[344] British Magazine, 6 August, 1782.
[345] Westminster Magazine, May 1775.
[346] Middlesex Journal, July 23–25, 1775.
[347] On the gala nights the charge was three shillings.
[348] A burlesque account in the Bon Ton Magazine, June 1791, with plate (W. Coll.).
[349] Her husband, Mr. Mountain, was leader at Vauxhall from 1792.
[350] On Mrs. Bland, see supra, p. 137 (White Conduit House).
[351] Miss Tunstall, another singer, was in repute at the gardens about 1820.
[352] Sketches from St. George’s Fields (1821), 2nd ser. p. 216.
[353] In 1806 the opening of the gardens on Saturdays was discontinued on account of the disorderly persons staying on late into Sunday morning. From about this time the gardens were for a long period usually open on three days of the week only.