CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
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Anti-Corn Bill riots — Riots in the north — Ratification of the Treaty of Peace with America — Attempt to steal the Crown — Epithets applied to Napoleon — The Prince of Wales' debts [1]
CHAPTER II.
News of the Battle of Waterloo — Rejoicings — After career of Napoleon — His abdication and flight — Goes on board the Bellerophon — Arrives at Torbay — His habits on board — Ordered to Plymouth — Crowds try to get a glimpse of him — His protest against being sent to St. Helena — Transferred to the Northumberland — Opinion as to the Prince Regent's conduct towards him — Sails for St. Helena [23]
CHAPTER III.
Effects of Napoleon's capture — The Navy in 1815 — Margate and Ramsgate — French Prisoners of war — Treaty of Peace with France — Napoleon's house — A soldier's letter — A zealous Lord Mayor — Hotels and clubs in 1815 [51]
CHAPTER IV.
1816.
Day of Thanksgiving — "Battle for the Standard" — Return of the troops — Frozen game brought over by Esquimaux — The Regent's practical joke — Rejection of the Prince of Orange by the Princess Charlotte, and acceptance of Prince Leopold as her husband — Her marriage — "The R——l Whiskers" — The Regent's yacht [67]
CHAPTER V.
Riots and agrarian outrages — Colliers, &c., coming to London — "England in 1816" — Riots in Newgate — Marriage of the Duke of Gloucester — A chimney sweep's wedding — Cruelty to a "climbing boy" — The Mortar at St. James's Park — Lighting by means of Gas — The Coinage [89]
CHAPTER VI.
Smuggling — "Resurrection Men" — More riots — Orator Hunt — Meetings at Spa Fields — Riots arising therefrom — Execution of one of the rioters — The King's health [109]
CHAPTER VII.
1817.
Visit of the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia — Stones thrown at the Regent — Issue of the new Silver Coinage — Riots and arrests for sedition — First issue of Sovereigns — The Case of Abraham Thornton and appeal by battle — The Queen at Bath — Death of the Princess Charlotte — Richard Owen and his scheme — "The Fortunate Youth" — "Caraboo" [133]
CHAPTER VIII.
1818.
Distress among discharged Seamen — Finding the Scotch Regalia — Strathfieldsaye bought for the Duke of Wellington — The Kyrle Society — Royal Marriages — Annoying the Queen — Riotous schoolboys — The Regent mobbed — Death of Queen Charlotte [161]
CHAPTER IX.
1819.
Sale of the Queen's effects — Duke of York has custody of the King — The "Dandy horse" — Loss of, and finding the King's jewellery — A public dinner — A Royal freak — Unqualified medical practitioners — Emigration to America — "The fair Circassian" — Birth of Queen Victoria — Napoleon's carriage — An Irish witness [171]
Reform Meetings — Peterloo — Orator Hunt's entry into London — The King's last illness and death [203]
CHAPTER XI.
A foreigner's view of England — The packets — Roads — People — Posting — Mail and Stage Coaches — Amateur coachmen — Fast driving — Perils of travelling — A lioness attacks the Mail — Dog-carts and donkey-riding — The Streets and Houses [215]
CHAPTER XII.
London improvements — The Country — Gleaning — Dairying and out-door Washing — The Gipsy [245]
CHAPTER XIII.
Ladies' dresses — The Dandizette — Waltzing — The Quadrille — Almack's — Women's education — Women's work — Women Soldiers and Sailors — Female rowing match — Female pedestrian — Gretna Green Marriages — Some curious marriages [277]
CHAPTER XIV.
The Man of the period — Drinking habits — Dandies — Lord Petersham — A Dandy's diary — Gaming — Prize fighting — Country Sports [303]
CHAPTER XV.
Eating and drinking — Recipe for Punch — The Stage — Baron Geramb — Romeo Coates — Actors and Actresses — Mrs. Jordan [327]
CHAPTER XVI.
The Italian Opera — An uproar — Catalani and her terms — Vauxhall — Musical prodigy — Painters, Sculptors, Art exhibitions — Literature and writers — Bibliomaniacs — George Bidder, the Calculating boy — Musicians — Medical men — The Clergy — Roman Catholic emancipation — Joanna Southcott [347]
INDEX [371]
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II.
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RECRUITING [15]
"ANSWER TO JOHN BULL'S COMPLAINT" [19]
BONAPARTE ON THE QUARTER-DECK OF H. M. S. NORTHUMBERLAND [36]
BOXIANA; OR, THE FANCY [48]
"A SINGLE LIFE ON THE CONTINENT, STARVING ON SOUR KROUT!!" [79]
"COMES TO ENGLAND, IS MADE A GENERAL," &c. [80]
"R——L WHISKERS," 1816 [84]
HENRY HUNT, ESQ. [117]
"THE NEW COINAGE; OR, JOHN BULL'S VISIT TO MAT OF THE MINT!!" [138]
"A PEEP INTO THE PUMP ROOM; OR, THE ZOMERSETSHIRE FOLK IN A MAZE," OCTOBER, 1817 [147]
ROBERT OWEN, AUGUST 21, 1817 [151]
"SALES BY AUCTION! OR, PROVIDENT CHILDREN DISPOSING OF THEIR DECEASED MOTHER'S EFFECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEIR CREDITORS!" [174]
"MAKING MOST OF £10,000 PER AN." [177]
"THE HOBBY HORSE DEALER" [180]
"THE LADY'S ACCELERATOR" [183]
"HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS!!" [189]
MASSACRE AT ST. PETER'S; OR, "BRITONS, STRIKE HOME!!!" [207]
GEORGE III. [211]
MARKET WOMEN [217]
THE WAGGON [220]
THE POST CHAISE [223]
THE MAIL COACH [226]
SOWING BROADCAST [250]
USING THE FLAIL [250]
THE PLOUGH [251]
THE FARM LABOURER [254]
GLEANERS [255]
DAIRY FOLK [258]
WASHING CLOTHES [259]
MOUNTED BUTCHER BOY [262]
THE GIPSIES [263]
WALKING COSTUME. 1812 [270]
LADIES' HEAD-DRESS [271]
NO. 1 AND 2, 1811; NO. 3, 1812; NO. 4 AND 5, 1813 [274]
NO. 1 AND 2, 1814; NO. 3 AND 4, 1815 [275]
FASHIONABLES OF 1816 TAKING THE AIR IN HYDE PARK [279]
BELLES AND BEAUS; OR, A SCENE IN HYDE PARK, AUGUST 12, 1817 [282]
A DANDYESS, 1819 [283]
WALTZING [286]
AT THE SPINNING-WHEEL [291]
MAKING PILLOW LACE [294]
MILK WOMAN [295]
CONVIVIALITY [306]
A PORTRAIT (LORD PETERSHAM) [309]
LORD PETERSHAM. 1815 [312]
DANDY ON HORSEBACK [313]
A DANDY [316]
PLAYING AT BOWLS AND QUOITS [324]
LOTHARIO, AS PERFORMED BY MR. COATES AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE, DECEMBER 9, 1811 [337]
A CLOWN AND A GRASSHOPPER [345]
A PHYSICIAN [361]
TWO OPPOSITE CHARACTERS [364]
SOCIAL ENGLAND UNDER THE REGENCY.