CHAPTER IX.

The Bottle Conjuror--Advertisements on this Occasion--Riot produced by the Fraud--Squibs and Epigrams to which it gave rise--Case of Elizabeth Canning--Violent Controversy which arose out of it--She is found guilty of Perjury and transported--The Cock Lane Ghost--Public Excitement occasioned by it--Detection of the Fraud--Motive for the Imposture--The Stockwell Ghost--The Sampford Ghost--Mystery in which the Affair was involved--Astonishing Instance of Credulity in Perigo and his Wife--Diabolical Conduct of Mary Bateman--She is hanged for Murder--Metamorphosis of the Chevalier d’Eon--Multifarious Disguises of Price, the Forger--Miss Robertson--The fortunate Youth--The Princess--Olive--Caraboo--Pretended Fasting--Margaret Senfrit--Catherine Binder--The Girl of Unna--The Osnaburg Girl--Anne Moore 126