The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860 . dagreeable qualities, but on the subject of politics,my dear Alvanley, he is as mad as a hatter! Harrington House and Lord Petersham.—When our army returned to England in 1S14, myyoung friend, Augustus Stanhope, took me one after-noon to Harrington House, in Stableyard, St Jamess,where I was introduced to Lord and Lady Harring-ton, and all the Stanhopes. On entering a longgallery, I found the whole family engaged in theirsempiternal occupation of tea-drinking. Neither inNan
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860 . dagreeable qualities, but on the subject of politics,my dear Alvanley, he is as mad as a hatter! Harrington House and Lord Petersham.—When our army returned to England in 1S14, myyoung friend, Augustus Stanhope, took me one after-noon to Harrington House, in Stableyard, St Jamess,where I was introduced to Lord and Lady Harring-ton, and all the Stanhopes. On entering a longgallery, I found the whole family engaged in theirsempiternal occupation of tea-drinking. Neither inNankin, Pekin, nor Canton was the teapot moreassiduously and constantly replenished than at thishospitable mansion. I was made free of the cor-poration, if I may use the phrase, by a cup beinghanded to me ; and I must say that I never tastedany tea so good before or since. As an example of the undeviating tea-table habitsof the house of Harrington, General Lincoln Stan-hope once told me, that after an absence of severalyears in India, he made his reappearance at Har-rington House, and found the family, as he had left. HARRINGTON HOUSE AND LORD PETERSHAM. 2S5 them on his departure, drinking tea in the longgallery. On his presenting himself, his lathers onlyobservation and speech of welcome to him was,Hallo, Linky, my dear boy! delighted to see a cup of tea % I was then taken to Lord Petershams a] >artments,where we found his lordship, one of the chief dandiesof the day, employed in making a particular sort ofblacking, which he said would eventually supersedeevery other. The room into which we were usheredwas more like a shop than a gentlemans sitting-room : all round the walls were shelves, upon whichwere placed tea-canisters, containing Congou, Pekoe,Souchong, Bohea, Gunpowder, Russian, and manyother teas, all the best of the kind ; on the otherside of the room were beautiful jars, with names, ingilt letters, of innumerable kinds of snuff, and allthe necessary appara
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