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ENGLISH ECCENTRICS.

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON PREFACE. CONTENTS.

WEALTH AND FASHION. DELUSIONS, IMPOSTURES, AND FANATIC MISSIONS. STRANGE SIGHTS AND SPORTING SCENES. ECCENTRIC ARTISTS. THEATRICAL FOLKS. MEN OF LETTERS. CONVIVIAL ECCENTRICITIES. MISCELLANEA.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ENGLISH ECCENTRICS.

The Beckfords and Fonthill.

Alderman Beckford's Monument Speech, in Guildhall. Beau Brummel. Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart. "Romeo" Coates. Abraham Newland. The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton. Lord Petersham. The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands. Sir Edward Dering's Luckless Courtship. Gretna-Green Marriages. The Agapemone, or Abode of Love. Singular Scotch Ladies. Mrs. Bond, of Hackney. John Ward, the Hackney Miser. "Poor Man of Mutton." Lord Kenyon's Parsimony. Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter. The Eccentric Miss Banks. Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville. Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant. "Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell. Profits of Dust-sifting, and Dust-heaps. Sir John Dinely, Bart. The Rothschilds. A Legacy of Half a Million of Money. Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater. The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family. "Dog Jennings." Baron Ward's Remarkable Career. A Costly House-Warming. Devonshire Eccentrics. Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier. Lady Archer.

DELUSIONS, IMPOSTURES, and FANATIC MISSIONS.

Modern Alchemists. Jack Adams, the Astrologer. The Woman-hating Cavendish. Modern Astrology.—"Witch Pickles." Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob." Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope. Hermits and Eremitical Life. The Recluses of Llangollen. Snuff-taking Legacies. Burial Bequests. Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill. Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains. The Marquis of Anglesey's Leg. The Cottle Church. Horace Walpole's Chattels saved by a Talisman. Norwood Gipsies. "Cunning Mary," of Clerkenwell. Jerusalem Whalley. Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement. Eccentric Preachers. Irving a Millenarian. A Trio of Fanatics. The Spenceans. Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh. The Founder of Mormonism. Huntington, the Preacher. Amen. Strangely Eccentric, yet Sane. Strange Hallucination. "Corner Memory Thompson." Mummy of a Manchester Lady. Hypochondriasis.

STRANGE SIGHTS and SPORTING SCENES.

"The Wonder of all the Wonders that the World ever Wondered at." "The Princess Caraboo." Fat Folks.—Lambert and Bright. A Cure for Corpulence. Epitaphs on Fat Folks. Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf. The Irish Giant. Birth Extraordinary. William Hutton's "Strong Woman." Wildman and His Bees. Lord Stowell's love of Sight-seeing. John Day and Fairlop Fair. A Princely Hoax. Sir John Waters's Escape. Colonel Mackinnon's Practical Joking. A Gourmand Physician. Dick England, the Gambler. Brighton Races, Thirty Years Since. Colonel Mellish. Doncaster Eccentrics. "Walking Stewart." Youthful Days of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley.[33] What Became of the Seven Dials An Old Bailey Character. Bone and Shell Exhibition. "Quid Rides?" "Bolton Trotters." Eccentric Lord Coleraine. Eccentric Travellers. Elegy on a Geologist.

ECCENTRIC ARTISTS.

Gilray and his Caricatures William Blake, Painter and Poet. Nollekens, the Sculptor.

THEATRICAL FOLKS.

The Young Roscius. Hardham's "No 37." Rare Criticism. The O. P. Riot. Origin of "Paul Pry."[39] Mrs. Garrick. Mathews, a Spanish Ambassador. Grimaldi, the Clown. Munden's Last Performance. Oddities of Dowton. Liston in Tragedy. Boyhood of Edmund Kean. A Mysterious Parcel. Masquerade Incident. Mr. T. P. Cooke in Melodrama and Pantomime. "Romeo and Juliet" in America. The Mulberries, a Shakspearian Club. Colley Cibber's Daughter. An Eccentric Love-Passage. True to the Text.

MEN OF LETTERS.

Monk Lewis Porson's Eccentricities. Parriana: Oddities of Dr. Parr. Oddities of John Horne Tooke. Mr. Canning's Humour. Peter Pindar.—Dr. Wolcot. The Author of "Dr. Syntax." Mrs. Radcliffe and the Critics. Cool Sir James Mackintosh. Eccentricities of Cobbett. Heber, the Book-Collector. Sir John Soane Lampooned. Extraordinary Calculators. Charles Lamb's Cottage at Islington. Thomas Hood. A Witty Archbishop. Literary Madmen. A Perpetual-Motion Seeker. The Romantic Duchess of Newcastle. Sources of Laughter.

CONVIVIAL ECCENTRICITIES.

Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall. Old Islington Taverns. The Oyster and Parched-Pea Club. A Manchester Punch-House. "The Blue Key." Brandy in Tea. "The Wooden Spoon." A Tipsy Village. What an Epicure Eats in his Life-Time. Epitaph on Dr. William Maginn. Greenwich Dinners. Lord Pembroke's Port Wine. A tremendous Bowl of Punch.

MISCELLANEA.

Long Sir Thomas Robinson. Lord Chesterfield's Will. An Odd Family. An Eccentric Host. Quackery Successful. The Grateful Footpad. A Notoriety of the Temple. A Ride in a Sedan. Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament. A Chancery Jeu-d'Esprit. Hanging by Compact. The Ambassador Floored. "The Dutch Mail." Bad Spelling.[46] A "Single" Conspirator. A Miscalculation. An Indiscriminate Collector. The Bishops' Saturday Night. "Rather Than Otherwise." Classic Soup Distribution. Alphabet Single Rhymed. Non Sequitur and Therefore.

INDEX.