Two rival light coaches
compete for passengers to Portsmouth. The "Self-Defence," Plymouth
to Falmouth, four insides, will keep the same time as His Majesty's
Mail. The Unitarian Association advertises a meeting at which Dr.
Toulmin of Birmingham will preach. The Friends of the Abolition of
the Slave Trade print a long manifesto. The Phoenix, Eagle and Atlas
Companies invite insurers. Sufferers from various disorders will
find relief in Spilsbury's Patent Antiscorbutic, Dr. Bateman's
Pectoral, and Wessel's Jesuit's Drops.
Turning to the news columns, we find the whole country aflame with
joy at the restoration of Peace. Once again (it is ten years since
we last saw him there) the Prince Regent is at Portsmouth, feasting,
speech-making, dancing, reviewing the fleet and the troops. With him
are the Emperor of Russia; the Emperor's sister, the Duchess of
Oldenburg; the King of Prussia; the Royal Dukes of Clarence, York,
Cambridge; the Duke of Wellington and Field-Marshal Blucher. We read
that on first catching sight of Wellington the Prince Regent "seized
his hand and appeared lost in sensibility for the moment." As for
Blucher, a party of sailors, defying his escort of dragoons, boarded
and "took possession of the quarter-deck, or, in other words, the top
of the carriage."
"Some were capsized; but two of them swore to defend the brave,
and, as the carriage drew on, to the delight of all the tars
commenced reels _a la Saunders_ on the top, all the way to
Government House, where the General was received with open hands
and hearts, amid a group of as brave warriors as ever graced a
festive table or bled in defence of their country's wrongs
(_sic_).
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