I came across this note when searching for information about Rose Parisot, the dedicatee of "Parisot's Hornpipe":

John Old of Par

So it seems there was at least one harpist/dancing-master in England in 1808, playing fairly conventional dance music.

Maybe the VMP knows where his manuscript is. Google doesn't, and I'm not on Facebook so I can't ask where the poster got that information.