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Alchemy, predictions of, 129

-- revival of, 125, 129

Alcibiades' dog and Henry Constantine Jennings, 107

Alcobaça and Batalha monasteries, 5

Alphabet single rhymed, 565

Ambassador floored, 553

Amen--Peter Isnell, 231

Angelo and Peter Pindar, 471

Anglesey, Marquis of, his leg at Waterloo, 169

Apocalypse, interpretation of, 510

Archbishop, a witty one, 504

Archer, Lady, Account of, 122

Artists, eccentric, 330

Astrology, modern, 136-139

Avonmore, Lord, his absence-of-mind, 566

Bank of Faith, Huntington's, 220

Banks, the eccentric Miss, 80

Banting's cure for corpulence, 256

Barnard's Inn, and Woulfe the alchemist, 126

Baron Ward's remarkable career, 109-112

Bassle, Martin, the calculator, 491

Beckfords, the, and Fonthill, 1-19

Beckford, Alderman, 1

-- -- his Monument speech, 19

-- William, at Bath, 16-18

-- Mozart, and Voltaire, 3

Bees, Wildman's docile, 276

Bentham, Jeremy, bequest of his remains, 166

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