Social England under the regency Author:John Ashton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Slory of a crime—The Shanavests and the Caravats—Gluttony—Smuggling bullion—A Tar at the theatre—Deposition of French Colours in Whitehall C... more »hapel—The Duke of York reinstated as Commander-in-Chief— The Regency Fete—Account of the entertainment. AND now, for a while, we will leave Royalty alone, and note anything particular that occurred—not that there ever was much general news recorded— there were no country correspondents to the London Newspapers, which were but of small size, and with very little space to spare for what we call News As these little scraps of information will be scattered throughout this book, I may at once say that they will, perforce, have no sequence one to another except that of Chronological order. At the beginning of February, as a dragoon was returning from duty to his quarters, which were at a small public-house called " Barndean Hut," near Peters- field, in the New Forest, his attention was arrested by thecries of some person in distress, which induced him to ride up to the spot from whence they proceeded, where his humanity was shocked on beholding a woman tied to a tree, with the tears, which her situation and suffering had produced, actually frozen to her cheeks, and, horrid to relate, quite naked, having been stripped and robbed of every article of dress, by two villains, who, afterwards, left her in that deplorable condition. The dragoon instantly cut the cords that bound her hands and feet to the tree, and, having in some measure restored her to the use of her limbs by rubbing them, wrapped her up in his cloak, placed her on his horse, and proceeded on to his quarters, where he soon after arrived; and, as he was conducting the shivering object of his care into the house, she looked through a window that commanded a view o...« less