Part 50

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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