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The reference is to those who attended the fashionable masquerades organized by the society hostess and impresario Teresa Cornelys.Ī ‘macaroni’, was a fop or dandy with an extravagant hairstyle and affected mannerisms. Captain Jones was a ‘M ILITARY M ACCARONI’, ‘too much engaged in every scene of idle Dissipation and wanton Extravagance’, and hopefully his execution would teach a lesson to ‘his CORNELLYAN Brethren: deign, therefore, ye Beaux, ye sweet-scented, simpering He-she Things, deign to learn wisdom from the death of a Brother’. This word especially connotes upper-class effeminate practitioners of sodomy, ‘a crime imported from Italy by our spindle-shanked Gentry, who make the grand Tour but to bring home the vices of our Neighbours, and return, if possible, greater Coxcombs than they were before Embarkation’ (5 Aug.). The primary correspondent of the Public Ledger, calling himself A MAN, in several letters to the Public Ledger castigated Captain Jones’s supporters as ‘maccaronies’: ‘the country is over-run with Catamites, with monsters of Captain Jones’s taste, or, to speak in a language which all may understand, with MACCARONIES’. All of these incidents coalesced in the construction of a caricature of homosexuals called ‘the macaronies’.
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The conviction of Captain Robert Jones for sodomy in July 1772, followed by his royal pardon in August, prompted widespread comment, discussed in my article on The First Public Debate about Homosexuality in England This debate took place against a background of earlier homosexual scandals in the same year, notably a series of incidents involving the bookseller and jeweller Samuel Drybutter, and the allegation that the dramatist David Garrick was having a homosexual affair with his fellow dramatist Isaac Bickerstaffe. This essay may not beĪrchived, republished or redistributed without the permission of the Reproduction for sale or profit prohibited. The Macaroni Club Homosexual Scandals in 1772Ĭopyright © Rictor Norton. The Macaroni Club: Homosexual Scandals in 1772