Chapter 3

Re-opening of Drury Lane.--Dr. Busby's "Monologue."--"A Buz in a Box, or the Poet in a Pet."--"Doctors Differ, or Dame Nature against the College."--Joanna Southcott.--Flight of the Princess Charlotte.--"Plebeian Spirit, or Coachee and the Heiress Presumptive."--"Miss endeavouring to Excite a Glow with her Dutch Plaything."--American War of 1812-1815.--Hostile Temper of the Americans.--Disastrous Results of their Invasion of Canada.--English Retaliatory Measures.--Burning of Washington.--Expedition against Alexandria.--"The Fall of Washington, or Maddy in Full Flight."--British Defeated at Baltimore and New Orleans.--"Romeo Coates."--Marriage of the Princess Charlotte.--"Leap Year, or John Bull's Establishment."--Troubles of 1817.--Narrow Escape of the Prince Regent.--"More Plots!!! More Plots!!!"--Edmund Kean and Lucius Junius Booth.--"The Rival Richards."--Congress of the Allied Sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle.--"A Russian Dandy at Home: a Scene at Aix-la-Chapelle."--"A Peep at the Pump Room, or the Zomerzetshire Folks in a Maze."--Death of Queen Charlotte.--"The Hambourg Waltz."--Invention of the Kaleidoscope.--"Caleidoscopes, or Paying for Peeping."--The Velocipede or "Hobby."--"The Spirit Moving the Quakers upon Worldly Vanities."--"John Bull in Clover," and "John Bull Done Over."--Birth of the Princess Victoria.--"A Scene in the New Farce, called The Rivals, or a Visit to the Heir Presumptive." _pp._ 34-61.