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London, England, 1826-12-29 00:00:00

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. PROM TAR MIRROR. •
Covent-garden Market was formerly a part of the
Carved Garden belonging to the Abbots of West-
minster. which (says Mahon) extended to St. Martin's
Church. Atter the D•ssolution •it was first granted by
Edward Bath to the Protector iomerset, and after his
attainder bestowed in 1552, upon John Earl of Bedford,
together with a field adjoining, called the Seven Acres,
upon which the street now called Long-acre was built.
About 1634, Francis Earl of Bedford, began to clear
away the old buildings, and formed the present square
Which would have been the handsomest in. the metro.
polis, had it been completed as it was originally de-
signed by laigo Jones.
• 44 Where Covent-garden's fames temple stands.
That boasts die work of Jane? Immortal hands,
Columns with plain magnificence appear,
And graceful porches lead along tbe srate.".oar.
Bedford-house was a mean wooden building shut up,
from the street by an ordinary brick wall, with a garden
on the North. In 1711, Bobea tea was sold at twenty.
six shillings tie pound, at the Barber's Pole, next door
to the brazier's shop in Southamptoostreeti which was
built cst the site of Bedford-house, which was erected in
1552, and taken down in 1704. In 1674 a patent was'
granted for a market, which was so very prejudicial to
the magnificent buildings, that instead of their being
inhabited by persons of distinction as formerly, they
were obliged to take up with vintners, coffeelnen, and
such other inhabitants. Thom's. Wills, and Button's,
were the coffee-houses so frequently mentioned in the
Spectator, etc. At Wills, Dryden was lain in wait for and
severely brat by persons in masks ; and at Button's,
Coll) Cibber is said to have placed a birch over the chim-
ney to whip Pope, should he again appear in that room.
S r Cornelius Vermulen resided in Maiden-lane in,

1647; Lady Richardson resided in Bedford-street, the
same year, the site now occupied byMr. Pitt Gobbet. In
Kintutir, 1690, resided the Countess of Berks and Lady
Gorgess ; in 1722 the Bishop of St. David. In the same,
year the Earl Ferrets lived in Covent-garden. In 17611
the celebrated Kitty Clive lived in Henrietta-street; the
Met Cellar in Maiden-lane was frequented by Chat-
terton, Porson, and other literary characters. In 1661,
April 28, the parish paid twopence a yard for taking
up 28 yards or blue cloth, that the King walked upon i
to his coronation. Richardson's !hotel formerly be-
longed to Dr. William Hunter, the anatomical lecturer.
In the centre of Covent garden 6re-works were di:-
Flayed in 1672, and September 10, 1690, and the
column *as taken down in Jane, 1790. In Hart street,
at the end of Bow-street, st rod the " Two Golden
Balls," a house famous for musical entertainments, in
1711. February 12. 1712, Prince Eugene was present.
In Crvest-gaiden stood the Rose Tavern. Mr. Thomas
Rich, and Mr. Edward Beckerstaff, lived in Russell-
street, in 1690. Mr. Rich, and Mr. Lambert, the scene
painter, were the first founders of the Beef Steak Club,
in an paper room in Covent•garden Theatre. The
second Club was held at Longford's. now Robins's
Auction-ror m. Sir Francis Kynaston had a house in
Covent-garden, in which King Charles the First, in
1636. established an academy, called " Museum
nerve." for the instruction of Gentlemen in Arts and
Scie ces, &c.
Tuesday morning, as a bailiff was in pursuit of a
warkman, who was employed in building some houses
at the south-west side of Kingsmead-square, Bath, the
man perceiving his approaco, instantly mounted a lad.
der placed against the wall of the new Wilding, and got
down in the ceutte of the house, uhile the bailiff was
pursuing him up the ladder. He then went sound, tor
moot d the ladder, and escaped, leaving the bailiff a
prisoner in the bui'ding, to the great amusement of a
vast throng assembled.
Hoicrott dr st offered his play to Mr. Harris, by whom
it was rejected. Mr. Kemble was then at Drary.lane.
H !croft bavinp quarrelled with Mr. Kemble, desired
the won k might be submitted to him as that of Mr. M.
Mr. M. saw Mr. Kemble -tinder the summed name of
Mr. Herbert Hill. He was most kindly received, and
Mr. Kemble trok the entire management of the pre.
tended M. Hill's ;slay upon himself, never OW, appear-
ing to suspect the truth. He even wrote one scene for
the-introduction of servants, and made some other
changes, wl ich it is probable he would not have done,-
had he known it to be the work of Holcroft. The scene
Mr. Kemble introduced was the only one at all disap-
proval by the audience, and was either suppressed, or
march shortened afterwards. Mr. Kemble, of his own ,
accord, obtained a purchaser of the copyright, and got
200goineas for it. He afterwards said he had known
throughout that the *At k was Holcroft's. In either
case his conduct was highly creditable. If be really
thought he was servin4 an unknown author, *Atha°
'other fsiend, it was disinterested ; if he knew be was ,
serving Ho'croft, who would not trust him with the

secret, it was magnanimous.
Lattosurta.—A witty writer says, imptaise of laugh-
ter—" Laughter has even dissipated disease and pre-
'set red life, by a suddea effort of nature: Ws are told

that the great Erastaussionsibeid•mebeastilynt the satire
by Reuchlier and Yon Hones. shetthe Mies an irn-
posthurne, and recovered his heatth." In a Angular
treatise on laughter,'Joubeit gives two similar in-
stances. A patient Wag my low, the physici‘e.who
-had ordered a dose of rhubarb, countermanded the
medicine, which was left en the table. A monkey in
the room, jumping up. discovered the goblet'. and haw-
ing tasted, made a terrible grimace. Again. •potting
only his tongue in it, he perceived some sweetness, of
the dissolved- manne,whilst the rhubarb had soak to the
bottom of the cup. Thus emboldened. he-swallowed
she whole, but found it such a nauseous potion, that,
after many strange and fantastic
.grimaces, be gi jaded
his teeth in agony, and in a violent fury threw the
goblet on the floor. The whole 'Mir was so ludicrous,
tbAt the sick man burst into repeated peals of laughter,
and the recovery of cheerfulness led to health.
During the rebellion in Ireland, a man was tried and
condemned for disaffection, to whom it was offered to
have his sentence of death changed into tun:portion, if
he wuuld make some discoveries. After some consul-
tation. however, with his wife and family, be sent for
he wAs readylor
your Honour,"
my part, I am
Many a tear
ig over me, and!
woke and my,
, though I save,
and die among*
my eyes or to
the Gast daimon

Prricnti weft, but
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DREADFUL ERE AT DUBLIN.
narrsrao rAandoutais.
At about halfapast seven o'clock on Saturday mom
ing, a fire broke out on the prettifies of Sir Abraham
Batley King, Dame-street. It was first perceived in
!he warehouse in the rear of the dwelling, by Mit Pat
tigrew, the principal manager in Alderman King's
concerns. He had risen some time before, and looked
oat on the rear, fiom his window, but perceiving
it to be earlier than he expected, had again totir4
to rest. On this occasion he bad obroved nothing'
whatever, but shortly after was awakened by a creek.
ling kind of noise, and on rising discovered lamos
issuing from the warehouse. On giving the alarm,
Mr. Allen, residing in one of the houses adjoining,l
proceeded, in conjunction with Mr. Pettigrew, to etre
down a kind of wooden bridge, connecting e pre.
mises on fire with the dwelling-home in front. In doing
this, however, they perceived the other part of the
dwelling-house to be also en fire, although the bridge
by which they were alone connected appeared perfectly
untouched. At about eight o'clock the fire engines of
the respective insurance olbces were in prompt attend-
ance; but owing to the great delay in procuring water,
from ignorance of where to open for the pipes, they
were comparatively -useless till nearly 10 o'clock, at
which period the devouring element had attained to an
almost ungovernable height, not only in the back pre.'
mires, but also in the front concern, in the interior, the
upper part of which was involved in one unbroken body
of flame. The situation of an individual who was em.
ployed on the roof, with a wet mop, to prevent the flame
catching'on the premises of Mr. Walsh's house adjoining„
al fallen down on the top floor, having extricated him
self from the burning matter, presented himself at a
window,the devouring element rapidly approaching him,
excited the most painful interest among the crowds as-,
sensbled in the street, until a rope, thrown from the
parapet wall over him, by H. Handwich, and which by
fastening round his middle, shifting him through the
air to a corresponding window in Mr. Walsh's house,
happily extricated him from his very perilous situation.
The upper part of the premises were Whir one blaze of
liquid fire; the raging element spread with resistless
fury on every side, notwithstanding that several of the
engines played with powerful perseverance, and the
greatest exertions were made by numerous individuals.
About twelve o'clock the roof fell in, carrying down by
its weight all the floors ill the house, with an appalling
trash, overwhelming in the burning ruins a number of
persons actively engaged in endeavouring to preserve
the property, among whom was Mr. Henry Pim, of
the City Quay Brewery, who, with the principal part
of the workmen of that establishment, had been
'amongst the foremost in attendance on the first alarm.
—Mr. Pim, the eagine.man of the Imperial loran-,
ranee Office, two of the brewery men, and a boy who
were also involved in the ruins, were in the act of con-
%Vying the tubes of the engine through the lower part'
of the house to the front, when the dreadful occurrence'
took place. The most strenu us exertions were used by
the people in attendance to extricate those buried beneath
the ruins. The bars in front of the windows were torn
down. Mr. Pim was the first brought out, we are happy
to say, apparently little injured. Mr. baler, a col&
lential clerk of Alderman King's, was next extricated,
with every appearance of having been dreadfully in-
jured. One of the brewery men was also shockingly
crushed. It was upwards of half an hour before the
other, named Kenny, was come at. A large storm had
fallen on him, and rendered him entirely unable to stir,
while the devouring element was Surrounding him on all
ides, and he was enveloped in heaps of bug nlog ruins;
at this moment of death, he was rescued at the hazard
of his own life, by a sa;lor, named Treddin, who had all
along distinguished himself by the most daring acts of in•
trepidity, and had eminently contributed to the preserva-
tion of life and property throughout the whole of this
perilous occasion. The most lamentable part of the
occurrence, however, remains. At about four o'clock,',
,he body of a person unknown was dug from hence&
the ruins, from the disfigured state of which it was is:.
possible to be recognized. From the accumulation ell
ruins, it cannot as yet be confidently ascertained whetheit
others may not still remain buried beneath them. Tba
wreck of property has been immense; the premises, we
lunderstand, having been only insured for a sum
molting to not quite 5,0001. while the loss is thought
to approach 20,0001. The Lord -Mayne, Sheriffs,
Counsellor Graves of .the head police-office, and the
civil establishment, were in prompt attendance, and
IN • their efficient services, preserved not only the,
.am
most admirable order among the immense multitude,
no depredation that we could hear of having occurred,
bet were amongst the most .daring in rescuing the pro.
party from the Barnes. At about one o'clock, when what
remained of the property had been secured, and the fire
had been partially got under, or rather exhausted itself
for want of materia), a company of infantry and a troop
of dragoons paraded the street in front of the ruins..
We cannot close these particulars without noticing
circumstance tweeted with the sailor Treddin, dread,
alluded to. At an advanced hour of the night this bri'
fellow was found unnoticed, nearly naked and exhauste4
seeking shelter near one of the fire engines, by,'lllk.
Cicodison, of College-street police offi:e, who hunsanfilipi
took him home, amply relieved his wants, and teem&
mended hint to the Sheriffs. .a

Yesterday, at thres o'clock, an Inquest was held se the body
taken from the ruins, when the usual verdict was retuned;. hot no
aim whatever of who the demoted was meld be •distowerod.--
et Tuesday.

Mr. Brown, the Peterborough carrier, actually con.
"eyed to London 40 tons of geese between Tuesday and
Thursday evenings.

Sir Thomann Suns has, in his preface to the Con-
scious Levers, taken notice of a General Officer's weep.
ing, in a hoot box, at the scene between bulimia and
her father; on which occasion he relates Mr. Wilkes the
comedian's jest observation upon it That he was,
certain be would fight ne'er the worse for thst.” Whe.,
the play of Venice Preserved was revived at Drury-lane
Theatre, about eighty years ago, one of the grenadiers,
who was posted on the stage, was observed by the
audience to be at times deeply affected at the perform.
ance. M several speeches he seemed agonised by dis.
torting his body, and though the spectators some times
laughed at him, he remained with fixed attention to the
scene. Bat in the last, where one friend stabs the other

on the scaffold, he could suppress his feelings no longer,
but burst into a flood of tears. The audience were so
affected with the soldier's simple honest heart, that they
loudly applauded him, and a noble Duke (then at the
head the army),-,who was behind the scenes, sent for
'him,
and gave him a guinea. stating that aha was per-
Ifectly sure he was an basest and brave fellow."

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PIP.

- the oificPr of the guard, and told hint he
.execution. ,4 We mast all die, please I
141411144`th‘ mid he calmly, es *potter or later; for 1
'also of dying in the midst of my people.
will be dropped. mud many * song sung
it children% children silk talk of my
~ • 1; but if Igo into foreign pans,
For a time. I mast die at hot, an
selp —*chest rose friend to close 1
' wren deSesdag hate shining fee d
lisp corpse." Kit • Wiiy wise was presi
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seamed hiss jai& • iftelstion ; and d
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