Lady Wildfire being led out by the Honorable [!] Mr. Yahoo, an
intimate friend of Mr. Titmouse. We should not omit to mention that
Miss Quirk (the only daughter of Caleb Quirk, Esq., the head of the
distinguished firm of Quirk, Gammon, and Snap, of London, to whose
untiring and most able exertions is owing the happy change which
has taken place in the ownership of the Yatton property)
accompanied her father, at the earnest request of Mr. Titmouse, who
danced several sets with her; and it is whispered--but we will not
anticipate family arrangements. Sir [!] Algernon Fitz-Snooks, a
distinguished fashionable, also accompanied Mr. Titmouse, and
entered with great spirit into all the gayeties of the evening. The
'light fantastic toe' was kept 'tripping' till a late, or rather
very early hour in the morning--when the old Hall was once more
(for a time) surrendered to the repose and solitude from which it
has been so suddenly and joyously aroused."
[In another part of the paper was contained an insulting paragraph,
charging Mr. Aubrey with being a party to the "flagrant and iniquitous
job," by which Sir Percival Pickering had been returned for the borough;
and intimating pretty distinctly, that Mr. Aubrey had not gone without
"_a consideration_" for his share in the nefarious transaction.]
A somewhat different account of the affair appeared in the "YORK TRUE
BLUE" of the same day.
"YATTON HALL.--We have received one or two accounts of the orgies
of which this venerable mansion was yesterday the scene, on
occasion of Mr. Titmouse taking possession. We shall not give
publicity to the details which have been furnished us--hoping that
the youth and inexperience of the new owner of Yatton (all
allowance, also, being made for the very natural excitement of such
an occasion) will be deemed a palliative in some measure of the
conduct then exhibited. One fact, however, we may mention, that a
very serious _fracas_ arose between Mr. Titmouse and a certain
well-known sporting baronet, which is expected to give employment
to the gentlemen of the long robe at the ensuing assizes. Nor can
we resist adverting to a circumstance, which our readers will, we
trust, credit, on being assured that we witnessed it with our own
eyes--that Mr. Titmouse positively travelled in the cast-off state
carriage of the Lord Mayor of London!!!! Nothing, by the way, could
be more absurd and contemptible than the attempt at a 'Procession'
which was got up--of which our accounts are ludicrous in the
extreme. Will our readers believe it, that the chief personages
figuring on the occasion, were the editor and publisher of a
certain low Radical print--which will no doubt, this day, favor its
readers with a flaming description of this 'memorable affair!'"
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