Correspondence. Lord Mayor's feast. Speeches. Caricatures. Dangers of a fog. English society. Middle classes. Critical position of the Aristocracy. Freedom of the press. Newspaper extracts. Dinner at Mr. Canning's. Concert. Easy manners. Liston. The Areopagus. Rev. R. Taylor. Almack's. Rapid travelling. Prince Schw----. House of Commons; Messrs. Peel, Brougham, Canning. House of Lords; Duke of Wellington, Lords Goderich, Holland, Lansdowne, Grey. Value of a ticket for Almack's. Lady Politicians. Indian Melodrame. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Portuguese eyes. Prince Polignac. London season. Duchess of Clarence. Countess L----'s ball. English horsewomen. Breakfast at the Duke of Devonshire's. The new Venus. Crush of Carriages. Dinner at the Duke of Clarence's. Fitzclarence family. English-French. Dinner at Mr. R----'s. Marchioness of L----. Marquis of L----. Bishops' aprons. Concerts of ancient music. Ambulating advertisements. Mr. R----. Aristocracy in Religion. Dream......130 LETTER XVI. Mr. Hope's collection of pictures and statues. Toilette-necessaries of a Dandy. Ladies' conference. Style of invitations. Duke of Sussex. Major Kepple. Ascot races. S---- Park. The charming fairy and her country-house. Windsor Castle. Disaster. Greek boy. British cavalry. Absence of military pedantry. Balls. Disenchantments. Horticultural breakfast. Colossal pines. Tyrolese singers. Northumberland-house. Sir Gore Ousley. Persian anecdotes. Flower-table. Children's balls. Art and nature. Greenwich. Execution. Contrasts. Party at the Duchess of Kent's. Marie Louise. King of Rome. Heat. King's-bench and Newgate prisons. The unconscious philosopher. Vauxhall. The battle of Waterloo. Ball at Lady L----'s. Phrenology. Mr. Deville's character of myself. Mr. Nash's library. Dinner at the Portuguese Ambassador's. St. Giles's. Exhibition of English pictures. Pounds and thalers. 'Excerpts'. Gossip. Visions of the past. The Tunnel. Astley's Theatre. Parody of the Freischutz. Bedlam. The last of the Stuarts. Funerals. Omens. Barclay's brewery. West India docks. Amusing charlatanerie. Westminster Abbey by night. Dinner at Sir L---- M----'s. Practical Bull. English Opera. New organ. Miss Linwood. Solar Microscope. Panoramas. Death of Canning. 'Vivian Grey.' St. James's Park. Respect for the public. Propensity to mischief in the people. Exclusiveness of the great. London in autumn. Newspaper facts......146 LETTER XVII.