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Excerpt from The Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1928, Vol. 64 Probably the first use made of it was for a public din ner on Washington' s birthday in 1793 in commemoration of the success of the French ln their struggle for liberty. As it happened this was before the news of the execution of the King and other atrocities had been received, and a few weeks later the complimentary toast given to the French Revolution must have seemed a little overdone. In the evening the ball-room was graced with an unus ual number of Ladies, whose native beauty was heightened by the splendid taste in their dress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.