The English Spy, page 358 by Bernard Blackmantle
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ony's singidar Anecdote of the great Earl of Chesterfield, and Origin of the Debouchettes--The Omissions in the Wilson Memoirs supplied--Biographical Reminiscences of the Amiable Mrs. Debouchette--Harriette and lier Sisters--Amy--Mary--Fanny-- Julia--Sophia--Charlotte and Louisa--Paphians and their Paramours--Peers and Plebeians--The Bang Bantam--London Leda --Spanish Nun--Sparrow Hawk--Golden Pippin--White Crow-- Brazen Bellona--Edgeware Diana
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Water Lily--White Doe--Comic Muse--Queen of the Dansysettes--Vestina the Titan--The Red Rose--Moss Rose and Cabbage Rose--The Doldrum Stars of Erin--Wren of Paradise-- Queen of the Amazons--Old Pomona--Venus Mendicant--Venus Callypiga--Goddess of the Golden Locks--Mocking Bird--Net Perdita--Napoleon Venus--Red Swan--Black Swan--Blue-eyed Luna--Tartar Sultana The Bit of Rue--Brompton Ceres-- Celestina Conway--Lucy Bertram--Water Wagtail--Tops and Bottoms--The Pretenders--The Old Story--Lady of the Priory-- Little White Morose--Queen of Trumps--Giovanni the Syren, with Ileal Names "unexed--Original Portraits and Anecdotes of the Dukes of M------and D------, Marquisses II------ and II ----, Earls W------, F------, and C------, Lords P------, A------, M------, and N------, llonourables B------c, L------s, and F------s--General Trinket--Colonel Caxon--Messrs. II--b--h, R------, D------, and B------, and other Innumerables.
It was during the fashionable season of the year 1818, when Augusta Corri, ci-devant Lady Hawke,{1} shone forth under her newly-acquired title a planet of the first order, that a few amorous noblemen and wealthy dissolutes, ever on the qui vive for novelty, projected and sanctioned the celebrated Venetian carnival given at the Argyll-rooms under the patronage of her ladyship and four other equally celebrated courtezans. Of course, the female invitations were confined exclusively to the sisterhood, but restricted to the planets and stars of Cytherea, the carriage curiosities, and fair impu