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-- married, 263

Boyhood of Edmund Kean, 398

Bradshaw, Mr., M.P., and Maria Tree, courtship of, 413

Brandy in tea, 534

Bridgwater, the eccentric Earl of, 103

Bright, the fat miller of Malden, 253

Brighton races thirty years ago, 292

Brothers, the "Prophet," 194

Brougham, Lord, and Father Mathew, 183

Brummel and Aunt Brawn, 34

-- Beau, origin of, 22

-- at Calais and Caen, 31

-- dress of, 24

-- fall of, 30

-- and Madame de Staël, 26

-- mental decay of, 31

-- upon neckcloths, 24

-- portrait of, 22

-- and the Prince of Wales, 22, 26

-- and the snuff-box, 28

Brummel's practical jokes, 25

-- sayings, 32

Bryan, the Marylebone fanatic, 189

Building Fonthill Abbey, 6

Bunn, A., and his mysterious parcel, 400

Burial bequests, 159

Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill, 163

Burke and Pitt caricatured by Gilray, 334

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