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CHAPTER I.

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Anti-Corn Bill riots — Riots in the north — Ratification of the Treaty of Peace with America — Attempt to steal the Crown — Epithets applied to Napoleon — The Prince of Wales' debts 1

CHAPTER II.

News of the Battle of Waterloo — Rejoicings — After career of Napoleon — His abdication and flight — Goes on board the Bellerophon — Arrives at Torbay — His habits on board — Ordered to Plymouth — Crowds try to get a glimpse of him — His protest against being sent to St. Helena — Transferred to the Northumberland — Opinion as to the Prince Regent's conduct towards him — Sails for St. Helena 23

CHAPTER III.

Effects of Napoleon's capture — The Navy in 1815 — Margate and Ramsgate — French Prisoners of war — Treaty of Peace with France — Napoleon's house — A soldier's letter — A zealous Lord Mayor — Hotels and clubs in 1815 51

CHAPTER IV.
1816.

Day of Thanksgiving — "Battle for the Standard" — Return of the troops — Frozen game brought over by Esquimaux — The Regent's practical joke — Rejection of the Prince of Orange by the Princess Charlotte, and acceptance of Prince Leopold as her husband — Her marriage — "The R——l Whiskers" — The Regent's yacht 67

CHAPTER V.

Riots and agrarian outrages — Colliers, &c., coming to London — "England in 1816" — Riots in Newgate — Marriage of the Duke of Gloucester — A chimney sweep's wedding — Cruelty to a "climbing boy" — The Mortar at St. James's Park — Lighting by means of Gas — The Coinage 89

CHAPTER VI.

Smuggling — "Resurrection Men" — More riots — Orator Hunt — Meetings at Spa Fields — Riots arising therefrom — Execution of one of the rioters — The King's health 109

CHAPTER VII.
1817.

Visit of the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia — Stones thrown at the Regent — Issue of the new Silver Coinage — Riots and arrests for sedition — First issue of Sovereigns — The Case of Abraham Thornton and appeal by battle — The Queen at Bath — Death of the Princess Charlotte — Richard Owen and his scheme — "The Fortunate Youth" — "Caraboo" 133

CHAPTER VIII.
1818.

Distress among discharged Seamen — Finding the Scotch Regalia — Strathfieldsaye bought for the Duke of Wellington — The Kyrle Society — Royal Marriages — Annoying the Queen — Riotous schoolboys — The Regent mobbed — Death of Queen Charlotte 161

CHAPTER IX.
1819.

Sale of the Queen's effects — Duke of York has custody of the King — The "Dandy horse" — Loss of, and finding the King's jewellery — A public dinner — A Royal freak — Unqualified medical practitioners — Emigration to America — "The fair Circassian" — Birth of Queen Victoria — Napoleon's carriage — An Irish witness 171

CHAPTER X.

Reform Meetings — Peterloo — Orator Hunt's entry into London — The King's last illness and death 203

CHAPTER XI.

A foreigner's view of England — The packets — Roads — People — Posting — Mail and Stage Coaches — Amateur coachmen — Fast driving — Perils of travelling — A lioness attacks the Mail — Dog-carts and donkey-riding — The Streets and Houses 215

CHAPTER XII.

London improvements — The Country — Gleaning — Dairying and out-door Washing — The Gipsy 245

CHAPTER XIII.

Ladies' dresses — The Dandizette — Waltzing — The Quadrille — Almack's — Women's education — Women's work — Women Soldiers and Sailors — Female rowing match — Female pedestrian — Gretna Green Marriages — Some curious marriages 277

CHAPTER XIV.

The Man of the period — Drinking habits — Dandies — Lord Petersham — A Dandy's diary — Gaming — Prize fighting — Country Sports 303

CHAPTER XV.

Eating and drinking — Recipe for Punch — The Stage — Baron Geramb — Romeo Coates — Actors and Actresses — Mrs. Jordan 327

CHAPTER XVI.

The Italian Opera — An uproar — Catalani and her terms — Vauxhall — Musical prodigy — Painters, Sculptors, Art exhibitions — Literature and writers — Bibliomaniacs — George Bidder, the Calculating boy — Musicians — Medical men — The Clergy — Roman Catholic emancipation — Joanna Southcott 347

INDEX 371

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ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II.

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RECRUITING 15

"ANSWER TO JOHN BULL'S COMPLAINT" 19

BONAPARTE ON THE QUARTER-DECK OF H. M. S. NORTHUMBERLAND 36

BOXIANA; OR, THE FANCY 48

"A SINGLE LIFE ON THE CONTINENT, STARVING ON SOUR KROUT!!" 79

"COMES TO ENGLAND, IS MADE A GENERAL," &c. 80

"R——L WHISKERS," 1816 84

HENRY HUNT, ESQ. 117

"THE NEW COINAGE; OR, JOHN BULL'S VISIT TO MAT OF THE MINT!!" 138

"A PEEP INTO THE PUMP ROOM; OR, THE ZOMERSETSHIRE FOLK IN A MAZE," OCTOBER, 1817 147

ROBERT OWEN, AUGUST 21, 1817 151

"SALES BY AUCTION! OR, PROVIDENT CHILDREN DISPOSING OF THEIR DECEASED MOTHER'S EFFECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEIR CREDITORS!" 174

"MAKING MOST OF £10,000 PER AN." 177

"THE HOBBY HORSE DEALER" 180

"THE LADY'S ACCELERATOR" 183

"HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS!!" 189

MASSACRE AT ST. PETER'S; OR, "BRITONS, STRIKE HOME!!!" 207

GEORGE III. 211

MARKET WOMEN 217

THE WAGGON 220

THE POST CHAISE 223

THE MAIL COACH 226

SOWING BROADCAST 250

USING THE FLAIL 250

THE PLOUGH 251

THE FARM LABOURER 254

GLEANERS 255

DAIRY FOLK 258

WASHING CLOTHES 259

MOUNTED BUTCHER BOY 262

THE GIPSIES 263

WALKING COSTUME. 1812 270

LADIES' HEAD-DRESS 271

NO. 1 AND 2, 1811; NO. 3, 1812; NO. 4 AND 5, 1813 274

NO. 1 AND 2, 1814; NO. 3 AND 4, 1815 275

FASHIONABLES OF 1816 TAKING THE AIR IN HYDE PARK 279

BELLES AND BEAUS; OR, A SCENE IN HYDE PARK, AUGUST 12, 1817 282

A DANDYESS, 1819 283

WALTZING 286

AT THE SPINNING-WHEEL 291

MAKING PILLOW LACE 294

MILK WOMAN 295

CONVIVIALITY 306

A PORTRAIT (LORD PETERSHAM) 309

LORD PETERSHAM. 1815 312

DANDY ON HORSEBACK 313

A DANDY 316

PLAYING AT BOWLS AND QUOITS 324

LOTHARIO, AS PERFORMED BY MR. COATES AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE, DECEMBER 9, 1811 337

A CLOWN AND A GRASSHOPPER 345

A PHYSICIAN 361

TWO OPPOSITE CHARACTERS 364

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SOCIAL ENGLAND UNDER THE REGENCY.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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