The Union Club

London. Publish'd Jan.y 21st. 1801. by H. Humphrey. S.t James's Street.\n[...] London [...]/ No. 41./ The Union Club unites in itself the most distinguished and excellent/ men of the three realms (f. the newspapers.) Here is their first meeting/ on January 19.t as on the Queen's birthday. The Prince of Wallis/ was also present. He is introduced here as president - but lies already under the table or has gone away - but still one sees his hat on the chair with the crown princely feather, and in the hat the hereditary motto I serve. Duke of Bedford already asleep, leaning against/ the throne or chair; Tierney spey^B4t; Fox snores and has his legs on the/ table; Erskine is also gone: before him is a brandy jug. The Earl of Moira in a green/ skirt sits on the table. The Earl of Clermont, an Irish Pair, otherwise his enemy,/ grasps him by the hand. Between them is Sheridan. The tall man - who stands up is The Earl of Cholmondeley (pron. Tschomli); beside him in gala dress sits: The Marquis of Lans-/ downe otherwise also called the Jesuit and Malagrida, whence he clears the pipe with a creuze./ The clergyman is the democratic, smug D.r Parr (editor of the Bellendenus/ whose tobacco box he also still carries from which Lansdowne stuffs his pipe). In front of/ the table in the blue skirt sits M.r Manners. Beside the clergyman in the corner sits/ the old goat Duke of Queensberry. Not far below him The Earl of Derby. A/ pair of attendants bring punch made of whiskey in a barrel and kick the oppositionist Nichols lying under the/ table on the head. The Duke of Norfolk has also/ had enough and leans on a chair on the ground. A little further forward lies/ Lord Stanhope. Still some portraits are to be noticed. Behind Lansdowne stands/ the notorious Obrist Hanger, an associate of the Prince of Wallis and a/ terrible renomist. He has the position of a boxer. With him fights a parliamentary member Sturt, a great philanthropist who has his love of seafaring, which is why he appears in a check shirt or shirt of diced blue canvas such as the sailors wear. Between them stands the/ grim oppositionist and great orator Jones who wants to separate them. -/ At the very front of the table are two young people: the handsome one is Captain Matthew, a famous lounger in St. James's Street and Bond Street. Next to him is his friend Mr. Skeffington, a ditto.