John Quincy Adams gave the Dickenses a dinner at which Hone was a guest.
"Some clever people were invited to meet them" is the way the ingenuous Hone puts it.

"They" (Dickens and Mrs.Dickens) "came, he in a frock-coat, and she in her bonnet.

They sat at table until four o'clock, when he said: 'Dear, it is time for us to go home and dress for dinner.' They were engaged to dine with Robert Greenhow at the fashionable hour of half-past five! A most particularly funny idea to leave the table of John Quincy Adams to dress for a dinner at Robert Greenhow's!" Hone referred to the visitors as "The Boz and Bozess," and described the author of "Pickwick" as "a small, bright-eyed, intelligent-looking young fellow, thirty years of age, somewhat of a dandy in his dress, with 'rings and things and fine array,' brisk in his manner, and of a lively conversation"; and Mrs.Dickens as "a little, fat, English-looking woman, of an agreeable countenance, and, I should think, 'a nice person.'" Dickens was not the only British author of those days to kindle the flames of American resentment.

Almost all who came to our shores seemed to possess the faculty of "getting a rise" out of Yankee sensibilities.
Captain Marryat was one of the offenders.

At a dinner in Toronto he gave an injudicious toast.