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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



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No. 48.] 



Saturday, September 28. 1850. 



C Price Threepence 

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;impetl Edition ^d. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes : — 



Riots in London ■--... 

 Satirical Poems on William IH. - - - . 



Sliakspeare's Grief and Frenzy, by C. Forbes 

 Etymological Notes , - _ _ , 



Mistakes in Gibbon.'iby Rev. J, E. B. Mayor 

 Minor Notes; — Ockley's Saracens— Hirpopotamus — 

 America — F-ascal's Letters — Person's Epigram 



Queries : — 



" Orkneyinga Saga " ' - 



&Iinor Qtipries: — Incumbents of Church Livings — Yoik 

 Buildings Company — Saying ascribi-d to Montaigne — 

 " Modiim Promissiouis " — Roman Catholic Theo- 

 logy — AVife of Edward the Outlaw — Conde's " Arabs 

 in Spaia" -■«•«-■, ^^ 



Replies: — 



Cave's Historia Literaria, by Rev. Dr. Maitland 



Sir Gammer Vans -.-... 



Collar of SS.. by Dr. Rock .... 



Joachin, the French .Embassador, by S. W. Singer 



Kemains of Jaraes U. - - - - . 



Handfasting ---... 



Adam of Bremen's Jnlin, by Dr. Bell ... 



Replies to Minor Queries; — Bess of Hardwick — 

 Bishop .4ndrewes — The Sun Feminine — Carpatio — . 

 Character "&" — Walrond Family— jBlackguard — 

 ScalaCoeli — Sitting during the Lessons — Ae ostation 

 — Pole Money — Wormwood Wine — Darvon Gatlier- 

 aH — Angels' Visits — Antiquity of Smoking — " Noli 

 me tangere " — Partrige Family — City Offices. — Har- 

 vey and the Circulation ol the Blood - • . 283 



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MlSCELLANEOl'S : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertiscm«uts - . . 



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3atci. 



RIOTS OF LONDON. 



Seventy years having passed away since the 

 riots of Loudon, there ciiiinot be many living who 

 reinendjer them, and still lower who were person- 

 ally in contact with the tumultuous throng. Under 

 such circumstances, I venture to oiler for intro- 

 duction into your useful and entertaining miscel- 

 lany some incidents connected with that event in 

 wlncli I was either personally an actor or si)ectator 

 — things not in themselves imjmrtant, yet which 

 may Ix; to some of your rea<lers acceptable and in- 

 teresting as records ol' bygone days. 



The events of 1780, in themselves so terrific, 

 were well adapted to be written indelibly on the 

 memory of a young and ardent boy. At any age 

 they would have been engraved as with an iron 

 pen ; but their occurrence at the first age of my 

 early boyhood, when no previous event had 

 claimed particular attention, fixed them as a 

 lasting memorial. 



The awful conflagrations had not taken place 

 when I arrived in London from a large school in 

 one of the midland counties in England, for the- 

 Midsummer vacation. So many of my school- 

 fellows resided in the metropolis, or in a part of 

 the country requiring a passage through London, 

 that three or four closely- packeil post-chaises were 

 necessary ; and to accomplish the journey in good 

 time for the youngsters to be met by their friends, 

 the journey was begun as near to four o'clock a. m. 

 as was possible. 



The chaises, well crowned with boxes, and filled 

 with joyous youth, were received at the Castle and 

 Falcon, then kept by a Mr. Dupont, a celebrated 

 wine merchant, and the friend of our estimable 

 tutor. The whole of my schoolmates had been 

 met by their respective fiiends, and my brother 

 and I alone remained at the inn, when at length 

 my mother arrived in a hackney-coach to fetch us, 

 and from her we learned th:it the streets were so 

 crowded that she could hardly make her way to us. 

 No time was lost, and we were soon on our way 

 homewards. We passed through Newgate Street 

 and the Old Bailey without interruption or delay; 

 but when we came into Liidgate Hill the case was 

 far different: the street was full and the people 

 noisy, permitting no carriage to pass unless the 

 coachman took off his hat and acknowledged his 

 respect for them and the object for which they had 

 congregated. " Ilat off, coachee ! " was their cry. 

 Our coachman woidd not obey their noisy calls, 

 and there we were (ixed. liong might we have 

 remained in that unpleasant ])redic:iiucnt had not 

 my foreseeing parent sagaciously provided hcr.sclf 

 with a ])icce of rihlxm of the ]io]iulai- colour, whiih 

 she used to good cU'ect by making it up into a bow 

 witli a long streamer and pinning it to a white 

 handkerchief, which she courageously Uourisiied 

 out of the window of the hackney-coach. Huzzas 



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