PREFACE

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

CHAPTER
I. LETTERS RELATING TO THE WORLD OF _TON_, 1805-1806
II. LETTERS OF AN EXILE, 1805-1810
III. _ON DITS_ FROM LONDON, YORKSHIRE AND RAMSGATE, 1806-1807
IV. _ON DITS_ FROM GROSVENOR SQUARE AND CANNON HALL, 1808-1810
V. ANECDOTES FROM A PRISONER OF NAPOLEON, 1810-1812
VI. LETTERS FROM AN ESCAPED PRISONER, 1812-1813
VII. LETTERS FROM ENGLAND AND FRANCE, 1811-1821




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


THE VISCOUNTESS ANSON _Frontispiece_
_From a miniature by Cosway_

SILHOUETTES OF MRS SPENCER-STANHOPE AND HER DAUGHTERS MARIANNE AND ANNE

SILHOUETTES OF ISABELLA, FRANCES, AND MARIA SPENCER-STANHOPE

MRS TRIMMER