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Probably no city in the world possesses such an extent and variety of interest as the inetropolis of England; yet how little is it known to the vast majority of its in-dwellers! Most of the proud names, however, which have exalted the genius of Britain, are connected with the "Streets of London." Who can perambulate the spots made familiar by Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Steele, Fielding, Gay, Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, Hogarth and Reynolds, without a keener relish, and a better appreciation of the great poets, wits, artists, and philosophers who have identified their names with these scenes? readers imbued with a knowledge of English history and literature, this work, it is hoped, will prove very acceptable; while the more numerous class of less-informed observers cannot fail to derive instruction, under the pleasant guise of entertainment, from a perusal of its pages.

THE EDITOR.

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London, November, 1849.

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Charing Cross-Demolition of the Cross-"The Downfall of Charing Cross"

-Equestrian statue of Charles I., Sutton Nicholls' print of-Epigrams on

the statue of George I. on Bloomsbury Church-Pillory in Charing Cross

-Titus Oates exhibited there-Cruel punishment of Japhet Crook there-

Execution of Hugh Peters, Harrison, and other regicides there-Number

of Taverns here, the resort of wits and literati in the seventeenth century

-Anecdotes connected with Sir George Etherege-The Rummer Tavern;

anecdote of Matthew Prior and the Earl of Dorset-Robinson's Coffee

House; anecdote of Richard Savage; his trial-Anecdote of Ben Jonson

-Thomson, the poet-Sir Nicholas Bacon-King Street, the residence of

Oliver Cromwell-Cromwell's guards-Hogarth's print of "Night"-

Wallingford House (site, now the Admiralty), anecdotes connected with-

Residence of General Fleetwood, and Villiers, Duke of Buckingham-

Anecdote of the Duke-Scotland Yard-Palace formerly there for the

Scottish Kings-Attempted assasination of Lord Herbert of Cherbury-

Vanbrugh's House-Neighbourhood teems with "memories" of the Tudors

and the Stuarts-Mansion of Hubert de Burgh, then York Place, the

Palace of Cardinal Wolsey, afterwards Whitehall-The great man who

"flitted about this palace," temp. Henry VIII.-Pageants there in the time

of Elizabeth, and Revels in those of King James I.-Execution of King

Charles I.-Cromwell lived and died here-Events here during Cromwell's

reign-The residence of Richard Cromwell-The "Merry Court" of

Charles II. here-His death-The residence of James II.-Nearly de-

stroyed by fire-Converted into a chapel

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