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SINGULAR INSTANCE OF INSANITY. 59
vate individuals of this metropolis in the breweries of ale
and porter.
A copper of astonishing magnitude has recently been
made for Messrs. Stratton and Smith, ale-brewers near
Carnaby Market.
It is 34 feet high, and 96 in diameter, and being made
in the outskirts of the town, it took 18 horses to draw it to
the place of its destination. When it was brought home and
fixed, Messrs. Stratton and Smith invited all their cus-
tomers to dine with them in the copper. Accordingly
tables and benches, in an amphitheatrical style, were fixed
in the copper, and 769 persons sat down in it at once to
dinner. They were treated with the following fare:
Two buttocks of beef, weighing each 841bs.
Nine dozen of roasted and boiled ducks.
Twenty-two tongues.
Eleven dozen of roasted and boiled fowls.
Seventeen hams.
Five dozen fat geese, roasted and boiled.
One hundred and thirty-six dozen of wine of all sorts.
Twelve barrels of famous ale, and porter galore.
In the mash tub adjoining the copper (also newly made
and of large magnitude), were all their draymen, 3 4 in
number, who fared equally sumptuously.
Singular Instance of Insanity.
In the month of November 1804, died at Yarmouth,
aged 70, Martha Staninought, generally called the Queen.
In her younger days she lived as a servant in some fami-
lies of that town, at which time she shewed occasionally
symptoms of great eccentricity ; but for many years past
she has been in a state of insanity, and has been supported
by an allowance from the parish, and private bounty.
Her leading idea was, that her brother John was entitled
to the crown, and that she ought to be considered and
i 2 treated
vate individuals of this metropolis in the breweries of ale
and porter.
A copper of astonishing magnitude has recently been
made for Messrs. Stratton and Smith, ale-brewers near
Carnaby Market.
It is 34 feet high, and 96 in diameter, and being made
in the outskirts of the town, it took 18 horses to draw it to
the place of its destination. When it was brought home and
fixed, Messrs. Stratton and Smith invited all their cus-
tomers to dine with them in the copper. Accordingly
tables and benches, in an amphitheatrical style, were fixed
in the copper, and 769 persons sat down in it at once to
dinner. They were treated with the following fare:
Two buttocks of beef, weighing each 841bs.
Nine dozen of roasted and boiled ducks.
Twenty-two tongues.
Eleven dozen of roasted and boiled fowls.
Seventeen hams.
Five dozen fat geese, roasted and boiled.
One hundred and thirty-six dozen of wine of all sorts.
Twelve barrels of famous ale, and porter galore.
In the mash tub adjoining the copper (also newly made
and of large magnitude), were all their draymen, 3 4 in
number, who fared equally sumptuously.
Singular Instance of Insanity.
In the month of November 1804, died at Yarmouth,
aged 70, Martha Staninought, generally called the Queen.
In her younger days she lived as a servant in some fami-
lies of that town, at which time she shewed occasionally
symptoms of great eccentricity ; but for many years past
she has been in a state of insanity, and has been supported
by an allowance from the parish, and private bounty.
Her leading idea was, that her brother John was entitled
to the crown, and that she ought to be considered and
i 2 treated