origin of, 138 Cipriani, engraved tickets by, 200 Cleveland, Duke of (Sir Harry Vane), one-time owner of Battle Abbey, 55, 56, 59 — Duchess of (_née_ Paulet), her detestation of slang, 38 — Duchess, the late, and Battle Abbey visitors, public, 55; and personal, 57 — Duchess of, on her visit to Holland House in youth, 60-61 Clive, a dweller in Berkeley Square, 151 Cobden, Richard, 242; his dislike of Palmerston, 67; his discovery of a French painting, 182-184; his home in Sussex, 289 — letters from, on Algiers, 240-242; on the author’s silkworms, 243 “Coliseum,” the, and its attractions, 284 Comfort, rise in standard of, 311-312 Conjuring, Houdin’s feats, 259-260 Constitution Hill, and its associations, 165; old name of, 166 Continental travelling in old days, difficulties and discomforts of, 120, 126, 127, 130; the early days of railways, 129 Conversation a lost art, 23, 26-27 Conyngham, Marquis of, the late, 210 Cooper, Thomas Sidney, as scene-painter, 194 Corder, William, the “Red Barn” murderer, and his skin, 279 Corrigan, Tom, and Bernal Osborne’s repartee, 3, 4 Cortachy, “garden of friendship” at, lines on, by Lord Sherbrooke, 244-245 Cossé-Brissac, Due de, last lover of the Du Barry, his fate, 107 Costessey Hall, the Jerninghams of, 108 Couder, sketches by, of Napoleon I., 82 Country houses of England, a unique national possession, 41; utilised by authors, 42 — old-time self-dependence of, 266-267 Country houses as political forces in former days, 42, 44; why so no longer, 43 Coutts Bank, jewellery of _emigrés_ still unclaimed at, 109 Coventry, Earl of (husband of Miss Gunning), and the abolition of Mayfair, 152-153 Cowdray, ruins, stones and relics of, 183, 282 _et seq._ Cowley, Countess of (_temp._ William IV.), wedding of, 198-201 Cowper, Countess, her recipe for a successful ball, 152 Cox, David, as scene-painter, 194 Crayfish, author’s attempt to acclimatise, 132 Cremorne, 247-248, 311 Creevy, Mr., 168 Crinoline, 156 Croome, needlework carpet at, 50 Cruikshank, George, 143 Cumming, Miss Gordon, her conversation, an amusing example, 24-25 Curzon, Lady Georgiana, afterwards Duchess of Beaufort, a pet of William IV., 197-198; her story of a wedding, 198-199 Curzon Street, highway robbery in (1889), 149; notable inhabitants of, 153-154 Customs officers, 274-275; murder of, at Poole, 275