sporting gossip of the road, 

 and rooking and being rooked ; 

 the high-coloured, full-blooded 

 ancestors of the present 

 generation, which looks upon 

 them as a quite different order 

 of beings, and can scarce 

 believe in the reality of those 

 full habits, those port-wine 

 countenances, those florid gar- 

 ments that were characteristic 

 of the age. 



No one now starts from the 

 " White Horse Cellar," for the 

 excellent reason that it does 

 not now exist. The original 

 " Cellar ' was a queer place. 

 Fioure to yourself a basement 

 room, with sanded floor, and 

 an odour like that of a wine- 

 vault, crowded with Regency 

 bucks drinking or discussing 

 huge beef-steaks. 



It was situated on the south 

 side of Piccadilly, where the 

 Hotel Ritz now stands, and 

 is first mentioned in 1720. 

 when it was given its name by 

 Williams, the landlord, in 

 compliment to the House of 

 Hanover, the newly-estab- 

 lished Royal House of Great 

 Britain, whose cognizance was 

 a white horse. Abraham 

 Hatchett first made the Cellar 

 famous, both as a boozing- 

 ken and a coach-office, and 

 removed it to the opposite 

 side of the street, where, as 

 " Hatchett's Hotel and White 



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