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4 kirby’s wonderful museum.
in all his eccentricities, we cannot find one action that
would disgrace a gentleman; and although a little energetic
at times., in the manner and matter of his visiting the lobby
of the Opera-house, or other theatres, yet in his politeness
to the ladies he meets, is ever conspicuous, until they men-
tion the curricle, or cock-a-doodle-do, &c.; he then for-
gets himself, and his manners begin somewhat to smack of
the whip.
By some fatal accident, however, he broke this curricle
that caused so much mirth and curiosity, and now sports
another, made almost in as whimsical a manner: the body
is copper, and painted so as to appear like a large kettle-
drum hung upon two large serpents; the harness, as before,
are studded with cocks, &c. but the large saddles are aban-
doned. He drives about town with two servants on horse-
back, and is very particular in having long-tail’d horses,
and causing the servants at all times to keep a most respect-
ful distance. Should any person turn to look after him,
particularly the ladies, he will turn immediately, and not
leave looking at them until thev retire. It was our intention
to haVe presented our readers with a view of the first curricle
Mr. Coates sported, but we could not get a correct sketch,
although Mr. Gillray has caricatured him in it; and a
Mrs. Aberdeen advertised she had made one of paper, and
exhibited it in her Papyrueism, stating she had been offered
fifty guineas for the model. This advertisement appeared
in the Morning Post, May ], 1813, in the following words ;
“ Mr. Coates seems destined to live all the days of his
life, or, in other words, to enjoy perpetual notoriety: he
exhibits himself on the stage, and the theatre is crammed
from the front row of the stage-boxes to the back seat of
the one-shilling gallery. Mrs. Aberdeen exhibits his cur-
ricle in her Papyrueism, and her rooms are crowded almost
to suffocation, with the world of taste and fashion. We
understand that Mrs. Aberdeen has refused an offer of fifty
in all his eccentricities, we cannot find one action that
would disgrace a gentleman; and although a little energetic
at times., in the manner and matter of his visiting the lobby
of the Opera-house, or other theatres, yet in his politeness
to the ladies he meets, is ever conspicuous, until they men-
tion the curricle, or cock-a-doodle-do, &c.; he then for-
gets himself, and his manners begin somewhat to smack of
the whip.
By some fatal accident, however, he broke this curricle
that caused so much mirth and curiosity, and now sports
another, made almost in as whimsical a manner: the body
is copper, and painted so as to appear like a large kettle-
drum hung upon two large serpents; the harness, as before,
are studded with cocks, &c. but the large saddles are aban-
doned. He drives about town with two servants on horse-
back, and is very particular in having long-tail’d horses,
and causing the servants at all times to keep a most respect-
ful distance. Should any person turn to look after him,
particularly the ladies, he will turn immediately, and not
leave looking at them until thev retire. It was our intention
to haVe presented our readers with a view of the first curricle
Mr. Coates sported, but we could not get a correct sketch,
although Mr. Gillray has caricatured him in it; and a
Mrs. Aberdeen advertised she had made one of paper, and
exhibited it in her Papyrueism, stating she had been offered
fifty guineas for the model. This advertisement appeared
in the Morning Post, May ], 1813, in the following words ;
“ Mr. Coates seems destined to live all the days of his
life, or, in other words, to enjoy perpetual notoriety: he
exhibits himself on the stage, and the theatre is crammed
from the front row of the stage-boxes to the back seat of
the one-shilling gallery. Mrs. Aberdeen exhibits his cur-
ricle in her Papyrueism, and her rooms are crowded almost
to suffocation, with the world of taste and fashion. We
understand that Mrs. Aberdeen has refused an offer of fifty