Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-21
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:hrr', -s'Ihc Coch"- Rose street tS ;
Take the trouble, oh reader, To imagine your
self clear If tho depths of old Oceanic have
graspel the terra trma of Liverpool with your re-
jocing feet have parted with the sharers of
your Atlantic perils-to have rolled on and
through the lovely rural scenery of England, al
belt seen through atmosphere of smoked
gla,S-ta have fitted by Chalk Farm. the scene
of the bloode,- duel between MOORE and JEFF
FRY the COLOSSUS. If Edinhnrg Revewers--to
hav" gained the imposing terminus at Euston
SquAre--io have encased Yourself in Hanson
cab in which 10 be whired at respectable pace
considering the eternal crowd at the regulation
rate e sixpence IA mile. Imagine all this over,
including the correct pnssessl"n of all your lug
gage, and father. that your Jehue, with II dash,
and a rattle, mud n splash, has plunged at and
suddenly stopped before the entrance to Richard
SON, hotel in Cpvent Garden, Here standingon
the few inches of pavement, standing like II for
lurn margin 10 the piazza of lingo Jones imnor-
talitv. | grasp you, oh reader, by the hand and
we enter the hotel 'ge,her.
"Shnll not take mine ease in mine inn !" said
jolly old jack; nyr. marry. and So will We
have had coy little dinner in the coffee room,
soup aud fish, (soles fred) the int and So ON,
aud Arc now drinking to hearts over the water in
II sample of the rare old port If the house, and
for which and for it. good dinners IN quiet and
transformations way, it is rather celebrated.
Welwe are in ia" ripe enjoyment of our port,
and HE conversation tulns naturally upon Cock
nrydom It's celebrities, notorieties and what not.
You wish to stir up the lions at once They ARE
around you, everywhere; there they with
names aud tails erect paving .he air and
nounens their presence with II most exalted roar.
there they are to your right aud 20 your left. and
on all sides.
We are in Covcnt Garden, nay, under the Gel
ehIated piazza erected by las 90 Jones. in l63l.-
II then and for years after fashionable 10.
calIty, but it has changed and descended through
So many grades that it seems scarcely Ia have
definite position left Here the bands known in
the times of Charles II. and up to George |, rs
Mohawks, Scowrcrs Electors, Flyre Tu's Nuns
&c. held rs il wPrH, mn almost sovereigh rule.
These bands were formed in chief of men of out
lave habits and reckless drbauchcry. who had
nothing in the world to lose but life. Covrnt Gar.
den with It's attractions of fashion, and the play
houses WAS u fair ground for their operation and
a. SHADwELL writes-.p those days a man
could not 90 from the Rose Tavern to the Piazza
once but he must venture his life twice" The
Rose Tavern stood, in the time SlIADwELL writes,
ZOOS, in Russell street. near to the Kings Thea.
tire, not mora han two hundred yards from the
Piazza, mud this will give some idea of the des
peralo character Of thesa night providers. who
dressed in purple aud fine linen" living in the
stew. of the town issued at night, with their
hnnds upon their swords to bully the rest of Lon.
don and play comm IN stabbrrs ON the slightest
pruvocation and indeed on provocaiion at all.
Here, near where we sit. lived KILLIGREW the
wit Along on thi. side, near to the steps of Co.
vent Garden Theatre lived Sir PETER l.ELY. and
one door or So East of him, Sir GODFREY kNEL
lLR his successor ms the portrait painter of the
Court. Lady MARY WoRrLEY MONTAGUE
10 lSrd in the Piazza. Evans Hotel, next door
West of u was built by Admiral Russell fE,rl
Of q, ford) who in 1862 defeated the French fleet
at La Hogun, under Admiral DE ToUIrIlLE.-
His house. it is said. was the first family hotel
opencdin London, l77l, by Mr.. DANIEL Low.
Look II the right, the shnwmen have it. and
you will see St. Paul's Church. Of Covcnt Gard, n
Parish. Its worth the while to enter II i.
n copy of the Church bu!lt in 1888. by lingo |
JONES destroyed by fire in 1875 and rebuilt on
the sumo site In lloGRATAs picture Of Mornin: |
you Will have : m3s" of the front of the Church |
AMI Of Evans Hotel.
Come. let "a leave our EMMY docanter md |
out for a stroll Wen begin Mt the Church. =
Tread ighl' aS W" enter; III" dust nf the Illus
tri"us dead hes beneath our foot fall The nu |
thor of Halh'a-, Lely, Wyeherly the dranatist |
and bean Mrs. Crnihvre. author of The Won. |
der and others as celebrated. who graced the |
nrighhorhool 10y living in it and honored it by |
their dsaths. lie here as historical monuments of |
the unlyine past.
But let Us search for metal more attractive. LET |
us cave the market which in the morning from
Three Ia five. you will find as sweetlv scented as
any dai-ird meadow cowslpped bank. YOU
mi-hi know or find for the searching for. Now
The odpr of decayed vegetable matter comoth un
Sr9aou,iy "betwixt the wind and our nobility"
ii'Fe, by this "gln palace" we'll customered
WIN sqnad humanity, pouring down .blue ruin ),
here turn We into Russell s'reet,named after the