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Hawkestone Park. Uncommonly beautiful scenery. The red castle and New Zealander’s
hut. More manufactories. Dangerous employment. The room in which
Shakspeare was born. His grave. Various parks. The Judith of Cigoli. Blenheim.
Vandalism. Pictures. Oxford. Its Gothic aspect. The Sovereigns as Doctors.
The Museum. Tradescant and his bird Dodo. The blue dung-beetle in the character
of a knight. Elizabeth’s riding gaiters, and her lover’s locks of hair. The library.
Manuscripts. Stowe. Overloading. Louis the Eighteenth’s lime trees. Valuables
behind a grating. Decoration for Don Juan. Portrait of Shakspeare. Ninon de
l’Enclos. Balustrade. Christmas pantomimes.

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Conversational talents of the French. Death of the Duke of York. Adventure at his
house. English mourning. Excerpts from my journal. Lady Morgan’s Salvator
Rosa. ‘What is conscience?’ Cosmorama. Skating on the Serpentine. The
blacking-manufacturer’s ‘sporting match.’ Visit to C—— Hall. Life there.
Lord D——’s recollections of M——. Pictures. The most beautiful woman. The
Park.

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Brighton. Sunset. Oriental baths. ‘Gourmandise’ and heroism. Count F——.
Ride on the sea-shore. Almack’s ball. English notions of precedence. The
romantic Scot. Sermon and priests. Duties of a clergy. The windmill. Party
at Count F——’s. Highland Costume. Private balls. Wanderings of the garden
Odysseus. Innocent politics.

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Beggar’s eloquence. Tea-kettle pantomime and jugglers. Dream Superstition. The
fancy ball. Miss F——. Mrs. F——. Remarks on society, ‘Nobodies.’ Pleasures
of a ball. Pictures in the clouds. The French Physician. Amateur Concerts.
Chinese feet. Italian Opera. Hyde Park. English horsemanship.

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Technicalities of English Society. ‘Bonne chere.’ Captain Parry and his ship. The
Guards’ mess. Play. ‘Le Moyen age.’ Monkeys and Poneys. ‘Le Grand
Seigneur dentiste.’ Lady Hester Stanhope in Syria. Adam still alive. Tippoo
Saib’s shawl. Homeward flight. Lord Mayor’s dinner. Lord H——’s and the
Banker’s houses. Inaccessibleness of Englishmen. Persian Charge d’affaires.
Courtesy of the English princes. Ride in the suburbs.

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Correspondence. Lord Mayor’s feast. Speeches. Caricatures. Dangers of a fog.
English society. Middle classes. Critical position of the Aristocracy. Freedom
of the press. Newspaper extracts. Dinner at Mr. Canning’s. Concert. Easy
manners. Liston. The Areopagus. Rev. R. Taylor. Almack’s. Rapid travelling.
Prince Schw——. House of Commons; Messrs. Peel, Brougham, Canning. House
of Lords; Duke of Wellington, Lords Goderich, Holland, Lansdowne, Grey. Value
of a ticket for Almack’s. Lady Politicians. Indian Melodrame. Sir Thomas
Lawrence. Portuguese eyes. Prince Polignac. London season. Duchess of
Clarence. Countess L——’s ball. English horsewomen. Breakfast at the Duke of
Devonshire’s. The new Venus. Crush of Carriages. Dinner at the Duke of
Clarence’s. Fitzclarence family. English-French. Dinner at Mr. R——’s. Marchioness
of L——. Marquis of L——. Bishops’ aprons. Concerts of ancient music.
Ambulating advertisements. Mr. R——. Aristocracy in Religion. Dream.

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Mr. Hope’s collection of pictures and statues. Toilette-necessaries of a Dandy.
Ladies’ conference. Style of invitations. Duke of Sussex. Major Kepple. Ascot
races. S—— Park. The charming fairy and her country-house. Windsor Castle.
Disaster. Greek boy. British cavalry. Absence of military pedantry. Balls.
Disenchantments. Horticultural breakfast. Colossal pines. Tyrolese singers.
Northumberland-house. Sir Gore Ousley. Persian anecdotes. Flower-table.
Children’s balls. Art and nature. Greenwich. Execution. Contrasts. Party
at the Duchess of Kent’s. Marie Louise. King of Rome. Heat. King’s-bench
and Newgate prisons. The unconscious philosopher. Vauxhall. The battle of
Waterloo. Ball at Lady L——’s. Phrenology. Mr. Deville’s character of myself.
Mr. Nash’s library. Dinner at the Portuguese Ambassador’s. St. Giles’s. Exhibition
of English pictures. Pounds and thalers. ‘Excerpts’. Gossip. Visions
of the past. The Tunnel. Astley’s Theatre. Parody of the Freischutz. Bedlam.
The last of the Stuarts. Funerals. Omens. Barclay’s brewery. West India
docks. Amusing charlatanerie. Westminster Abbey by night. Dinner at Sir
L—— M——’s. Practical Bull. English Opera. New organ. Miss Linwood.
Solar Microscope. Panoramas. Death of Canning. ‘Vivian Grey.’ St. James’s
Park. Respect for the public. Propensity to mischief in the people. Exclusiveness
of the great. London in autumn. Newspaper facts.