. The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood . ature, is acknowledgedby all who have seen it, to be by far thelargest, most useful, and most magnificentthat now is, or that ever was, in the world;and it may be inspected every day, from Tenoclock in the Morning till four in the After-noon. Admittance at night, 5s.; in the day,2s. another announcement he stated that Vestina, the Rosy Goddess of Health, presides atthe evening lectures at the Temple of Health,Adelphi, assisting at the display of the CelestialMeteors, and of that sacred Vital Fire over whichshe watches, and who
. The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood . ature, is acknowledgedby all who have seen it, to be by far thelargest, most useful, and most magnificentthat now is, or that ever was, in the world;and it may be inspected every day, from Tenoclock in the Morning till four in the After-noon. Admittance at night, 5s.; in the day,2s. another announcement he stated that Vestina, the Rosy Goddess of Health, presides atthe evening lectures at the Temple of Health,Adelphi, assisting at the display of the CelestialMeteors, and of that sacred Vital Fire over whichshe watches, and whose application in the Cure ofDiseases she daily has the honour of Rosy Goddess of Health was EmmaLyon, who, in the winter of 1780, when she posedin the Adelphi, was barely twenty years of as she was, she had lived a strange life, eventhen. The daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, shewas quite a child when, in the capacity of nurse-maid, she entered the service of Mrs Thomas, wife of a surgeon practising at Hawarden ; and she can176. r. A C r. c -f. EMMA LYON hardly have been more than fifteen or sixteen yearsof age when she first came to London. Here, fora short time, she is said to have been in service:first, with Mrs Linley, of Drury Lane Theatre;secondly, with Dr Budd, one of the physicians ofSt Bartholomews Hospital; and finally at afruiterers in St Jamess Market. One of thecustomers at this shop, a lady of fashion,attracted by the girls manner, her beautiful face,and her wonderful auburn hair, engaged her in thecapacity of companion. But, fortunate as thechange at this time may have appeared to her, itspeedily put an end to her opportunities of earningan honest living. No long time after, we hear ofher as living for a time with Captain (afterwardsAdmiral) John Willett Payne, who is by somesurmised to be the father of a girl to whom shegave birth about the end of 1779 or the beginningof 1780. However this may be, it is certain that,before she had c
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