Of the period of which this book treats, there have been political histories, and scurrilous books written anent the Royal Family, _ad nauseam_: and the Diaries which have been published, bearing on this time, deal only with the acts, and sayings, of the higher classes--leaving the life of the vastly greater proportion of the population--the middle classes--untouched. No better source of information as to their mode of living, their amusements, the tattle, and passing follies of the times, can possibly be found, than in the Newspapers of the day; and I selected the commencement of the _Times_, 1 Jan. 1788, as the starting point of a picture of the Social Life at the end of the Eighteenth Cen…
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