INDEX.
| ABB | BON |
| ABBEY, Fonthill, building of, [6] | Banting's cure for corpulence, [256] |
| Abershawe, Jerry, gratitude of, [546] | Barnard's Inn, and Woulfe the alchemist, [126] |
| Ackermann, the publisher, and William Combe, [474] | Baron Ward's remarkable career, [109-112] |
| Adams, Jack, the astrologer of Clerkenwell Green, [130] | Bassle, Martin, the calculator, [491] |
| Advertising for a wife, [95] | Beckfords, the, and Fonthill, [1-19] |
| Agapemone, the, or abode of love, [68] | Beckford, Alderman, [1] |
| Albemarle, the eccentric Duchess of, [519] | — — his Monument speech, [19] |
| Alchemists, modern, [124-29] | — William, at Bath, [16-18] |
| Alchemy, predictions of, [129] | — Mozart, and Voltaire, [3] |
| — revival of, [125], [129] | Bees, Wildman's docile, [276] |
| Alcibiades' dog and Henry Constantine Jennings, [107] | Bentham, Jeremy, bequest of his remains, [166] |
| Alcobaça and Batalha monasteries, [5] | Bentinck, Lord George, at Doncaster, [299] |
| Alphabet single rhymed, [565] | Berkeley, the Hon. Grantley, his youthful days, [304] |
| Ambassador floored, [553] | Betty, W. H. W., "Young Roscius," [364] |
| Amen—Peter Isnell, [231] | Bidder, George, the calculator, [492] |
| Angelo and Peter Pindar, [471] | Birth, extraordinary, [271] |
| Anglesey, Marquis of, his leg at Waterloo, [169] | Bishops' Saturday night, [563] |
| Apocalypse, interpretation of, [510] | Blake, William, painter and poet, [339] |
| Archbishop, a witty one, [504] | — — death of, [349] |
| Archer, Lady, Account of, [122] | — — by Dr. de Boismont, [345] |
| Artists, eccentric, [330] | — — in Fountain Court, [348] |
| Astrology, modern, [136-139] | — — married, [342] |
| Avonmore, Lord, his absence-of-mind, [566] | "Blue Key," the, [533] |
| Boaden, Mr., his account of "Young Roscius," [366] | |
| BANK of Faith, Huntington's, [220] | "Bolton Trotters," origin of, [319] |
| Banks, the eccentric Miss, [80] | Bonaparte caricatured by Gilray, [336] |
| BON | CAT |
| "Bonassus," the, and Lord Stowell, [278] | Building Fonthill Abbey, [6] |
| Bond, Mrs., of Cambridge Heath, Hackney, [72] | Bunn, A., and his mysterious parcel, [400] |
| Bone and Shell Exhibition, [317] | Burial bequests, [159] |
| Books, Mr. Heber's collections, [487] | Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill, [163] |
| Book-collector, Heber, the, [485] | Burke and Pitt caricatured by Gilray, [334] |
| Border marriages, [65] | Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall, [525] |
| Boruwlaski, Count, the Polish dwarf, [258] | Buxton, Jedediah, account of, [493] |
| — and Bébé, dwarfs, [260] | Byron, Lord, and Monk Lewis, [420] |
| — buried at Durham, [267] | Byron's description of Cintra, [4] |
| — and the Empress Maria Theresa, [260], [129] | |
| — introduced to George IV. by Charles Mathews, [264] | "CABBAGE COOKE," of Pentonville, [86] |
| — and the Irish giant, [263] | Calculators, extraordinary, [490] |
| — letter of, [266] | Cambridge Heath, Mrs. Bond's Hut at, [72] |
| — married, [263] | Canning, Mr., and the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands, [57] |
| Boyhood of Edmund Kean, [398] | — on Grattan's eloquence, [460] |
| Bradshaw, Mr., M.P., and Maria Tree, courtship of, [413] | — his humour, [451] |
| Brandy in tea, [534] | — by Lord Byron, [460] |
| Bridgwater, the eccentric Earl of, [103] | — and Lord Eldon, [459] |
| Bright, the fat miller of Malden, [253] | — in office, [456] |
| Brighton races thirty years ago, [292] | — and the present of fustian, [451] |
| Brothers, the "Prophet," [194] | — and Prince Metternich, [454] |
| Brougham, Lord, and Father Mathew, [183] | — and the "Queen of Spades," [452] |
| Brummel and Aunt Brawn, [34] | — and his college servant, [457] |
| — Beau, origin of, [22] | — and Sydney Smith, [459] |
| — at Calais and Caen, [31] | Canning's epitaph on the Marquis of Anglesey's leg, [169] |
| — dress of, [24] | — Friend of Humanity, and Knife-grinder, [454] |
| — fall of, [30] | Capon, the scene-painter, [322] |
| — and Madame de Staël, [26] | "Caraboo, the Princess," [246] |
| — mental decay of, [31] | — "Princess," and Napoleon Bonaparte, [248] |
| — upon neckcloths, [24] | Caricatures by Gilray, [334] |
| — portrait of, [22] | Carlton House Fête and Romeo Coates, [43] |
| — and the Prince of Wales, [22], [26] | Carter Foote, of Tavistock, [114] |
| — and the snuff-box, [28] | |
| Brummel's practical jokes, [25] | Castle Spectre, Mrs. Powell's mistake, [423] |
| — sayings, [32] | |
| Bryan, the Marylebone fanatic, [189] | Catching a cayman, [325] |
| CAV | DRE |
| Cavendish, Hon. H., his wealth, [135] | Cooke, T. P., in melodrama and pantomime, [404] |
| — the woman-hating, [134] | "Corner Memory Thompson," [238] |
| Chancery jeu-d'esprit, [551] | Corpulence, oddities of, [256] |
| Charade by Dr. Whately, [508] | Costume of "Lady Lewson," [90] |
| Charke, Charlotte, Colley Cibber's daughter, [410] | Cottle Church, account of the, [171] |
| Charnwood Forest, Liston in, [392] | Courtship, luckless, of Sir E. Dering, [59] |
| Chatham, Lord, and the Beckfords, [2] | Crab, Roger, the hermit of Bethnal Green, [153] |
| Chesterfield, Lord, estimate of, [78] | Cranford Bridge Inn, [307] |
| — — his will, [542] | — sporting life at, [304] |
| Cibber, Colley, his daughter, [410] | Crazy Jane, by Monk Lewis, [423] |
| Cintra, Beckford's estate at, [4] | Cripplegate Vault story, [160] |
| Clerkenwell, "Lady Lewson," of, [89] | Criticism, rare, [370] |
| "Clown" tavern, the, Sadler's Wells, [527] | "Cunning Mary, of Clerkenwell," [179] |
| Club, the Mulberries, Shakspearian, [408] | Curtis, the Old Bailey eccentric, [312] |
| "Coalheaver," Huntington, [219] | "Cutting" quarrel of the Prince of Wales and Brummel, [26] |
| Coates, his "Lothario," [42] | |
| — Romeo and Diamond, [41] | DANTLOW, the Russian dwarf, [268] |
| — his cockleshell curricle, [42], [43] | Dawson, Daniel, at Doncaster, [296] |
| Cobbett, eccentricities of, [481] | Day, John, and Fairlop Fair, [280] |
| — and Tom Paine's bones, [484] | Dee, Dr., his black stone, [175] |
| Cobbett's gridiron sign, [482] | Denisons, the, and the Conyngham family, [105] |
| — nicknames, [484] | Dering, Sir Edward, his luckless courtship, [59] |
| — Political Register, [482] | Devil's Walk, origin of the, [196] |
| — Porcupine Papers, [481] | Devonshire, Duchess of, and Brummel, [32] |
| Colburn, Zerah, the calculator, [491] | — eccentrics, [113] |
| Coleraine, eccentric Lord, [321] | Dick England the gambler, [290] |
| Collector, an indiscriminate, [305] | Dinely, Sir John, advertising for a wife, [95] |
| Combe, William, author of Dr. Syntax, [472] | "Dog Jennings," [107] |
| — — in the King's Bench Prison, [473] | Doncaster eccentrics, [296] |
| — — on lithography, [473] | Doran, Dr., his account of William Combe, [474] |
| Conspirator, single, [561] | Dowton in tragedy, [390] |
| Convivial eccentricities, [525] | — oddities of, [389] |
| Conyngham family, rise of the, [105] | Dr. Syntax, the author of, [472] |
| Cooke, Thomas, the Pentonville miser, [82] | |
| — — the Turkey merchant,[87] | Dress, Brummel's, [24], [30] |
| DUA | GRI |
| Duality of the mind, by Dr. Wigan, [232] | Fonthill, three houses, [6] |
| Dunbar, Captain, his letters, [556] | — village, [9] |
| Dunlop's remarks on Mrs. Radcliffe's writings, [476] | Footpad, the grateful,[546] |
| Dust-sifting and dust-heaps, profits of, [92] | Fordyce, Dr., the gourmand, [288] |
| "Dutch Mail," the, [554] | — — and his patient, [289] |
| Dwarfs, organisation of, [268] | Fuller, honest Jack, [165] |
| Funeral of Cooke, the Turkey merchant, [88] | |
| ECCENTRICS delight in extremes, [94] | — of Jemmy Hirst, [298] |
| Elegy on a geologist, [328] | Fuseli and Blake, [349] |
| Elliot, the Gretna priest, [66] | |
| Elliston at Richmond, [415] | GARDNER, the worm doctor, [161] |
| England, Dick, the gambler, [290] | Garrick, and Dance's portrait of him, [375] |
| Epicure, what he eats in his lifetime, [536] | — and Hardham of Fleet Street, [368] |
| Epitaphs, odd, [538] | — Mrs., death of, [374] |
| Etching, Gilray's rapid, [338] | — — her funeral, [376] |
| Executions, taste for witnessing, [314] | — — and Horace Walpole, [377] |
| Garrick's acting described by Munden, [388] | |
| FAIRLOP Fair and John Day, [280] | Geologist, elegy on a, [328] |
| Fall of Fonthill Tower, [11] | George III. and Lord Mayor Beckford, [2], [20] |
| Family, an odd one, [543] | George IV. and Mrs. Bond's wealth, [72] |
| Fanatics, a trio of, [189] | German for astronomy, [538] |
| Farquhar, Mr., and Fonthill, [11] | Giant, the Irish, [270] |
| — — sketch of, [13] | Gilchrist's Life of Blake, [339] |
| Fat folks, epitaphs on, [257] | — caricatures George III., [330] |
| — — Lambert and Bright, [249] | — in St. James's Street, [332] |
| Fidge, Dr., his strange death, [161] | Gin, on, [536] |
| Finch, Crow, and Raven, and Sir E. Dering, [60] | Golden Ball Tavern, Sadler's Wells, [527] |
| — Margaret, Queen of the Gipsies, [178] | "Goose" Tavern, Islington, [527] |
| Fire of London cinder heap, [94] | Gourmand physician, [288] |
| Flaxman, letters to, from Blake, [344] | Green, Hannah, or the "Ling Bob Witch," [139] |
| Fleet marriage of Miss Pelham and a highwayman, [64] | Greenwich dinner, [539] |
| Flight, Miss, of the Temple, [547] | Gretna Green marriages, history of, [63] |
| Fonthill and the Beckfords, [1] | — "Blacksmith" Paisley, [67] |
| — cost of, [13] | — marriages abolished, [68] |
| — destroyed by fire, [2] | — and its priests, [66] |
| — sales at, [10] | Grimaldi, the clown, account of, [382] |
| GRI | KEM |
| Grimaldi finds money, [384] | Hull, Richard, buried on Leith Hill, [165] |
| — old, and "No Popery," [383] | Hunting experiences at Cranford, [308] |
| Grimaldi's first appearance, [383] | Huntington buried at Lewes, [228] |
| — farewell, [385] | — the preacher, sketch of, [219] |
| Guildhall, the Beckford Monument in, [19] | — at Hermes Hill, [229] |
| Guy's eccentric inscription and epitaph, [160] | — marries Lady Sanderson, [226] |
| Huntington's preaching and portrait, [230], [231] | |
| HALLUCINATION, strange, [236] | — Bank of Faith, [220] |
| Hallucinations, What are they? [232], [233] | — effects, sale of, [229] |
| Hanging by compact, [553] | — leather breeches, [222] |
| Hardham family, anecdote of, [159] | — Providence Chapel, [225] |
| Hardham's "No. 37," [368] | — spiritual advice, [227] |
| Hayley and Blake, [344] | Hutton, William, and "Strong Woman,"[274] |
| Heber the book-collector, [485] | Hypochondriasis, cure for, [241] |
| Hermit advertised for, [151] | — remarkable, [240] |
| — the Dorset, [150] | |
| — of Hawkstone, [151] | |
| — Leicestershire, [147] | |
| — of Moor Park, [151] | |
| — Pain's Hill, [146] | |
| — near Preston, [146] | IRVING, the Scottish minister,[184] |
| — of Selbourne, [150] | — a millenarian, [187] |
| — near Stevenage, [152] | Islington, Charles Lamb's cottage at, [494] |
| — vegetarian, [154] | — old taverns, [526] |
| Hermits and eremitical life, [145] | |
| — ornamental, [150] | |
| Hill, Rowland, his preaching, [185] | |
| Hindoo Bride, Monk Lewis's, [418] | |
| Hoax, princely, at Brighton, [283] | |
| Hood, Thomas, account of, [497] | JEMMY Hirst at Doncaster, [296] |
| — — at school, [497] | Jerrold, Douglas, at the Mulberries Club, [409] |
| — set up in business, [498] | Jerusalem Whalley, account of, [191] |
| — and Sir Robert Peel, [501] | Jesse, Captain, his account of Brummel, [24] |
| — death and burial of, [503] | |
| Hood's Epping Hunt, [499] | |
| — first work, [499] | |
| — ode to Grimaldi, [386] | |
| — Up the Rhine, [500] | |
| — various works, [499] | KEAN, Edmund, his boyhood, [398] |
| Hook, Theodore, hoaxes Romeo Coates, [44] | — — undervalued by Dowton, [390] |
| Hopkins, the dwarf, [268] | Kellerman, the alchemist, in Beds, [127] |
| Host, eccentric, [544] | Kelly, Serjeant Otherwise, [567] |
| House-warming, a costly one, [112] | Kemble, Fanny, in the United States,[407] |
| KEM | NOL |
| Kemble, John, and the O. P. Riot, [371] | Manchester punch house, [530] |
| Kenyon, Lord, his parsimony, [77] | Mansfield, the Essex butcher, [254] |
| Masquerade incident, [402] | |
| LABELLIERE, Major, buried on Box Hill, [165] | Mathews, C., Spanish ambassador hoax, [378] |
| "Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell, [89] | Mathew, Father, and the Temperance movement, [182] |
| Lamb, Charles, at Munden's last performance, [387] | Mellish, Colonel, sketch of, [294] |
| — — his cottage at Islington, [494] | Miscalculation, an odd one, [560] |
| Lambert, Daniel, and Boruwlaski, the Dwarf, [251] | Monk Lewis, account of, [417] |
| — — account of, [249] | Mormon, the book of, [210] |
| — — his funeral, [253] | — Church in Ontario, [214] |
| Lansdown, Bath, Beckford's tomb at, [19] | — city of Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, [216] |
| — Tower, Bath, [13] | — Zion in Utah, [218] |
| Laughter, sources of, [520] | Mormonism, the founder of, [210] |
| Legacy to Queen Victoria, [99] | Moser, Mary, the flower-painter, [78] |
| Lewis, Monk, account of, [417] | Mulberries, the Shakespearian Club, [408] |
| — — in the West Indies, [421] | Mummy of a Manchester lady, [239] |
| Liston in a counting-house, [394] | Munden's last performance, [387] |
| — and Stephen Kemble, [396] | Mytton, John, in adversity at Calais, [52] |
| — and Tate Wilkinson, [397] | — family of, [48], [49] |
| — in tragedy, [391] | — his extravagances, [50] |
| Liston's first appearance, [396] | Mytton's death and funeral, [53] |
| Literary madmen, [508] | |
| Llangollen, the Recluses of, [155] | NEELD, Joseph, and Philip Rundell,[102] |
| London eccentric, the, [322] | Neild, J. C., his legacy to Queen Victoria, [99] |
| Lothario Coates, at the Haymarket Theatre, [42] | Nelson, Lord, at Fonthill, [8] |
| Lovat, Lord, and Miss Kate Vint, [559] | Newcastle, the romantic Duchess of, [516] |
| Love-passage, an eccentric one, [413] | Newland, Abraham, chief cashier of the Bank of England, [44] |
| — — his epitaph, [46] | |
| — — song, [45] | |
| MACKINNON, Colonel, his practical joking, [287] | — — his wealth, [47] |
| Mackintosh, Cool Sir James, [478] | Nimrod's life of John Mytton, [51] |
| — Sir James, his Recordership of Bombay, [480] | — sketch of Colonel Mellish,[294] |
| Madmen, literary, [508] | Nokes, of Hornchurch, his eccentric funeral, [162] |
| Maginn, Dr., epitaph on, [538] | Nollekens, the sculptor, eccentricities of, [350] |
| NOL | PRE |
| Nollekens, his avarice, [350] | Parr, Dr., oddities of, [435] |
| — and the barber, [356] | — — the Prince of Wales, and Duke of Sussex, [442] |
| — and Lord Coleraine, [322] | — — on the Shakespeare forgeries, [440] |
| — and the Hawkinses, [354] | — — and Sir W. Jones, [436] |
| — and the legacy-hunters, [360] | — — his smoking, [440] |
| — married, [352] | — — his Spital sermon, [444] |
| — and Northcote, [357] | Parsimony of J. C. Neild, [99] |
| — at Rome, [351] | — of Lord Kenyon, [77] |
| — at the Royal Academy Club, [355] | "Paul Pry," origin of, [372] |
| — and his sitters, [352], [358] | Pembroke, Lord, his port wine, [540] |
| — Mrs., her wardrobe, [355] | Perpetual-motion seeker, [513] |
| Nollekens' bust of Dr. Johnson, [352] | Peter Pindar, Dr. Wolcot, [460] |
| — bell-tolling, [351] | — — Giffard, and Wright, [466] |
| — gaieties, [357] | — — and Nollekens, [465] |
| — generosity, [362] | — — outwits a publisher, [466] |
| — parsimony, [353] | — — death and burial of, [470] |
| — spelling, [357] | — Pindar's attacks on Geo. III., [464] |
| — wardrobe, [361] | — — lines on Dr. Johnson, [465] |
| — will, [362] | — — satires, [464] |
| Non Sequiter and therefore, [566] | Petersham, Lord, Capt. Gronow's account of, [55] |
| Norwood Gipsies, [177] | — coat, snuff and snuff-boxes, and equipages, [56] |
| Pitt, Thomas, cheapening his coffin, [162] | |
| ODDITIES of Dowton, [389] | Poetical Sketches, by W. Blake, [340] |
| Old Bailey Character, [312] | Poole, John, his Paul Pry, [372] |
| "Old Rag," the Earl of B., [76] | |
| Old Red Lion Tavern, St. John Street Road, [526] | "Poor Man of Mutton" and the Earl of B., [76] |
| O. P. Riot, the, History of, [96] | Pope's lines on Ward, the miser, [74] |
| Orton, Job, his wine-bin coffin, [161] | Porson at Cambridge, [430] |
| Oyster and Parched-Pea Club, [529] | — at the cider cellar, [428] |
| — and Horne Tooke, [428] | |
| PARCEL, a mysterious one, [400] | — and the young Oxonian, [434] |
| Parr, Dr., at Cambridge, [441] | — and Perry, of the Morning Chronicle, [426] |
| — — at Cards, [442] | — portrait of, [433] |
| — — at Colchester, [440] | Porson's drinking, [429] |
| — — his generosity, [443] | — eccentricities, [425] |
| — — at Harrow and Stanmore, [437] | — epigrams, [426] |
| — — at Hatton, [438] | — wit and repartee, [431] |
| — — and Dr. Johnson, [439] | Preachers, eccentric, [184] |
| PRI | SOU |
| Price, Dr. the alchemist, [124] | Rundell, Philip, his great wealth, [102] |
| Prince, Brother, and the Agapemone, [69] | Ryland, the forger, and Blake, painter, [340] |
| Prophecies of Lady Hester Stanhope, [141] | |
| Punch, tremendous bowl of, [541] | |
| Punch House, at Manchester, [530] | |
| QUACKERY, Successful, [545] | |
| "Quid Rides?" [318] | SANDWICH ISLANDS, King and Queen of, their visit to England, [57] |
| Scotch ladies, singular, [70] | |
| RADCLIFFE, Mrs., and the critics, [475] | Scott, Mr. John, in Parliament, [549] |
| "Rather than otherwise," [564] | — Sir Walter, and Monk Lewis, [420] |
| Redding, Mr. Cyrus, his account of Mr. Beckford, [17] | Scottish marriage law, [65] |
| Recluses of Llangollen, [155] | Sedan, ride in, [548] |
| Redpost Fynes, [115] | Seven Dials, what became of them? [309] |
| Reece, Dr., and Joanna Southcote, [202] | Shakespeare Monument, George IV. and Elliston, [402] |
| Richebourg, the historical dwarf, [269] | Shark story, by Monk Lewis, [422] |
| Richmond, Duke of, and T. P. Cooke, [406] | Sharp, the engraver, fanaticism of, [189] |
| Ride in a sedan, [548] | Sibly's work on astrology, [139] |
| Robinson, Long Sir Thomas, [542] | Sicilian boy calculator, [490] |
| Roderick Dhu, Mr. T. P. Cooke, as, [405] | Sidi Mohammed and Hindustanee cookery, [113] |
| Romeo and Juliet in America, [407] | Skeffington, Sir Lumley, his amateur acting, [36] |
| Roscius, Young, account of, [363] | — — — his lines to Miss Foote and Madame Vestris, [38] |
| — — his earnings, [367] | Smart, Christopher, the poetical lunatic, [511] |
| — — first appears, [364] | Smith, Albert, and Seven Dials, [309] |
| — — in London, [365] | — Joseph, the Mormon prophet, [210] |
| — — his popularity, [367] | Snell, Hannah, the female soldier, [116] |
| — — in Scotland, [364] | Snuff-taking legacies, [158] |
| — — sketch of, [363] | Soane, Sir John, lampooned, [488] |
| Rothschild, his life and adventures, [96] | Songs, by W. Blake, [343] |
| Rowlandson, the caricaturist, [474] | Soup distribution, classic, [565] |
| — and Gilray, the caricaturists, [339] | Sources of laughter, [520] |
| Royal Society Club, H. Cavendish at, [133] | Southcote, Joanna, [198] |
| SOU | WIR |
| Southcote, Joanna, and the coming of Shiloh, [200] | Trekschuit tourist, the, [324] |
| — — her funeral and grave, [205], [206] | Trotter, Miss Menie, eccentricities of, [70] |
| — — her visions, chapel, and seals, [209] | True to the text, [415] |
| Southcotonian hymns, [206] | |
| Southcotonians at Temple Bar, [207] | |
| Spanish ambassador hoax, Mathews', [378] | URIM and Thummin, and Mormon Records, [211] |
| Spelling, bad, [556] | |
| Spenceans, the religio-political sect, [197] | |
| Spendthrift Squire of Halston, [48] | VAN AMBURGH, the lion tamer, [324] |
| Stanhope, Lady Hester, oddities of, [141] | Vathek, by W. Beckford, [4] |
| Stewart, walking, sketch of, [300] | — dramatised, [4] |
| — — a general, [300] | Visions by W. Blake, [340] |
| Stokes' Amphitheatre, Islington Road, [528] | |
| Stowell, Lord, his love of sight-seeing, [277] | |
| Strangely eccentric, yet sane, [232] | |
| WADD'S comments on corpulence, [254] | |
| TAVERNS, old, at Islington, [526] | Wales, Prince of, and Beau Brummel, [22], [26] |
| Temple, notoriety of the, [546] | "Walking Stewart," sketch of, [300] |
| Thackeray and Waterton, [328] | Walpole's account of Lord Mayor Beckford's speech, [20] |
| Tipsy village, [535] | — chattels saved by a talisman, [174] |
| Tooke and D'Alembert, [449] | Walpole, Horace, on William Combe, [475] |
| — — his daughters, [448] | Ward, Baron, his remarkable career, [109] |
| — and the income tax, [450] | — John, the Hackney miser, [74] |
| — and the judges, [445] | — the miser's prayer, [76] |
| — John Horne, oddities of, [444] | — and the South Sea scheme, [74] |
| — and Purley, [446] | Waters, Sir John, his escape, [285] |
| — and Wilks, a retort, [444] | Waterton, Charles, the traveller, [324] |
| — the poulterer, and the Prince of Wales, [445] | Wealth of Mr. Beckford, [18] |
| Tooke's death and burial, [450] | Wellington, Lord, hoaxed, [288] |
| — Sunday dinners, [447] | Whately, the witty archbishop, [504] |
| — wit, 450 [450] | Wildman and his bees, [276] |
| Tozer, the Southcotonian preacher, [204] | Wilkes, John, Sheridan on, [335] |
| Traveller, the listless, [325] | Will of J. C. Neild, [99] |
| Travellers, eccentric, [323] | Wirgman, the Kantesian, [512] |
| WIT | YOU |
| "Witch Pickles," of Leeds, [137] | "Wooden spoon, the," [535] |
| Wolcot, Dr.—[see Peter Pindar.] | Woulfe, Peter, the chemist and alchemist, [126] |
| — — in Cornwall, [462] | |
| — — in Jamaica, [461] | |
| — — and Opie, the painter, [463] | |
| — — and Royal Academicians, [463] | |
| Woman-hating Cavendish, [132] | YOUNG, Brigham, the Mormon prophet, [218] |
| "Wonder of all the wonders that the world ever wondered at," [243] | — Roscius, sketch of the, 87—[see Roscius, Young.] |
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Vathek was dramatised by the Hon. Mrs. Norton some thirty years since, and was offered to Mr. Bunn for Drury Lane Theatre, but declined; the "exquisite beauties of Mrs. Norton's metrical compositions being overloaded by a pressure of dialogue and a redundancy of scenic effects, the fidelity and rapid succession of which it would have puzzled any scene painter or mechanist to follow."—Bunn's Stage, vol ii., p. 139.
[2] Mr. Farquhar died July 6, 1826, in York Place, Marylebone, aged 76 years; he was buried in St. John's Wood Chapel, where is a handsome monument to his memory, with a medallion head of the deceased by P. Row, sculptor.
[3] Three other of Mr. Beckford's town houses were:—1. On the Terrace, Piccadilly, part of the site of the newly-built mansion of Baron Rothschild; 2. No. 1, Devonshire Place, New Road; and it is said, though we do not vouch how correctly, 3. No. 27, Charles Street, Mayfair, a very small house, looking over the garden of Chesterfield House.
[4] In conformity with an old English custom, Mr. Beckford invariably travelled with his bed among his luggage.
[5] Saturday Review.
[6] Abridged from Sir Bernard Burke's Family Romance, vol. i.
[7] Abridged from Sir Bernard Burke's very interesting Vicissitudes of Families. Second Series. 1860.
[8] This very amusing précis is slightly abridged from the Athenæum journal.
[9] For the details of the measure, see "Irregular Marriages," Knowledge for the Time, 1864, pp. 120-123.
[10] Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, 1865, p. 115.
[11] Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, p. 501.
[12] We know an instance of an old Baronet advertising twenty years for a wife; at last he succeeded in marrying an out-and-out Xantippe.
[13] Condensed from The Book of Days, vol. ii. pp. 285-288.
[14] Family Romance. By J. Bernard Burke. Vol. ii.
[15] Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, 1865, p. 110.
[16] Abridged from Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, No. 25.
[17] Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, No. 34.
[18] See a pamphlet of 1794; Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, Nos. 20 and 21.
[19] Honest Jack Fuller, who is buried in a pyramidal mausoleum in Brightling churchyard, in Sussex, gave as his reason for being thus disposed of, his unwillingness to be eaten by his relations after this fashion: "The worms would eat me, the ducks would eat the worms, and my relations would eat the ducks."
[20] We hope to see these interesting accounts of real "curiosities of literature" reprinted in a separate volume.
[21] S. P. Dom. James I., vol. lxxvii., quoted in Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, Appendix.
[22] See The End of All Things, by the author of Our Heavenly Home, 1866.
[23] "New Materials for Lives of English Engravers," by Peter Cunningham. Builder, 1863.
[24] Sketches of Imposture, Deception and Credulity. Second Edition. 1840.
[25] Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity. Second Edition. 1840.
[26] Dr. Richard Reece was the son of a clergyman, and was articled to a country surgeon. In 1800 he settled in practice in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and published The Medical and Chirurgical Pharmacopœia; and having received a degree of M.D. from a Scotch university, he exercised the three professions of physician, apothecary, and chemist. He likewise published several volumes upon various medical subjects; and established himself in the western wing of the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly. He assailed quackery with much boldness; hence his mistake as to Joanna Southcote was made the most of. He had also considerable practice, by which he gained money. He published A Plain Narrative of the Circumstances attending the last Illness and Death of Joanna Southcote.
[27] One of Joanna's London residences was at No. 17, Weston Place, opposite the Small Pox Hospital.
[28] Selected and abridged from an excellent paper on Huntington's Works and Life, attributed to Southey; Quarterly Review, No. 48.
[29] Huntington resided in the house built by the Swiss doctor De Valangin, who had been a pupil of Boerhaave, and practised in Soho Square. He removed thence to Cripplegate, and about 1772 he purchased ground at Pentonville, and there built himself a villa, which he named, from the discoverer of chemistry, Hermes Hill, then almost the only house on or near the spot, except White Conduit House. One of his medicines, The Balsam of Life, he presented to the Apothecaries' Company. He had, by his first wife, a daughter, who, dying at nine years of age, was buried in the garden at Hermes Hill, in a very costly tomb.
[30] See portrait of Boruwlaski, page 259.
[31] Joseph is in error here; Bébé was two years his junior, but precocity of development made him appear to be thirty, though really only about seventeen.
[32] Sir Lucas Pepys was physician in ordinary to the King, and seven years President of the College of Physicians. He had a seat at Mickleham, in Surrey. One day, at Dorking, he inquired at a druggist's what all his varieties of drugs were for. "To prepare prescriptions," was the reply. "Why," said Sir Lucas, "I never used but three or four articles in all my practice."
[33] From The Times Review of his Life, 1865.
[34] The popular work of Mr. James Grant.
[35] Fuseli had one day sharply criticised the work of a brother R.A., whom he sought to alleviate by remarking that the conceited scene-painter, Mr. Capon, to whom Sheridan had given the nickname of "Pompous Billy," had piled up his lumps of rock as regularly on the side scene, as a baker would his quartern-loaves upon the shelves behind his counter to cool.
[36] See an able paper in Fraser's Magazine, No. 133.
[37] These characteristics have been selected and abridged from Mr. J. T. Smith's Nollekens and his Times, one of the best books of anecdote ever published.
[38] Note to Rejected Addresses. Edition 1861.
[40] Talfourd's Letters of Charles Lamb.
[41] This paper appeared in the "London Magazine," January, 1825, not 1824, as stated at page 121.
[42] Massey's History of England.
[43] Opie.
[44] Peter here meant himself, which is in part true.
[45] Selected and abridged from Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, 1865.
[46] From the Times' review of Captain Dunbar's Letters, 1865.
[47] For an account of Lord Lovat's execution, see Century of Anecdote, vol. i., p. 124.
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Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Otherwise, the author's original spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been left intact.