Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . Bland, he abniptly ended what appears to have been hislast visit to the Scottish capital. George Colman sayshe was told by Jewell, the Haymarket treasurer, thatFoote became so disgusted with what he considered thedisgraceful parsimony of the Scotch, that he adoptedvarious highly extravagant methods of ridiculing it. Weare assured that he used to paper up the curls of his wigevery night before he went to bed with Scottish one-pound notes, in order to show his contempt for suchinsignificant promissory paper ; and that when his cookcame for orders o
Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . Bland, he abniptly ended what appears to have been hislast visit to the Scottish capital. George Colman sayshe was told by Jewell, the Haymarket treasurer, thatFoote became so disgusted with what he considered thedisgraceful parsimony of the Scotch, that he adoptedvarious highly extravagant methods of ridiculing it. Weare assured that he used to paper up the curls of his wigevery night before he went to bed with Scottish one-pound notes, in order to show his contempt for suchinsignificant promissory paper ; and that when his cookcame for orders of a morning, he unrolled the curls oneach side of his head, gave her the notes, with instructionsto purchase provisions ad lib., and sent her to market ina sedan chair ! Writing to Tate Wilkinson on the i6tiiof February, he says :— I thank you, my dear sir, for your congratulationson my arrival in Scotland ; where, by-the-bye, I haveencountered more perils than in a voyage to the to mention mountains, precipices, savage ANN SAMUEL FOOTE jy and more savage men, I was locked up for near a weekin a village, dirty, dismal, and desolate, by a delugeof snow. I think of quitting this town in three weeks; andshall certainly pay my homage to you in your kingdomof York [Tate was then Patentee of the TheatreRoyal there], but not with the least design of becomingyour subject. All my campaigns shall end with thisplace, and my future operations be confined to my ownprincipahty. The Maid, of Bath, which was Footes next theatricalproduction, and which appeared in 1771, is an amusinglittle play, exhibiting the humours of certain typicalhabitues of the great watering-place of the west. Butin addition to Sir Christopher Cripple, an old invalideddebauchee, who is always proposing to reform—to-morrow ; Major Racket, a man of fashion, whose char-acter is indicated by his name ; and Lady CatherineColdstream, a Scottish lady of quahty who was probablysketche
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