Mankind! The Country-houses of our Nobility and Gentry are empty in
July. Thus the Spring months, the season of Joy throughout creation,
pass unobserved by the affluent and gay. The souls of human beings,
in this Age of Art, would seem to wish the Sun to be darkened; they
find no pleasure but in the light of a Lamp.--I feel for the rising
generation, when I consider the effects of these overgrown follies upon
Inexperienced minds.”--_Dr. Trotter on the Nervous Temperament_, 8vo.
p. 245. 1807.
[20] “There is an ordinary trick at common Inns of Stealing the Horse’s
Oats, where, although the Masters be in good condition and honest, yet
their Servants rob one another of the Oats committed to their charge,
and then make a piece of Gallantry and Jest of it.”--_Sollysell’s
Compleat Horseman_, fol. p. 108. 1717.
[21] It should have been within _Five Miles_!
[22] The best Map we have seen of this Ground, as it was in 1805, _i.
e._ just before the _Improvements_, as it is the fashion to call the
_Piles of Bricks and Mortar_ which now stand where we used to walk and
enjoy the Fresh Air, was published by Bowles and Carver, in St. Paul’s
Churchyard, where it may still be had, and is entitled “A Map of London
and its Environs, Three Miles round St. Paul’s, in 1805.”
[23] Bolts and Nuts are the machinery by which the Timber and Iron work
is fixed together.
[24] To tell the Reader exactly what class of persons was meant to
be designated by the word _Gentleman_, in the year 1757, would be as
difficult a task as to define it now. The last time we heard it, was
on visiting a Stable to look at a Horse, when, on inquiring for the
Coachman, his Stable Keeper replied, “He is just stepped to the Public
House along with another Gentleman.”
The following is the Negro’s definition of a _Gentleman_:--“_Massa make
de black Man workee--make de Horse workee--make de Ox workee--make
every ting workee, only de Hog: he, de Hog, no workee; he eat, he
drink, he walk about, he go to sleep when he please, he liff like a_
GENTLEMAN.”--_European Mag._ January, 1811, p. 17.
I have never forgotten Sir Richard Steele’s Observation, which struck
my mind with happy force in my boyish days:--“_A Christian_ and a
_Gentleman_ are become inconsistent Appellations of the same person.
You cannot expect Eternal Life, if you do not _forgive_ Injuries: the
Weak and the Wicked will do their utmost to make your Mortal Life
uncomfortable, if you are not ready to commit a _Murder_ in Resentment
for _an Affront_.”--_From No. 20 of the Guardian._
_Sir Richard_ has very properly applied to the _Duellist_ what _Dr.
South_ has said of the Liar: “_He is a Coward to Man_, and a _Bravo to_
GOD!”
The most ridiculous circumstance respecting _Duelling_, is, that
the Man who has suffered the Injury must submit himself to the same
Peril with him who inflicted it, so that the Punishment is entirely
accidental, and as likely to fall upon the Innocent as the Guilty.
[25] So called by “The Oracle,” from the furious sacrifice of the
comfort of the Interior of our Modern Houses to the paltry plaister
patchwork of (what the Vulgar pronounce) “a pretty Elevation.”
Aye!--pretty may be for part of a Palace--but as inconvenient as it is
impertinent for a Private Dwelling.
[26] “The longer his Taile be, hee shall the better defend himself
therewith in summer season from the flies; and therefore _Cameranus_
doth not a little marvel at those which use to curtail their
Horses.”--_Blundevill on Horses_, 1609. p. 13.
[27] The attentive and obliging Surveyor to the Board of Hackney
Coaches in Essex Street, Strand.
_The Hackney Coach Office_ is open from 10 till 3 o’Clock every day;
and no person belonging to the Office is allowed to make any demand
or charge for Expenses, or to receive any Fee or Gratuity, under any
pretence whatever.
[28] “In _Paris_, Hackney Coaches are hired either by the _course_ (_à
la course_), i. e. as often as the vehicle is stopped, or by the _hour_
(_à l’heure_). The fare is 30 sous (1_s._ 3_d._) per course, whether it
be a quarter of a Mile or three Miles; or two francs (1_s._ 8_d._) for
the first hour, and 30 sous (1_s._ 3_d._) per hour afterwards.
“From midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning, the fare is doubled.
“These coaches are not obliged to carry more than four persons and a
child, nor to take any heavy luggage.
“If the Coach be hired by Time, the first hour must be paid for,
whether it is entirely occupied or not; but it is not necessary to pay
for more of the second, or of any succeeding hour, than has actually
elapsed.
“If a coach is engaged to go to the Theatres, or to any place of public
amusement, it is customary to pay the coachman at the time of starting,
in order to avoid delay at alighting.”--_Planta’s Picture of Paris_,
16mo. 1825, p. 408.
INDEX TO PART II.
Abusive Language, 321
Accidents, 81
Adviser, an experienced, is to be consulted in purchasing a Carriage, 118
Agreement, form of, 21
---- articles of, 56
Articles left in a Hackney Coach, 322
Axle-trees, 93, 99
Back-Light of a Coach, 70
Beggars’ dogs, 89
Box Coats, 133
Blundevill on Horses, 278
Braces, the main, 116
Buonaparte’s Travelling Chariot, 127
Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, 163
Cabriolets, 317
Carriage, private, its expense compared with the hiring of Hackney
Coaches, 286-291
Carriages and Chariots, criterion for the price of, 5
----, care of, 201-204
----, travelling, 123
----, length of, 109
Cary, Mr., plan of a new map, 293
Character of servants, 145
Chariot, construction of a, 65
Cheapest mode of keeping a Carriage, 33
Clock, advantages of a good, 155
Clover for horses, 253
Coach, when to call a, 312
----, how to call a, 313
Coach box, 135
Coachmaking art of, 59
Coachman, a skilful, 143
----’s livery, 26-31
----, how to give orders to, 146
----, punctuality essential in, 151
Coat, coachman’s, 134
----, how to give a horse a fine, 246
Colds of horses, 261-266
Collinge’s axles, 94
Contracts for building Carriages, 53
Cook’s Life Preserver for Carriages, 77
Country houses vacant until July, 139
Cracked heels, remedy for, 265
Cushions, seat, 72
Dashing Iron, the, 17
Dickey Coach box, 79
Directions for buying and keeping of an equipage, 1
---- as to who should examine the linch-pins, 17
Directory, Quaife’s Hackney Coach, 323
Diuretic balls for swelled heels, 265
Dogs, tax on, should be duly enforced, 88
Doors of Carriages, 209
Driving, on, 184-191
Dry coat, importance of a, 134
Ducrow’s theatrical stud, 219
Duelling, 228
Durability of vehicles, 8
Duties, assessed, on men servants, carriages, and horses, 131
Elbows of a Carriage, of the, 67
Embrocation, anti-rheumatic, 135
Environs of town, expedition to dinner in the, 157
Equestrian statue of Charles I., 219
Evening parties, 136
Examination of a second-hand Carriage, 114
Exercising of horses, 243
Expense of keeping a Carriage, 3
---- ---- keeping a Horse, 11
Extortion, 321
Extra charges made by a coach-builder for all additions, 61
Fares, Hackney Coach, 292-318
Fifteen good points of a coachman, 165-169
Fires, how to manage horses in case of, 272
Foresight of a physician, 137
Form of a Carriage highly important, 65
Genteel man described, a, 135
Gentleman, defined by a negro, 227
Glass coaches, 49
Glasses, coach, 69
Gomersal’s personification of Buonaparte, 219
Granite Pavement, 101
Grass, on sending horses to, 257
Grooming and dressing of horses, 245
Gruel for horses, 239
Guineas not obsolete in accounts, 7
Hackney coaches, choice of, 314
---- ----, origin of, 303
Hackney coachmen, 296, 314
----man’s charge for jobbing a saddle-horse, 14
Hammercloth, 204
Hanway’s Travels, 226
Harness, 119
----, second-hand, 121
Hard-Driving, 185
Hats with gold band, 30
Hay, how to select, 253
Holsters, pistol, to the dickey-box, 123
Horses, choice of, 225
----, hints to purchasers of, 223
----, to preserve the health of, 238-244
----, food and provender of, 249-256
----, of a hackney coach, 305, 306
----, age recommended for carriage, 21
Horse, expense of a saddle, 11
---- balls, 262
----dealers, 45
Horsemen, advice to, 273
Hostler, derivation of the word, 47
Hours, early, 139
Hydrophobia, 83-92
Imperials, 124
Inside handles to Carriages, 77
Inventory, important, 201
Job, to, or hire a Carriage, 54
Jobbing Horses, 44
Knee-boot to Coach box, 135
Lamps, circular, 106
Landau, or Landaulet, 52
Leather, condition of the, 121
Lining of a Coach, its best colour, 71
Letter requiring an immediate answer, when useful, 154
Livery, 26-31
---- stables, 15
Locks to the doors of a Carriage, 76
Luggage, heavy, 322
Macadamised streets truly beneficial, 99-101
Map of London, 172
Markham’s way to wealth, 277
Master, the good, 133
Matching of a horse, 23
Midnight meetings, 138
---- conversation, 141
New road from Paddington to Islington, 173
Newcastle, Duke of, his directions for the management of horses, 230, 246
Nuisances, public, 83-92
Oil, 107
Oil-skin covers, 125
Old Carriages and Chariot, selling of, 62
One-horse Carts the cause of accidents, 187
Open Carriages, 39
Ornaments of Carriages, 104
Paint, spare, 210
Perambulator for measuring distances, 298
Pembroke, Earl of, 251
Plated furniture, of, 105
Posting in Ireland, rates of, 42
Presents to servants, how rendered advantageous to the donor, 25
Price of new Carriages, of various denominations, 16
Profits of a Hackney Coachman, 305
Provender for horses, 255
Proverb, useful old, 46
Punctuality indispensable in a Coachman, 151
Quaife, Mr., Surveyor to the Board of Hackney Coaches, 296
Rattling of the Coach, 205
Reason for Coachmen not liking Collinge’s axle-trees, 96
Regent’s Park, the, 174
Repairs of Carriages, 212
Roads, the commissioners of the, 178
Rochefort, Monsieur R. de, 250
Rough-shodding in frosts, 28
Royal anecdote, 6
Safety braces, 126
Screwing the bolts, 204
Shades, green silk spring sun, 73
Shafts for a single horse _occasionally_ applied to a Chariot, 20
Shakspeare, quotations from, 26
Shoeing, 159
Soft water preferable for a horse’s drink, 252
Spikes to fix on the hind standards, 82
Sleep disturbed by workmen purposely noisy at an early hour, 87
Sorbière’s description of London, 172
Springs of Carriages, how best constructed, 108
----, cording of, 126
Stable, the, 266
Stands, Hackney Coach, 188
State Coach of George III., 4
Steps of a Carriage, 210
Strangers behind a Carriage dangerous, 82
Straw-yard, 11
Street Act of the Metropolis, 86
Streets, care of Carriage in the public, 191
Street-keepers, 83
Stuffing of a Carriage preposterous, 69
Swift, Dean, quotation from, 164
Symmetry of the Horse, true, 219
Time, best, to bring out a new Carriage, 60
Tires of the wheels should be watched, 102
Tom Thrifty’s maxim, 153
Tools, a Coachman’s, 170
Trunk covers, 124
Turnpikes, 31
Valetudinarians, kind of springs for Carriages most beneficial to, 169
Value of well-matched Coach-horses, 23
Varnished panels, 207
Varnish, how to remedy cracks in the, 208
Visits, paying of, 171
Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the, 48
Under-springs, 217
Wager, Duke of Queensberry’s, 221
Wages, 25
Washing and cleaning the Carriage and harness, 203
Wax candles, 106
Wheels, of, 99
Wheels, tiring of, 17
Wicks, lamps with two flat, 107
Winch for the axle-trees, by whom best kept, 95
Yellow Chrome, the best colour for a Chariot, 73
Zinc, ointment for sore heels, 264
THE END.
J. MOYES, TOOK’S COURT, CHANCERY LANE.