[36] A number of persons on horseback, who met at Moorfields. [37] “A View of London; or, The Stranger’s Guide, 1803-4.” [38] “The Picture of London for 1802.” [39] The generic name for coachman. [40] _Morning Post_, June 9, 1808. [41] _Annual Register_, vol. lix. p. 883. [42] Sculls, as being lighter, were always cheaper than the heavy oars. [43] _Par parenthèse._ This Mr. Waddington, whilst in the King’s Bench Prison, gave away a ton of potatoes a day, about Christmas time. They were first of all sold at one halfpenny a pound, and the produce in money was put in the poor’s box, for the benefit of the poor prisoners. [44] Owing to the war, it was found safer for many merchant vessels to sail in company, and these fleets usually had two or three men-of-war in attendance to act as guards, and to protect them; they were called “the Convoy.” [45] This probably was the shop of _Owen and Bradley_ whose names first appear in the _London Directory_ of 1812, as fruiterers, 77, New Bond Street.—J.A. [46] “The grand Dramatic Romance of Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity.” The Words by George Colman the younger—the Music composed and selected by M. K. (Michael Kelly). London, 1798. [47] This word has two meanings, which are here played upon. One is _spirit_ or _pluck_; the other is the name indifferently for match splints, or dry, rotten wood. [48] “Slight Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian,” by Emma Sophia, Countess of Brownlow, p. 2. London, 1867. [49] _Sic in orig._ [50] “Old Times.” London: Nimmo, 1885. [51] From the _Globe_, January 26, 1885: “WEST END GAMBLING HOUSES. “TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE.