4. A Brace of Full-grown Puppies, or my Dog and me. 5. Pleasures of Bond Street, or Fashionable Driving. 1809. T. Smollett: _Miscellaneous Works_. Twenty-six illustrations by Rowlandson. 5 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1809. _Gambado. An Academy for Grown Horsemen, &c._ 8vo. Published by T. Tegg. (See 1808.) 1809. _Beauties of Tom Brown._ Frontispiece and illustrations by T. Rowlandson. Published by T. Tegg. 12 mo. 1809. _Views in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Isle of Wight, &c._ 1809. _Scandal: Investigation of the Charges brought against H.R.H. the Duke of York by G. L. Wardle, Esq., M.P. for Devon, with the Evidence and Remarks of the Members._ Containing fourteen scarce portraits by Rowlandson, amongst which are Mrs. M. A. Clarke, Sir F. Burdett, Duke of York, Colonel Wardle, &c. 2 vols., 12mo. FOOTNOTES: [10] Mary Moser, the lively lady Royal Academician, and famous flower-painter, writing to Mrs. Lloyd, the first wife of the gentleman she subsequently honoured with her hand, conveys the following account of the reigning mode in town, to her friend in the country: 'Come to London and admire our plumes; we sweep the sky! a duchess wears six feathers, a lady four, and every milk-maid one at each corner of her cap! Your mamma desired me to inquire the name of something she had seen in the windows in Tavistock Street; it seems _she_ was afraid to ask; but _I_ took courage, and they told me they were _rattle-snake tippets_; however, notwithstanding their frightful name, they are not unlike a _beaufong_, only the quills are made stiff, and springy in the starching. Fashion is grown a monster! pray tell your operator that your hair must measure just three quarters of a yard from the extremity of one wing to the other.' [11] 'Eighteen years before the date of the investigation (February 1809), Mrs. Clarke, then being about fourteen years of age, resided with her mother and step-father in Black Raven Passage, Cursitor Street. She was a very pretty, sprightly, gaily-disposed girl, being very fond of showing herself, and attracting attention. At this time Mr. Joseph Clarke, son of a respectable builder on Snow Hill (his father was the "great contractor" of his day, and a _man reputed to be enormously rich_) became enamoured of Miss Thompson, who readily received his addresses. She eloped with him, and they lived together about three years, when he married her. She conducted herself with propriety, and they lived together decently several years; in the course of which she bore him several children, four of whom are alive.'--_Gentleman's Magazine_, February, 1809. [12] The name of Mrs. Clarke's father was Thompson, and he, it appears, was a master printer of some respectability, residing in Bowl and Pin Alley, near White's Alley, Chancery Lane, where Miss Thompson was ushered into the world, as Sterne has it, with 'squalls of disapprobation at the journey she was compelled to perform.'