"This is so clear a point, gentlemen," he would tell the jury, "that I am convinced you felt it to be so the very moment I stated it. I should pay your understanding but a poor compliment to dwell on it for a minute; therefore, I shall now proceed to explain it to you as minutely as possible." Into such absurdities did the Serjeant's favourite "therefore" betray him.

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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