[23] It was here, in this same Westminster pit, that the celebrated dog Billy distinguished himself, and carried off the laurels of vermin-killing, by despatching a hundred rats at a time.

[24] In his early career Chambers had visited China. He performed the voyage as supercargo of some Swedish ships trading there.

[25] Bunbury died at Keswick, May 7, 1811, aged 61.

[26] Now known as the Egyptian Hall.

[27] Marcus Flaminius; or, the Life of the Romans, 1795.

[28] While on a visit in the Hundreds of Essex being under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life.

[29] Vide Biography, vol. i. p. 67.

[30] See account of the Three Tours of Dr. Syntax, ante, pp. 176, 247–252.

[31] Another version of the drawing, in the possession of the Editor, reproduced (p. 20) as 'The Quay,' in the introductory biographical sketch to this work.