1 Barouches were so described on their first introduction into England.

2 “Life, Adventures, and Opinions of Colonel George Hanger.”

3 Hanger wrote a pamphlet on rat-catching.

4 Dibdin’s Mother Goose, which ran for a hundred nights at Covent Garden.

5 Sir Pepper Arden was a man of very violent temperament. One day, when he was haranguing a jury, a Frenchman who was paying a visit to the Law Courts asked who was the irascible advocate. His companion translated the name literally, “Le Chevalier Poivre Ardent.” “Parbleu!” replied the other, “il est trÈs bien nommÉ.”

6 At a grand review at Brighton he was thrown from his horse and broke his classical Roman nose.

7 A visitor to Brummell met the great man’s valet on the stair having on his arm a number of crumpled ties. In answer to an inquiring look, the latter explained, “They are our failures.”

8 The Duke of Bedford asked his opinion of a new coat; Brummell looked at it carefully in front and, telling him to turn round, at the back. Then he asked earnestly, “Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?”

9 Hoby died worth one hundred and twenty thousand pounds. He was the first man in London to drive a Tilbury.

10 Drummond was a partner in the great banking-house of that name, and the episode caused his retirement from the firm. This was the only occasion on which he had played whist at White’s Club.

11 Solomon was a well-known money-lender.

12 Brummell still interested himself in fashion. He wrote in 1818 from Calais to Raikes: “I heard of you the other day in a waistcoat that does you indisputable credit, spick and span from Paris, a broad stripe, salmon colour and cramoisi. Keep it up, my dear fellow, and don’t let them laugh you into a relapse so Gothic as that of your former English simplicity.”

13 It was said Sir Thomas Rumbold was originally a waiter at White’s, obtained an appointment in India, and rose to be Governor of Madras. This, however, has been demonstrated to be merely a legend by his descendant, Sir Horace Rumbold.

14 Born 1724; succeeded to the Earldom of March, 1731, and, on his mother’s death, to the Earldom of Ruglen; inherited the dukedom, 1778; died 23rd December 1810.

15 The Bank of England.

16 From Alderman Richard Sclater is descended the present Lord Basing, by whose generous courtesy the present writer has had access to the unpublished letters, preserved at Hoddington House, written from India by Elizabeth Sclater, afterwards Mrs Draper, to members of her family in England. Passages from these letters are printed in this article.

17 British Museum, Add. MSS. 34527.

18 Bombay Quarterly Review, January 1857, p.191. The article is anonymous, and can scarcely have been written by one who knew Mrs Draper, though he may well have been acquainted with those who had.

19 British Museum, Add. MSS. 34527.

20 It has hitherto been assumed that “Don Pringello” was the playful form given by the Demoniacs to one Pringle. The present writer has been so fortunate as to enlist the kind offices of Mr W.J. Locke and Mr Rudolf Dircks in an endeavour to trace this architect; but neither an English Pringle nor a Spanish Don Pringello has been discovered.