Amiable Mrs.
Debouchette--Harriette and lier Sisters--Amy--Mary--Fanny--
Julia--Sophia--Charlotte and Louisa--Paphians and their
Paramours--Peers and Plebeians--The Bang Bantam--London Leda
--Spanish Nun--Sparrow Hawk--Golden Pippin--White Crow--
Brazen Bellona--Edgeware Diana

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Water Lily--White Doe--Comic Muse--Queen of the
Dansysettes--Vestina the Titan--The Red Rose--Moss Rose and
Cabbage Rose--The Doldrum Stars of Erin--Wren of Paradise--
Queen of the Amazons--Old Pomona--Venus Mendicant--Venus
Callypiga--Goddess of the Golden Locks--Mocking Bird--Net
Perdita--Napoleon Venus--Red Swan--Black Swan--Blue-eyed
Luna--Tartar Sultana The Bit of Rue--Brompton Ceres--
Celestina Conway--Lucy Bertram--Water Wagtail--Tops and
Bottoms--The Pretenders--The Old Story--Lady of the Priory--
Little White Morose--Queen of Trumps--Giovanni the Syren,
with Ileal Names "unexed--Original Portraits and Anecdotes
of the Dukes of M------and D------, Marquisses II------ and
II ----, Earls W------, F------, and C------, Lords
P------, A------, M------, and N------, llonourables
B------c, L------s, and F------s--General Trinket--Colonel
Caxon--Messrs. II--b--h, R------, D------, and B------,
and other Innumerables.

It was during the fashionable season of the year 1818, when Augusta
Corri, _ci-devant_ Lady Hawke,{1} shone forth under her newly-acquired
title a planet of the first order, that a few amorous noblemen and
wealthy dissolutes, ever on the _qui vive_ for novelty, projected and
sanctioned the celebrated Venetian carnival given at the Argyll-rooms
under the patronage of her ladyship and four other equally celebrated
courtezans. Of course, the female invitations were confined exclusively
to the sisterhood, but restricted to the planets and stars of Cytherea,
the carriage curiosities, and fair impures of the most dashing order and
notoriety; and never were the revels of Terpsichore kept up with more
spirit, or graced with a more choice collection of beautiful, ripe, and
wanton fair ones.

1 In page 315 of our first volume we have given a brief
biographical sketch of her ladyship and her amours.

~36~~Nor was there any lack of distinguished personages of the other
sex; almost all the leading _roues_ of the day being present, from Lord
p******** Tom B***, including many of the highest no