Drawing for twelfth-cake at St. Annes hill

Pubd by SW Fores. 50 Piccadilly. Jan.ry 16. 1799\nAn das privil. Industrie Comptoir/ Weimar\nNo. 6/ London. 4 Feb. 1800/ On heil. Dreykönigstag (twelfth-day) one eats in all families, which/ hold on old customs, a cake, a twelfth cake, called. Beforehand, however, one throws as many coins as there are persons at the table into a hat; each person draws one and is called by the name of his motto throughout the evening: whoever fails to do so pays a pledge. Usually among these are a King and a/ Queen. Actually, on the cake the countersigns of the de/ vise are attached in sugar crust so that everyone knows which piece is coming to him./ But this is often not observed and then the king/ only gets the last piece. Of course, modifications take place in different families, from where one gets very different information from those one asks./ All persons appearing here have already been so often in the Journals L and P. that it is not possible to find out more about them. that it would be unnecessary to state them at length: from the right to the left they are Jeckyll, Sheridan, Burdett, Erskine, Fox, Norfolk,/ Bedford, Moira and Tierney, under Taylor - Jeckyll made the noise in/ Parliament because of the prison in Coldbathfields which he called the two^B4th/ Bastille (cf. the parliamentary proceedings of 98.) and Burdett/ urged that the steward of Coldbathf-prison/ be interrogated; but he himself was forbidden to go back to the prison/ because he stirred up the people (so ibid.) - of Tierney/ the ministerials say that a good place in India in the/ judicial colleges would silence him at once, therefore he draws the Nabob here/ according to his wish. - In the rest/ I see no difficulty for the gentleman declarer, because everything has already been there.