every Man in the House
Was in mourning, but one who drest gay;
As he would not be Black,
He'll be made to look Blue,
A mixture which forms a bad Grey."
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"It is said that there have been one hundred and twenty-one
Changes in the Peerage since the commencement of Mr. Hastings's
trial in 1788."--(_Times, Feb. 18, 1793._)
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"An Expostulation with John Bull, in favour of the Marquis of
L--nsd--n:--
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