Walpole, Horace, on William Combe, 475
Ward, Baron, his remarkable career, 109
-- John, the Hackney miser, 74
-- the miser's prayer, 76
-- and the South Sea scheme, 74
Waters, Sir John, his escape, 285
Waterton, Charles, the traveller, 324
Wealth of Mr. Beckford, 18
Wellington, Lord, hoaxed, 288
Whately, the witty archbishop, 504
Wildman and his bees, 276
Wilkes, John, Sheridan on, 335
Will of J. C. Neild, 99
Wirgman, the Kantesian, 512
"Witch Pickles," of Leeds, 137
Wolcot, Dr.--see Peter Pindar.
-- -- in Cornwall, 462
-- -- in Jamaica, 461
-- -- and Opie, the painter, 463
-- -- and Royal Academicians, 463
Woman-hating Cavendish, 132
"Wonder of all the wonders that the world ever wondered at," 243
"Wooden spoon, the," 535
Woulfe, Peter, the chemist and alchemist, 126
Young, Brigham, the Mormon prophet, 218
-- Roscius, sketch of the, 87--see Roscius, Young.
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