Carlisle, Lord, and Lord Byron,

76.

Carlyle, Dr. his account of
Hume, 20.
Case, a clear one, 173.
Case, cruel one, 327.
Castle of Otranto, the, 17.
Catechism, Jew's, 183.
Chalmers, Alexander, 56.
Chances of the Bar, 214.
Chancellor's Purse, 217.
Chaplain, popular, 169.

Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-
row, 53-58.

Charge, small one, 187.

Charm, incomplete, 98.
Chartist Trials, 278.

Chevalier D'Eon, story of, 302.
Child of Nature, 49.

Church militant, 316.
Churchill, death of, 11.
Cibber's first fine, 321.

Circuit Story, by Sir John Cole-
ridge, 276.

Claim, inexplicable, 9.

Clarence, Duke of, and Bishop
Blomfield, 186.

Clark, “King of Exeter 'Change,”
298.

66

Cobbett upon Bacon, 125.
Cobbett, by himself, 122.
Coleridge done up," 108.
Coleridge a Light Dragoon, 102.
Coleridge, Memorabilia of, 105.
Coleridge and his son Hartley,
109.

Commentators at Fault, 37.
Contradiction, delicate, 119.
Cool Hand, 257.

"Corsican Brothers," the, 313.
Cowper's John Gilpin, 28.

Criminal Law, the, 230.

Criticism, positive, 323.
Criticism, vendible, 66.
Crying Scene, 253.

Cupar and Jedburgh Justice, 278.
Cure, double, 167.

Curran and George Colman the
younger, 265.

Curran, Gratitude of, 263.
Curran, sketched by Phillips, 264.
Curran playing Punch, 262.

Curran's Wit and Humour, 257-

262.

Cutler, Sir John, the miser, 285.
Dancer, Daniel, the miser, 298.
Darwin's Botanic Garden, 22.
Day, Thomas, his Model Wives,

24.

Deadly-lively, 316.

Death of Four Remarkable Men,
265.

Death of Samuel Rogers, 144.
Death of Swift and Pope, 8.
Decline of the Drama, 329.
Diagnosis, lively, 314.
Diderot and the Blind, 156.
Difference, religious, 165.
Distinctions, worldly, 160.
Dogs in churches, 213.
Down to the Level, 279.
Drinking on Circuit, 233.
Dubois, the French miser, 294.
Duel of Moore with Jeffrey, 72.
Dunning, Lord Ashburton, 222.
Earthquake Exaggeration, 31.
Edgeworths, the, and Edgeworth-
town, 49.

Eel, a long one, 329.
Elder, cunning, 167.

Eldon, Lord, his beginnings, 247.
Eldon, Lord, his doubt, 253.
Eldon, Lord, as a Whip, 255.
Ellenborough, Lord, his humour
and power of ridicule, 243-246.
Elwes, John, the miser, 289-
293.

Error corrected, 65.

Erskine, Lord, his earliest suc-
cess, 240.

Erskine, Lord, his humour, 242.
Escape, a close one, 113.

Escape, narrow, 252.

Eskgrove, Lord, 235.

Eskgrove and Brougham, 282.

Evasion, nice, 150.

Failings, Family, 126.
Fees, conscientious, 225.
Festivity, a Night's, 35.
Fielding's Amelia, 14.
Fitzgibbon, and the Fee, 271,
Flogging, benefit of, 317.
Foley, Lord, his Will, 217.
Follett, character of, 270.

Follett, Sir William, on Free-
masonry, 269.
Fordyce, Dr. George, 55.
Foscue, the French miser, 296.
Fox, C. J. and S. Rogers, 138,
139.

Franklin as a Bookseller, 40.
Franklin, Dr. his only son, 41.
Free and Easy, 65.

Gainsborough and Reynolds, 332.
Gambler's Death, 313.
Games, shooting, 91.
Garrick criticised, 322.
Garrick's Eye, 325.
Garrick's first appearance, 320.
Garrick and Mr. Clive, 321.
Garrick and George II. 323.
Garrick's Othello, 321.
Garrick, Rogers's Recollections
of, 324.

Garrick and Shakspeare, 325.
Garrick's Study of Insanity, 322.
Gas-lighting, prevision of, 31.
Genius, blind, 9.

George III. and Joseph Lancaster,
58.

Ghost Story, Chichester, 171.
Gibbet, the last English, 231.
Gibbon in love, 45.
Gibbon and the Publisher, 119.
Gibbon and Walpole Quarrel, 47.
Goldsmith's Bee, 42.

Goldsmith's Deserted Village, 43.
Goldsmith's Natural History, 44.
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield,

44.

Gower, Dr. 54.

Graham, Justice, his politeness,

229.

Grant, Sir William, his living,
267.

Gray's Elegy, 18.

Guess, uncomplimentary, 49.
Guest, uninvited, 328.
Gulliver's Travels, 6.

Hall, Robert, and Matthew Wilks,
210.

Hamilton, Sir Patrick, the miser,
288.

Handwriting, illegible, 86.
"Hare and many Friends," 26.
Hat and Head, 175.

Haydon's Autobiography and
Journals, 87.

Haydon and Talfourd, 99.
Heber, Richard, his library, 110.
Henry, Dr. Death of, 48.
Henry and MacKnight, Doctors,
211.

Hermand, Judge, convivial, 234.
Hermand and Eldon, 248.
Hill, Sir John, Vagaries of, 300.
Hill, Rev. Rowland, Eccentricities
of, 179.

Hint, profitable, 282.
"Hobson's Choice," 249.
Hogarth caricatures Wilkes and
Churchill, 305.

Holland, Lord and Lady, 133, 135.
Hood's Puns and Fancies, 126.
Hook, Theodore, Hoaxes by, 68.
Hook, Theodore, at Oxford, 67.
Horse, wonderful, 308.
Horse-dealing Trials, 226.
Hume, David, "the Atheist," 20.
Hummums Ghost Stories, 33.
Huntingdon Connexion, 174.
Illustration, Twofold, 221.
Improvidence of Men of Genius,

99.

Income Tax Return, 326.
Indifference to Money, 98.
Irish Gentlemen, unfortunate,
309.

Irving, the Rev. Edward, 192.
Jeffrey and the North Pole, 64.
Jeffreys, a Scottish one, 231.
Jekyll, how made a Master in
Chancery, 254.

Jerrold, Blanchard, his Life of his
Father, 147.

Jerrold, Douglas, and Lord Coch-
rane, 146.

Jerrold, Douglas, a Midshipman,
145.

Jerrold, Douglas, Table-wit of,

146-150.

"Jerusalem Whalley," 308.
Jesting by Inches, 277.
Johnson, Dr. his Authorship,

34.

Johnson, Dr. at Brighthelmstone,

32.

Johnson, Dr. last moments of, 37.

Johnson, Dr. at Oxford, 29.
Johnson's Ramble in London, 31.
Joke, Pious, 167.
Judge, courteous, 229.
Kenyon, Lord, his parsimony and
ill-temper, 233.

Keppel, Admiral, and the Dey of
Algiers, 305.
Killing Time, 330.
Kisses, Virtue of, 27.

Lamb, Charles, and the Comp-
troller of Stamps, 87.

Lamb, Charles, and Thomas Hood,
90.

Lancaster, the educationist, 58.
Late Hours, 125.

Laudamy and Calamy, 311.
Laughter, Chesterfield on, 53.
Law, Study of the, 215.
Lawyer, a bold one, 282.
Lawyer's Toast, 229.
Lending Books, 254.
Let well alone, 173.

Letter, a Misdelivered one, 59.
Libel, Law of, 227.
Literary Fund, origin of, 76.
Longbow, Wilson, 57.
Loughborough, Lord, rise of, 216.
Lunatic and Ezekiel, 216.
Lyndhurst, Lord, rise of, 239.
Macaulay and the Ballad-boy, 154.
Macaulay, Election Ballad by,

151.

Macaulay's Boyhood, 150.
Mackintosh Family, the, 280.
Madmen, Philosophical, 84.
Maginn, Dr. sketch of, 70.
Marlborough, the miser, 286.
Marriage by Mistake, 315.
Marrying for Money, 47.
Martin, William, 85.
Mathew, Father, 193.

Mathew, Father, Homage to, 195.
Maule, Judge, his Straw-splitting
and Irony, 274.
Meaning it, 117.

Melbourne, Lord, and Morning
Chronicle, 131, 132.
Metaphor, dangerous, 271.
Methodism, Opposition to, 177.
Methodism, Progress of, 18.
Mimicry, perfect, 233.

Mind your Figures, 210.
Minister, a border one, 168.
Ministers, Scottish, 166.
Misers, anecdotes of, 284.
Mistake, a slight one, 114.
Mite, Sir Matthew, 304.
Monboddo, Lord, 237.
Money-matters, Ease in, 86.
Moore and his publishers, 120.
Morning Chronicle and its Con-
tributors, 129–133.

"My Grandmother's Review,"

119.

"Naboth's Vineyard," 7.
Newcastle, the Duke of, 312.
"No Judge," 225.

Nokes, Edward, the miser, 297.
Nollekens, the miser, 287.
Norbury, Lord, and his Court,
272.

Norbury's Humour, 273.
Northington, Lord, 218.
Not at Church, 198.
Novel-reading, 222.
O'Connell Ruse, 267.
One Shilling each, 274.
Opportunity, tempting, 319.
Ostervald, the French banker,
295.

Paley's text, 210.
Parenthesis, 170.

Parr's Spital Sermons, 208.
Parson Ford's Ghost, 33.
Passion, the ruling one, 226.
Patronage well bestowed, 334.
Petty Larceny, Scorn of, 317.
Phillips and the Monthly Maga-
zine, 56.

Phillips, Sir Richard, and Richard-
son, the novelist, 16.
Pickwick Papers, origin of, 127.
Piety and Learning, 197.
Piozzi, Mrs. her Gossip, 62.
Places, proper, 36.

Plain-speaking, 317.

"Plum Turner," the miser, 284.
Poets' Invitation to Dinner, 117.
Poets in a Puzzle, 105.
Poets, three-Churchill, Lloyd,
and Byron, 11.
Poetess who squinted, 52,
Poetry and Prose, 94,

Praise, parsimonious, 328.

Prayers, short, 157.

Praying by Rote, 116.
Preachers, Scottish, 211.
Preaching, benefit of, 325.
Preaching, Irish, 208.
Preaching, terrific, 207.
Presbyterianism, Scottish, 164.
Proportion, rule of, 330.
Publisher's Liberality, 75.
Publisher's Mistakes, 121.
Puns and Fancies, by Hood, 126.
Queensbury, Duke of, on the Turf,
310.

Question and Answer, by Byron,
136, 137.

Quid pro Quo, 53, 317.
Quin and Thomson, 3.
Reflection, unlucky, 92.
Richardson's Novels, 15.
Richmond, Thomson at, 1.
Righteousness, Saving, 185.
Roast Pig, Charles Lamb on, 89.
Robinson, Judge, and Curran,
258.

Robinson, King of the Book-
sellers, 55.

Rogers, Samuel, his Table Talk,
133-144.

Romilly, Sir Samuel, Death of,
265.

Rousseau and Garrick, 53.

Runaways, three, 27.
Russell, Lord John, 114.
Sabbath, Scottish, 169.

Sailor's Leg and Royal Society,

302.

Scott's, John, first great success,

250.

Scott, John, and James Boswell,
246.

Scott, Sir John, his Silk Gown,
251.

Seal, the Great, stolen, 238.
Second Sight, 35.
Selwyn's Penchant, 26.
Serious, Worth of the, 45.

Sermon Anecdotes, 199-210.

Sermon, electioneering, 202.

Sermon, Warburton's Court, 202.

Sermons, changing, 203.

Sermons, dull, 212.

Sermons, long and short, 209.
Sermons, old, 212.
Sermons, short, 203.

Sermons at St. Margaret's, 200,
201.

Sermons, Sterne's, 203.
Sermon-making, Charles II. on,

199.

Seward, Miss, and Mr. Hayley, 18.
Shanky Williams, the miser, 287.
Shark Story, by Mat. Lewis, 118.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer, and his
early friends, 335.

Sheridan, R. B. and S. Rogers,
134, 135, 141.

Sherlock, epigram on, 163.
Shoe, the gouty one, 113.
Simonism, St. 319.

Sleeping in Church, 173.
Smith, James, his humour, 113.
Smith, Sydney, and his Edin-
burgh friend, 64.

Smith, Sydney, and Rogers, 134.
Smollett's Hugh Strap, 39.
Smith, Sir William, the miser,
286.

Southey, Letters of, 83.
Staël, Madame de, 59, 60.
Stanhope, Lady Hester, Extrava-
gance of, 60.

Sterne, Lawrence, Death of, 19.
Stephens, Alexander, 54.
Steward, John, 85.

Stillingfleet on Sermon-making,

199.

"Stool of Repentance," 169.
Story, Strange one, 248.

Student, an old one, 157.
Study of the Law, 215.
Sudney, the Great Sir, 65.
Swallowing a Writ, 228.
Swift, Dean, was he mad? 5.
Swift's house-keeping, 7.
Swift and Boswell, 7.
Swift and Pope, Death of, 8.
Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers,
133-144.

Table-Wit of Douglas Jerrold,
146-150.

Taking a Joke, 330.
Talfourd and Haydon, 99.
Talfourd at the Theatre, 100.
Talk, Heathenish, 163.
Talker, a good one, 155.
Talking, Art of, 34.
Tar-water, virtues of, 157.

Tenterden, Lord Chief-Justice,
255.

Theorising demolished, 49.
Thomson and his Hairdresser, 2.
Thomson's Seasons, popularity
of, 1.

Thurlow, Lord, his start, 237.
Thurlow and the Curate, 239.
Tom Cringle's Log, 102.
Too late at Church, 197.
Trench, Mrs. Richard, stories by,
114.

Trial, curious, 221.
Tristram Shandy, the curse in,

Whately, Archbishop, his Wit
and Humour, 198.

Whitefield's first Sermon, 205.
Whitefield's Preaching, 204.
Whitefield's Field Preaching, 205.
Who killed John Keats? 73.
Wife, a third one, 174.
Wilkie's Blind Fiddler, 330.
Winter and Summer, 68.
Wirgman, the Kanterian, 84.
Wish, sincere, 9

"With the Stream," 163.
Witnesses to Character, 228.

Witnesses, Northumbrian, 226.

Wittinagemot, the, at the Chapter
Coffee-house, 53-58.

Woollett, the Engraver, patience
of, 333.

Wordsworth's Peter Bell, 74.
Wordsworth on Shakspeare, 166.
Wordsworthian Dispute, 101.
Young, Dr. his poetry, 14.