| Citation |
BPB.771.041
18 Nov 1771:22 (743)
London, Sept. 19. There is a very remarkable gentleman now
at Brussels, stiled the Chevalier de St. George: he is said
to be the son of a governor of one of the French islands,
who was a native of the south of France; appears entirely
like a man of fashion, and is a mulatta in the first degree;
but his accomplishments in polite learning are very
extraordinary. . . His musical compositions are in the most
excellent taste, and his execution on the violin, which he
plays in a superior manner, is declared, by several English
gentlemen who have heard him, to be equal to that of
Giardini.
|