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Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall, 525

Buxton, Jedediah, account of, 493

Byron, Lord, and Monk Lewis, 420

Byron's description of Cintra, 4

"Cabbage Cooke," of Pentonville, 86

Calculators, extraordinary, 490

Cambridge Heath, Mrs. Bond's Hut at, 72

Canning, Mr., and the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands, 57

-- on Grattan's eloquence, 460

-- his humour, 451

-- by Lord Byron, 460

-- and Lord Eldon, 459

-- in office, 456

-- and the present of fustian, 451

-- and Prince Metternich, 454

-- and the "Queen of Spades," 452

-- and his college servant, 457

-- and Sydney Smith, 459

Canning's epitaph on the Marquis of Anglesey's leg, 169

-- Friend of Humanity, and Knife-grinder, 454

Capon, the scene-painter, 322

"Caraboo, the Princess," 246

-- "Princess," and Napoleon Bonaparte, 248

Caricatures by Gilray, 334

Carlton House Fête and Romeo Coates, 43

Carter Foote, of Tavistock, 114

Castle Spectre, Mrs. Powell's mistake, 423

Catching a cayman, 325

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