Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-04-10
CoHafed for tie Ne,p York Times.

"The first notice Of London as place of COM
mere ial importance, occurs in the Annals OF Ia
ci,us, who speaks of it as the mobile emporium Of
his time; the great resort Of merchants, and ia
nous for It's trade ard intercourse, though not
a colony"
"About the year $50, London, which appears
to have been almost totally destroyed and depo
pulated by the Danes, was restored, and more
strongly fortified by Alfred, and soon after fill
ed with Inhabitants who had been driven into
exile, or KEEP, in captivity by the Danes"
"ln the year 1856, a mandatory Of the finer
sort OF glasses, was established in Crutched
Friars; and the fine flint glass, little inferior to
that of Venice, was at the same time made al
the Savoy Seven years afterwards manuiac-
ture OF knives was begun by Thomas Mathews,
Of Fleet Bridge"
"'The whole number Of merchants In London,
at the beginning Of Queen Elizaheth's reign,
viz. Ammo 1861, were in all, only 327.'
In the year 1879, Morgan Hubble,horne, dy-
er, was sent into Persia at the expense OF the CT
ty of London, to learn the art Of dying there,
and of making carpets.
sin 1860. the Queen was presented with
pair Of knit silk stockings for new year'sgift,
by her silk-woman, and from that time Eliza
beth entirely left of the wearing Of cloth hose;
for you shall understand, says the historian,
that King Henry VIII did wear only cloth
hose, or hose cut ou, Of ell broad taffety."
"lr 1854, the use Of Coaches was introduced
by Dutchman, named William Boonen, who
became the Queens coachman, and before ma
ny years, divers great ladies made them coach
es and rode in them up and down The counties.
Shortly before that period the knowledge and
wear Of lawns and cambrics was introduced ny
the Dutch merchants, who retailed those arti-
ces in ellis, yards, &C. "for there was not then
one shoPkeeper amongst forty, who burst BUY
a whole piece"
"About the fifth or sixth, of Elizabeth, the
manulac iure Of. Pins was introduced; and in her
eight year, the making OF needles was hrst
taught"
about the fifth or sixth, Of Elizabeth, the
making OF earthen furnaces, earthen Gley.poHes,
and ear'hen ovens, transportable, was hrst
taught in London, without Moorgate, by Rich
ard Dyer, an Englishman, who brought the art
from Spain"
"Women's masks, muffs, fans, bodkins, and
periwigs, were introduced from France, about
the time Of the massacre in Paris, Ammo 1872;
and IN the year 1877, pocket watches were hrst
brought into LONDON from Nuremburgb, in
Germany, where they are thought to have been
invented"
Harrison, in his subscription Of Britain"
first printed in 1877, speaking ofthe forests, re-
marks, shat an infinite deal of wood hath been
DESTROYED within these few years" and 81 dare
affirm" he continues, in tone of prescience,
"iha, if woods do 81 so fast into decay, in the
next hundred year, of grace, as they have done,
or are likely TO do in this, it is to be feared that
sea coal will be good merchandise, even in the
very city Of London" In 1915, two hundred
sati were employed in bringing Goals to the me-
tropp!is.
"fhe printidD of pricss current WAS FIRST a.