Saker and the Lees--Richardson's Theatre--Wombwell, the Menagerist--The Lion Fights at Warwick--Maughan, the Showman--Miss Hipson, the Fat Girl--Lydia Walpole, the Dwarf--The Persian Giant and the Fair Circassian--Ball's Theatre--Atkins's Menagerie--A Mare with Seven Feet--Hone's Visit to Richardson's Theatre--Samwell's Theatre--Clarke's Circus--Brown's Theatre of Arts--Ballard's Menagerie--Toby, the Learned Pig--William Whitehead, the Fat Boy--Elizabeth Stock, the Giantess--Chappell and Pike's Theatre--The Spotted Boy--Wombwell's "Bonassus"--Gouffe, the Man-Monkey--De Berar's Phantasmagoria--Scowton's Theatre--Death of Richardson. Nelson Lee had just completed a round of engagements at the London theatres when, in 1822, his brother, having terminated his engagement with Bannister's circus, came to the metropolis, and fitted up an unoccupied factory in the Old Kent Road as a theatre. Nelson joined him in the enterprise, which for a time was tolerably successful; but they had omitted the requisite preliminary of obtaining a licence, and one night a strong force of constables invaded the theatre, and arrested every one present, audience as well as actors, with one exception. Saker, who afterwards won some distinction as a comedian, ascended into a loft on the first alarm, and drew up the ladder by which he had escaped. When all was quiet, he descended, and left the building through a window. The watch-houses of Southwark, Newington, Camberwell, and Greenwich were filled with the offenders, most of whom, however, were discharged on the following day, while the Lees, who pleaded ignorance of the law, escaped with a small fine. The same year witnessed the final performances of "Lady Holland's Mob." About five thousand of the rabble of the City assembled in the neighbourhood of Skinner Street, about midnight of the eve of St. Bartholomew, and roared and rioted till between three and four o'clock next morning, without interference from the watch or the constables. From this time, however, this annual Saturnalia was not observed, or was observed so mildly that the newspapers contain no record of the circumstance. In 1823, Richardson presented his patrons with a drama called _The Virgin Bride_, and an extravaganza entitled _Tom, Logic, and Jerry_, founded upon Moncrieff's drama, and concluding with a panorama of the metropolis. On the third day, a romantic drama called _The Wanderer_ was substituted.