Note 12 — New York Balls and Receptions
Reading edition
“Lady Cathcart was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte. Peter Pindar celebrates her at Weymouth in connection with the king’s insensate manners:
‘Cæsar spies Lady Cathcart with a book; He flies to know what ’tis—he longs to look. “What’s in your hand, my lady? let me know?”— “A book, an’t please your majesty?”—“Oho! Book’s a good thing—good thing,—I like a book. Very good thing, my lady,—let me look. War of America! my lady, hae? Bad thing, my lady! fling, fling that away.”’”
Life of Major John André, by Winthrop Sargent, p. 147.