Chapter I · LETTERS RELATING TO THE WORLD OF TON, 1805-1806 II. LETTERS OF AN EXILE, 1805-1810 III. ON DITS FROM LONDON, YORKSHIRE AND RAMSGATE, 1806-1807 IV. ON DITS FROM GROSVENOR SQUARE AND CANNON HALL, 1808-1810 V. ANECDOTES FROM A PRISONER OF NAPOLEON, 1810-1812 VI. LETTERS FROM AN ESCAPED PRISONER, 1812-1813 VII. LETTERS FROM ENGLAND AND FRANCE, 1811-1821 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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THE VISCOUNTESS ANSON Frontispiece From a miniature by Cosway
SILHOUETTES OF MRS SPENCER-STANHOPE AND HER DAUGHTERS MARIANNE AND ANNE
SILHOUETTES OF ISABELLA, FRANCES, AND MARIA SPENCER-STANHOPE
MRS TRIMMER
"THE YOUNG ROSCIUS"
CARICATURE OF SIR LUMLEY SKEFFINGTON
MADAME CATALANI
SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BT. From a picture painted while he was a prisoner in the Tower
PASSPORT GIVEN BY NAPOLEON IST TO JOHN SPENCER-STANHOPE
EDWARD COLLINGWOOD
SIR RICHARD CARR GLYN, BT.
PRINT OF GEORGE III. WHEN MAD
THE MARCHIONESS CONYNGHAM
QUEEN CAROLINE, BY HARLOWE
WALTER SPENCER-STANHOPE, AETAT. 70 From an ivory bust
"In town what numbers into fame advance, Conscious of merit in the coxcombs' dance, The Op'ra, Almack's, park, assembly, play, Those dear destroyers of the tedious day, That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town, Call it diversion, and the pill goes down." Young