e Heiress
Presumptive."--"Miss endeavouring to Excite a Glow with her Dutch
Plaything."--American War of 1812-1815.--Hostile Temper of the
Americans.--Disastrous Results of their Invasion of Canada.--English
Retaliatory Measures.--Burning of Washington.--Expedition against
Alexandria.--"The Fall of Washington, or Maddy in Full
Flight."--British Defeated at Baltimore and New Orleans.--"Romeo
Coates."--Marriage of the Princess Charlotte.--"Leap Year, or John
Bull's Establishment."--Troubles of 1817.--Narrow Escape of the Prince
Regent.--"More Plots!!! More Plots!!!"--Edmund Kean and Lucius Junius
Booth.--"The Rival Richards."--Congress of the Allied Sovereigns at
Aix-la-Chapelle.--"A Russian Dandy at Home: a Scene at
Aix-la-Chapelle."--"A Peep at the Pump Room, or the Zomerzetshire
Folks in a Maze."--Death of Queen Charlotte.--"The Hambourg
Waltz."--Invention of the Kaleidoscope.--"Caleidoscopes, or Paying
for Peeping."--The Velocipede or "Hobby."--"The Spirit Moving the
Quakers upon Worldly Vanities."--"John Bull in Clover," and "John Bull
Done Over."--Birth of the Princess Victoria.--"A Scene in the New
Farce, called The Rivals, or a Visit to the Heir Presumptive."
_pp._ 34-61.

CHAPTER IV.

Caroline of Brunswick.--Levity of her Character.--Result of the
Commission to Inquire into her Conduct in 1806.--Her Letter to the
Regent.--Result of the Commission of 1813.--Caroline rebels.--Wrath of
Lord Ellenborough.-"A Key to the Investigation, or Iago distanced by
odds."--Refusal of the Regent to meet her in 1814.--Her
Protest.--Applies for Permission to Travel Abroad.--Rumours
prejudicial to her Moral Conduct.--"Paving the way for a Royal
Divorce."--The Milan Commission.--Ministers averse to the Prosecution
of the Queen.--Their False Step.--Arrival of Caroline in
London.--Opening of the "Green Bag."--Arrival of the
Witnesses.--Strange Appearance of Caroline at the Trial.--Satire upon
Her and her Supporters.--"City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets
of Impurities."--Practical Failure of the Prosecution.--"The Queen
Caroline running down the Royal George."--"The Steward's Court of the
Manor of Torre Devon."--Popularity of the King.--"Grand Entrance to
Bamboozlem."--Public Events of 1822-1825.--Greek War of
Independence.--Battle of Navarino.--"Russian Bear's Grease, or a Peep
into Futurity."--"The Descent of the Great Bear, or the Mussulmans