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Cavendish, Hon. H., his wealth, 135

-- the woman-hating, 134

Chancery jeu-d'esprit, 551

Charade by Dr. Whately, 508

Charke, Charlotte, Colley Cibber's daughter, 410

Charnwood Forest, Liston in, 392

Chatham, Lord, and the Beckfords, 2

Chesterfield, Lord, estimate of, 78

-- -- his will, 542

Cibber, Colley, his daughter, 410

Cintra, Beckford's estate at, 4

Clerkenwell, "Lady Lewson," of, 89

"Clown" tavern, the, Sadler's Wells, 527

Club, the Mulberries, Shakspearian, 408

"Coal-heaver," Huntington, 219

Coates, his "Lothario," 42

-- Romeo and Diamond, 41

-- his cockleshell curricle, 42, 43

Cobbett, eccentricities of, 481

-- and Tom Paine's bones, 484

Cobbett's gridiron sign, 482

-- nicknames, 484

-- Political Register, 482

-- Porcupine Papers, 481

Colburn, Zerah, the calculator, 491

Coleraine, eccentric Lord, 321

Collector, an indiscriminate, 305

Combe, William, author of Dr. Syntax, 472

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