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Bentinck, Lord George, at Doncaster, 299

Berkeley, the Hon. Grantley, his youthful days, 304

Betty, W. H. W., "Young Roscius," 364

Bidder, George, the calculator, 492

Birth, extraordinary, 271

Bishops' Saturday night, 563

Blake, William, painter and poet, 339

-- -- death of, 349

-- -- by Dr. de Boismont, 345

-- -- in Fountain Court, 348

-- -- married, 342

"Blue Key," the, 533

Boaden, Mr., his account of "Young Roscius," 366

"Bolton Trotters," origin of, 319

Bonaparte caricatured by Gilray, 336

"Bonassus," the, and Lord Stowell, 278

Bond, Mrs., of Cambridge Heath, Hackney, 72

Bone and Shell Exhibition, 317

Books, Mr. Heber's collections, 487

Book-collector, Heber, the, 485

Border marriages, 65

Boruwlaski, Count, the Polish dwarf, 258

-- and Bébé, dwarfs, 260

-- buried at Durham, 267

-- and the Empress Maria Theresa, 260

-- introduced to George IV. by Charles Mathews, 264

-- and the Irish giant, 263

-- letter of, 266

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