“Where’s Brummell? Dish’d. Where’s Long Pole Wellesley? Diddled.”
[10] A celebrated boot-maker in Pall Mall, London.
[11] Dyde and Scribe were then well known dealers in ladies finery.
[12] A sort of under tap, in the interior of the Bench, in which porter is sold by the authority of the marshal, to the debtors.
[13] A solitary place of confinement for such as break the rules of the prison.
[14] Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, mistress of the Duke of York.
[15] A well-known bookseller, who wrote some amusing but egotistical memoirs.
[16] Vide Admiral Tyrrel’s monument in Westminster Abbey.
[17] Sir Francis Burdett (father of the present Lady Burdett Coutts) was Radical M.P. for Westminster. Perhaps the greatest event of his life was his committal to the Tower under the Speaker’s warrant for a libellous letter published in Cobbett’s Political Register of March 24, 1810, in which he questioned the power of the House of Commons to imprison delinquents. He at first resisted the execution of the warrant, and being a favourite with the mob, a street contest ensued between the military and the people, in which some lives were lost.
[18] The City Box, refused by the Prince Regent, was proposed by draper Waithman to be given to the Baronet if his cause had succeeded; but alas! it was destined again to go a-begging. Robert Waithman was Lord Mayor of London.