Part 45

Astrology, modern, 136-139

Avonmore, Lord, his absence-of-mind, 566

Bank of Faith, Huntington's, 220

Banks, the eccentric Miss, 80

Banting's cure for corpulence, 256

Barnard's Inn, and Woulfe the alchemist, 126

Baron Ward's remarkable career, 109-112

Bassle, Martin, the calculator, 491

Beckfords, the, and Fonthill, 1-19

Beckford, Alderman, 1

-- -- his Monument speech, 19

-- William, at Bath, 16-18

-- Mozart, and Voltaire, 3

Bees, Wildman's docile, 276

Bentham, Jeremy, bequest of his remains, 166

Bentinck, Lord George, at Doncaster, 299

Berkeley, the Hon. Grantley, his youthful days, 304

Betty, W. H. W., "Young Roscius," 364

Bidder, George, the calculator, 492

Birth, extraordinary, 271

Bishops' Saturday night, 563

Blake, William, painter and poet, 339

-- -- death of, 349

-- -- by Dr. de Boismont, 345

-- -- in Fountain Court, 348

-- -- married, 342

"Blue Key," the, 533

Boaden, Mr., his account of "Young Roscius," 366

"Bolton Trotters," origin of, 319

Bonaparte caricatured by Gilray, 336

"Bonassus," the, and Lord Stowell, 278

Bond, Mrs., of Cambridge Heath, Hackney, 72

Bone and Shell Exhibition, 317

Books, Mr. Heber's collections, 487

Book-collector, Heber, the, 485

Border marriages, 65

Boruwlaski, Count, the Polish dwarf, 258

-- and Bébé, dwarfs, 260

-- buried at Durham, 267

-- and the Empress Maria Theresa, 260

-- introduced to George IV. by Charles Mathews, 264

-- and the Irish giant, 263

-- letter of, 266

-- married, 263

Boyhood of Edmund Kean, 398

Bradshaw, Mr., M.P., and Maria Tree, courtship of, 413

Brandy in tea, 534

Bridgwater, the eccentric Earl of, 103

Bright, the fat miller of Malden, 253

Brighton races thirty years ago, 292

Brothers, the "Prophet," 194

Brougham, Lord, and Father Mathew, 183

Brummel and Aunt Brawn, 34

-- Beau, origin of, 22

-- at Calais and Caen, 31

-- dress of, 24

-- fall of, 30

-- and Madame de Staël, 26

-- mental decay of, 31

-- upon neckcloths, 24

-- portrait of, 22

-- and the Prince of Wales, 22, 26

-- and the snuff-box, 28

Brummel's practical jokes, 25

-- sayings, 32

Bryan, the Marylebone fanatic, 189

Building Fonthill Abbey, 6

Bunn, A., and his mysterious parcel, 400

Burial bequests, 159

Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill, 163

Burke and Pitt caricatured by Gilray, 334

Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall, 525

Buxton, Jedediah, account of, 493

Byron, Lord, and Monk Lewis, 420

Byron's description of Cintra, 4

"Cabbage Cooke," of Pentonville, 86

Calculators, extraordinary, 490

Cambridge Heath, Mrs. Bond's Hut at, 72

Canning, Mr., and the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands, 57

-- on Grattan's eloquence, 460

-- his humour, 451

-- by Lord Byron, 460

-- and Lord Eldon, 459

-- in office, 456

-- and the present of fustian, 451

-- and Prince Metternich, 454

-- and the "Queen of Spades," 452

-- and his college servant, 457

-- and Sydney Smith, 459

Canning's epitaph on the Marquis of Anglesey's leg, 169

-- _Friend of Humanity_, and _Knife-grinder_, 454

Capon, the scene-painter, 322

"Caraboo, the Princess," 246

-- "Princess," and Napoleon Bonaparte, 248

Caricatures by Gilray, 334

Carlton House Fête and Romeo Coates, 43

Carter Foote, of Tavistock, 114

_Castle Spectre_, Mrs. Powell's mistake, 423

Catching a cayman, 325

Cavendish, Hon. H., his wealth, 135

-- the woman-hating, 134

Chancery _jeu-d'esprit_, 551

Charade by Dr. Whately, 508

Charke, Charlotte, Colley Cibber's daughter, 410

Charnwood Forest, Liston in, 392

Chatham, Lord, and the Beckfords, 2

Chesterfield, Lord, estimate of, 78

-- -- his will, 542

Cibber, Colley, his daughter, 410

Cintra, Beckford's estate at, 4

Clerkenwell, "Lady Lewson," of, 89

"Clown" tavern, the, Sadler's Wells, 527

Club, the Mulberries, Shakspearian, 408

"Coal-heaver," Huntington, 219

Coates, his "Lothario," 42

-- Romeo and Diamond, 41

-- his cockleshell curricle, 42, 43

Cobbett, eccentricities of, 481

-- and Tom Paine's bones, 484

Cobbett's gridiron sign, 482

-- nicknames, 484

-- _Political Register_, 482

-- _Porcupine Papers_, 481

Colburn, Zerah, the calculator, 491

Coleraine, eccentric Lord, 321

Collector, an indiscriminate, 305

Combe, William, author of _Dr. Syntax_, 472

-- -- in the King's Bench Prison, 473

-- -- on lithography, 473

Conspirator, single, 561

Convivial eccentricities, 525

Conyngham family, rise of the, 105

Cooke, Thomas, the Pentonville miser, 82

-- -- the Turkey merchant, 87

Cooke, T. P., in melodrama and pantomime, 404

"Corner Memory Thompson," 238

Corpulence, oddities of, 256

Costume of "Lady Lewson," 90

Cottle Church, account of the, 171

Courtship, luckless, of Sir E. Dering, 59

Crab, Roger, the hermit of Bethnal Green, 153

Cranford Bridge Inn, 307

-- sporting life at, 304

_Crazy Jane_, by Monk Lewis, 423

Cripplegate Vault story, 160

Criticism, rare, 370

"Cunning Mary, of Clerkenwell," 179

Curtis, the Old Bailey eccentric, 312

"Cutting" quarrel of the Prince of Wales and Brummel, 26

Dantlow, the Russian dwarf, 268

Dawson, Daniel, at Doncaster, 296

Day, John, and Fairlop Fair, 280

Dee, Dr., his black stone, 175

Denisons, the, and the Conyngham family, 105

Dering, Sir Edward, his luckless courtship, 59

Devil's Walk, origin of the, 196

Devonshire, Duchess of, and Brummel, 32

-- eccentrics, 113

Dick England the gambler, 290

Dinely, Sir John, advertising for a wife, 95

"Dog Jennings," 107

Doncaster eccentrics, 296

Doran, Dr., his account of William Combe, 474

Dowton in tragedy, 390

-- oddities of, 389

_Dr. Syntax_, the author of, 472

Dress, Brummel's, 24, 30

Duality of the mind, by Dr. Wigan, 232

Dunbar, Captain, his letters, 556

Dunlop's remarks on Mrs. Radcliffe's writings, 476

Dust-sifting and dust-heaps, profits of, 92

"Dutch Mail," the, 554

Dwarfs, organisation of, 268

Eccentrics delight in extremes, 94

Elegy on a geologist, 328

Elliot, the Gretna priest, 66

Elliston at Richmond, 415

England, Dick, the gambler, 290

Epicure, what he eats in his lifetime, 536

Epitaphs, odd, 538

Etching, Gilray's rapid, 338

Executions, taste for witnessing, 314

Fairlop Fair and John Day, 280

Fall of Fonthill Tower, 11

Family, an odd one, 543

Fanatics, a trio of, 189

Farquhar, Mr., and Fonthill, 11

-- -- sketch of, 13

Fat folks, epitaphs on, 257

-- -- Lambert and Bright, 249

Fidge, Dr., his strange death, 161

Finch, Crow, and Raven, and Sir E. Dering, 60

-- Margaret, Queen of the Gipsies, 178

Fire of London cinder heap, 94

Flaxman, letters to, from Blake, 344

Fleet marriage of Miss Pelham and a highwayman, 64

Flight, Miss, of the Temple, 547

Fonthill and the Beckfords, 1

-- cost of, 13

-- destroyed by fire, 2

-- sales at, 10

Fonthill, three houses, 6

-- village, 9

Footpad, the grateful, 546

Fordyce, Dr., the gourmand, 288

-- -- and his patient, 289

Fuller, honest Jack, 165

Funeral of Cooke, the Turkey merchant, 88

-- of Jemmy Hirst, 298

Fuseli and Blake, 349

Gardner, the worm doctor, 161

Garrick, and Dance's portrait of him, 375

-- and Hardham of Fleet Street, 368

-- Mrs., death of, 374

-- -- her funeral, 376

-- -- and Horace Walpole, 377

Garrick's acting described by Munden, 388

Geologist, elegy on a, 328

George III. and Lord Mayor Beckford, 2, 20

George IV. and Mrs. Bond's wealth, 72

German for astronomy, 538

Giant, the Irish, 270

Gilchrist's _Life of Blake_, 339

Gilray and his caricatures, 330

-- caricatures George III., 330

-- in St. James's Street, 332

Gin, on, 536

Golden Ball Tavern, Sadler's Wells, 527

"Goose" Tavern, Islington, 527

Gourmand physician, 288

Green, Hannah, or the "Ling Bob Witch," 139

Greenwich dinner, 539

Gretna Green marriages, history of, 63

-- "Blacksmith" Paisley, 67

-- marriages abolished, 68

-- and its priests, 66

Grimaldi, the clown, account of, 382

Grimaldi finds money, 384

-- old, and "No Popery," 383

Grimaldi's first appearance, 383

-- farewell, 385

Guildhall, the Beckford Monument in, 19

Guy's eccentric inscription and epitaph, 160

Hallucination, strange, 236

Hallucinations, What are they? 232, 233

Hanging by compact, 553

Hardham family, anecdote of, 159

Hardham's "No. 37," 368

Hayley and Blake, 344

Heber the book-collector, 485

Hermit advertised for, 151

-- the Dorset, 150

-- of Hawkstone, 151

-- Leicestershire, 147

-- of Moor Park, 151

-- Pain's Hill, 146

-- near Preston, 146

-- of Selbourne, 150

-- near Stevenage, 152

-- vegetarian, 154

Hermits and eremitical life, 145

-- ornamental, 150

Hill, Rowland, his preaching, 185

_Hindoo Bride_, Monk Lewis's, 418

Hoax, princely, at Brighton, 283

Hood, Thomas, account of, 497

-- -- at school, 497

-- set up in business, 498

-- and Sir Robert Peel, 501

-- death and burial of, 503

Hood's _Epping Hunt_, 499

-- first work, 499

-- ode to Grimaldi, 386

-- _Up the Rhine_, 500

-- various works, 499

Hook, Theodore, hoaxes Romeo Coates, 44

Hopkins, the dwarf, 268

Host, eccentric, 544

House-warming, a costly one, 112

Hull, Richard, buried on Leith Hill, 165

Hunting experiences at Cranford, 308

Huntington buried at Lewes, 228

-- the preacher, sketch of, 219

-- at Hermes Hill, 229

-- marries Lady Sanderson, 226

Huntington's preaching and portrait, 230, 231

-- Bank of Faith, 220

-- effects, sale of, 229

-- leather breeches, 222

-- Providence Chapel, 225

-- spiritual advice, 227

Hutton, William, and "Strong Woman," 274

Hypochondriasis, cure for, 241

-- remarkable, 240

Irving, the Scottish minister, 184

-- a millenarian, 187

Islington, Charles Lamb's cottage at, 494

-- old taverns, 526

Jemmy Hirst at Doncaster, 296

Jerrold, Douglas, at the Mulberries Club, 409

Jerusalem Whalley, account of, 191

Jesse, Captain, his account of Brummel, 24

Kean, Edmund, his boyhood, 398

-- -- undervalued by Dowton, 390

Kellerman, the alchemist, in Beds, 127

Kelly, Serjeant Otherwise, 567

Kemble, Fanny, in the United States, 407

Kemble, John, and the O. P. Riot, 371

Kenyon, Lord, his parsimony, 77

Labelliere, Major, buried on Box Hill, 165

"Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell, 89

Lamb, Charles, at Munden's last performance, 387

-- -- his cottage at Islington, 494

Lambert, Daniel, and Boruwlaski, the Dwarf, 251

-- -- account of, 249

-- -- his funeral, 253

Lansdown, Bath, Beckford's tomb at, 19

-- Tower, Bath, 13

Laughter, sources of, 520

Legacy to Queen Victoria, 99

Lewis, Monk, account of, 417

-- -- in the West Indies, 421

Liston in a counting-house, 394

-- and Stephen Kemble, 396

-- and Tate Wilkinson, 397

-- in tragedy, 391

Liston's first appearance, 396

Literary madmen, 508

Llangollen, the Recluses of, 155

London eccentric, the, 322

Lothario Coates, at the Haymarket Theatre, 42

Lovat, Lord, and Miss Kate Vint, 559

Love-passage, an eccentric one, 413

Mackinnon, Colonel, his practical joking, 287

Mackintosh, Cool Sir James, 478

-- Sir James, his Recordership of Bombay, 480

Madmen, literary, 508

Maginn, Dr., epitaph on, 538

Manchester punch house, 530

Mansfield, the Essex butcher, 254

Masquerade incident, 402

Mathews, C., Spanish ambassador hoax, 378

Mathew, Father, and the Temperance movement, 182

Mellish, Colonel, sketch of, 294

Miscalculation, an odd one, 560

Monk Lewis, account of, 417

Mormon, the book of, 210

-- Church in Ontario, 214

-- city of Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, 216

-- Zion in Utah, 218

Mormonism, the founder of, 210

Moser, Mary, the flower-painter, 78

Mulberries, the Shakespearian Club, 408

Mummy of a Manchester lady, 239

Munden's last performance, 387

Mytton, John, in adversity at Calais, 52

-- family of, 48, 49

-- his extravagances, 50

Mytton's death and funeral, 53

Neeld, Joseph, and Philip Rundell, 102

Neild, J. C., his legacy to Queen Victoria, 99

Nelson, Lord, at Fonthill, 8

Newcastle, the romantic Duchess of, 516

Newland, Abraham, chief cashier of the Bank of England, 44

-- -- his epitaph, 46

-- -- song, 45

-- -- his wealth, 47

Nimrod's life of John Mytton, 51

-- sketch of Colonel Mellish, 294

Nokes, of Hornchurch, his eccentric funeral, 162

Nollekens, the sculptor, eccentricities of, 350

Nollekens, his avarice, 350

-- and the barber, 356

-- and Lord Coleraine, 322

-- and the Hawkinses, 354

-- and the legacy-hunters, 360

-- married, 352

-- and Northcote, 357

-- at Rome, 351

-- at the Royal Academy Club, 355

-- and his sitters, 352, 358

-- Mrs., her wardrobe, 355

Nollekens' bust of Dr. Johnson, 352

-- bell-tolling, 351

-- gaieties, 357

-- generosity, 362

-- parsimony, 353

-- spelling, 357

-- wardrobe, 361

-- will, 362

Non Sequiter and therefore, 566

Norwood Gipsies, 177

Oddities of Dowton, 389

Old Bailey Character, 312

"Old Rag," the Earl of B., 76

Old Red Lion Tavern, St. John Street Road, 526

O. P. Riot, the, History of, 96

Orton, Job, his wine-bin coffin, 161

Oyster and Parched-Pea Club, 529

Parcel, a mysterious one, 400

Parr, Dr., at Cambridge, 441

-- -- at Cards, 442

-- -- at Colchester, 440

-- -- his generosity, 443

-- -- at Harrow and Stanmore, 437

-- -- at Hatton, 438

-- -- and Dr. Johnson, 439

Parr, Dr., oddities of, 435

-- -- the Prince of Wales, and Duke of Sussex, 442

-- -- on the Shakespeare forgeries, 440

-- -- and Sir W. Jones, 436

-- -- his smoking, 440

-- -- his Spital sermon, 444

Parsimony of J. C. Neild, 99

-- of Lord Kenyon, 77

"Paul Pry," origin of, 372

Pembroke, Lord, his port wine, 540

Perpetual-motion seeker, 513

Peter Pindar, Dr. Wolcot, 460

-- -- Giffard, and Wright, 466

-- -- and Nollekens, 465

-- -- outwits a publisher, 466

-- -- death and burial of, 470

-- Pindar's attacks on Geo. III., 464

-- -- lines on Dr. Johnson, 465

-- -- satires, 464

Petersham, Lord, Capt. Gronow's account of, 55

-- coat, snuff and snuff-boxes, and equipages, 56

Pitt, Thomas, cheapening his coffin, 162

_Poetical Sketches_, by W. Blake, 340

Poole, John, his _Paul Pry_, 372

"Poor Man of Mutton" and the Earl of B., 76

Pope's lines on Ward, the miser, 74

Porson at Cambridge, 430

-- at the cider cellar, 428

-- and Horne Tooke, 428

-- and the young Oxonian, 434

-- and Perry, of the _Morning Chronicle_, 426

-- portrait of, 433

Porson's drinking, 429

-- eccentricities, 425

-- epigrams, 426

-- wit and repartee, 431

Preachers, eccentric, 184

Price, Dr. the alchemist, 124

Prince, Brother, and the Agapemone, 69

Prophecies of Lady Hester Stanhope, 141

Punch, tremendous bowl of, 541

Punch House, at Manchester, 530

Quackery, Successful, 545

"Quid Rides?" 318

Radcliffe, Mrs., and the critics, 475

"Rather than otherwise," 564

Redding, Mr. Cyrus, his account of Mr. Beckford, 17

Recluses of Llangollen, 155

Redpost Fynes, 115

Reece, Dr., and Joanna Southcote, 202

Richebourg, the historical dwarf, 269

Richmond, Duke of, and T. P. Cooke, 406

Ride in a sedan, 548

Robinson, Long Sir Thomas, 542

Roderick Dhu, Mr. T. P. Cooke, as, 405

_Romeo and Juliet_ in America, 407

Roscius, Young, account of, 363

-- -- his earnings, 367

-- -- first appears, 364

-- -- in London, 365

-- -- his popularity, 367

-- -- in Scotland, 364

-- -- sketch of, 363

Rothschild, his life and adventures, 96

Rowlandson, the caricaturist, 474

-- and Gilray, the caricaturists, 339

Royal Society Club, H. Cavendish at, 133

Rundell, Philip, his great wealth, 102

Ryland, the forger, and Blake, painter, 340

Sandwich Islands, King and Queen of, their visit to England, 57

Scotch ladies, singular, 70

Scott, Mr. John, in Parliament, 549

-- Sir Walter, and Monk Lewis, 420

Scottish marriage law, 65

Sedan, ride in, 548

Seven Dials, what became of them? 309

Shakespeare Monument, George IV. and Elliston, 402

Shark story, by Monk Lewis, 422

Sharp, the engraver, fanaticism of, 189

Sibly's work on astrology, 139

Sicilian boy calculator, 490

Sidi Mohammed and Hindustanee cookery, 113

Skeffington, Sir Lumley, his amateur acting, 36

-- -- -- his lines to Miss Foote and Madame Vestris, 38

Smart, Christopher, the poetical lunatic, 511

Smith, Albert, and Seven Dials, 309

-- Joseph, the Mormon prophet, 210

Snell, Hannah, the female soldier, 116

Snuff-taking legacies, 158

Soane, Sir John, lampooned, 488

Songs, by W. Blake, 343

Soup distribution, classic, 565

Sources of laughter, 520

Southcote, Joanna, 198

Southcote, Joanna, and the coming of Shiloh, 200

-- -- her funeral and grave, 205, 206

-- -- her visions, chapel, and seals, 209

Southcotonian hymns, 206

Southcotonians at Temple Bar, 207

Spanish ambassador hoax, Mathews', 378

Spelling, bad, 556

Spenceans, the religio-political sect, 197

Spendthrift Squire of Halston, 48

Stanhope, Lady Hester, oddities of, 141

Stewart, walking, sketch of, 300

-- -- a general, 300

Stokes' Amphitheatre, Islington Road, 528

Stowell, Lord, his love of sight-seeing, 277

Strangely eccentric, yet sane, 232

Taverns, old, at Islington, 526

Temple, notoriety of the, 546

Thackeray and Waterton, 328

Tipsy village, 535

Tooke and D'Alembert, 449

-- -- his daughters, 448

-- and the income tax, 450

-- and the judges, 445

-- John Horne, oddities of, 444

-- and Purley, 446

-- and Wilks, a retort, 444

-- the poulterer, and the Prince of Wales, 445

Tooke's death and burial, 450

-- Sunday dinners, 447

-- wit, 450

Tozer, the Southcotonian preacher, 204

Traveller, the listless, 325

Travellers, eccentric, 323

Trekschuit tourist, the, 324

Trotter, Miss Menie, eccentricities of, 70

True to the text, 415

Urim and Thummin, and Mormon Records, 211

Van Amburgh, the lion tamer, 324

Vathek, by W. Beckford, 4

-- dramatised, 4

Visions by W. Blake, 340

Wadd's comments on corpulence, 254

Wales, Prince of, and Beau Brummel, 22, 26

"Walking Stewart," sketch of, 300

Walpole's account of Lord Mayor Beckford's speech, 20

-- chattels saved by a talisman, 174

Walpole, Horace, on William Combe, 475

Ward, Baron, his remarkable career, 109

-- John, the Hackney miser, 74

-- the miser's prayer, 76

-- and the South Sea scheme, 74

Waters, Sir John, his escape, 285

Waterton, Charles, the traveller, 324

Wealth of Mr. Beckford, 18

Wellington, Lord, hoaxed, 288

Whately, the witty archbishop, 504

Wildman and his bees, 276

Wilkes, John, Sheridan on, 335

Will of J. C. Neild, 99

Wirgman, the Kantesian, 512

"Witch Pickles," of Leeds, 137

Wolcot, Dr.--_see_ Peter Pindar.

-- -- in Cornwall, 462

-- -- in Jamaica, 461

-- -- and Opie, the painter, 463

-- -- and Royal Academicians, 463

Woman-hating Cavendish, 132

"Wonder of all the wonders that the world ever wondered at," 243

"Wooden spoon, the," 535

Woulfe, Peter, the chemist and alchemist, 126

Young, Brigham, the Mormon prophet, 218

-- Roscius, sketch of the, 87--_see_ Roscius, Young.

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