ABSTRACT
There was a class of men, of very high rank, such as Lords Wellington, Nelson, and Collingwood, Sir John Moore and some few others who never frequented the clubs. The persons to whom the author refer, and amongst whom were many members of the sporting world, used to congregate at a few hotels. The Clarendon, Limmer’s, Ibbetson’s, Fladong’s, Stephens’, and Grillon’s, were the fashionable hotels. The Clarendon was then kept by a French cook, Jacquiers, who contrived to amass a large sum of money in the service of Louis the Eighteenth in England, and subsequently with Lord Darnley. This was the only public hotel where people could get a genuine French dinner, and for which their seldom paid less than three or four pounds; their bottle of champagne or of claret, in the year 1814, costing they a guinea.
