text: " Any quantity of ornament that might be deemed requisite could easily be applied to this kind of coat--so as to make it a fit habiliment for occasions of ceremony: in its present state it retains the stiffness of its military origin (for it may be called an invention of the Great Duke's of him who wore it on the glorious fields of Salamanca and Waterloo and it came into fashion at the close of the Peninsular war:) but it may be embroidered as much as you please or its stuff may be varied _ad infinitum_ from Manchester fustian to the finest Genoa velvet