[350] ] In the Encyclopédie Méthodique.
[351] ] Arthur Young’s Travels in France in the Years 1787–9.
[352] ] Sheen’s Wine and other fermented Liquors.
[353] ] Amongst other English customers of the firm in 1788, 1789, and 1790 were ‘Milords’ Farnham and Findlater, the latter of whom was supplied with 120 bottles of the vintage of 1788; Manning, of the St. Alban’s Tavern, London, who ordered 130 bottles of vin de Champagne, at 3 livres or 2 s. the bottle, to be delivered in the autumn by M. Caurette; Messrs. Felix Calvert & Sylvin, who took two sample bottles at 5 s.; and Mr. Lockhart, banker, of 36 Pall Mall, who in 1790 paid 3 s. per bottle for 360 bottles of the vintage of 1788. The high rate of exchange in our favour is shown by the 54 l. covering this transaction being taken as 1495 livres 7 sols 9 deniers, or about 28 livres per pound sterling.
[354] ] Walker’s The Original.
[355] ] ‘The Fair of Britain’s Isle’ (Convivial Songster, 1807).
[356] ] Diary of Mrs. Colonel St. George, written during her Sojourn amongst the German Courts in 1799 and 1800.
[357] ] Moore’s The Twopenny Post-bag, 1813.
[358] ] Moore’s Parody of a Celebrated Letter.
[359] ] The compound known as ‘the Regent’s Punch’ was made out of 3 bottles of Champagne, 2 of Madeira, 1 of hock, 1 of curaçoa, 1 quart of brandy, 1 pint of rum, and 2 bottles of seltzer-water, flavoured with 4 lbs. bloom raisins, Seville oranges, lemons, white sugar-candy, and diluted with iced green tea instead of water (Tovey’s British and Foreign Spirits).