Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME
CHAPTER I.
Early Years—St. Gluvias—Tragedy at
Bothelland—Howard—Lord
North—Wesley—Murray—Revolutionary
War—Riots—More
Mutiny—Napoleon—Shipwrecks—School
Adventure—Davies Gilbert—Henry
Martyn—Rustic Servants—Trafalgar—Journey to
Bath—Sight-seeing—King
Bladud—Pump-room—Pitt—Melville—Marengo—Sir
John Moore—Anstey—London—Alderman
Wood—Funeral of Pitt—Debating
Society—Sheridan—Pitt and
Dr. Rennell—Picton’s
Trial—Reminiscences of Johnson, Goldsmith,
and others—The Porters—Bishop of
London—Rowland Hill—Dr.
Geddes—Catastrophe at the Old Bailey—Funeral of
Fox—Lord Henry Petty—London
Manners—Pernicious Atmosphere
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CHAPTER II.
Anatomical Students—Resurrection Men—Lord
Lauderdale—The Green Man—Volunteers Reviewed—Youthful
Tendencies—Old Friends—Reading—White Knights—George
III.—Attachment to the Country—Oxford—Studies in
Town—Clubs—Practical Jokes—Pines and London Porter—Singular and
Fatal Impression of London on a Visitor—Returning from a
Route—Horace and the Classics—Country
Publications—Plutarch
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CHAPTER III.
Habitual Reading—Monk Lewis—Trial of
Courage—Little’s Poems—Novel
Reading—Maria
Roche—Surr—Mrs.
Opie—Charlotte Smith—Miss
Owenson—Clara
Reeves—Bage—Moore’s Zeluco—Coleridge—Southey—The
Reviews and Writers—The Magazines—Phillips the
Bookseller—Marmion
Published—Scott’s Poetry—Gertrude of
Wyoming—Darwin—Byron’s
Earlier Works—The Quarterly
Review—Gifford—Critical Mangling—The Edinburgh—Clubs of the Time—The
Pilot Paper—Topham of the
Guards—Samuel—Sir Thomas
Turton’s Motion on India—Staff of the Pilot—Herbert Compton—Anecdote of an Indian
Judge—Rauzzini’s Concert, Incident
at—Gentleman Lewis—Edward
Fitzgerald—Opie—Mrs.
Wells—Spencer
Smith—Byron’s
Florence—Johnson the
Smuggler—Duel—Paull’s
Suicide—Sheridan on the Hustings
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CHAPTER IV.
The
Theatre—Betty—Siddons—Cooke—Kemble—O’Neil—Young—Holman—Bannister—Jordan—Grimaldi—Du
Camp—Newspaper Labours—The Danish Fleet—Journey to
Plymouth and return—Duke of York and the Pilot—Courier—Anecdote of Lord
Grey—Morning Chronicle—The Sun—Traveller and
Globe—Judge Best—The
Aurora—Morning Herald—Times—Manners and his Paper—Jew
Goldsmith—Beresford’s “Miseries”—Thomas
Hardy—Porter the
Oblivious—Plymouth—Detention there—Launch of the
Caledonia—Lieutenant Hambley—Sir C.
Ekins—The Algesiras—Captain
Hillyer—Lord Cochrane—Captain
Macculloch—Duel Avoided—Captain
Quilliam—Officer Condemned to Death and Executed—Sir W.
Beatty—Admiral Young—Willoughby
Bertie—Howard—Dr.
Bidlake—Northcote—Cookworthy—O.
P. Riot—Death of young Macleod—Sir J.
Moore’s Army—Walcheren Fever
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CHAPTER V.
The
Jubilee—Wilkie—Haydon—Winne—Sir
I. Pellew and others—Sunrise—Elgin Marbles—Anecdote of a
Redbreast—Old Seaman—Line Mackerel—Cruising in the
Channel—Sanguinary Naval Conflict—Dr. George
Magrath—Prisoners of War—Sir Arthur
Wellesley—Cintra—General Tench and
Sidney—Belzoni—Drew—Hawker—Polwhele—Charlotte
Smith’s Sonnets—Novel Writers—Queenhoo
Hall—Hannah
More—Pratt—The Miss
Lees’—Death of Robert
Tryon—Millridge—
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Cardew—Singular Ignis Fatuus—Lucien
Bonaparte—The West Briton—Basque Roads
and Lord Cochrane—Affair of the
Barfleur—The—Africaine—Anecdote—Sir Robert
Calder—General Browne—Sir M.
Lopez—Jekyl—The Two Comets—Dinner to
Incledon—Perceval’s Attack on the
Press—Lord Holland’s Letter
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CHAPTER VI.
Dog-fighting—Letter of Lord Boringdon—My
Defence—Character of that
Nobleman—Canning—Lord
Garvagh—Henry
Canning—Catalani—A Portuguese
Family—Support Catholic Emancipation—Consequences—The
Northumberland—Stewart—Execution on
Shipboard—Plymouth Institute—Gain a Prize—Foulston
the Architect—Rev. C. Colton—Mr.
Collier—Tom Codd—Sir J.
Dinely—Melancholy Suicide—Governor
McCarthy—Admiral Vincent—William
Graham
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CHAPTER VII.
Turner the Artist—Sea Excursion—Bigbury Bay—Visit to
Wolcot’s Birth-place—Character of
Turner in the Country—Admiral
Colpoys—Sir Francis
Drake—Lidford—Prologue spoken at the Theatre—A Line-of-Battle
Ship Burned—Remarks on the Impress—Naval Punishments in Departed Days—Sea
Scurvy Vanquished—Nicholas
Lockyer—Courts-martial—Sir William
Bolton—Men in Horse Transports—Narrow Escapes—St.
Sebastian—Walsh the Defaulter—Return to
London—Stonehenge—Winter of 1814—Samuel—Mode
of Treating a Pickpocket—William Graham in London—His
History—Commits a Forgery—Falls in a Duel
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CHAPTER VIII.
Lord Eldon—Croft—Suicide—Learn
German—Madame de Stael—Hewson
Clarke—Dinner Scene—Literary Parties—Rejected
Theatre—Leigh Hunt’s Feast of
the Poets—Oxford and Blenheim—Evesham and
Tewkesbury—Admiral Bligh—Alexander of
Russia—The King of Prussia and other Visitors—Lodgings at
Woolwich—Curious Effect of Cannon Firing—Mendoza the
Boxer—Dr. Wolcot—Lord
Coventry—Lord Coleraine—Colonel
Thornton—Singular Meeting—The
Boscawens—Governor
Trelawny—Anecdotes—Trial of the
Hunts—Visits to Them—John
Hunt—High-spirited Journalism
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CHAPTER IX.
Reflections—Visit to the West—Barton
Pynsent—Incidents—Churchill the
Poet—Return and Embark at Dover—Driven into Boulogne—Miserable Sailing
Packets—Fall in with the Army—Montreuil—Sterne and
the Landlord—Conduct of the British Troops—English Newspapers Prohibited by the
Bourbons—Blangy—Neufchatel—Rouen—Prussians Execrated—Royalist
Officers—Agnes Sorel—Relics—Drunken English
Commissary—The Convent of Les Deux Amants—Letter from Naples—Rural
Esquire of Pont l’Arche—Incident in the South
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CHAPTER X.
Ecouis—M.
Brunel—Gisors—Shooting—Rule of Law as
to Game—Castle of Courcelles—Noyers—Bad News from Home—Visits to
the Farmers—Great Distress—Character of De
F——.—The Gensdarmerie—The
Andelys—Barbé Marbois—Shooting
Excursion—Old Manners Preserved in France—Hazardous Ride to
Paris—Disappointment—Find an Acquaintance—Meet
Thistlewood—Anecdote Relating to him
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