Copy 1, Volume 1

Journal of a residence in Germany, written during a professional attendance on Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, (Their Most Gracious Majesties) during their visits to the courts of that country in 1822, 1825 & 1826 / By William Beattie.

  • William Beattie
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Journal of a residence in Germany, written during a professional attendance on Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, (Their Most Gracious Majesties) during their visits to the courts of that country in 1822, 1825 & 1826 / By William Beattie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into shoes and socks would be like dismounting a life-guardsman. The degradation would be felt by either party; but the German would experience in the transformation rather a sense of emascula- tion than of practical reprimand. During the repast, several of the more choice and costly wines of France or Spain are handed round in glasses, repeated at short intervals, and generally in fresh variety. Dishes of elaborate study, and alluring in scent and aspect, are in constant progress round the circle, sufficient to tempt an epicure beyond his strength, and to pamper the most fastidious appetite. Her Majesty, opposite to whom I have the honour of a place, dines sparingly, and limits her diet almost exclusively to vegetable and farina- ceous dishes, accompanied with a glass of Malaga during dinner. She observed to me jocularly to- day after dinner, “ ‘The ladies will never admit in England that they can possibly have gout; there is something in the name so offensive to their delicacy ; but I assure you I make no secret of the matter, and suffer from gout exceedingly at times.” At the conclusion of dinner, which seldom occupies a full hour, Her Majesty rises from table, and, retirmg to the drawing-room in the
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