Chapter III

Re-opening of Drury Lane.--Dr. Busby's "Monologue."--"A Buz in a Box,
or the Poet in a Pet."--"Doctors Differ, or Dame Nature against the
College."--Joanna Southcott.--Flight of the Princess
Charlotte.--"Plebeian Spirit, or Coachee and the 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.