Sir Cecil Gray—The Devonshire, or most Approved Manner of Securing Votes—The Poll—Fox, the Westminster Watchman—Honest Sam House—Lords of the Bedchamber—The Court Canvass of Madame Blubber—Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voter and Abject Canvassers—Monsieur Reynard—The Case is Altered—The Hustings—Procession of the Hustings after a Successful Canvass—Lord Lonsdale—The Westminster Mendicant—The Westminster Deserter Drumm'd out of the Regiment—Court Influence—Preceptor and Pupil—Secret Influences Directing the New Parliament—For the Benefit of the Champion—The Petitioning Candidate—Christopher Atkinson, a 'Rogue in Grain'—John Stockdale, the 'Bookselling Blacksmith'
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A Sketch from Nature—English Curiosity— Counsellor and Client—La Politesse Françoise—1784, or the Fashions of the Day—The Vicar and Moses—Money-lenders—Bookseller and Author—The Historian Animating the Mind of a Young Painter—Billingsgate—Illustrations of Conveyances—Rowlandson's imitations of modern drawings |
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1785. |
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The Fall of Achilles—The Golden Apple, or the Modern Paris—Defeat of the High and Mighty Balissimo Corbettino and his Famed Cecilian Forces—The Wonderful Pig—The Waterfall—Comfort in the Gout—Vauxhall Gardens: Vauxhall Characters—Vincent Lunardi: Aërostation Out at Elbows, or the Itinerant Aëronaut—Too Many for a Jew—An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful—The Maiden Speech—Captain Epilogue—Col. Topham Endeavouring with his Squirt to Extinguish the Genius of Holman—Persons and Property Protected by Authority—Intrusion on Study, or the Painter Disturbed—Courtship—Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green—The Reconciliation, or the Return from Scotland—Lord Eden and Gen. Arnold—Harmony—Sympathy—John Gilpin—Tastes Differ—Nap in the Country—Nap in Town—Sea Amusement, or Commander-in-Chief of Cup and Ball on a Cruise—Opera Boxes |
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1786. |
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Box Lobby Loungers—Love and Learning—Sketch of Politics in Europe, January 1786—Uncle Toby (the Duke of Richmond)—An Ordnance Dream, or Planning Fortifications—Luxury—Misery—The Morning Dram—Count Boruwloski (the Polish Dwarf) Performing before the Grand Seigneur—
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