text:  This seems to have been the first scene of the kind at which Kerim Khan had been present since his arrival in England; and though he was somewhat scandalized at perceiving that some of those in male attire were evidently ladies he describes with considerable effect "the infinite variety of costumes all very different from those of England as if each country had contributed its peculiar garb " the brilliant lighting and costly decoration of the rooms and the picturesque grouping of the vast assemblage