OF HENRY ANGELO, WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LATE FATHER AND FRIENDS, INCLUDING NUMEROUS ORIGINAL ANECDOTES AND CURIOUS TRAITS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED CHARACTERS THAT HAVE FLOURISHED DURING THE LAST EIGHTY YEARS. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRAT GIFT OF DANIEL B. FEARING PRINTED BY SHACKELL AND BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S COURT TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, &c. &c. &c. THIS VOLUME IS BY PERMISSION MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE, BY HIS GRACE'S DEVOTED SERVANT, HENRY ANGELO. REMINISCENCES OF HENRY ANGELO. SECTION I. VAUXHALL. I remember the time when Vauxhall (in 1776, the price of admission being then only one shilling) was more like a bear garden than a rational place of resort, and most particularly on the Sunday mornings. It was then crowded from four to six with gentry, girls of the town, apprentices, shop-boys, &c. &c. Crowds of citizens were to be seen trudging home with their wives and children. landson the artist and myself have often been there, and he has found plenty of employment for his pencil. Row The chef d'œuvre of his caricatures, which is still in print, is his drawing of Vauxhall, in which he has introduced a variety of characters known at the time, particularly that of my old |