We request your attendance at the Ball to be held upon the First of November. The Ball will be an amusing Masque Ball, but without masques. How could the
idea of such an evening of paradox be entertained?
Pray, read on, after a perusal of some of
our possible ports of call.
1.
Anne St John Maxwell Adams –
216 slaves in Barbados 2. Alexander John Alexander – MARLBOROUGH BUILDINGS 4. Mehetabel Austin (nee Piercy) 369 slaves in British
Guiana. William Austin – ditto 6. Simon Barrow – LANSDOWNE GROVE – 9 slaves in Barbados; 81 slaves in Barbados, 120
slaves in and Jamaica 7. Colthurst Bateman STANLEY
VILLA WESTON PARK – 175 slaves in Jamaica, and 95 slaves in Jamaica 8.
Thomas Beard – 9 RABY PLACE – 164
slaves in Barbados - Ditto PULTENEY
STREET 128 slaves in Barbados and 279 slaves in Jamaica 9. Charles Blair 15 PULTENEY STREET 218 slaves - Jamaica
10. William Blenman 11. George Weare Braikenridge QUEEN’S SQUARE 256 slaves in Jamaica 12. Rebecca Broadley – 124
slaves in Antigua; 71 slaves in Montserrat; 47 slaves in Tobago 13. Jane
Elizabeth Bunting WALCOT 6 slaves in
Jamaica and 13 slaves in Jamaica 14. Philip Caddell 18 ROYAL CRESCENT 257 slaves in Barbados 15. James Chopin – 89
slaves in St Vincent 16. Edward Hudson Clarke 4 OXFORD ROW 34 slaves in Jamaica 17. James Crowcombe - 89 slaves
in St Vincent 18. Eliza Rebecca Cuthbert 34
PARK STREET 124 slaves in Antigua and 71 slaves in Montserrat 19. Elizabeth
Cuthbert (nee Willock) ditto + 47 slaves in Tobago 20. William Lindsay Darling 15 CATHARINE PLACE 59 slaves in
Dominica and 6 slaves in Dominica 21. John Hyde Doyle – 102 slaves in Antigua
22. Edmund Jordan Eversley – 12 slaves in Barbados and 209 slaves in Barbados
23. Sarah Ann Findlater SEYMOUR STREET 60
slaves in Jamaica and 45 slaves in Jamaica 24. Rev. George Ingram Fisher 13 BENNETT STREET 342 slaves in Jamaica
25. Jane Fitzgerald (nee Welch) 26 PARK
STREET 147 slaves in Jamaica 26. Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Lewis Fitzgerald –
ditto 27. Thomas Inigo Wickham Freeman – 167 slaves in Antigua and another
duplicate entry for him at 3 JOHNSTONE
STREET 28. David Graham PRIOR PARK
BUILDINGS 33 slaves in Trinidad and another 6 slaves in Trinidad 29. Rev.
William Gunthorpe – 297 slaves in Antigua 30. J.P. Hardy 18 GREEN PARK BUILDINGS 35 slaves in Barbados 31. Thomas Noel
Harris – 301 slaves in Barbados 32. John William Hicks 17 LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 144 slaves in Jamaica 33. Samuel M. Hinds 7 RABY STREET 125 slaves in Barbados
34. Frances Ottley Horne (nee Ottley) 103 slaves in St Vincent 35. John Eykyn
Hovenden 6 CAMPEN CRESCENT 225 slaves
in Jamaica 36. Charles Snell Kensington 21
GAY STREET 59 slaves in Tobago 37. Catherine W. Lawrence 26 PARK STREET 1 slave in Nevis 38. Eliza
Lawrence spinster – ditto 39. Charlotte Augusta Lyall (nee Bayley) 17 HENRIETTA STRETT 162 slaves in
Jamaica 40. John Lyons senior – 274 slaves in Antigua 41. James Heywood
Markland 1 LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 410 slaves
in Barbados; 438 slaves in Jamaica; 91 slaves in Jamaica; 41 slaves in Jamaica
42. James Dottin Maycock 3 PARAGON
BUILDINGS 5 slaves in Barbados; 122 slaves in Barbados; 151 slaves in
Barbados; 160 slaves in Barbados 43. Jonathan
Morgan 8 THE CIRCUS 165 slaves in St
Vincent; 185 slaves in St Vincent; 110 slaves in St Vincent 44. Ditto, but 19 ROYAL CRESCENT 45. Mary Dehany
Mountague 26 PARK STREET 81 slaves
in Jamaica 46. Rt. Hon. Lord James O’Bryen 3rd Marquess of Thomond
217 slaves in Antigua and 217 slaves in Antigua and 158 slaves in Antigua 46. Thomas
Parker senior 47. Rev. Charles Paul Writhlington Rectory, Radstock, 126 slaves
in St Vincent 48. James Aylmer Paynter 13
GROSVENOR PLACE 80 slaves in Jamaica 49. Mary Penfrill 13BENNETT STREET 342 slaves in Jamaica 50. Francis Ford Pindar GAY STREET 15 slaves in Barbados; 204 slaves
in Barbados 51. Mary Ann Prince – 182 slaves in Jamaica 52. Bezsin Reece 7 SYDNEY PLACE PULTENEY STREET 163 slaves
in Barbados 53. John Reece 3 BORTHWICK
TERRACE 67 slaves in Barbados 54. Mary Rollinson 16 slaves in Nevis - £297
3s 7d
We request that ladies dress, not according
to the fashion, but in the manner of the nuances of the newly pronounced
aesthetic of countenance and deportment. We wish ladies to arrive, according to
their choice of a presentation of self, as Sublime,
Picturesque or Beautiful.
Each
lady should also select a further refinement of her chosen category, by
choosing a card upon her arrival. The cards of chance will be as follows:
Sentimental;
Submissive; Sprightly; Forceful; Impetuous; Affecting; Heroic; Passive;
Saintly; Calm; Yielding; Careful; Affectionate; Elegant; Graceful; Versatile;
Vivacious; Witty; Cheerful; Playful; Brilliant; Amusing.
Ladies should then act in a corresponding
manner.
Gentlemen should, after some examination,
ask for a dance – and -
When a gentleman asks a lady for a dance,
he should write down his judgements as to
the lady’s presumed self-definition, major and minor, and pass his card to his
chosen lady. If his judgements are correct, a dance shall ensue; if false, the
lady may choose to whisper a hint or enact a mime or charade.
Such a Ball is of the latest fashion and a
la mode - an evening of elegant
sophistication is guaranteed.
We are particularly pleased to announce
that we shall be calling at the homes of Bath residents who have an interest in the West Indies, as our way
of displaying our opposition to the
abolition of the institution of slavery. Our Trust in National prosperity
is contingent upon the maintenance of slavery, as every rational person knows.
We feel sure that the Ball will be welcomed
by all supporters of plantations, the Atlantic trade, and consequent prosperity
- for the maintenance of such prosperity is our national trust.
I wish to state my thanks to Anne
Bermingham, for without my reading of her chapter The Picturesque and ready-to-wear femininity in The Politics of the Picturesque edited
by Stephen Copley and Peter Garside CUP 2010, the idea of this enchanting ball could never have happened. Looking forward to seeing
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