The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . g duel shot Astonthrough both cheeks, carrying away one of hisdouble teeth ; upon which he facetiously observedthat now he would do. Another unrehearsed episode occurred on theevening of 6th May, 1752, and was the subject oftwo clever cartoons, A Night Scene at Rane-lagh and Le Malade Imaginaire, which adornmy Chelsea portfolio. That prolific charlatan, Hill, who was inclined to call himself SirJohn—the clever quack who attacked Fielding,Garrick, and others, and was the subject of Chris-topher Stu
The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . g duel shot Astonthrough both cheeks, carrying away one of hisdouble teeth ; upon which he facetiously observedthat now he would do. Another unrehearsed episode occurred on theevening of 6th May, 1752, and was the subject oftwo clever cartoons, A Night Scene at Rane-lagh and Le Malade Imaginaire, which adornmy Chelsea portfolio. That prolific charlatan, Hill, who was inclined to call himself SirJohn—the clever quack who attacked Fielding,Garrick, and others, and was the subject of Chris-topher Stuarts Hilliad—underwent a caningin the Rotunda at the hands of another Irishmannamed Brown whom he afterwards sued fordamages. The eminent physicians called in ap-pear to have been unable to discover any damages,save possibly to his professional reputation, if hehad any ; which Garricks epigram would inclineus to doubt:— For physic and farces his equal there scarce is,His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. \ 1 (. IIT Si li \M:LA(i|| .m \«lnv 6* of May 1752. /-?/ ,>rV //• // y-r/r^ <./i--v trfciprd /f. v., . ea/racrjrrfji f/t£- Cmcut Oflrdru Journal. , .A^Mf^^.^r^-^ h^M„ B^ « *» 4:^j//i/^yA- i;tt/./n.•. iii^iA/^fu*!f ^atf^ttM t-^f^^ijttvue /rt;v/B(/y yi<^ J/^re/^. A NIGHT SCENE AT John Hill caned. RANELAGH NIGHTS 93 Horace Walpole, who was of course a frequentvisitor, writes from Chelsea in July, 1742: Icarried Sir Robert the other night to Ranelaghfor the first time—my uncles prudence or fearwould never let him go before. It was prettyfull, and all its fulness flocked round us ; wewalked with a train at our heels like two chair-men going to fight, but they were extremely civiland did not say the least impertinence. I thinkhe grows popular already. Apart from occasional and unexpected little in-cidents such as these, or a lively fracas among theflunkeys and gentlemens gentlemen who hungabout the porticoes (
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