Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.

LETTER XVI.

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Mr. Hope's collection of pictures and statues. Toilette-necessaries of a Dandy. Ladies' conference. Style of invitations. Duke of Sussex. Major Kepple. Ascot races. S---- Park. The charming fairy and her country-house. Windsor Castle. Disaster. Greek boy. British cavalry. Absence of military pedantry. Balls. Disenchantments. Horticultural breakfast. Colossal pines. Tyrolese singers. Northumberland-house. Sir Gore Ousley. Persian anecdotes. Flower-table. Children's balls. Art and nature. Greenwich. Execution. Contrasts. Party at the Duchess of Kent's. Marie Louise. King of Rome. Heat. King's-bench and Newgate prisons. The unconscious philosopher. Vauxhall. The battle of Waterloo. Ball at Lady L----'s. Phrenology. Mr. Deville's character of myself. Mr. Nash's library. Dinner at the Portuguese Ambassador's. St. Giles's. Exhibition of English pictures. Pounds and thalers. 'Excerpts'. Gossip. Visions of the past. The Tunnel. Astley's Theatre. Parody of the Freischutz. Bedlam. The last of the Stuarts. Funerals. Omens. Barclay's brewery. West India docks. Amusing charlatanerie. Westminster Abbey by night. Dinner at Sir L---- M----'s. Practical Bull. English Opera. New organ. Miss Linwood. Solar Microscope. Panoramas. Death of Canning. 'Vivian Grey.' St. James's Park. Respect for the public. Propensity to mischief in the people. Exclusiveness of the great. London in autumn. Newspaper facts......146