CHAPTER I. Page 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. Day of Thanksgiving — "Battle for the Standard" — Return of the troops — Frozen game brought over by Esquimaux — The Regent's practical 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. 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. 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. 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 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 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II. Page 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 "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 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 DÉcoration SOCIAL ENGLAND UNDER THE REGENCY. |