acquired the reputation of being a considerable Consumer of the
good things of the Table, and has been “widened at the expense of
the Corporation,” that on coming out of a Tavern, after a Turtle
Feast, a poor Boy begged Charity of him--“For Mercy’s sake, Sir, I
am so very Hungry!” “_Hungry!_--_Hungry!_--hey!--what!--_complain_
of being _Hungry_!--why I never heard the like!--complain of
being _Hungry_!!--_Prodigious_!!!--why I’d give a Guinea to be
_Hungry_!!!--why, a Hungry Man (with a good Dinner before him) is the
Happiest fellow in the world!--There, (giving the Boy Half-a-Crown,)
there, I don’t want you to take my word for it: run along, my fine
fellow, and make the experiment Yourself.”
It appears, from the following Estimate, that a Hackneyman must every
day earn Thirteen Shillings for the maintenance of his Machinery,
before he will receive any Profit.
£. _s._ _d._
The Keep of Three Horses, (a Hackney Coach
cannot be well worked every day with
fewer of such crazy cattle as they are often
obliged to be content with) at £31. 10_s._ per
Annum for each, (see Estimate No. 4) 94 10 0
Coachman’s Wages, at 9_s._ per Week 23 8 0
Board, ditto, at 14_s._ ditto 36 10 0
Coach-house and Stables, and Tax thereon 20 0 0
Tax on Coach and Horses, £2. per Month, per
Annum 24 0 0
Interest of the Purchase money of the Carriage
and Horses, and the wear and tear thereof,
and New Wheels annually 40 0 0
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238 8 0
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The above Estimate, however considerable it may appear, will not be
considered as too high, when it is recollected that the Carriage is in
continual use, that the Horses are exposed to all weathers, and are
often Over-worked and Under-fed.
Hackney Coachmen get upon the Stands about nine in the Morning, and are
often out till past twelve at Night, except those who work double, who
take out one Coach and Horses Early in the Morning, bring them home at
about six or seven in the Evening, and then take out another pair for
Night-work.
It appears from _Mr. Jervis’s Journal_, which account I believe to be
“quite correct,” that _the Harvest of a Hackney Coachman_, like the
Hay-farmer’s, is in the Sultry Summer Months.
We can defend ourselves from Cold and Rain much more easily than we can
from the fatigue brought on by walking in Hot Weather.
“Careful Observers can foretell the hour,
By sure prognostics, when to dread a shower.
If you are Wise, then go not far to Dine,
You’ll spend in Coach hire more than save in Wine.”
The Vauxhall season is another source of considerable profit to the
proprietors of the Leathern Conveniences.
_The least productive Months_ are February, March, and April: this
may be partly accounted for, by the Economy which is so inevitably
submitted to during those months, occasioned by People’s pockets being
drained by Christmas Bills and Christmas Gambols.
On an average of Forty weeks, it seemed, that _the most productive
Days_ are Wednesdays and Thursdays. This may, in some measure, be
accounted for, by the greater number of Dinner parties, &c. which are
given on those days.
One of the most frequent uses of these accommodating Vehicles, is
to carry People out to Dinner. The following hint, every one who is
equally a true lover of polite Punctuality and of a Hot Dinner, will
think Good Advice.
An Excuse, which is as foolish as it is common, but which a furious
Economist seems to fancy is a sufficient plea for spoiling the best
Feast, is, “_there was not a Coach to be had_.” Uncalculating and
Improvident! not to send for one till the very last moment. You
save nothing by it!--you spoil your Friend’s Dinner! and excite the
displeasure of his Guests!!--and all this--to save your dear, dear
self, _Sixpence_!!! (or as I found it in _Mr. Jervis’s MS._ “a little
white farthing.”) As such a Mite would have prevented it, although your
Polite host may pretend not to notice your Rudeness, no Apology that
you may make can cancel such a confirmed certificate of your Selfish
Impertinence; therefore be not so silly as to fancy that it will.
Remember the English Proverb, “Hunger and Anger are nearly allied;” and
the Scotch saying, that “Hungry people are aye Angry.”
WHEN TO CALL A COACH.
Suppose you have a Mile and a half to go, the fare is Eighteen-pence,
you will seldom be less than 15, or, if you meet with Stoppages on the
way, more than 20 minutes, in going:--for Eighteen-pence you may keep a
Coach 45 Minutes; therefore, _call a Coach a Quarter of an Hour before
you want it_, i. e.--if you do not wish to be Too Late.
HOW TO CALL A COACH.
Having settled _When_--by your leave, we will tell you _How_ to call a
Coach:--
“Go--call a Coach; and let a Coach be called:
Let him that calls the Coach, be called the Caller!
And in his calling, let him nothing call,
But COACH! COACH!! COACH!!!”
_Chrononhotonthologos._
Equity requires that you ought to take the first Coach on the Stand,
however little you may like the appearance of the Driver, the Carriage,
or the Horses; because the occupier of that place having obtained
it by being the longest in waiting, has therefore a fair claim to a
preference, which it is apparently unjust not to grant: However, we
have heard persons give the following advice--_If you are in haste_,
take the Coach, the Driver of which is on the Box, the Horses bitted,
and who stand with their faces towards the way you wish to go:--if
not in a hurry, Open your Eyes, and choose that Vehicle to which the
tidy appearance of it and its Driver attract you, and present ocular
demonstration that the Carriage is clean, and the Coachman careful.
_The Servants of Industry_ are known by their Livery, which is always
_whole and wholesome_--the _Slaves of Idleness_ are slovenly and
loathsome:--the former, generally prove Civil and honest,--the latter,
Impertinent and imposing.
_When going out to Dinner_, Beware of indulging your Benevolence by
conferring the silly Sixpenny Civility of taking up every person
that is bound to the same house: such mighty good kind of Gentry are
commonly too late. However, since Colonel BOSVILLE established the
right laudable custom of locking out all those who come after the
appointed hour, this caution has become almost needless; as now the
rudeness of those who come too late, by such a prudent order to your
Porter, very properly recoils upon Themselves:--Good Dinner-Giver, let
such perfunctory persons be locked out!
Let those who wish to ensure Punctuality, have their Letter of
Invitation expressed in the following manner, and affix thereto the
Seal of the Committee of Taste, the motto on which is,
“BETTER NEVER, THAN LATE.”
_Messrs. Champaigne_ and _Turtle_ request the honour of Messrs.
_Thirst_ and _Hunger’s_ company at Dinner on Thursday the 9th Nov.,
five minutes _before_ Five o’clock.
NOTA BENE.--Messrs. C. and T. have directed, that as soon as the First
Course is served, the Table shall be garnished with the Key of the
Street Door, where it shall remain among the Dormant decorations till
the Second Course is removed.
A prudent General always provides for a Retreat.
_The Best way of securing a Coach to bring you Home_, if it is a long
distance, is to keep the Coach in waiting--or tell the Driver to call
and take you home at a certain hour; or fee the Waterman at the nearest
Stand, to send one at the hour you wish.
A Facetious Friend of the Editor’s, on a very Wet Night, after several
Messengers, whom he had despatched for a Coach, had returned without
obtaining one: at last, at “past one o’clock, and a Rainy Morning,” the
Wag walked himself to the next Coach-stand, and politely advised the
Waterman to mend his Inside lining with a Pint of Beer, and go home to
bed; for, said he, “there will be nothing for you to do to-Night,--I’ll
lay you a Shilling that there’s not a Coach out.”--“Why, will you, your
Honour? then, done,” cried Mr. Waterman; “but are you really serious,
’cause, if so be as You be, I must make haste and go and get one.”
Being assured he would certainly touch the Twelve-penny if he did, He
trotted off on his “Nag a ten toes,” and in Ten minutes returned with a
Leathern Convenience.--_Bonaparte_ used to say, “In some cases, there
is nothing like a Subsidy.”
We make no remarks on the newly introduced
CABRIOLETS,
further than to observe, that they are entitled to only two-thirds of
the Fare of a Hackney Coach.
Mr. JERVIS says that a Carriage with only Two Wheels, however well
piloted by the most expert charioteer, is an extremely dangerous
Vehicle in a paved and crowded street--especially, at the rapid rate at
which some perfunctory people require them to keep moving. If the Horse
be ever so sure-footed, and the Driver ever so skilful and steady, they
are frightfully dangerous Vehicles for town work, and will only be
used by those who are rash enough to sacrifice safety to Celerity, and
Comfort to Cheapness.
HACKNEY COACH AND CHARIOT FARES;
Commencing June 23, 1808, [48 Geo. III. cap. 87.]
FARES ACCORDING TO DISTANCE.
Not exceeding _s. d._
One mile 1 0
One mile and a half 1 6
Two miles 2 0
Two miles and a half 3 0
Three miles 3 6
Three miles and a half 4 0
Four miles 4 6
Four miles and a half 5 6
Five miles 6 0
Five miles and a half 6 6
Six miles 7 0
Six miles and a half 8 0
Seven miles 8 6
Seven miles and a half 9 0
Eight miles 9 6
Eight miles and a half 10 6
Nine miles 11 0
Nine miles and a half 11 6
Ten miles 12 0
Ten miles and a half 13 0
Eleven miles 13 6
Twelve miles 15 0
And so on, at the rate of 6_d._ for every half mile, and an additional
6_d._ for every two miles completed.
FARES ACCORDING TO TIME.
Not exceeding _s. d._
Thirty minutes 1 0
Forty-five minutes 1 6
One hour 2 0
One hour and 20 minutes 3 0
One hour and 40 minutes 4 0
Two hours 5 6
Two hours and 20 minutes 6 0
Two hours and 40 minutes 7 0
Three hours 8 0
Three hours and 20 minutes 9 0
Three hours and 40 minutes 10 6
Four hours 11 0
And so on, at the rate of 6_d._ for any fifteen minutes further time.
Cabriolets are entitled to two-thirds of the Coach fares.
MEM.--A Coachman may contract to drive you to a certain Place for a
certain Sum, and if it exceeds the distance which you are entitled to
be carried for such Sum--he cannot demand more.
The fares are to be taken by the Hour or Mile only, and not by the Day.
_Coaches discharged after Sun-set hours_ (viz. after 8 between Lady Day
and Michaelmas, and after 5 between Michaelmas and Lady Day,) between
the carriage-way pavement, or if hired at a stand beyond the same, may
demand the full fare back to such extremity or standing.
For Coaches hired to go into the country in the day-time, and there
discharged, additional fares are to be taken for their return to the
pavement or next stand where hired, as follow: for 10 miles, 5_s._;
8 miles, 4_s._; 6 miles, 3_s._; and 4 miles, _2s._ If under 4 miles,
nothing.
Coachmen are not compellable to take more than four, nor Chariots more
than three, adult persons inside, and a servant out: but if they agree
to take more, then 1_s._, in addition to the fare, must be paid for
each extra person; and if the coach be hired for the country, and to
return, 1_s._ for each extra person going, and 1_s._ for his returning.
_Abusive Language._--The Drivers behaving rudely, or using abusive
Language, are to forfeit not more than £10,--in default of payment, are
sent to the House of Correction for any time the Magistrate may please,
not exceeding two months.
_Extortion._--Coachmen refusing to go on, or extorting more than their
fare, are to forfeit not more than 3_l._ nor less than 10_s._ Not only
the Commissioners in Essex Street, Strand, but also the Magistrates at
the Police-offices, determine such Offences, and inflict Punishments.
_Obligation to go on._--If a Coach be drawn off the Stand to the side
of the pavement, it is equally as liable to be hired as if it stood
on the Stand, and the Coachman may be made to go with you, if not
hired--if he refuses, he is liable to be fined. They are compellable,
if plying for hire, at any hour of the Day or the Night, to go upon
all Turnpike roads, any where within Two miles and a half from the end
of the Carriage-way pavement.
_Articles left in a Hackney Coach_ are (by a late Act) to be taken
to the Hackney Coach Office, Essex Street, Strand, on pain of paying
20_l._; to be recovered on application to the Commissioners, or a
Justice of the Peace.
The Coachman is to take the shortest way, and to charge accordingly:
but if he, from choice or ignorance, does otherwise, he can make no
extra charge.
He may refuse to take _Heavy Luggage_, unless he is paid something
more than the fare; but he must object to it before it be put into the
Coach: he cannot, however, object to take a small Parcel that may be
carried in the hand.
_When a Coachman is desired to wait_, he may demand a sum in hand
beyond his previous fare, and is accountable for such sum when you
discharge him. He is not bound to wait without such a _detainer_, nor
longer than it will pay for the time.
See a comprehensive Abstract of the 18 Acts of Parliament relating to
Hackney Coaches, in p. 765 of Vol. II. of Sir George Chetwynd’s edition
of Dr. Burn’s Justice, 8vo. 1825.
Those who wish to ascertain distance very exactly, I advise to purchase
Mr. QUAIFE’S HACKNEY COACH DIRECTORY, which is sold only at the Hackney
Coach Office in Essex Street, Strand, and contains nearly _Eighteen
Thousand Fares from actual Measurements_, and
CARY’S NEW GUIDE FOR ASCERTAINING
HACKNEY COACH FARES, Price 3_s._ 6_d._
This elaborate work gives an actual admeasurement of every Street in
the Metropolis, and affords the means of ascertaining _the Length of
any Route, however indirect_.
We subjoin, as a Specimen, the Two first pages of this Work.
The first and second Column contain the Distance of one Street
from the other as they occur in the Route; the third, fourth,
and fifth, the total or full Length from the Commencement.--M.
signifies Mile--F. Furlong--P. Pole.
PICCADILLY.
_Hyde Park Turnpike to Leadenhall Street._
Streets, &c. passed through:--Piccadilly, Haymarket, Cockspur
Street, Charing Cross, Strand, Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill,
Ludgate Street, St. Paul’s Churchyard, Cheapside, Poultry,
Mansion House Street, Cornhill, Leadenhall Street, Aldgate
Street, Aldgate, Aldgate High Street, Whitechapel, and Mile End
Old Town.
|F.|P.||M.|F.|P.|
_Piccadilly._ |--|--||--|--|--|
To Hamilton Street | | || | |35|
Park Lane | |16|| | 1|11|
Down Street | |24|| | 1|35|
Engine Street | |18|| | 2|13|
White Horse Street | |20|| | 2|33|
Half Moon Street | |14|| | 3| 7|
Clarges Street | | 9|| | 3|16|
Bolton Street | |11|| | 3|27|
Stratton Street | |10|| | 3|37|
Berkley Street | |15|| | 4|12|
Arlington and Dover Streets | |13|| | 4|25|
St. James and Albemarle Streets | |12|| | 4|37|
Bond Street | |10|| | 5| 7|
Duke Street | |19|| | 5|26|
Sackville Street | |18|| | 6| 4|
Swallow Street | | 8|| | 6|12|
Air Street | |19|| | 6|31|
Eagle Street | | 2|| | 6|33|
The Haymarket | |35|| | 7|28|
7 .. 28 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Haymarket_. |--|--||--|--|--|
To Norris and Panton Streets | |26|| 1| |14|
James Street | |11|| 1| |25|
Theatre | | 6|| 1| |31|
Suffolk Street and Opera House | |11|| 1| 1| 2|
Pall Mall | |11|| 1| 1|13|
1 .. 25 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Cockspur Street_. |--|--||--|--|--|
Suffolk Street | |14|| 1| 1|27|
Whitcomb Street | |10|| 1| 1|37|
Spring Gardens | | 5|| 1| 2| 2|
0 .. 29 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Charing Cross_. | | || | | |
Statue Of King Charles | |19|| 1| 2|21|
St. Martin’s Lane | |15|| 1| 2|36|
0 .. 34 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Strand_. | | || | | |
Northumberland Street | | 2|| 1| 2|38|
Hungerford Street | |15|| 1| 3|13|
Villiers Street | |12|| 1| 3|25|
Buckingham Street | | 9|| 1| 3|34|
Bedford Street | |21|| 1| 4|15|
Adam Street | |13|| 1| 4|28|
Salisbury Street | |13|| 1| 5| 1|
Cecil Street | | 7|| 1| 5| 8|
Southampton Street | | 5|| 1| 5|13|
Beaufort Buildings | | 7|| 1| 5|20|
Burleigh Street | |15|| 1| 5|35|
Catherine Street | |25|| 1| 6|20|
Somerset Place | |14|| 1| 6|34|
New Church and Little Drury Lane | |16|| 1| 7|10|
Newcastle Street | | 3|| 1| 7| 3|
Surry Street | |11|| 1| 7|24|
Norfolk Street | |10|| 1| 7|34|
Arundel Street | | 9|| 2| | 3|
Essex Street | |18|| 2| |21|
Temple Bar | |24|| 2| 1| 5|
6 .. 9 | | || | | |
|--|--||--|--|--|
Enter _Fleet Street_. | | || | | |
To Chancery Lane | |13|| 2| 1|18|
Fetter Lane | |23|| 2| 2|21|
Serjeants’ Inn | | 6|| 2| 2| 7|
Bouverie Street | |11|| 2| 2|18|
Water Lane | |11|| 2| 2|29|
Salisbury Court | |17|| 2| 3| 6|
Shoe Lane | | 1|| 2| 3| 7|
Fleet Market | |29|| 2| 3|36|
2 .. 31 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Ludgate Hill_. | | || | | |
Old Bailey | |29|| 2| 4|25|
St. Martin’s Ludgate Church | |18|| 2| 5| 3|
1 .. 7 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Ludgate Street_. | | || | | |
Creed and Ave Maria Lanes | | 8|| 2| 5|11|
St. Paul’s Churchyard | | 8|| 2| 5|19|
0 .. 16 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _St. Paul’s Churchyard_. | | || | | |
Paul’s Chain | |18|| 2| 5|37|
Watling Street | |25|| 2| 6|22|
Cheapside | |28|| 2| 7|13|
1 .. 31 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Cheapside_. | | || | | |
Old Change | | 5|| 2| 7|15|
Foster Lane | | 3|| 2| 7|18|
Gutter Lane | |13|| 2| 7|31|
Friday Street | | 6|| 2| 7|37|
Wood Street | | 5|| 3| | 2|
Bread Street | | 5|| 3| | 7|
Milk Street | | 2|| 3| | 9|
Bow Churchyard | |11|| 3| |20|
Bow Lane | | 4|| 3| |24|
Lawrence Lane | | 7|| 3| |31|
King and Queen Streets | | 5|| 3| |36|
Ironmonger Lane | | 4|| 3| 1| |
Bucklersbury | | 9|| 3| 1| 9|
1 .. 39 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Poultry_. | | || | | |
To Old Jewry | | 4|| 3| 1|13|
Charlotte Row | |24|| 3| 1|37|
0 .. 28 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Mansion House Street_. | | || | | |
Mansion House | | 5 3 2 2
Bank Buildings | |20 3 2 22
0 .. 25 | | || | | |
| | || | | |
Enter _Cornhill_. | | || | | |
Royal Exchange | | 9|| 3| 2|31|
Freeman’s Court | |12|| 3| 3| 3|
Birchin Lane | | 3|| 3| 3| 6|
Finch Lane | | 1|| 3| 3| 7|
Gracechurch and Bishopsgate Streets| |27|| 3| 3|34|
1 .. 12 | | || | | |
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Expense of King George the Third’s State Coach which was made
in the year 1762, was--
£ _s. d._
Coachmaker 1,637 15 0
Carver 2,500 0 0
Gilder 935 14 0
Painter 315 0 0
Laceman 737 10 7
Chaser 665 4 6
Harness Maker 385 15 0
Mercer 202 5 10½
Belt Maker 99 6 6
Milliner 31 3 4
Sadler 10 16 6
Woollen Draper 4 3 6
Cover Maker 3 9 6
7,562 4 3½
[2] There are 36 Trusses in a Load of Hay, and the same in a Load of
Straw; 40 Trusses of each, 1 Ton.
[3] These were by Chief Justice Mansfield called “_Bankrupt Carts_,”
because they were, and are, frequently driven by those who could
neither afford the Money to support them, nor the Time spent in using
them, the want of which, in their Business, brought them to Bankruptcy.
[4] Do not give unusually high standing _Wages_. These should neither
exceed nor fall short of the Rates which Custom has established; or, in
the former case, you will make your own servants idle and extravagant,
and those of your neighbours unhappy and discontented. If you do
not pay the customary compensation for the service you receive, you
will excite a continually rankling discontent in the minds of your
Domestics, and will be harassed with those continual changes in your
establishment, which will soon render Good Servants shy of engaging in
it.
The best way to encourage Servants is to give them “_Occasional
Presents and Indulgences_.” These I would not bestow in Money, but
give him a pair of Good Boots or Shoes, or an Umbrella, or a Watch,
according to his Diligence and Long Service: confer these Rewards,
rather as given for general Good Conduct, than as for any particular
occurrence, or they may be received as merited payment for an insulated
piece of service.
[5] The price charged by _Mr. Williams_, Button Manufacturer, No. 103,
St. Martin’s Lane, for a pair of Button Dies, is £2. 2_s._
Buttons are not always stamped so carefully as they ought to
be:--caution your Button Maker, that you will not take any impressions
that are imperfect: you may be charged a trifle more per Dozen, if
you will have every Button as perfect as the Proof Specimen. Let the
Letters of the Motto, which is generally put round the Crest, be large
enough to be legible--they are generally too small.
[6]
_s._ _d._
Letting the Horses wash their Mouths, which
is comfortable to them in very hot weather.
If you are Travelling a long Journey, it will
refresh them much more, if you at the same
time give them a little bit of Hay; for
these you are generally charged, for a
Pair of Horses 0 6
For a _Short Bait_, i. e. if you go out for Ten
Miles, and the Horses are put up for an
hour or two, a feed, a Quartern of Corn each,
including 6_d._ to the Hostler, is about 1 6
See more of the Estimates of Expenses in Travelling, in Part I. of the
“_Traveller’s Oracle_.”
[7] The Strap for pulling up the Step, and the Inside Handle, are great
conveniences to those who do not take a Footman out with them. See
“_Dumb Footman_,” in the Index.
[8] _The Ancient Equestrian_ who read the MS. of this Work, wrote the
following note:--
“Those who keep Horses should occasionally look into the Mews early in
the morning; and if a man is there with a Sack, or Donkey and Panniers,
immediately think of their Corn and Hay, &c.”--A. E.
[9] Pens, Parchment, and Wax.
[10] _Cook’s Patent Life Preserver for Carriages_ may be viewed at the
_Manufactory, No. 127, Long Acre_. Its object is to stop horses when
running away: the contrivance is extremely simple, and a Lady may, with
the greatest facility, apply its force against the power of the horses,
thereby gradually but irresistibly arresting their progress. Should the
coachman leave the box, this invention will enable him to prevent the
possibility of the horses starting off in his absence; or should he be
thrown from his seat, or fall off in a fit, or from any other cause,
an infirm person or even a Child in the carriage, has the power of
stopping a pair, or four horses, with ease and certainty.
[11] Carriage, in the usual meaning of the word among Coachmakers,
signifies the lower system, on which the Body containing the Passengers
is suspended, and to which the Wheels are attached: though speaking
generally of Coaches, Chariots, &c. they are properly called Carriages
of such descriptions; but as the word Carriage will be frequently used
in both senses, when it signifies the lower system only, it will be
printed in _Italics_: when used in the general meaning of the word, in
common letters.
[12] The Timbers of the Under Carriage, in which the Pole is placed.
[13] The long leaver by which the Carriage is conducted.
[14] A compassed timber, fixed on the Futchells, which keeps the fore
Carriage steady.
[15] The Leathers by which the Body is hung or checked.
_The Main Braces_ are what the Body hangs by.
_The Collar Braces_ are those which go round the Perch or crane, and
are buckled through a Ring fixed to bottom of the Body, to check its
motion sideways, and to confine it from striking against the Wheels.
_The Check Braces_ are for the purpose of checking the motion of the
Body endways, and are placed at the four Corners.
The Braces should be occasionally shifted from their bearing, as that
part on which the weight rests is deprived of the moisture of grease,
which preserves the Leather, and the Brace becomes dry and susceptible
of the Wet, and soon Cracks and Breaks;--therefore, once in a month let
the situation of the Braces be changed a little, and they will last
three times as long.
[16] _Mr. Jarvis_ assures us that none of the plans for rendering
Clothes Water Proof have answered his expectations.
[17] We were amused, and perhaps the Reader may, with the following
definition of the word “_Genteel_.”
_Q._ Has any Body called (said _Mr. Thin_) while I have been out?
_A._ Yes, Sir, a Gentleman called, about Two o’Clock.
_Q._ What kind of a Person?
_A._ A Genteel Man, Sir--an extremely Genteel Man, Sir; for I think he
was Taller and Thinner than You!!!
[18] “Those who regard Health will not frequent crowded rooms and
assemblies. When I was at Bath, about to publish an Essay on the
effects of _Noxious Air_, one of my brethren waggishly said, ‘Let
them alone, Doctor; for how else will 26 Physicians be able to exist
here?’”--_Dr. Adair on Diet, &c._ 8vo. p. 93. 1812.