INDEX.

ABB BON

ABBEY, Fonthill, building of, 6 Banting's cure for corpulence, 256

Abershawe, Jerry, gratitude of, 546 Barnard's Inn, and Woulfe the alchemist, 126

Ackermann, the publisher, and William Combe, 474 Baron Ward's remarkable career, 109-112

Adams, Jack, the astrologer of Clerkenwell Green, 130 Bassle, Martin, the calculator, 491

Advertising for a wife, 95 Beckfords, the, and Fonthill, 1-19

Agapemone, the, or abode of love, 68 Beckford, Alderman, 1

Albemarle, the eccentric Duchess of, 519 — — his Monument speech, 19

Alchemists, modern, 124-29 — William, at Bath, 16-18

Alchemy, predictions of, 129 — Mozart, and Voltaire, 3

— revival of, 125, 129 Bees, Wildman's docile, 276

Alcibiades' dog and Henry Constantine Jennings, 107 Bentham, Jeremy, bequest of his remains, 166

Alcobaça and Batalha monasteries, 5 Bentinck, Lord George, at Doncaster, 299

Alphabet single rhymed, 565 Berkeley, the Hon. Grantley, his youthful days, 304

Ambassador floored, 553 Betty, W. H. W., "Young Roscius," 364

Amen—Peter Isnell, 231 Bidder, George, the calculator, 492

Angelo and Peter Pindar, 471 Birth, extraordinary, 271

Anglesey, Marquis of, his leg at Waterloo, 169 Bishops' Saturday night, 563

Apocalypse, interpretation of, 510 Blake, William, painter and poet, 339

Archbishop, a witty one, 504 — — death of, 349

Archer, Lady, Account of, 122 — — by Dr. de Boismont, 345

Artists, eccentric, 330 — — in Fountain Court, 348

Astrology, modern, 136-139 — — married, 342

Avonmore, Lord, his absence-of-mind, 566 "Blue Key," the, 533

Boaden, Mr., his account of "Young Roscius," 366

BANK of Faith, Huntington's, 220 "Bolton Trotters," origin of, 319

Banks, the eccentric Miss, 80 Bonaparte caricatured by Gilray, 336

BON CAT

"Bonassus," the, and Lord Stowell, 278 Building Fonthill Abbey, 6

Bond, Mrs., of Cambridge Heath, Hackney, 72 Bunn, A., and his mysterious parcel, 400

Bone and Shell Exhibition, 317 Burial bequests, 159

Books, Mr. Heber's collections, 487 Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill, 163

Book-collector, Heber, the, 485 Burke and Pitt caricatured by Gilray, 334

Border marriages, 65 Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall, 525

Boruwlaski, Count, the Polish dwarf, 258 Buxton, Jedediah, account of, 493

— and Bébé, dwarfs, 260 Byron, Lord, and Monk Lewis, 420

— buried at Durham, 267 Byron's description of Cintra, 4

— and the Empress Maria Theresa, 260, 129

— introduced to George IV. by Charles Mathews, 264 "CABBAGE COOKE," of Pentonville, 86

— and the Irish giant, 263 Calculators, extraordinary, 490

— letter of, 266 Cambridge Heath, Mrs. Bond's Hut at, 72

— married, 263 Canning, Mr., and the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands, 57

Boyhood of Edmund Kean, 398 — on Grattan's eloquence, 460

Bradshaw, Mr., M.P., and Maria Tree, courtship of, 413 — his humour, 451

Brandy in tea, 534 — by Lord Byron, 460

Bridgwater, the eccentric Earl of, 103 — and Lord Eldon, 459

Bright, the fat miller of Malden, 253 — in office, 456

Brighton races thirty years ago, 292 — and the present of fustian, 451

Brothers, the "Prophet," 194 — and Prince Metternich, 454

Brougham, Lord, and Father Mathew, 183 — and the "Queen of Spades," 452

Brummel and Aunt Brawn, 34 — and his college servant, 457

— Beau, origin of, 22 — and Sydney Smith, 459

— at Calais and Caen, 31 Canning's epitaph on the Marquis of Anglesey's leg, 169

— dress of, 24 — Friend of Humanity, and Knife-grinder, 454

— fall of, 30 Capon, the scene-painter, 322

— and Madame de Staël, 26 "Caraboo, the Princess," 246

— mental decay of, 31 — "Princess," and Napoleon Bonaparte, 248

— upon neckcloths, 24 Caricatures by Gilray, 334

— portrait of, 22 Carlton House Fête and Romeo Coates, 43

— and the Prince of Wales, 22, 26 Carter Foote, of Tavistock, 114

— and the snuff-box, 28

Brummel's practical jokes, 25 Castle Spectre, Mrs. Powell's mistake, 423

— sayings, 32

Bryan, the Marylebone fanatic, 189 Catching a cayman, 325

CAV DRE

Cavendish, Hon. H., his wealth, 135 Cooke, T. P., in melodrama and pantomime, 404

— the woman-hating, 134 "Corner Memory Thompson," 238

Chancery jeu-d'esprit, 551 Corpulence, oddities of, 256

Charade by Dr. Whately, 508 Costume of "Lady Lewson," 90

Charke, Charlotte, Colley Cibber's daughter, 410 Cottle Church, account of the, 171

Charnwood Forest, Liston in, 392 Courtship, luckless, of Sir E. Dering, 59

Chatham, Lord, and the Beckfords, 2 Crab, Roger, the hermit of Bethnal Green, 153

Chesterfield, Lord, estimate of, 78 Cranford Bridge Inn, 307

— — his will, 542 — sporting life at, 304

Cibber, Colley, his daughter, 410 Crazy Jane, by Monk Lewis, 423

Cintra, Beckford's estate at, 4 Cripplegate Vault story, 160

Clerkenwell, "Lady Lewson," of, 89 Criticism, rare, 370

"Clown" tavern, the, Sadler's Wells, 527 "Cunning Mary, of Clerkenwell," 179

Club, the Mulberries, Shakspearian, 408 Curtis, the Old Bailey eccentric, 312

"Coalheaver," Huntington, 219 "Cutting" quarrel of the Prince of Wales and Brummel, 26

Coates, his "Lothario," 42

— Romeo and Diamond, 41 DANTLOW, the Russian dwarf, 268

— his cockleshell curricle, 42, 43 Dawson, Daniel, at Doncaster, 296

Cobbett, eccentricities of, 481 Day, John, and Fairlop Fair, 280

— and Tom Paine's bones, 484 Dee, Dr., his black stone, 175

Cobbett's gridiron sign, 482 Denisons, the, and the Conyngham family, 105

— nicknames, 484 Dering, Sir Edward, his luckless courtship, 59

— Political Register, 482 Devil's Walk, origin of the, 196

— Porcupine Papers, 481 Devonshire, Duchess of, and Brummel, 32

Colburn, Zerah, the calculator, 491 — eccentrics, 113

Coleraine, eccentric Lord, 321 Dick England the gambler, 290

Collector, an indiscriminate, 305 Dinely, Sir John, advertising for a wife, 95

Combe, William, author of Dr. Syntax, 472 "Dog Jennings," 107

— — in the King's Bench Prison, 473 Doncaster eccentrics, 296

— — on lithography, 473 Doran, Dr., his account of William Combe, 474

Conspirator, single, 561 Dowton in tragedy, 390

Convivial eccentricities, 525 — oddities of, 389

Conyngham family, rise of the, 105 Dr. Syntax, the author of, 472

Cooke, Thomas, the Pentonville miser, 82

— — the Turkey merchant,87 Dress, Brummel's, 24, 30

DUA GRI

Duality of the mind, by Dr. Wigan, 232 Fonthill, three houses, 6

Dunbar, Captain, his letters, 556 — village, 9

Dunlop's remarks on Mrs. Radcliffe's writings, 476 Footpad, the grateful,546

Dust-sifting and dust-heaps, profits of, 92 Fordyce, Dr., the gourmand, 288

"Dutch Mail," the, 554 — — and his patient, 289

Dwarfs, organisation of, 268 Fuller, honest Jack, 165

Funeral of Cooke, the Turkey merchant, 88

ECCENTRICS delight in extremes, 94 — of Jemmy Hirst, 298

Elegy on a geologist, 328 Fuseli and Blake, 349

Elliot, the Gretna priest, 66

Elliston at Richmond, 415 GARDNER, the worm doctor, 161

England, Dick, the gambler, 290 Garrick, and Dance's portrait of him, 375

Epicure, what he eats in his lifetime, 536 — and Hardham of Fleet Street, 368

Epitaphs, odd, 538 — Mrs., death of, 374

Etching, Gilray's rapid, 338 — — her funeral, 376

Executions, taste for witnessing, 314 — — and Horace Walpole, 377

Garrick's acting described by Munden, 388

FAIRLOP Fair and John Day, 280 Geologist, elegy on a, 328

Fall of Fonthill Tower, 11 George III. and Lord Mayor Beckford, 2, 20

Family, an odd one, 543 George IV. and Mrs. Bond's wealth, 72

Fanatics, a trio of, 189 German for astronomy, 538

Farquhar, Mr., and Fonthill, 11 Giant, the Irish, 270

— — sketch of, 13 Gilchrist's Life of Blake, 339

Fat folks, epitaphs on, 257 — caricatures George III., 330

— — Lambert and Bright, 249 — in St. James's Street, 332

Fidge, Dr., his strange death, 161 Gin, on, 536

Finch, Crow, and Raven, and Sir E. Dering, 60 Golden Ball Tavern, Sadler's Wells, 527

— Margaret, Queen of the Gipsies, 178 "Goose" Tavern, Islington, 527

Fire of London cinder heap, 94 Gourmand physician, 288

Flaxman, letters to, from Blake, 344 Green, Hannah, or the "Ling Bob Witch," 139

Fleet marriage of Miss Pelham and a highwayman, 64 Greenwich dinner, 539

Flight, Miss, of the Temple, 547 Gretna Green marriages, history of, 63

Fonthill and the Beckfords, 1 — "Blacksmith" Paisley, 67

— cost of, 13 — marriages abolished, 68

— destroyed by fire, 2 — and its priests, 66

— sales at, 10 Grimaldi, the clown, account of, 382

GRI KEM

Grimaldi finds money, 384 Hull, Richard, buried on Leith Hill, 165

— old, and "No Popery," 383 Hunting experiences at Cranford, 308

Grimaldi's first appearance, 383 Huntington buried at Lewes, 228

— farewell, 385 — the preacher, sketch of, 219

Guildhall, the Beckford Monument in, 19 — at Hermes Hill, 229

Guy's eccentric inscription and epitaph, 160 — marries Lady Sanderson, 226

Huntington's preaching and portrait, 230, 231

HALLUCINATION, strange, 236 — Bank of Faith, 220

Hallucinations, What are they? 232, 233 — effects, sale of, 229

Hanging by compact, 553 — leather breeches, 222

Hardham family, anecdote of, 159 — Providence Chapel, 225

Hardham's "No. 37," 368 — spiritual advice, 227

Hayley and Blake, 344 Hutton, William, and "Strong Woman,"274

Heber the book-collector, 485 Hypochondriasis, cure for, 241

Hermit advertised for, 151 — remarkable, 240

— the Dorset, 150

— of Hawkstone, 151

— Leicestershire, 147

— of Moor Park, 151

— Pain's Hill, 146

— near Preston, 146 IRVING, the Scottish minister,184

— of Selbourne, 150 — a millenarian, 187

— near Stevenage, 152 Islington, Charles Lamb's cottage at, 494

— vegetarian, 154 — old taverns, 526

Hermits and eremitical life, 145

— ornamental, 150

Hill, Rowland, his preaching, 185

Hindoo Bride, Monk Lewis's, 418

Hoax, princely, at Brighton, 283

Hood, Thomas, account of, 497 JEMMY Hirst at Doncaster, 296

— — at school, 497 Jerrold, Douglas, at the Mulberries Club, 409

— set up in business, 498 Jerusalem Whalley, account of, 191

— and Sir Robert Peel, 501 Jesse, Captain, his account of Brummel, 24

— death and burial of, 503

Hood's Epping Hunt, 499

— first work, 499

— ode to Grimaldi, 386

— Up the Rhine, 500

— various works, 499 KEAN, Edmund, his boyhood, 398

Hook, Theodore, hoaxes Romeo Coates, 44 — — undervalued by Dowton, 390

Hopkins, the dwarf, 268 Kellerman, the alchemist, in Beds, 127

Host, eccentric, 544 Kelly, Serjeant Otherwise, 567

House-warming, a costly one, 112 Kemble, Fanny, in the United States,407

KEM NOL

Kemble, John, and the O. P. Riot, 371 Manchester punch house, 530

Kenyon, Lord, his parsimony, 77 Mansfield, the Essex butcher, 254

Masquerade incident, 402

LABELLIERE, Major, buried on Box Hill, 165 Mathews, C., Spanish ambassador hoax, 378

"Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell, 89 Mathew, Father, and the Temperance movement, 182

Lamb, Charles, at Munden's last performance, 387 Mellish, Colonel, sketch of, 294

— — his cottage at Islington, 494 Miscalculation, an odd one, 560

Lambert, Daniel, and Boruwlaski, the Dwarf, 251 Monk Lewis, account of, 417

— — account of, 249 Mormon, the book of, 210

— — his funeral, 253 — Church in Ontario, 214

Lansdown, Bath, Beckford's tomb at, 19 — city of Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, 216

— Tower, Bath, 13 — Zion in Utah, 218

Laughter, sources of, 520 Mormonism, the founder of, 210

Legacy to Queen Victoria, 99 Moser, Mary, the flower-painter, 78

Lewis, Monk, account of, 417 Mulberries, the Shakespearian Club, 408

— — in the West Indies, 421 Mummy of a Manchester lady, 239

Liston in a counting-house, 394 Munden's last performance, 387

— and Stephen Kemble, 396 Mytton, John, in adversity at Calais, 52

— and Tate Wilkinson, 397 — family of, 48, 49

— in tragedy, 391 — his extravagances, 50

Liston's first appearance, 396 Mytton's death and funeral, 53

Literary madmen, 508

Llangollen, the Recluses of, 155 NEELD, Joseph, and Philip Rundell,102

London eccentric, the, 322 Neild, J. C., his legacy to Queen Victoria, 99

Lothario Coates, at the Haymarket Theatre, 42 Nelson, Lord, at Fonthill, 8

Lovat, Lord, and Miss Kate Vint, 559 Newcastle, the romantic Duchess of, 516

Love-passage, an eccentric one, 413 Newland, Abraham, chief cashier of the Bank of England, 44

— — his epitaph, 46

— — song, 45

MACKINNON, Colonel, his practical joking, 287 — — his wealth, 47

Mackintosh, Cool Sir James, 478 Nimrod's life of John Mytton, 51

— Sir James, his Recordership of Bombay, 480 — sketch of Colonel Mellish,294

Madmen, literary, 508 Nokes, of Hornchurch, his eccentric funeral, 162

Maginn, Dr., epitaph on, 538 Nollekens, the sculptor, eccentricities of, 350

NOL PRE

Nollekens, his avarice, 350 Parr, Dr., oddities of, 435

— and the barber, 356 — — the Prince of Wales, and Duke of Sussex, 442

— and Lord Coleraine, 322 — — on the Shakespeare forgeries, 440

— and the Hawkinses, 354 — — and Sir W. Jones, 436

— and the legacy-hunters, 360 — — his smoking, 440

— married, 352 — — his Spital sermon, 444

— and Northcote, 357 Parsimony of J. C. Neild, 99

— at Rome, 351 — of Lord Kenyon, 77

— at the Royal Academy Club, 355 "Paul Pry," origin of, 372

— and his sitters, 352, 358 Pembroke, Lord, his port wine, 540

— Mrs., her wardrobe, 355 Perpetual-motion seeker, 513

Nollekens' bust of Dr. Johnson, 352 Peter Pindar, Dr. Wolcot, 460

— bell-tolling, 351 — — Giffard, and Wright, 466

— gaieties, 357 — — and Nollekens, 465

— generosity, 362 — — outwits a publisher, 466

— parsimony, 353 — — death and burial of, 470

— spelling, 357 — Pindar's attacks on Geo. III., 464

— wardrobe, 361 — — lines on Dr. Johnson, 465

— will, 362 — — satires, 464

Non Sequiter and therefore, 566 Petersham, Lord, Capt. Gronow's account of, 55

Norwood Gipsies, 177 — coat, snuff and snuff-boxes, and equipages, 56

Pitt, Thomas, cheapening his coffin, 162

ODDITIES of Dowton, 389 Poetical Sketches, by W. Blake, 340

Old Bailey Character, 312 Poole, John, his Paul Pry, 372

"Old Rag," the Earl of B., 76

Old Red Lion Tavern, St. John Street Road, 526 "Poor Man of Mutton" and the Earl of B., 76

O. P. Riot, the, History of, 96 Pope's lines on Ward, the miser, 74

Orton, Job, his wine-bin coffin, 161 Porson at Cambridge, 430

Oyster and Parched-Pea Club, 529 — at the cider cellar, 428

— and Horne Tooke, 428

PARCEL, a mysterious one, 400 — and the young Oxonian, 434

Parr, Dr., at Cambridge, 441 — and Perry, of the Morning Chronicle, 426

— — at Cards, 442 — portrait of, 433

— — at Colchester, 440 Porson's drinking, 429

— — his generosity, 443 — eccentricities, 425

— — at Harrow and Stanmore, 437 — epigrams, 426

— — at Hatton, 438 — wit and repartee, 431

— — and Dr. Johnson, 439 Preachers, eccentric, 184

PRI SOU

Price, Dr. the alchemist, 124 Rundell, Philip, his great wealth, 102

Prince, Brother, and the Agapemone, 69 Ryland, the forger, and Blake, painter, 340

Prophecies of Lady Hester Stanhope, 141

Punch, tremendous bowl of, 541

Punch House, at Manchester, 530

QUACKERY, Successful, 545

"Quid Rides?" 318 SANDWICH ISLANDS, King and Queen of, their visit to England, 57

Scotch ladies, singular, 70

RADCLIFFE, Mrs., and the critics, 475 Scott, Mr. John, in Parliament, 549

"Rather than otherwise," 564 — Sir Walter, and Monk Lewis, 420

Redding, Mr. Cyrus, his account of Mr. Beckford, 17 Scottish marriage law, 65

Recluses of Llangollen, 155 Sedan, ride in, 548

Redpost Fynes, 115 Seven Dials, what became of them? 309

Reece, Dr., and Joanna Southcote, 202 Shakespeare Monument, George IV. and Elliston, 402

Richebourg, the historical dwarf, 269 Shark story, by Monk Lewis, 422

Richmond, Duke of, and T. P. Cooke, 406 Sharp, the engraver, fanaticism of, 189

Ride in a sedan, 548 Sibly's work on astrology, 139

Robinson, Long Sir Thomas, 542 Sicilian boy calculator, 490

Roderick Dhu, Mr. T. P. Cooke, as, 405 Sidi Mohammed and Hindustanee cookery, 113

Romeo and Juliet in America, 407 Skeffington, Sir Lumley, his amateur acting, 36

Roscius, Young, account of, 363 — — — his lines to Miss Foote and Madame Vestris, 38

— — his earnings, 367 Smart, Christopher, the poetical lunatic, 511

— — first appears, 364 Smith, Albert, and Seven Dials, 309

— — in London, 365 — Joseph, the Mormon prophet, 210

— — his popularity, 367 Snell, Hannah, the female soldier, 116

— — in Scotland, 364 Snuff-taking legacies, 158

— — sketch of, 363 Soane, Sir John, lampooned, 488

Rothschild, his life and adventures, 96 Songs, by W. Blake, 343

Rowlandson, the caricaturist, 474 Soup distribution, classic, 565

— and Gilray, the caricaturists, 339 Sources of laughter, 520

Royal Society Club, H. Cavendish at, 133 Southcote, Joanna, 198

SOU WIR

Southcote, Joanna, and the coming of Shiloh, 200 Trekschuit tourist, the, 324

— — her funeral and grave, 205, 206 Trotter, Miss Menie, eccentricities of, 70

— — her visions, chapel, and seals, 209 True to the text, 415

Southcotonian hymns, 206

Southcotonians at Temple Bar, 207

Spanish ambassador hoax, Mathews', 378 URIM and Thummin, and Mormon Records, 211

Spelling, bad, 556

Spenceans, the religio-political sect, 197

Spendthrift Squire of Halston, 48 VAN AMBURGH, the lion tamer, 324

Stanhope, Lady Hester, oddities of, 141 Vathek, by W. Beckford, 4

Stewart, walking, sketch of, 300 — dramatised, 4

— — a general, 300 Visions by W. Blake, 340

Stokes' Amphitheatre, Islington Road, 528

Stowell, Lord, his love of sight-seeing, 277

Strangely eccentric, yet sane, 232

WADD'S comments on corpulence, 254

TAVERNS, old, at Islington, 526 Wales, Prince of, and Beau Brummel, 22, 26

Temple, notoriety of the, 546 "Walking Stewart," sketch of, 300

Thackeray and Waterton, 328 Walpole's account of Lord Mayor Beckford's speech, 20

Tipsy village, 535 — chattels saved by a talisman, 174

Tooke and D'Alembert, 449 Walpole, Horace, on William Combe, 475

— — his daughters, 448 Ward, Baron, his remarkable career, 109

— and the income tax, 450 — John, the Hackney miser, 74

— and the judges, 445 — the miser's prayer, 76

— John Horne, oddities of, 444 — and the South Sea scheme, 74

— and Purley, 446 Waters, Sir John, his escape, 285

— and Wilks, a retort, 444 Waterton, Charles, the traveller, 324

— the poulterer, and the Prince of Wales, 445 Wealth of Mr. Beckford, 18

Tooke's death and burial, 450 Wellington, Lord, hoaxed, 288

— Sunday dinners, 447 Whately, the witty archbishop, 504

— wit, 450 450 Wildman and his bees, 276

Tozer, the Southcotonian preacher, 204 Wilkes, John, Sheridan on, 335

Traveller, the listless, 325 Will of J. C. Neild, 99

Travellers, eccentric, 323 Wirgman, the Kantesian, 512

WIT YOU

"Witch Pickles," of Leeds, 137 "Wooden spoon, the," 535

Wolcot, Dr.—see Peter Pindar. Woulfe, Peter, the chemist and alchemist, 126

— — in Cornwall, 462

— — in Jamaica, 461

— — and Opie, the painter, 463

— — and Royal Academicians, 463

Woman-hating Cavendish, 132 YOUNG, Brigham, the Mormon prophet, 218

"Wonder of all the wonders that the world ever wondered at," 243 — Roscius, sketch of the, 87—see Roscius, Young.

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