and the receipts at the gates afforded a handsome sum to be divided between the Infirmary and Dispensary.
The Visitation was held by Archdeacon Hare, on the 26th of August, at St. Clement’s Church, the lessons being read by the Rev. W. W. Hume, and the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey.
The Horticultural Show, as the second of the season, was held on the 18th of September in the Wellington-square Gardens, amidst a downpour of rain and a sparse attendance. It was continued on the following day, but the receipts of both days only amounted to £9 17s. The first of the seasons shows, held at St. Leonards is described in the preceding chapter.
School Collections. On the 28th of September, a sermon for the schools fund was preached at All Saints, which realised a sum of £16 11s 3d. Also at Saint Clement’s, which produced £27 4s 5¼d. In the richer parish of St. Mary-in-the-Castle, a sum of £50 16s. 10d. was collected after the sermon.
Elihu Burrett, the learned blacksmith, visited Hastings on the 29th of October, and was received by a small number of persons, who obtained from him a statement that more than one hundred ladies’ Auxiliary Societies to the Peace Movement were in existence, under the name of “Olive-leaf Societies”. A similar society was promised to be formed in Hastings by the ladies then present.
The King of Hanover expired on the 17th of November, after an illness of six months. He was the last of the many sons of George III, and was in his 81st year. As Duke of Cumberland, he with the Duchess and their son, Prince George of Cumberland, resided at 5 and 6 Breeds place for several months.
- The Duke of Cumberland, in ’Thirty-two,
Whilst making Breeds place, Hastings, his abode,
For many pounds his royal purse-strings drew,
To lighten, as it were, the poor man’s load.
Fall twenty pounds he gave away in coals,
Though then than now “black diamonds” were less dear;
In many other ways poor Hastings souls
By royal bounty felt a ray of cheer.
- The Duke of Cumberland, in ’Thirty-two,
Another Reminiscence. — Just fifty years after the Duke of Cumberland’s sojourn at Hastings, the following passage appeared in a letter from Mr. Thomas Smith, the highly respected principal of the “Classical School”, Peterborough: — “I enclose my subscription of 5/6 to the end of the year for the Gazette. I am thankful to say we are all quite well, and were pleased with the supplement on Saturday, containing a reprint of the poetic Royal Visits to Hastings. I may tell you that my wife, whom you know, and who as Miss Danby, I had not seen in 1834, was a visitor at Breeds place on the memorable occasion, when
- ‘Our poetaster, helped, with right goodwill
The man-drawn carriage over Cuckoo Hill.’
- ‘Our poetaster, helped, with right goodwill
Be it known that she often talks of the circumstance, and I have no doubt that I -
