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Accident at a Review--The King shot at, at Drury Lane Theatre--Behaviour of the Royal Family--Biography of Hadfield--His trial and acquittal--Grand Review of Volunteers on the King's birthday--The bad weather, and behaviour of the crowd 8

High price of gold--Scarcity of food--Difference in cost of living 1773-1800--Forestalling and Regrating--Food riots in the country--Riot in London at the Corn Market--Forestalling in meat 16

Continuation of food riots in London--Inefficiency of Police--Riots still continue--Attempts to negotiate a Peace--A political meeting on Kennington Common--Scarcity of Corn--Proclamation to restrict its consumption--Census of the people 23

The Union with Ireland--Proclamations thereon--Alteration of Great Seal--Irish Member called to order --Discovery of the Planet Ceres--Proclamation of General Fast--High price of meat, and prosperity of the farmers--Suffering of the French prisoners--Political dissatisfaction--John Horne Tooke--Feeding the French prisoners--Negotiations for Peace--Signing preliminaries--Illuminations--Methods of making the news known--Ratification of preliminaries--Treatment of General Lauriston by the mob--More Illuminations--Manifestation of joy at Falmouth--Lord Mayor's banquet 32

Disarmament and retrenchment--Cheaper provisions--King applied to Parliament to pay his debts--The Prince of Wales claimed the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall--Parliament pays the King's debts--Abolition of the Income Tax--Signature of the Treaty of Amiens--Conditions of the Treaty--Rush of the English to France--Visit of C. J. Fox to Napoleon--Liberation of the French prisoners of war 45

Proclamation of Peace--Manner of the procession, &c.--Illuminations--Day of General Thanksgiving--General Election--A dishonoured Government bill--Cloth riots in Wiltshire--Plot to assassinate the King--Arrest of Colonel Despard--Trial and sentence of the conspirators--Their fate 55

Strained relations with France--Prosecution and trial of Jean Peltier for libel against Napoleon--Rumours of war--King's proclamation--Napoleon's rudeness to Lord Whitworth--Hoax on the Lord Mayor--Rupture with France--Return of Lord Whitworth, and departure of the French Ambassador 65

Declaration of War against France--Napoleon makes all the English in France prisoners of war--Patriotic Fund--Squibs on the threatened invasion--"The New Moses"--Handbill signed "A Shopkeeper"--"Britain's War-song"--"Who is Bonaparte?"--"Shall Frenchmen rule over us?"--"An Invasion Sketch" 74

Invasion Squibs continued--"The Freeman's Oath"--"John Bull and Bonaparte"--"The Eve of Invasion"--"A Biography of Napoleon"--"Britons, strike home"--Enrolment of 400,000 Volunteers--Napoleon at Calais--Apprehension of vagrants, and compulsorily recruiting the Army and Navy with them--Patriotism of the nation--Preparations in case of reverse--Beacons--Spies--The French prisoners--Emmett's rebellion in Ireland--Its prompt suppression--General Fast--Relief of the Roman Catholics 89

Caricatures of the Flotilla--Scarcity of money--Stamping Spanish dollars--Illness of the King--His recovery--General Fast--Fall of the Addington Ministry--Debate on the Abolition of the Slave Trade--Beacons--Transport--Election for Middlesex--Reconciliation between the King and the Prince of Wales 104

Nelson's funeral--Epigrams--Death of Pitt--His funeral--General Fast--Large coinage of copper--Impeachment of Lord Melville--The Abolition of the Slave Trade passes the House of Commons--Death and funeral of Fox--His warning Napoleon of a plot against him--Negotiations for peace--Napoleon declares England blockaded 120

Gloomy prospects of 1808--King's Speech--Droits of the Admiralty--Regulation of Cotton Spinners' wages--Riots in the Cotton districts--Battle of Vimiera--Convention of Cintra--Its unpopularity--Articles of the Convention 136

General Fast--The Jubilee--Costume--Former Jubilees--Release of poor prisoners for debt--Jubilee Song--Jubilee literature--Poetry--King pardons deserters from Army and Navy 146

Common Council decide to relieve Small Debtors--Festivities at Windsor--Ox roasted whole--How it was done--The Queen and Royal Family present--Division of the ox, &c.--A bull baited--F?te at Frogmore--Illuminations--Return of the Scheldt Expedition 153

Warrant served on Sir Francis Burdett--He agrees to go to prison--Subsequently he declares the warrant illegal--His arrest--His journey to the Tower--The mob--His incarceration--The mob attack the military--Collision--Killed and wounded--Sir Francis's letter to the Speaker--His release--Conduct of the mob 168

The roads--Modern traffic compared with old--The stage coach--Stage waggons--Their speed--Price of posting--The hackney coach--Sedan chairs--Horse riding--Improvement in carriages 182

Amateur driving--"The Whip Club"--Their dress--"The Four in Hand Club"--Their dress--Other driving clubs--"Tommy Onslow"--Rotten Row 189

"The Silent Highway"--Watermen--Their fares--Margate hoys--A religious hoy--The bridges over the Thames--The Pool--Water pageants--Necessity for Docks, and their building--Tunnel at Gravesend--Steamboat on the Thames--Canals 195

Condition of the streets of London--Old oil lamps--Improvement in lamps--Gas--Its introduction by Murdoch--Its adoption in London by Winsor--Opposition to it--Lyceum and other places lit with it--Its gradual adoption--The old tinder box--Improvements thereon 201

Great fires in London--Number of Insurance Companies--Rates of insurance--Fire-engines and firemen--Scarcity of water--Supply of water to London--The streets--Their traffic--Shops--Watering the roads 210

Daily life of the streets--The Chimney Sweep--Mrs. Montagu--Instances of the hard life of a "climbing boy"--The Milkmaid--Supply of milk to the Metropolis--"Hot loaves"--"Water cresses"--whence they came--Other cries 216

The Postman--His dress--The Post Office--Changes of site--Sir Robert Vyner--Rates of postage and deliveries--Mail coaches--Places of starting and routes--Number of houses in London--Description of them--Their furniture 228

Food--Statistics as to quantity of meat consumed--Scarcity of fish and game--Supply of latter to London--Venison--A brewer's dinner--Beer--Quantity brewed--Wine--Its price--Supply of vegetables--Sardines and Harvey's Sauce--Scarcity of wheat--Forestalling--Rice from India--Bounties given for its shipment 235

Parliamentary Committee on the high price of provisions--Bounty on imported corn, and on rice from India and America--The "Brown Bread Bill"--Prosecution of bakers for light weight--Punishment of a butcher for having bad meat--Price of beef, mutton, and poultry--Cattle shows--Supply of food from France--Great fall in prices here--Hotels, &c.--A clerical dessert 243

Men's dress--The "Jean de Bry" coat--Short coats fashionable at watering-places--"All Bond Street trembled as he strode"--Rules for the behaviour of a "Bond Street Lounger" 250

"The three Mr. Wiggins's"--The "Crops"--Hair-powdering--The powdering closet--Cost of clothes--Economy in hats--Taxing hats--Eye-glasses--"The Green Man" at Brighton--Eccentricities in dress 256

Ladies' dress--French costume--Madame Recamier--The classical style--"Progress of the toilet"--False hair--Hair-dresser's advertisement--The Royal Family and dress--Curiosities of costume 263

Diversions of people of fashion--Daily life of the King--Children--Education--Girls' education--Matrimonial advertisements--Gretna Green marriages--Story of a wedding ring--Wife selling--"A woman to let" 275

Gambling--Downfall of Lady Archer, &c.--Card playing in the Royal Circle--Card money--High play--Play at the Clubs--Lotteries--The method of drawing them--Horse racing--Turf and horses better than now--Curious names of race horses--Ladies Lade and Thornton--Lady Thornton's races--Tattersall and Aldridge 285

Hunting then, and now--Hunting near the Metropolis--The Epping Hunt--Fishing--Shooting then, and now--Guns--Methods of proving gun barrels--Big charges--Introduction of the Percussion Cap--Size of bags--Colonel Thornton's bet 305

A Cockney's account of the First of September--Pigeon shooting--Out-door games--Cricket--High stakes--Lord's cricket ground--Trap and ball--Billiards--Life of Andrews the billiard player 313

The Theatre--Number of theatres in London--Famous actors and actresses--Disturbances at a theatre--Master Betty, "The Infant Roscius"--His country experience--Puffs preliminary--His first appearance in London--Crowds to see him--Presented to the King and the Prince of Wales--Acts at Drury Lane--His subsequent career 322

Betty's imitators--Miss Mudie, "The Young Roscia"--Her first appearance in London--Reception by the audience--Her fate--Ireland's forgery of "Vortigern and Rowena"--Fires among the theatres--Destruction of Covent Garden and Drury Lane 333

The O. P. Riots--Causes of--Madame Catalani--Kemble's refutation of charges--Opening of the theatre, and commencement of the riots--O. P. medals, &c.--"The house that Jack built"--A committee of examination--Their report--A reconciliation dinner--Acceptation of a compromise--"We are satisfied"--Theatre re-opens--Re-commencement of riots--The proprietors yield, and the riots end 339

"The Pic-nic Club"--Its supporters--Its entertainment--Its short life--Automata and wool pictures--Almack's--Pidcock's Menagerie--"The Invisible Girl"--Vauxhall--Sir Roger de Coverley--Price of admission, &c.--Ranelagh Gardens 354

Music--Composers of the time--Mrs. Billington--Her salaries--Mdlle. Mara--Mrs. Crouch--Incledon--Braham--Chamber music--Musical societies--Commemoration of Dr. Arne--Competition of pipers--Dancing--The Valse 361

Painting--"The Royal Academy of Art"--The principal private Picture Galleries--Benjamin West--James Barry--Fuseli--Opie--Minor artists--Turner--Sir Thomas Laurence--Morland--Sale of his pictures--Sculptors--Engravers--Boydell--"The Exhibition of Paintings in Water Colours"--Its members--"The Associated Artists in Water Colours"--Literature--List of literary persons of the decade--Five-volume novels--Decyphering papyri--Major Ouseley's Oriental Library--The Pope and the Lord's Prayer--The Alfred Club 369

Medical--The Doctor of the old School--The rising lights--Dr. Jenner--His discovery of vaccination for smallpox--Opposition thereto--Perkins's Metallic Tractors--The "Perkinean Institution"--His cures--Electricity and Galvanism--Galvanizing a dead criminal--Lunatic Asylums--Treatment of the insane--The Hospitals 385

The Royal Society and the Royal Institution--Scientific men of the time--Society of Arts--Other learned Societies--Ballooning--Steam--Steamboats--Locomotives--Fourdrinier and the paper-making machine--Coals--Their price--Committee of the House of Commons on coal--Price of coals 394

The Army--Number of men--Dress--Hair-powder--Militia--Commissions easily obtained--Price of substitutes--The Volunteers--Dress of the Honourable and Ancient Artillery Company--Bloomsbury Volunteers, and Rifle Volunteers--Review at Hatfield--Grand rising of Volunteers in 1803 412

Volunteer Regulations--The Brunswick Rifle--"Brown Bess"--Volunteer shooting--Amount subscribed to Patriotic Fund--Mr. Miller's patriotic offer 419

The Clarke Scandal--Biography of Mrs. Clarke--Her lev?es--Her scale of prices for preferments--Commission of the House of Commons--Exculpation of the Duke of York--His resignation--Open sale of places--Caution thereon--Duels--That between Colonel Montgomery and Captain Macnamara 427

Police--Dr. Colquhoun's book--The old Watchmen--Their inadequacy admitted--Description of them--Constables--"First new mode of robbing in 1800"--Robbery in the House of Lords--Whipping--Severe sentence--The Stocks--The Pillory--Severe punishment--Another instance 435

Smuggling--An exciting smuggling adventure--The Brighton fishermen and the Excise--"Body-snatching"--"Benefit of Clergy"--Tyburn tickets--Death the penalty for many crimes--"Last dying Speech"--The "condemned pew" at Newgate--Horrible execution at Jersey--The new drop--An impenitent criminal 444

Execution for treason--Burying a suicide at the junction of a cross-road--Supposed last such burial in London--The Prisons--List, and description of them--Bow Street Police Office--Expense of the Police and Magistracy--Number of watchmen, &c., in 1804--The poor, and provision for them--Educational establishments 451

INDEX 461

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THE LOYAL DUCKING; OR, RETURNING FROM THE REVIEW ON THE FOURTH OF JUNE, 1800 14

HINTS TO FORESTALLERS; OR, A SURE WAY TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF GRAIN 18

JOHN BULL AND HIS FRIENDS COMMEMORATING THE PEACE 46

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