Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign . neath which was a Maltesecross, in the centre of which was inscribed the number of theregiment. Tunch was especially severe upon the Albert hat—and withthe pictorial satire of Prince Alberts Studio (by the waythe hat is in no ways exaggerated), is the following: Eversince the accession of Prince Albert to the Royal Husband-ship of these realms, he has devoted the energies of his mind,and the ingenuity of his hands to the manufacture of Infantrycaps. Cavalry trousers, and Regulation sabretaches. One ofhis first measures was to transmogrify the pa
Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign . neath which was a Maltesecross, in the centre of which was inscribed the number of theregiment. Tunch was especially severe upon the Albert hat—and withthe pictorial satire of Prince Alberts Studio (by the waythe hat is in no ways exaggerated), is the following: Eversince the accession of Prince Albert to the Royal Husband-ship of these realms, he has devoted the energies of his mind,and the ingenuity of his hands to the manufacture of Infantrycaps. Cavalry trousers, and Regulation sabretaches. One ofhis first measures was to transmogrify the pantaloons of theEleventh Hussars ; and, as the regiment alluded to is PrinceAlberts Own, His Royal Highness may do as he likes withhis own, and no one can complain of his bedizening the legsof the unfortunate Eleventh, with scarlet cloth and gold doorleather. When, however, the Prince, throwing the whole 1843] THE ALBERT HAT. 223 of his energies into a hat, proposed to encase the heads ofthe British soldiery in a machine which seemed a decided. Prince Alberts Studio. yPuHch, vol. v., p. 179. cross between a muff, a coal scuttle and a slop pail, thenPunch was compelled to interfere, for the honour of theBritish Army. The result has been that the headgear has 224 GOSSIP. [1843 been summarily withdrawn, by an order from the War Office,and the manufacture of more of the Albert hat has been abso-lutely prohibited. Greatness of mind is shown in various ways by different
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