9. His Majesty King George III. _Line engraving by W. W. Ryland after Allan Ramsay_ ” 84 10. Charles Rogers. _Mezzotint by W. W. Ryland after Sir Joshua Reynolds_ ” 87 11. General Stanwix’s Daughter. _Stipple engraving by W. W. Ryland after Angelica Kauffman_ (an example of the famous ‘red-chalk’ manner) ” 90 12. Angelica Kauffman. _Stipple engraving by T. Burke after Sir Joshua Reynolds_ ” 110 13. Governor Wall. _An etching by J. Chapman_ ” 112 14. John Hadfield. _Etched by J. Chapman_ ” 146 15. The Beauty of Buttermere. _Coloured engraving after John Smith_ ” 152 16. Mary of Buttermere. _Stipple engraving by Mackenzie from a drawing by W. M. Bennet_ ” 158 17. Mary of Buttermere. _Etched by James Gillray_ ” 173 18. Henry Fauntleroy. _From a sketch by “A. V.”_ ” 178 19. James Harmer. _Line engraving by T. Wright from a drawing by A. Wivell_ ” 192 20. Fauntleroy’s Trial at the Old Bailey. _By W. Read_ ” 195 21. Catnach’s Broadside of Fauntleroy’s Execution ” 204 [Illustration: _F. Wilson Pinxᵗ._ _T. Riley Fecit._ _Miss Blandy_ _Now confined in Oxford Gaol on Suspicion of Poisoning her Father._] Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold THE LOVE PHILTRE THE CASE OF MARY BLANDY, 1751-2 “Who hath not heard of Blandy’s fatal fame, Deplored her fate, and sorrowed o’er her shame?” --_Henley_, a poem, 1827. During the reign of George II.--when the gallant Young Pretender was leading Jenny Cameron toward Derby, and flabby, gin-besotted England, dismayed by a rabble of half-famished Highlanders, was ready to take its thrashing lying-down--a prosperous attorney, named Francis Blandy, was living at Henley-upon-Thames. For nine years he had held the post of town clerk, and was reckoned a person of skill in his profession. A dour, needle-witted man of law, whose social position was more considerable than his means or his lineage, old Mr Blandy, like others wiser than himself, had a foible. His pride was just great enough to make him a tuft-hunter. In those times, a solicitor in a country town had many chances of meeting his betters on equal terms, and when the attorney of Henley pretended that he had saved the large sum of ten thousand pounds, county society esteemed him at his supposed value. There lived with him--in an old-world home surrounded by gardens and close to the bridge on the London road--his wife and daughter, an only child, who at this period was twenty-five years of age.