Wessex . t of Napoleon at Waterloo. The King wasout riding when the news of the battle of the Nile wasbrought by courier to him ; and on that night Wey-mouth was a scene of the greatest enthusiasm andrejoicing. The King, we are told, after he returnedfrom his ride and had read the dispatches, sallied forthupon the Parade and good-humouredly accosted every-one he knew, and conveyed to them personally detailsof the splendid victory. Weymouth suffered not a little from the Boney invasion scare, which for several years disturbed thepeace of the inhabitants of most south-coast towns ;and so great w
Wessex . t of Napoleon at Waterloo. The King wasout riding when the news of the battle of the Nile wasbrought by courier to him ; and on that night Wey-mouth was a scene of the greatest enthusiasm andrejoicing. The King, we are told, after he returnedfrom his ride and had read the dispatches, sallied forthupon the Parade and good-humouredly accosted every-one he knew, and conveyed to them personally detailsof the splendid victory. Weymouth suffered not a little from the Boney invasion scare, which for several years disturbed thepeace of the inhabitants of most south-coast towns ;and so great was the satisfaction on the proclamationof peace that we are told that an open-air dance washeld in the town, at which the four members of Parlia-ment for the borough and their families took crowd was so g-reat that the event became almostof the nature of a carnival ; and it is recorded that the 88 A TITHE-BARN, ABBOTSBURY, NEAR WEYMOUTHThe scene of the sheep-shearing in Par from the Madding Crowd. ^ Weymouth of To-day-couples taking part in the dance extended the wholelength of the main thoroughfare. Since those days Weymouth has indeed sobereddown, till at the present time it is just a pleasant sea-side holiday resort, quieter than most of a like size,and relying principally upon its many natural attractionsfor the pleasure and interest of its visitors. Of public buildings, ecclesiastical or municipal, Wey-mouth possesses few of any note. Even the GuildHall near the bridge dates no further back than 1837,and none of the churches are much older. But this modern watering-place, which in the earlyfifties and sixties of the last century had rather declinedfrom the position of importance and popularity whichthe patronage of King George had conferred upon it,has nowadays become a popular and charming seasideholiday resort. Its season, however, is a short one ;and it still preserves in its atmosphere and comparativequietude of life many of those old-world characteristicswhic
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