Brocket, Lady Holland’s impertinence at, 63 Browne family of Cowdray, 183; the curse on, stories of, 282 _et seq._ “Brummell, Beau,” his house in Charles Street, 151 Buckingham, Duke of, duel of, in 1822, 173 Buckingham Palace, 165 Buckinghamshire, Earl of, and his unwelcome baby girl, 49 Buckner, portrait by, of the author, 189 Bulstrode, literary associations of, 42 Burdett, Sir Francis, 168 Burgess, Mr. John, and his collections, 216-217 Buried treasures in France, 102, 103, 105 Burke, Edmund, his snub to the youthful Fox, 288 Burney, Dr., and Nelson’s nightcap, 269-270 Burnham, Norfolk, a Walpole property, 174 Burton, Decimus, architect, 248 Byron, Lord (the poet), on the sham funeral of Harriet Webster, 61 Caldbeck Hill and the Battle of Hastings, 57 Camber Castle, smuggling affray at (1838), 275 Cambridge House, Lady Palmerston’s parties at, 65 Camelford, first Lord (Thomas Pitt), verses by, on the lovely Lepell (Lady Hervey), 178 — second Lord, his will preserved at Wolterton, occasion of its making, 174-178; his burial place, 178; his family, _ib._ Camoys, Sir John, and his wife, sarcophagus of, at Trotton, 286 Campbell, Sir Neil, 85 Cardigan, Countess of, her _vis-à-vis_ carriage, 172 Carnarvon, Earl of, Napoleonic relic owned by, 80-81; other treasures, 187 Carriages, former magnificence of, in Hyde Park, 172 Carte, Mr. Thomas, and the Pretender’s negotiations with Sir R. Walpole, 317 _et seq._ Casanova, stormy meeting with Lord Orford at Vienna, 47; his hasty temper, 48 Cassilis, Lord, quaint mistake concerning, 38 “Castle” rule in Ireland, Bernal Osborne’s views on, 77 Catherine II., Empress of Russia, 208 Cattermole, George, and John Burgess, 216 Cavour and his methods, 341 Caylus, Madame de, lines on her dog’s collar, 232 Cerito in social life, 254-255 “Chaff” and flippancy in modern gatherings, 23-24 Cham, caricaturist, 308 Chambers, George, and his paintings, 194 Chambord, Comte de (Henry V.), his appearance and character, 99 Changes and survivals, 265 _et seq._ Chantrey, Sir Francis, works done by, in Curzon Street, 153 Charles I. and Hyde Park, 162 Charles II., 285 Charles X. (Comte d’Artois), 83, 95; portrait of the old Pretender mistaken for, 195-196 Charles Street, curiosities of, 145, 152; derivation of the name, 151; notable inhabitants, 150-151 Chatham, Earl of, 198 Chelsea in 1826, 311 Cheltenham, a Sedan-chair used at, in the ’sixties, 128 Chesterfield, Lady, her friendship with Lord Beaconsfield, 69 Chinese Ambassador, mistaken for his own wife, 38 Chippendale, 212 _et seq._; characteristics of his work, 214-215 Church “restorations,” nineteenth-century effects of, 286-287 Churchill, Lord Randolph, and the Fourth Party, 18; association of, with the Primrose League, 19; as conversationalist, 19; his personality, portraits, and caricatures, what he really said at time of his political fall, 20-21 Cigars, when introduced into England, 138 Cigarettes, as making for temperance, 137, 138;