The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-02

child He adheredNth Then, howeyet, WIKI the obsii
%aSs To Se ia E Es s %e 9sfs
merous and bitter. lie hatel Frenckmen and Italians
Scotchmen and Irshmen, Papsr and Presbyteans, indie
pendens and Bap.lss, Quake and Jews Towards Lon
don and Londoners he felt aversion which thai
once produced important political effects His wife ant
daughter were IN tastes and requirements below house
keeper a stroom maid OF the present day The
stitched and spun, brewed goosebey wine, cured mari
Colds, and made the crust for the venison pastry.
CITY.
When the lord of Lincolnshire or Shropshire mano
appeared in Fleet street. he as easily distinguishes
rom the resident population Turk Lascar His
dress his gait ms accent, the which he
at the shops, stumbled into the cutters, ran against tht
porters, and stood under the watersPouts marked hin
out an excellent subject for the operations of swim
dlers and banterers Bues losted him into the kennel
Hackney coachmen splashed him from head TO foot
Thieves explored with perfect security the huge pockets
OF his horsemans coat, while he stood cnanced by the
splendor Of the lord Mayors show Moneydroppers
sore I0n The cats tall introduced themselves TO him and
appeared 10 him the most honest friendly gentlemen that
he had ever Painted women, the refuse of Eewkner
Lane and MILESTONE Park, passed themselves on him
for countesses and maids of honor II he asked his
way to st. James's, his lnfomants sent HIM to Mile
End. Ii ne went INTO shop, he was instantly dis
cerned to be fit purchaser OF everything that nobody
else would buy, of secondhand embroidery copper
rings, and watches that would not go If he ramblcd
into any fashionable coffee house, he became mark for
the nsoent derson OF tops, and the grave waggery Of
tempars Enraged and mortified, he soon returned to
his mansion ana there, in the homage of his tenants,
ISOLATION for the vexaons and humiliaons which he had
undergone. There he more felt himself n great
man; and ne saw nothing above him except when at the
he took his the bench near the Judge or
when at the muster of the militia he saluted the lord
Lieutenant
THE COFFEE HOUSE.
Foreigners remarked that the coffee house was that
which especially distinguished London from all other
cities; that the coffee house the Londoner's home
and that those who wished TO find Il gentleman COM
monty asked, not whether he lived in Fleet street or
Chancery Lane but whether he frequened the Gre
these places who laid down his penny at the bar Yet
every rank and professions and every shade of religious
and political opinon had its own headquarters. There
were houses near St Jamess Park where tops congre
gated their heads and shoulders covered with black or
haxen wigs, not less ample than those which
worn by the Chancellor and by the Speaker of the House
of Commons. The wig came from Paris; and so did the
rest OF The fine genemans ornaments, his embroider
ed coat, his trlnged gloves and the tassel which
upheld his pantaloons The conversation was in that
dialect which, long after 1t had ceased TO be spoken
fashionable circles, continued in the mouth of Lord Fop
pingon 10 excite the mirth of theatres The atmosphere
was like that of perfumers shop Tobacco in any other
form than that OF richly scented snuff held in abom
nation. II any clown, ignorant of the usages of the
house called for pipe the of the whole assembly
and the short answers OF the waters convinced him
that he had better go somewhere else. Nor, indeed,
would he have had far TO go; for in general the coffee
rooms reeked with tobacco like guard room; and
strangers sometimes expressed their surprise that so
many people should leave their fresdes to sit in the
midst of eternal log and stencil. Nowhere was the
smoking constant than at Wills That celebrated
house. situated between Covent Garden and Bow street.
sacred TO- polite letters. There the talk was about
poetical justice and the unites of place and time There
faction for Perrault and the moderns faction
for Boeau and the ancents One group debated whether
Paradise Lost ought not TO have been in rhyme To
Preserved ought have been hooed on Tho .n%a
Under no root was greater variety of figures TO be seen
earls IN stars and garters cergymen in cassocks and
bands pert teinpiars sheepsh lads from the UNIVERSE
tes ranslators and index makers in ragged coats of
freZe The great press get near the chair where
John Dryden sat- In winter that chair was always in
the warmest nook by the fire; in summer it stood in the
balcony To bow to him, and to hear his opinion OF
Racae's last tragedy of Bossus treatise on epic poe
try, was thought privilege. A pinch from his snuff
box was an honor sufficient turn the head of Young
enthusiast There coffee houses where the frst
medical men might be consulted. Doctor John Radcliffe;
Who,in the yaar l6S5, rose 10 the largest pae i, -,
don, came daily, when the Exchange was full fron ~;
house in Bow street. then fashionable part of the CAPT
tall to Garraways, and was 10 be found surrounded by
surgeons and afohecaries at particular table There
were puritan coffee houses, where no oath was heard
and where ankhaired discussed election and repro
baton through their noses Jew coffee houses, where
dark eyed money changers from Venice and from Am
serdam greeted each other; and Popsh cofee.houses
where, good Protestants believed, Jesuits planned
over their cups another great fire. and cast silver bull
lets to shoot the king s'N sgCJtl .tf. /.
Ihe che peculiarly oil this dialect that in large
class OF words the was pronounced like Thus stork
was PRONOUNCED stark. See Vanbfughs RELAPSE Lord
Sunde rand Was great aster of this court tune as ROGER
North calls 1t and Titus Oates Affected in the hope of
passing for Il fine gentleman. Examen, ", PSI I III