Curtain falls, hisses and catcalls._) She afterwards went, still in 1817, to America, but a New York paper noticing her arrival at Philadelphia, remarked, "That her personal charms will have their due weight here, we should be sorry in this age of gallantry, to doubt; but as to any prospect of success which the fair adventuress may promise herself in the way of _hoaxing_, she will shortly discover, from the number of our _banking institutions_, our _stones in cotton_, and _wooden nutmegs_, that we are already adepts in her profession." In the year 1824 she returned from America, and took apartments in New Bond Street, where she publicly showed herself at a shilling a head. She finally settled down at Bristol, where she sold leeches, and died at the close of 1864. CHAPTER VIII. 1818. Distress among discharged Seamen -- Finding the Scotch Regalia -- Strathfieldsaye bought for the Duke of Wellington -- The Kyrle Society -- Royal Marriages -- Annoying the Queen -- Riotous schoolboys -- The Regent mobbed -- Death of Queen Charlotte. This year did not open as one of national prosperity. There was one subject that especially appealed to the country's benevolence. Of course, when the long, long war was over, the Navy was reduced to a peace footing, and thousands of men-of-war's men were paid off; and those who were obtained with such difficulty, who, in spite of being pressed, and forcibly taken from all that was dear to them, bullied by their officers, flogged nearly to death for comparative trifles, yet fought like lions, and laid the foundation of England's present prosperity, were cast adrift to shift for themselves as best they might. They were wanted no longer. Had trade been good, nothing more would have been heard of it, they would have been absorbed into the merchant navy, and the Government would have had all the credit of retrenchment, and dutifully administering the funds of the Nation.