Regency Travel: Low Carriages

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the Editor of the SPORTING MAGAZINE Heaven's sake exert all your interest to overset those abominable low vehicles which now drag their cumbrous forms along the streets of the metropolis it is really impossible to exbibit our perGerman fons in them unless we are percumstance to use Venetian blinds Now I speak of Venetian accommoda110113 how far preferable is the LOW CARRIAGES SIR FOR
sober GONDOLA to the lumberevidence carts of modern refinement It is totally impracticable in one of these shew boxes to avoid the impertinent glances of our maleoffence street wanderers In a more lofty of conquest we could either look down upon ihe vanquished or pass them without the fatigue of resel iurning their civilities but now we are absolutely elbowed into atgrew tention and whispered into notoล˜ow riety for both elbows and noses are upon a level according to the new establishment Do dear Mr Editor run dozun these grovelling eccentricities and you will for ever oblige LUCRETIA LOFTY Upper Harley feet
This letter to the editor (with, I am assuming a pseudonym) appeared in the March 1800 issue of The Sporting Magazine.

Judging from some other references, I am thinking this might refer to a practice of “low wheeling” carriages:

Cursory Remarks on the Subject of Wheel Carriages (1817)

In the sporting science world, I also found some debate on the efficiency of a low versus a high carriage.

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