[50] The name given him by Bernard Blackmantle.
[51] Further particulars of them will be found in the “Memoirs of the Duchess d’Abrantes” (Madame Junot). The fashions of the years which immediately preceded the Revolution appear to have been almost as funny. I have somewhere seen a French semi-caricature depicting fashionables of the Palais Royal in 1786, and the people who had their heads cut off in ’93 were almost as queer as the dandies of the Directory and the Consulate.
[52] The treadmill was the invention of Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Cubitt, of Ipswich. It was erected at Brixton gaol in 1817, and was afterwards gradually introduced into other prisons.
[53] The Marquis of Londonderry.
[54] What became of Seurat we do not know, but we lately came across the following: “the Siamese twins married; the living skeleton was crossed in love, but afterwards consoled himself with a corpulent widow.” The authority is George Augustus Sala in “Twice Round the Clock.” We strongly suspect that the wit extracted the information out of his own “inner consciousness.”
[55] We purposely omit the title.
[56] Presumably post “bag.”