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THE NATURAL HISTORY
 
OF
 
THE GENT.

BY ALBERT SMITH.
LONDON:
DAVID BOGUE, 86 FLEET STREET.
MDCCCXLVII.

LONDON:
VIZETELLY BROTHERS AND CO. PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS,
PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.

v

PREFACE.

In the Sunday newspapers of May 24, ofthe past year, 1846, appeared the followingparagraph:—

MARYLEBONE.

A “Gent.”—A respectable-looking man, namedJames Dickenson, was charged by Brooks, 169 S,who said, “Please your worship, at two o’clockyesterday morning (Monday), I found this ‘gent’drunk in Park Road, and took him into custody.”

Mr. Rawlinson: Who do you say you founddrunk?

Constable: This “gent,” your worship.

Mr. Rawlinson: What do you mean by “gent?”There is no such word in our language. I hold aman who is called a “gent” to be the greatestviblackguard there is. (To the prisoner): What doyou say to this? I hope you are not a “gent.”

Prisoner: I am not, sir, and I trust that I knowthe distinction between a “gent” and a “gentleman.”

Mr. Rawlinson: I dare say you do, sir, and Ilook upon the word “gent” as one of the mostblackguard expressions that can be used.

The prisoner was fined 5s., which he directlypaid.

We were exceedingly delighted when weread this police report. We had laboured, forthree or four years, to bring the race ofGents into universal contempt; and we atlast found that an intelligent and respectedLondon magistrate had publicly stated, fromthe bench, his opinion of the miserable classin question; and that it exactly coincided withour own. But fearing—from seeing the odiousword still starting up in shops, ticketed to wildviiarticles of dress, to be hereafter alluded to, aswell as hearing it every now and then appliedby one “party” to another of his acquaintance—thatthe species was not yet extinct; fearingthis, in spite of our direct attacks in Punch andBentley’s Miscellany, and our side-wind blowsthrough the medium of our esteemed friendJohn Parry, certain burlesques at the Lyceum,and various other channels—we determinedupon reconsi

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