[1] Barouches were so described on their first introduction into England.
[2] “Life, Adventures, and Opinions of Colonel George Hanger.”
[3] Hanger wrote a pamphlet on rat-catching.
[4] Dibdin’s Mother Goose, which ran for a hundred nights at Covent Garden.
[5] Sir Pepper Arden was a man of very violent temperament. One day, when he was haranguing a jury, a Frenchman who was paying a visit to the Law Courts asked who was the irascible advocate. His companion translated the name literally, “Le Chevalier Poivre Ardent.” “Parbleu!” replied the other, “il est très bien nommé.”
[6] At a grand review at Brighton he was thrown from his horse and broke his classical Roman nose.
[7] A visitor to Brummell met the great man’s valet on the stair having on his arm a number of crumpled ties. In answer to an inquiring look, the latter explained, “They are our failures.”
[8] The Duke of Bedford asked his opinion of a new coat; Brummell looked at it carefully in front and, telling him to turn round, at the back. Then he asked earnestly, “Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?”
[9] Hoby died worth one hundred and twenty thousand pounds. He was the first man in London to drive a Tilbury.
[10] Drummond was a partner in the great banking-house of that name, and the episode caused his retirement from the firm. This was the only occasion on which he had played whist at White’s Club.