Transcriber's note:
Page 553: The transcriber has divided the large table into two sections.
Page 596: No closing quotation mark was provided in the original. 'were "the immediate raising of the siege, and return of the army to the Continent; ...'
Page 636: "she used a word vernacularly employed to signify the stripping birds of their fathers." 'fathers' has been replaced with 'feathers'.
The chapter title "THE CAXTONS" has two consecutive chapters entitled Chapter IX.