The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-06 00:00:00

LiTtRARY RECOLLECTIOAS.

[ From " The London Afuyozhe," by Cold wed Northbousel
(Concluded flora oar Paper of yeeferiay.)
.4 • the 'line square (I.ricrstri.uquare) lived
Joolusta Reynolds. l)t urn lived and died iii
altProaril.t.trr.i. in • home which looked liaeke..irds
into the prileu of I....leerier Miner. Newton lived
in Si. M on the south mule of the
vspoire. Steele lived iii Bury.istreet, St. -trines's :
holOrtsi.iies an illovtrioiss precedent fur the lining-
s", in St. Jaitieli's-atrret, where • bS tidal-on tou gr r
of those times delighted to detect Isaac Rickerstaff
is the peraoti of Captain Simile, idling before !he
coffee-houses, rod jugging his leg aid stick alter-
timely ag.iiiitit the puvritteoll, We have mentioned
the hail, of Ben Janson. hear
Spi.licer died at an inn, where he put up uis his
arrival from Ireland, in Kinglireet, 11'estuailsater
—the same minds 111111 at the hick of
street 11l thr Anhey. Sir Thomas Moore lived at
Cliela.a. Addison lived and died in llolland
!louse, K.-m;mr,ron. now the resalrlice of the accost).
Nobleman who takes lira tide runts it. In
Ltrook.bit..rt, Gtosivenor-,tiiiiire„ lived. I lowly! ;•
sod
boo. We hive invented to inenti,iii thst De Fee
kept a hosier'' sloop in Corithill; and Mel. uo the
q( the preaeut Otani+.
'irel.lopektokiligg the winnows of tile Wsvitiaisleys.
East. of silolissiMpto4l,. ,free of whom we.. the cute-
Amsted furred of Slialtspearr.' But whet have we
nut ionsitted also ? No leas on illu%trious head thou
11Mt,„kbour's4-iii Eist-cliemp-.lllt Gel's fired Ta.
oven. thweseni obtialiestra.eaveis.-- We believe the
place is still iiiittkedltsit by • imilor at w. Bet
who knows not East-cheap end fhat'llair. Nria
uot all been there time out at mind ?
Aid ii ut nut a snore real, as well ati notariesa thing
to as, than the London .Tevarrs. in the Cr..,.
mod Anchor, or the liensusums. or White's, or
What's-his.tiame's, or any other of your contempo-
rary and fleeting taps ?
But ■ line ur two, a single sentence in an
author of former times, will often give a value to
the commonest object. It not only gives sus a sense
of its alaration, but we seem to be looking ut it in
company with its old observer ; and we are remind..
eel at the Caine time of sill that was agreeable in
him. We never saw, fer eminence, even the gilt
ball at the top of the College of Physicians, with.
out Otioski.tg of that pleas Int mention of it in
Garth's Dirpeasory, and of all the wit mid genero-
sity of and unii4ble man:— .

" Nat far from that most celebrated place',
Where angry Justice s►ewa her awful face,
re little villatus mutt submit to few,
1 hit great ones may eujoy the world in slate;
.e stands a dome, majealiC to the sight.
And sot:tritium' arches bear its oval height ;
A gol4irit Aube, ;.laced high with artful skill,
Scrim., to the thatant sight, a gilded pill."
Gay, in describing the ineotiversiettee of the late
narrow ',art of the Strand. by St. Clement's, took
away a portion of Its iiiipleavoisiness to the next ge.
to.ratiosi, by sminciating his memory with the objects
in it. We did not wigs without regret even the
" condo," that hung '' dangling in your face" at a
shop which he describes, and which was standing
till the esisprovemetita took place. The rest of the
picture i• still alive (Tricia, Book

" Where the tiir mailman of St. Clement stand,
Whose straitened bounds encroach upon the Strand ;
Whi-ie 'lie low pent lounge bows the walker's head,
Amt Ito rough pavement %manila the )ieldiux tread;
Where nut a punt protects the narrow space,
Au l sti nog in twines, con* dangle iii thy face;
SUIUOIO4 at once thy courage, rouse thy care,
hark back, be resolute, beware.
rni th issuing (ruin steep lanes, the collier's steeds
I),aK ,he black luad; another fait succeeds;
Tram follow• team, crowds heaped are elewtle appear,
And wait impatient till the road grow clear."
rl'hrrr to a touch in the winter picture in the
sense poem, which every body trill recognize:—

" Al White's the harnessed chairman idly stain's,
Anil 'wino around his awi►! his tingling hands."

The bewildered passenger in the Seven Dials is
compared to Theseus m the Cretan Laby
And thus we conic sound to the point at which we
beg is.
Before we rest our wings, however, we must take
another over the city, as far as Stratford lit
Bow, where, with sill dna tenderness fur boarding-
school French, a joke of Chaucer has existed ns
piece of lucid humour fur nearly four hundred and
tiny years. Speaking of the Prioress, who snakes
such a delicate figure nnitnig his Canterbury Pil-
glints, he tells ue, among her other accomplish-
ments. that

" French she spake full faire and featuusly i"
adding with great gravity.
" After the school of Stratford alit. Bowe ;
Fur French of Paris was its her uNknuwe."
• The Old Bailey.

Letters from Sierra Leone state, that in conse-
quence of the arrival of the Commissary Judger,
the Commissioners, their Secretaries, and the
other litqllllllll attached to their smile, ingether with
various Officers, both is the Civil and Military
Departments, the white population lied increased in
an extraordinary degree, bo that, in the early part
of last June, it consisted of 118 individuals, titer,
women, thud children, of whom 94 had been attacked
by the fever, and uu less than 54 had perished be-
tween that period and the 2411 s of August, when the
accounts were dated. The rainy, or sickly sena 1111 l
is not over till the month of October, and the fryer
still raged with great violence.
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Letters have been received from the Cape of
Good Hope of the 30th October. Lord HENRY
SOMERSET, up to that date, was still riigaged treat-
ing, it was reported with the Caflre Clods for the
cei.sion of a large purlieu) of their territory. The
late) military operations having terminated in the
total diecomfiture and dispersion of the savages, had
had the ethfct of humiliating them to such MI ex-
tent. that his Lnril.hip, it is said, fad little difEs
culty in obtaining as much land us lie wanted. He
did tint, however, place muds cmitideisce in the
amicable disposition of the Garr's, hut had rectiutst-
ell, it is said, the Government ut home to send out
from England a regiment of cayally, to lw prepared
for fresh hostilities. It is feints the witirt of ;his vile.
cies of force that the Caffrey have been formidable
for runic time past. It is rumoured that the block
mounted regiment, called the Florida Regiment,
at prevent stationed in Jamaica, is to be seal lo the
Cape of Good Hope.
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