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303. Election Scenes-The Poll

304. Election Scenes-The Chairing of the Member 305. Election Scenes-The Election Dinner

(From engravings after the pictures by Hogarth)

306. Grenadier of the First Regiment of Footguards, 1745 307. Uniform of the Footguards, 1745

(Both from Sir S. Scott's History of the British Army')

308 The March to Finchley, 1745

(From the engraving by Luke Sullivan after the painting by Hogarth) 309. The Right Hon. William Pitt, Paymaster of the Forces, afterwards Earl of Chatham

(Fron the mezzotint by Houston after a painting by Heare)

310. A view of Cape Diamond, Plains of Abraham, and part of the town of Quebec and the river St. Lawrence; drawn by Lieutenant Fisher

(From an engraving in the British Museum)

311. Wolfe ..

(From the painting by Schaak in the National Portrait Gallery)

312. A naval engagement; defeat of the French off Cape Lagos, August

1759

From a picture by R. Paton)

313. Officer with fusil and gorget

(From Sir S. Scott's' History of the British Army')

314. Uniform of Militia, 1759.

(From Raikes's First Regiment of Militia')

315. Uniform of a Light Dragoon, about 1760

(From Grose's Military Antiquities')

316. The third Eddystone Lighthouse; built by Smeaton in 1759 (From European Magazine,' vol. xix.)

317. Silver coffee-pot belonging to the Salters' Company, 1764 : (From Cripps's 'College and Corporation Plate')

318. Edmund Burke

(From a painting by Reynolds in the National Portrait Gallery)

319. George III. in 1767

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(From a painting by Allan Ramsay in the National Portrait Gallery)

320. Lord North

(From the engraving by Burke after a painting by Dance)

321. Distribution of His Majesty's Maundy

(From the engraving by Basire, 1773)

322. Part of Somerset House; built by Sir William Chambers, 1776-80. 785 (From a photograph)

323 Charles James Fox as a young man

(From Watson's mezzotint after a painting by Reynolds)

324. The Gordon Riots, 1780

(From an engraving by Heath after the picture by Wheatley) 325. Newgate Prison; rebuilt in 1782 after the Gordon Riot

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330. Regulation musket, 1786, popularly known as Brown Bess (From Sir S. Scott's History of the British Army')

331. Pitt speaking in the House of Commons

(From Hickel's painting in the National Portrait Gallery)

332. Lock on a Canal

(From Elmes's Metropolitan Improvements,' 1827)

333. James Brindley

(From the portrait by Parsons engraved in Taylor's National
Biography')

334. Arkwright

(From a painting by Wright of Derby in the National Portrait
Gallery)

335. Crompton

(From a painting by Allingham engraved in Taylor's 'National
Biography')

336. Uniform of sailors about 1790

(From a caricature by Rowlandson, and a broadside of 1790)

337. Head-dress of a lady (Mrs. Abington) about 1778 (From 'European Magazine,' vol. xxxiii.)

338. The Union Jack in use since 1801

(From Boutell's 'English Heraldry')

339. William Pitt

(From the bust by Nollekens in the National Portrait Gallery)

340. Royal arms as borne from 1714 to 1801 341. Royal arms as borne from 1801 to 1816

342. Royal arms as borne from 1816 to 1837 343. Greathead's lifeboat, 1803

(From European Magazine,' vol. xliii.)

344. The Old East India House in 1803

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(From European Magazine,' vol. xliii.)

345. The old Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, 1803

(From a contemporary engraving)

346. The King in the House of Lords, 1804

(From Modern London')

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(From a cast in the British Muscum)

348. Hyde Park on a Sunday, 1804

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(From Modern London')

349. Lord Nelson

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(From the picture by L. F. Abbott in the National Portrait Gallery)

350. Fox

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(From his bust by Nollekens in the National Portrait Gallery)

351. The taking of Curaçao in 1807

(From an engraving of 1809)

352. The Court of King's Bench in 1810

(From Pennant's 'Some Account of London')

353. Grenadier in the time of the Peninsular War

(From Raikes's First Regiment of Militia')

354. Waterloo Bridge; opened June 18, 1817, built by Rennie

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(From Elmes's Metropolitan Improvements')

355. George III. in old age

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(From C. Turner's mezzotint)

356. George IV.

From an unfinished portrait by Lawrence in the National Portrait
Gallery)

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358. Sir Walter Scott

(From a photograph of a painting by Colvin Smith in Scott Memorials) 359. Wordsworth at the age of 28

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(From a drawing by R. Hancock in the National Portrait Gallery)

360. Canning; from Stewardson's portrait

(From Taylor's National Biography')

361. Apsley House, the residence of the Duke of Wellington, in 1829 (From Elmes's 'Metropolitan Improvements')

362. William IV.; from a portrait by Dawe

(From Taylor's 'National Portrait Gallery')

363. The Duke of Wellington

(From a bust by J. Francis in the National Portrait Gallery)

364. Earl Grey

365. Viscount Melbourne

366. Lord Palmerston

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(All from Hayter's picture of The Meeting of the First Reformed
Parliament, Feb. 5, 1833,' in the National Portrait Gallery)

367. An early steamboat

(From the Instructor' of 1833)

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368. Engine employed at the Killingworth Colliery, familiarly known as 'Puffing Billy'

(From a photograph by Valentine & Sons, Dundee)

369. No. 1 Engine of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

(From a photograph by Valentine & Sons, Dundee, of the original at
Gateshead)

370. St. Luke's, Chelsea, designed by Savage, and built in 1824
(From Elmes's 'Metropolitan Improvements')

371. Banner of the Royal arms as borne since 1837 (From Boutell's English Heraldry')

372. Queen Victoria: after a portrait by Lane

(From the engraving by Thompson)

373. Lord John Russell

(From a painting by Sir F. Grant)

374 The New Houses of Parliament

(From a photograph by Valentine & Sons, Dundee)

375. Sir Robert Peel

(From the bust by Noble in the National Portrait Gallery)
376. The Britannia Tubular Railway Bridge, opened in 1850
(From a photograph by Valentine & Sons, Dundee)

377. St. George's Hall, Liverpool, completed in 1859
(From a photograph by Valentine & Sons, Dundee)

378. The Victoria Cross, instituted in 1856

(From Boutell's ' English Heraldry')

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