Part 9

The pretended Princess Caraboo 246

Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf, in Disgrace with his Wife 259

The Prince Regent, a Back View 284

Colonel Mellish and Buckle his Agent 294

Curtis, an Old-Bailey Character 312

Corder, the Murderer of Maria Martin 316

Lord Coleraine, keeping an Apple Stall 321

Nollekens, the Sculptor. From J. T. Smith's Life 350

Master Betty, the "Young Roscius", as "Norval" 363

Mrs. Garrick in her Youth 374

Charles Mathews the Elder 378

Joe Grimaldi as Clown 382

Liston as "Paul Pry" 391

Edmund Kean as "Richard III." 398

T. P. Cooke in "Black Eyed Susan" 404

Charlotte Charke, Colley Cibber's Daughter 411

M. G. Lewis, Author of "the Monk" 417

Professor Porson 425

Dr. Parr 435

William Cobbett, Peter Porcupine and the "Political Register" 481

Jedediah Buxton, the Calculator 490

Lamb's Cottage, Colebrook Row 495

Margaret Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle 516

Lord Eldon (John Scott) 549

ENGLISH ECCENTRICS.

WEALTH and FASHION.

The Beckfords and Fonthill.

The histories of the Beckfords, father and son, present several points of eccentricity, although in very different spheres. William Beckford, the father, was famed for his great wealth, which chiefly consisted of large estates in Jamaica; and the estate of Fonthill, near Hindon, Wilts. He was Alderman of Billingsgate Ward, London, and a violent political partisan with whom the great Lord Chatham maintained a correspondence to keep alive his influence in the City. When Beckford opposed Sir Francis Delaval to contest the borough of Shaftesbury, the latter said--