Part 24

Fabry, Baroness de, her parentage, 85 Falmouth, Charles, Earl of, 151 Family portraits owned by the author, 179 _et seq._ Farren, Miss Nelly, 251 Fauveau, Mademoiselle Félicie de, sculptress, her devotion to the Bourbons, 98-100 Fersen, Count, his devotion to Marie Antoinette, 101 FitzGerald, Edward, 127 Flags of Napoleon I. at Elba, present location of, 88-89 Florence, a diorama at, 246 Flower, Sir William, his letter on the author’s pet choughs, 237 Footmen, running, stories of, 145-148 Foreign manners and customs, old-time English dislike to, 36 Fox, Charles James, 60; his first seat, 280 Fragonard’s “Escarpolette,” print of, 205; replica of, at Hertford House, 206 Franco-German war, caricatures of and skits on, 307 Franking letters, 295-296 French art, past and present estimates of, 182-184; eighteenth-century books at Highclerc, 186-187; furniture, Jones collection of, 206 French panelling, fine examples of, set up in London house, 206-207 Friday, Napoleon I.’s superstitions as to, 84 Frotté, Vicomte de, a brave French royalist, 98 Fulham and its market gardens, 310-311 Fuller, Dr., and the crinoline, 156; family, source of its wealth, 281-282 Furniture supports, a curious set of, 221

Gambling, 299 Gardening, a letter on, from Cobden, 240-242; modern books on, 244; old gardens of friendship, lines on, by Lord Sherbrooke, 244-245 “Gazette,” derivation of, 304 George III., 197, 219; statue of, formerly in Berkeley square, 150 George IV., 210, 214; robbed on Hay Hill, 148-149 Géramb, Baron de, and the hussars, his end as Trappist Procureur-Général, 170-171 Gibbets, pictures of, 277 Girodet, sketches by, of Napoleon I., 82 Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., a bad portrait of, one view of, 14, 15; as a subject of caricature, 6; Lord Beaconsfield’s distrust of, verbal jugglery, 75-76; Bernal Osborne’s apt nickname for, 76-77; Mr. Orrock’s reply to, 212-213 Glasse, Mrs., her famous cookery book, 187 Glenesk, Lord, and the _Owl_, 16 Goethe, his favourite flower, 86 Goodall, Messrs., and the first series of Christmas cards, 202 Goodwood House, coming-of-age festivities at, of the present Duke of Richmond, 46; “Lion dogs of China” bred at, 229-230 Gordon, General C. G., death of, cartoon on, directed against Gladstone, 7 Gorst, Sir John, and the Fourth Party, 18 Goschen, Viscount, and Lord Randolph Churchill, 21 Gossip and scandal in newspapers, an instance of, 305 Gould, Sir F. Carruthers, his political caricatures, 7 Grange, the, Hants, English truffles at, 131-132 Grant, Sir Francis, and the red-cloak craze in portraits, 188; portraits of the author and her sister by, _ib._ Graves, Hon. Henry, portrait of the author by, 189 _Great Eastern_ steamship, its builder, 295 Green, Paddy, and Horace Walpole’s “Opera Pass,” 253-254 Green Park, old Ranger’s Lodge in, 163 Gregory, Sir William, as cat purveyor, 228 Greville, Mr. Charles, his nickname, 258 Grévin, caricaturist, 308 Grieve, George, destroyer of Madame du Barry, 104 _et seq._ Grieves, Mr. Mackenzie, the late, a well-known figure in Paris society, 309-310 Groome, Archdeacon Hindes (the late), 127; Misses, two survivals noted by, 127-128; Mrs., and the Cheltenham Sedan-chair, 128 Grosvenor Square, No. 9, drawing-room in, 152 Grote, Mrs., her claim to Norman descent, 56 Guinea-pigs as a table dish, 15 Gurney, Mr., his steam coaches, 294 Guy Fawkes celebrations, 143

Haliburton, Lord, 315 Hambro, Mr., 254 Hamilton, Emma, Lady, cabinets once owned by, 220 Hammersley and Morland, bankers of Madame du Barry, 104 Hammersmith, its nursery gardens and fine fruit, 310 Hancock’s steam omnibus, 294 Hanged man’s hand, curative power ascribed to, 277-278 Hanging in chains, 275, 277; the last case of, 276 Hanson, Mr., and others associated with the American “Dauphin,” 116 Harcourt, Sir William, and the _Owl_, 17; his _mot_ on “The Souls,” 15 Harold, King, and the battle of Hastings, 56, 57-58 Hastings, the battle of, 57-58 Haversham, Lord and Lady, artistic tastes of, 152 Hawkins, Mr., art collector, his eccentricities, 211 Hay, Lady Emily, afterwards Lady Emily Peel, marriage of, 27 Hay Hill, inn sign near, 148; robberies on, eighteenth century, 148-149 Hayward, Mr. Abraham, and the _Owl_, 17; his _Art of Dining_, 130; his powers of port wine drinking, 136 Henniker, Hon. Mary and Hon. Helen, 314-315 Hepplewhite, 212, 214 Herbert, Sir R., 226 Hertford, Marquis, as collector, 184; the Tilsit table, 208-210 Hervey, Lord, and his lovely wife, 178 Hewgill, Captain, military prints published by, 205 Higgins, Mr., the tailor, and the word “Piccadilly,” 154 Highclerc Castle, Napoleonic relic at, 80 Highwaymen in Mayfair, 148-150 Hinchingbrooke, 45 Hogarth, William, _mise en scène_ of his “Mariage à la Mode,” 155; paintings by, at Vauxhall, 247 Holard, Monsieur, Napoleon’s gardener, his tales of his imperial master, 84 _et seq._, his life-story, 86-87 Holland, Lady (_née_ Vassall), her first husband and life at Battle Abbey, 59; her elopement and marriage with Lord Holland, 60; her court at Holland House, 60, 63; her kinship with the author, 61; sham funeral of her daughter, 61; her ways and insolence, 61-63; some pleasanter traits, 63-64; a clever criticism, 64 — Lord, and his wife, 60; his character, 64 Holland House, duel fought behind, 174; in Lady Holland’s days, 60 _et seq._ Home Rule movement, the, and Mr. Gladstone, 77 Hone, Nathaniel, miniature by, of Horace Walpole, 179 Hooker, Sir Joseph, 239 Horsham gaol, scene of the last “pressing to death,” 278-279 Horsley, Mr. J. C., R.A., designer of the first Christmas card, 201 Hortense, Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, and the hortensia blooms, 85-86 Hortensia or hydrangea plant, 85; some famous lovers of, 86 Hôtel de Ménars, _boiserie_ of, now in London, 207 Houdin, Robert, conjurer, a story of, 259-260 Houghton, Lord, 155; and the _Owl_, 17 Hudson, Mrs., and her Malapropism, 37; Mr., the “railway king,” 293 Hunt, William, and his paintings, 193-194; Ruskin on, 194 Hussar, the English, the creator of, _see_ Géramb Hyde Park, carriages in, 172; deer hunts and poaching in, 161; dress in, 169-170; duelling in, 173; gallows in, 164; once royal property, 162; Peel’s scheme for adorning, 163; railway station, proposed, in, 165; riots in, 166; smoking in, 137; walnut avenue formerly in, 173 Hyde Park Corner, 164

Ibbetson, engraved tickets by, 200 _Illustrated London News_, 303 Inn signs in Mayfair, 145, 148 Invitation cards, author’s collection of, 10 Irish question, Bernal Osborne’s views on, 77 Ironwork railings, past and present designs in, 142 — Sussex, author’s collection of, 281 Irving, Sir Henry, letter from, with a bookplate, 257 Italian political caricatures, 8

Jacobean oak furniture, how to recognise, 223 James, Lord, of Hereford, his pleasant shooting-parties, 190 James III. (the Pretender, _q.v._), letter from, to Mr. Carte, 340 “Jean III.,” descendant of Naundorff, 117 Jerningham family, the, of Costessey Hall, French connections of, 108-109 Jersey, Countess of, and Disraeli, 68 Jewish marriage, a, witnessed by author, 262-263 _John Bull_ newspaper, 304 Johnston, Mr. Butler, 25 Jones collection of French furniture, 206 — Inigo, architect, 164, 194 Jordan, Mrs., silhouette of, 197 Josephine, Empress, 81, 83 Jubilee of 1887, souvenirs of, 10

Kensington Gardens, duel in, 173 — Palace, old prints of London Parks in, 160 Ketteringham Hall, and Mrs. Atkyns, 110-111; her memorial erected by its present owners, 112 Kirk, military prints engraved by, 205 Kleist, Field-Marshal Baron von, and Napoleon I., 92 Knole, art treasures of, and curiosities, 223-225 Knox, Rev. Mr., of Trotton, 284 Kourakin, Prince, and the Tilsit table, 209

Lamb, Mr., at Eglinton Tournament, 306 Landseer, Sir Edwin, gift from, 231 Lansdowne passage, the bar in, and its _raison d’être_, 149 Larabit, Monsieur, on Napoleon in Elba, 89 Largillière, portrait by, strange vicissitudes of, 183 Larochejaquelein, General, dying confidence to, of the Duchesse d’Angoulême, 116 La Rouérie, Marquis de, a gallant Chouan leader, 98 Launay, Nicholas de, famous print by, 205 Leamington, Mr. Burgess’s art treasures at, 217 Lecourbe, General, and his reconciliation with Napoleon I., 90 _et seq._ Leg-iron of hanged man, owned by author, 275-276 Legoux, engraved benefit tickets by, 200 Leicester, last case of hanging in chains at (1834), 276 Leighton, Lord (the late), 190 Lennox, Lady Alexandra, portrait of, by Graves, 189 — Lord Alexander Gordon, on George Payne and his respect for religion, 53 — Lord Henry, and his slang, 38 Lepell, “Molly” (Lady Hervey), verses on, 178 Lewin, derivation of name, according to Mrs. Grote, 56 Link extinguishers, 152 Lion dogs of China, 229-230 _Lions comiques_, 252 Locker, Mr. Frederick, verses by, on St. James’s Street, 158-159 Lockwood, Sir Frank, New Year’s cards designed by, 7 Lombard, Pierre, and his daughter, ancestors of the Walpoles, 315 London, architectural changes in, 140 _et seq._; expansion of, 310-311; Madame du Barry in, 105; Sunday demonstrations in, 166 — parks, hunting in, 160-161; old prints of, 160; a proud proprietor of, 162; wild life in, to-day, 161-162 — streets, noises in, past and present, 142; vanishing characteristics of, 142 _et seq._ Londonderry, Marchioness of, her stately receptions, and friendship for Disraeli, 69; her crinoline, 156 Long, Mr., notabilities met at his house, 254 — Rt. Hon. Walter, and the true text of Lord R. Churchill’s exclamation on hearing that his resignation had been accepted, 21 Longchamps, 309 Longleat, 44; pleasures of visits to, 45 Lonsdale, Earl of, and his postillions, 11 Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis XVII.), attempted rescues of, the problem of his fate, and his impersonators, 109 _et seq._ Louis XV., 102, 106, 107 Louis XVI., 82-83 Louis XVIII. and the dog of Mme. de Caylus, 232; ingratitude of, to Mrs. Atkyns, 111 Louisa, Queen of Prussia, her favourite flower, 86; and Napoleon I., 92 Loutherbourg, De, and his scene-painting, 194 Louveciennes, residence of Madame du Barry, 105; alleged buried treasure at, 106 Lowe, Sir Hudson, and Napoleon I., 94 Lunatics, care of, past and present, 165-166 Lyndhurst, Lord, 73 Lynn, a schoolfellow of Napoleon I. at, 80 Lytton, Sir G. Bulwer, his house in Charles Street and its Pompeiian room, 151

Macirone, Colonel, his steam car, 294 Mallock, Mr. W. H., a dog’s epitaph by, 232 Malmaison, Napoleon at, 84; his gardener’s stories, 85, 87 Manning, Mr., his travels in the East, his passport from Napoleon I., and the sequel in St. Helena, 93-94 Marble Arch, the, 164 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, tragedy of her fate, 82, 100 _et seq._ Marie Louise, Empress, a glimpse of, 81-82 Marlborough, Duke of (about 1770), his match with a running footman, 147 Mayfair, the original, abolition of, 152-153; highwaymen in, 148-150 Melbourne, Earl of, and Lady Holland, 63 Menus, author’s collection of, 9, 10 Midhurst, its arms and associations, 277 “Midnight Review, The,” poem, by von Seidlitz, two versions of, 94 _et seq._ Military prints, a pretty set, 215 Millais, Sir J. E., 190 Mitchell, General, Sir John, gift from, 235 Modane, instance from, of “English as she is wrote,” 129-130 Molesworth, Lady, 253 Monk, Bishop, and his wig, 268 Mount Street, bachelor abodes in, past and present, 157-158; military associations of, 150; its architecture, 141 “Mrs. Poodles,” a Siamese cat, 227 Munich in 1837, 121, 123 Munro of Novar, his eccentricities, 25, 26 Music halls, past and present, 252

Napoleon I., relics of, in England, 78, 80 _et seq._; the invasion scare, as affecting East Anglia, 79-80; his wives, 81; portraits of, his attitude during Mass, 82-83; his beliefs and superstitions, his love of church bells, 84; at Elba, tales of, 85 _et seq._; traces of, 88; his power over men, a tale of, 90 _et seq._; alleged visit to London, 94; on the death of Marie Antoinette, 100 Napoleon III., in England, 306; a portrait of, by Count D’Orsay, 190 Naundorff, the pretended Louis XVII., 115; his descendants, 117 Needlework carpets, 50; pictures, 204 Nelson, 180,181, 269-270 Nelthorpe, Colonel, permanent visitor at Wolterton, 46, 47 Nemours, Duke of, 204 Nevill, Miss Meresia, and the Primrose League, 19 New College, Oxford, dumb-bell machine at, 224 _Newcastle-upon-Tyne Courant_, antiquity of, 304 “Newman’s Greys,” at weddings, 11 Newmarket, 50; Lord Orford’s Mecca, 55 Newspapers, 303 _et seq._ Nightcaps, Dr. Burney’s lines on, 269-270 Norfolk, advent of the railway, 292; beliefs and customs, 313; newspapers, early in the field, 303; police first constituted, 292; “squarsons” and their ways, 13 _Norfolk Chronicle_, age of, 303 Normandie, Duc de, Naundorff’s assumed title, 115 Northampton, two hanging stories of, 276-277 Norton, Hon. Mrs. (_née_ Sheridan), 14; and the _Owl_, 17 Norwich, anti-catholic feeling in, 109; hatred shown by, to Napoleon I., 79; democrats of, 114; Peace Society’s doings at, 47 _Norwich Postman_, antiquity of, 303

O’Connell, Daniel, first Roman Catholic M.P., 300 Oliphant, Laurence, and the _Owl_, 16 Onslow, Earl of, tries to acclimatise crayfish, 133 Opera, the, and its attractions, 254; the crush-room, 255-256 Orford, Earl of (author’s brother), stories of, 13, 14, 172, 231, 267; letter to, from Lord Beaconsfield, 73-74 — Earl of (author’s father), 84,158; characteristics and opinions of, 48, 123, 292, 296; his racing, 50, 64-65 — Earl of (author’s nephew), old documents owned by, 174 Orrock, Mr. James, connoisseur and collector, 217, 218; scheme for National Gallery of British Art, 212 Osborne, Bernal, 253; his election struggles, 2, 3; on the author’s gardening tastes, 239-240; nicknames given by, 68, 76; his attitude to Palmerston, 65-67; his “parrot” story, 234; his repartee, 3, 4; his views on the Irish question, 77 Otway, the poet, his birthplace and career, 285; his death and tomb, 286 Over-taxation, clever squib on, 4-6 _Owl, The_, its staff and supporters, 15; its dinners, 16, 17; its jokes, verse, and riddles, 17-18 Oxford, Edward, attempt of, to kill Queen Victoria, 165

Paas, Mr., his murderer, the last man hanged in chains, 276 _Pall Mall Gazette_, 304 Palmerston, Lord, his social qualities, 65; as a politician, 66; Bernal Osborne’s attitude to, 65, 66-67; Cobden’s dislike for, 67 Parham Park, a smuggler’s haunt, 274 Paris, Napoleonic relics in, 89; noted English residents in, 309 Paris, the Comte de, and the French “White Rose League,” 18, 19 Paris Exhibition, 1878, 308 Parliament, changes in, 300 Parr’s steam carriage, 293 Parrot story, the, of Bernal Osborne, 234 Payne, George, his racing experiences, 51-52, 54; his religious feeling, 53 Peel, Sir Robert, and the Holbein painting of the Barbers’ Company, 124, 125; his scheme for adorning Hyde Park, 163 Pekinese dogs, 231 Pelletan, Dr., and the heart of the alleged Dauphin (Louis XVII.), 119 Pellew, Lady, daughter of Lady Holland’s first marriage, her sham funeral, Byron on, 61; 261 Pellew, Miss, grand-daughter of Lady Holland, her connection with the author, 61 Pender, Sir John, famous party of, to celebrate the telegraph cable to India, 155 Penny postage introduced, 296 Perceval, Mr., the assassinated statesman, letter to, from Mrs. Atkyns, 113-114 — Rev. Mr., and Naundorff, 115 Petit Trianon, and its associations, 101-102 Petworth, the last of the smugglers at, 275 Piccadilly, origin of the name discussed, 154 Pictures, needlework, 204 Pigeons in London, 162 Piombino, Princess Elise of, sister of Napoleon, 87 Police, modern, established, 291 Ponsonby, Hon. Gerald, 221 Poole, the Custom-House murders at (1749), a relic of, 275-276 Pope, the (Gregory XVI.), Lord Vernon’s interview with, a discussion on Dante, 8-9 Post-chaises, 50 Posy-rings, 270-272 Poyntz family, connection of, with Cowdray, and its curse, 284 Pressing to death (_peine forte et dure_), last instance of, 278-279 Pretender, the, a strange likeness to, 101; portrait of, 195-196; secret negotiations of, with Sir R. Walpole, 317 Primrose League, the, its originator, 19; interest in, of the Comte de Paris, 18, 19 Print-collecting, French prints, 205-206; military prints, 295 Public execution, the last, in England, 276 Publicity, modern love of, 27

Queen Anne furniture, 216, 218 Queensberry, Duke of (“Old Q.”), his running footmen, 146

Races won by the author’s father, 54 Raffet’s lithograph of “The Midnight Review,” 95 Railways and the railway mania, 292-293 Ratton Row, a common name for streets, 167 Récamier, Dr., 99 Redgrave, Miss, her artistic gifts, her friends, 191-193 — Mr. Samuel, artistic knowledge of, 191 Reform Bill, changes following, 295 _et seq._ — Disraeli’s, 75-76 Religion, attitude towards, of some non-churchgoers, 53-54 Resurrection men, 280 Richmond, Duke of, coming of age festivities of, 46 — Duke of (the late), rare dogs bred by, 230 Ritchie, Mr. Leitch, his translation of “The Midnight Review,” 95 _et seq._ Robinson, Sir Charles, 183 Roller skating, vogue of, 248-249 Rome, carnival in (1842), 8; a theatrical performance at (1845), 261 Ros, Lord de, 198-199 Rosalba, pastels by, of Walpoles, 180 Rothschild, Miss Alice, French art treasures of, 208 — Mr. Alfred, his French art treasures, 207 Rotten Row, past and present, question of its name, 167-169; some former _habitués_, 170 Rougeville, Chevalier de, his devotion to Marie Antoinette, 101 Rous, Admiral, why he left the navy, 51; his dislikes, 52 Russell, John Scott, his steam car, 295 — Lord John, appearance and manner of, 67; Bernal Osborne’s nicknames for, 68 Rutland, a former Duke of, and his hunting accidents, 273

Sackville, Lord, treasures of, at Knole, 223-225 St. Clement Danes church, tomb of Otway in, 286 St. Helena, Napoleon I. at, 85, 87 St. James’s Park, otter hunt in, 160-161 — Square, memories concerning, 151-152 — Street and its clubs, Locker’s verses on, 158-159 Sala, George Augustus, on Paris, 308-309 Samplers, 204 Sancroft, Archbishop, 319 Sandringham, 232-233 Sandwich, Lady, 45 Sardou, Monsieur, his views on the fate of the Dauphin (Louis XVII.), 118 Satan and the church-goer, 54 _Saturday Review_, 304 Savarin, Brillat, on the truffle, 131 Saxe-Weimar, late Prince Edward of, and the financier, 31 Scene-painters afterwards otherwise famous, 194 Scenery in theatres, first use of, in England, 195 Schlieman, Dr., his collections, 186 Scrap-books of the author, 1 Sedan-chair, a, used at Cheltenham in the ’sixties, 128 Seidlitz, Baron von, author of “The Midnight Review,” 94 Selwyn, George, 151 Serjeants’ rings, 271 Sèvres-china, some splendid specimens, 210-211; a famous commode and its adventures, 210 Seymour, Lady, and Lady Shuckburgh, amusing letters between, about a cook, 305 — Lord Henry, in Paris, 309 Shepherd’s Market, 153 Sheppard, Jack, the highwayman, in Mayfair, 153 Sheraton, 212 _et seq._; his opinion of Chippendale, 214; features of his work, 215 Sherbrooke, Lord, lines by, on the “Garden of Friendship,” Cortachy, 245; squibs on his proposed match tax, 6 Sheridan, his suggestion for building in Hyde Park, 168 Sheriffs and Judges, running footmen of, as late as 1851, 147 Shirts, clean, one way of wearing, 126-127 Siamese cats of the author, 226-229 Silhouettes owned by the author, 196-197 Silkworm culture, successful, of the author, 242-243 ’Sixties, ways and customs of the, 155-156 _et seq._ Skin, human, put to gruesome use, 279-280 Smirke, engraved tickets by, 200 Smith, Rev. Sydney, once minister of Berkeley Chapel, 150; political squib attributed to, 4-6 — Sergeant, deserter, execution of, in Hyde Park, 164 Smithurst, the smuggler, 275 Smoking, past and present, 52, 137-138 Smuggling stories, 274-276 Snuff-boxes, Mr. Hawkins’s, 211 Socialism, causes leading up to, 297 Society, modern, 22 — moral status of, 297-298 — of the past, 22; its leaders and noted conversationalists, 23 — pleasures of, 297 _et seq._ Somerset, Duchess of (_née_ Sheridan), her wit and beauty, 14; her use of guinea-pigs as food, 15 — the Protector, letters to, at Longleat, 44 “Souls, The,” Sir W. Harcourt on, 15 Southhill Park, 152 Soyer, famous cook, his artistic wife, their grave and its inscription, 135 Spencer House and its designer, 164 Squarsons, stories of, 13 Stanfield, J. C, as scene-painter, 194 Stanhope, Lady Hester, 163 Steam carriages, 293-295 Stock Exchange, the, as a social power, 30-31, 299 Straight, Sir Douglas, 304 Strawberry Hill, Lady Waldegrave’s “decorations” at, 40 Stuart memorials and portraits collected by Earl of Orford (the late), 195 — papers found by the present Earl, 317 _et seq._ — period, furniture of, 222, 223 Suckling, owners of Nelson’s sword, 180 Suffield, Countess (the “Double Dow”), aristocratic insolence of, her carpet work, 49; an eighteenth-century dame, 50 Sussex, customs, songs, and superstitions, 265-266, 277-278; ironwork, 281-282; roads, eighteenth century, 280; smuggling in, 274 _et seq._ Sutherland, Duke of (the late), 137 Sutton, Miss, marriage of, with the Chevalier de Bardelin, 80

Taglioni, 254; on modern dancing, 255 Talleyrand, Charles Maurice, on Lady Holland’s caprices, 64 Teanby, William, watch-papers by, 199 Tennyson, Lord (the late), 67, 68 Testina, author’s mare, a long ride on, 233 Thackeray, W. M., 42 Theatres, 254; foreign, 260-262 Thorburn, portrait by, of the author, 189 Thurgar’s school, Norwich, 80 Thynne, Sir John, builder of Longleat, 44 Tickets, engraved for balls and concerts, author’s collections, 200 Tides, Norfolk superstition about, 313 Tilsit, Treaty of, a relic of, 80, 208-210 _Times_, the, and the _Owl_, 16; an odd advertisement in, 305 Tokens issued by towns, 288 Toole, Mr., the late, cause of his success, 256; his love of joking, 258 Töplitz, a Jewish wedding at, 262-263 Torrington, Lord, 253 Trafalgar Square riots, 166 Trotton church, “restoration” of, 286, 287 — Place, 284; association of, with Otway, 285 Truffles, English, excellence of, 131-132 Turkish ambassador, a story of a, 157 Turko-Russian affairs, 1878, 25; Lord Beaconsfield on, in 1876, 74 Tyburn, executions at, 164; one useful result of, 125 — stream, extant traces of its course, 167

“Ugly Mugs,” 197-198 _Undaunted_, vessel which took Napoleon to Elba, 88 Unemployed processions, a story of, 167 Valentines, 201 Van der Weyer, M., Belgian Minister, his reply to Lady Holland, 62 Vanneck family, “conversation” group of, by Devis, 181; their connection with the Walpoles, 181-182 Vardy, architect, 164 Vauxhall Gardens, in old days, fate of, 246-247 Vernon, Lord, his Dante discussion with Pope Gregory XVI., 8, 9 Versailles, alleged buried treasure at, 102 Vestris, Madame, in Curzon Street, 154 Vicenza, a glimpse of the Comte de Chambord at, 99 Victoria, Queen, attempts on her life, 165; libellous description of her habits, 263-264 Victoria and Albert Museum, 211 Victorian era, art of, 40 — furniture, its ugliness, 216 Vienna, ladies of, carpet made by, for Lord Westmoreland, 50 Village life, changes in, 312 _et seq._ Villegagnon, Madame de, and her husbands, 182 Visitors “down with the fish,” 43