74 The Bazaar. 
THE BAZAAR. 
The origin and commencement of such an establishment in 
London deserves to be recorded. The greater part of our read- 
ers must have seen some account of it in the daily newspapers: 
our notice shall therefore be brief at present, When more com- 
pletely matured, and the whole put in motion, we may again re- 
turn to it. 
The British Bazaar owes its origin exclusively to the active 
benevolence and philanthropy of John Trotter, Esq. of Soho- 
Square, a gentleman well known in the higher circles, and to 
whom the nation owes many arrangements which have so 
much improved the circumstances of the British ar my when on 
active service in the field. Mr. Trotter has not merely the 
merit of contriving and arranging the establishment—but of 
providing the entire means for carrying it into full operation. The 
name adopted is, as our readers know, applied in the East to 
large markets, many of them covered, in which the merchants 
expose their gocds to sale*; different portions being occupied 
by different traders. Mr. Trotter has devoted his extensive 
premises in Soho-Square to the accommodation of an extensive, 
industrious, but distressed class of the community, whose narrow 
cireumstances keep them in obscurity, and preclude the possi- 
bility of their exhibiting for sale, in shops of their own, the va- 
rious products of their industry. He has fitted them up in the 
most commodious and elegant manner, with counters, drawers, 
&c. With the lighting, warming, ventilating, and watching 
the premises the temporary occupiers will have no concern ; but 
are to pay by the length of counter they may respectively oc- 
eupy, at the low rate of one-fourth part of a shilling per ‘foot, 
for each day they may require the accommodation. When their 
little stock is sold off their expenses terminate—the family pre- 
pare a new supply—they know where they may be again ac- 
commodated} and where no recommendation is wanted but that 
of an irreproachable character. 
So far as regards general accommodation, collecting the va- 
rious productions of art and ingenuity into one focus, and the 
civility and beneficial rivalry excited by such an assemblage, the 
* The Bazaar of Tauris is of such.an extent that it has more than once 
afforded cover for $0,000 men ranged in order of battle! It is very pro- 
bable that some of those extensive ruins still left at Palmyra, and other 
ancieut cities now desolate, which have been hitherto considered as tem- 
ples, or the palaces of royalty, are the remains of covered Bazaars. The 
term Bazaar is neither more nor less than the Hebrew word “t2, which 
means to scatter, to disperse—applied in Arabic to the merchant, the dis- 
perser, and hence to the place for the dispersion of his commodities, 
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