[84] Without paying the Customs duty imposed on silver plate in the United States.
[85] Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham, then holding very advanced Radical views.
[86] “He of Blackfriars Road,” viz., the late Rev. Rowland Hill, who is said to have preached a sermon congratulating his congregation on the catastrophe at Drury Lane Theatre.
[87] “Padmanaba,” viz., in a [pantomime] called Harlequin in Padmanaba. This elephant, some years afterwards, was exhibited over Exeter ’Change, where it was found necessary to destroy the poor animal by discharges of musketry. When he made his entrance in the pantomime above-mentioned, Johnson, the machinist of the rival house exclaimed, “I should be very sorry if I could not make a better elephant than that!” Johnson was right: we go to the theatre to be pleased with the skill of the imitator, and not to look at the reality.
[88] Hungerford suspension bridge was opened on May 1, 1845, it was removed in 1862 to make way for the Charing Cross railway bridge, and was afterwards erected over the River Avon at Clifton, near Bristol.
[89] It is currently reported that Robert Warren, Esq., is a native of Birmingham.
[90] The Lord Chancellor Eldon, “Old Bags.”
[91] Lord Stewart at a dinner in Ireland proposed as a toast “the health of the Prince Regent, the first cavalry officer in Europe.”
[92] It was generally supposed that the Prince Regent’s whiskers were artificial. But as the Prince was never true to either his word, his oath, his wife, or his mistress, it matters little by what, or by whom, he swore.
[93] Bishop Gray.