_The Eccentric Miss Banks, an Old Maid on a Journey_ 80 _The First Rothschild--a well-known Character on 'Change_ 96 _Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier_ 116 _Lady Archer, Enamelling at her Toilet_ 122 _The Alchemist_ 124 _Jack Adams, the Astrologer_ 130 _A Hermit of the Sixteenth Century_ 145 _Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Mary Ponsonby, the Recluses of Llangollen_ 156 _Major Peter Labelliere, a Christian Patriot_ 163 _Margaret Finch, the Norwood Gipsy_ 177 _Edward Irving, the Millenarian_ 184 _Joanna Southcote_ 198 _Facsimile of Autograph with Seal of the Elect_ 209 _William Huntington, the Converted Coalheaver_ 219 _The pretended Princess Caraboo_ 246 _Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf, in Disgrace with his Wife_ 259 _The Prince Regent, a Back View_ 284 _Colonel Mellish and Buckle his Agent_ 294 _Curtis, an Old-Bailey Character_ 312 _Corder, the Murderer of Maria Martin_ 316 _Lord Coleraine, keeping an Apple Stall_ 321 _Nollekens, the Sculptor. From J. T. Smith's Life_ 350 _Master Betty, the "Young Roscius", as "Norval_" 363 _Mrs. Garrick in her Youth_ 374 _Charles Mathews the Elder_ 378 _Joe Grimaldi as Clown_ 382 _Liston as "Paul Pry"_ 391 _Edmund Kean as "Richard III._" 398 _T. P. Cooke in "Black Eyed Susan"_ 404 _Charlotte Charke, Colley Cibber's Daughter_ 411 _M. G. Lewis, Author of "the Monk_" 417 _Professor Porson_ 425 _Dr. Parr_ 435 _William Cobbett, Peter Porcupine and the_ "Political Register" 481 _Jedediah Buxton, the Calculator_ 490 _Lamb's Cottage, Colebrook Row_ 495 _Margaret Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle_ 516 _Lord Eldon (John Scott)_ 549 ENGLISH ECCENTRICS. _WEALTH and FASHION._ [Illustration: "Vathek" Beckford.] The Beckfords and Fonthill.