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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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