MR. PARKER. 



theatre; then the Casino or Evans's, to hear the mighty 

 chorus and sup; next the Cider Cellars, or the Coal 

 Hole, where Chief Baron Nicholson tried all the 

 crim.-con. cases over again, and displayed his tableaux 

 vivants. After twelve or one a.m., Bennett might be 

 seen with his lovely ' rose ' in his retreat in Jermyn 

 Street, where an unrivalled collection of female beauty 

 was always on view, displaying their delicate charms 

 in the most attractive way until daylight appeared. 

 In Panton Street, and in other houses in the Hay- 

 market, amusements could be found for all classes or 

 any age, to suit their respective tastes and pockets. 

 Thence the pleasure-seekers would repair to that 

 pandemonium known as Regent Quadrant, where at 

 night and early morning could be seen persons of all 

 degrees — reputable and disreputable, old and young, 

 of both sexes — in various stages of inebriety, whose 

 pursuits it is scarcely healthful to describe. Such 

 were some of the nightly amusements with which in 

 those days it was thought no disgrace to be identi- 

 fied. Others would prefer an evening at Ben Caunt's, 

 Johnny Broom's, or Owen Swift's, to whose places most 

 men of fashion would repair just for the last glass. 

 Cock-fighting, badger-baiting, and man-fighting, in 

 all their hideousness, could be provided on the 

 shortest notice. With the razing of the Quadrant to 

 the ground, and the closing of the public-houses at 

 12.30, the night-houses were done away with, and the 

 worst features of this ' life ' swept away ; and it can 



