1. law, govt and politics
2. law enforcement
3. police

LIVE
TO
HOW
IN
LONDON
:
or, THE
MICROSCOPE,
METROPOLITAN
Stranger^
9taD
ELUCIDATING
THE
THOUSANDS
WITHOUT
IN
!
ALSO
EXPLAINING
BE
MAY
THIS
ON
AND,
THE
To
avoid
befriend
all who
; with
a
few
LAWYERS,
BY
CONTAINING
HAND,
TO
THE
UNWARY,
of
Stratagemsof Swindlers,Tricks
the
Cyprians, and
HONESTLY:
EFFECTED
OTHER
HINTS
Live
by
Thieves,Gamblers,
Plundering those they
cautionaryand
instructive
PAWNBROKERS,
TWO
OR
TRADE,
PROFESSION,
FRIENDS,
WHICH
BY
RESPECTABILITY
APPARENT
FORTUNE
HOW
MEANS
AND
MANNER
EXIST
ffiufo* ;
Remarks
AND
CITIZENS
OF
appear
on"
AUCTIONEERS.
THE
WORLD.
'"
LONDON:
PUBLISHED
BY
193, HIGH
JOSEPH
SMITH,
HOLBORN.
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JAMES
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i
fiuLLDCK,
WttlTEfRlARS.
PREFACE.
Ladies
Wb
have
have
you
That
this
obtain
To
v
exhibit,
I
to
the
'.
by
how
as
the
or
are
of
numbers
therefore,
means,
for, by
showing
their
upon
be
preyed
thousands
in
respectedby society
"
law,
who
mode
of
readers
our
shall
warnings
as
creatures,
thus
we
iJjwi
we
how
shall
them-
unprofitablepentrmancet,
no
that
fellow
ne-
its inhabitants
objects of imitation, but
it is known
"
how
Their
will
means
it will be
in London,
Live
against being
This
the
to
it.
to
exist.
them
trade,
"Y
obtained
in order
reveal
:
read.
you
authentic,, we,
to
write
we
therefore
"
confidence, intend
prey
live well
therefore
"
deemed
be
unwary;
guard
when
^
seek
not
selves.
*
to
disclose
to
hundreds
*
information
we
to
contrive
\
give
unfold
J
;
to
your
cessary
w
information
may
which
hy
Gentlemen,
and
have
no.
our
and
ostensible
metropolis
unmolested
profession,
living.
.
After
^
"
unmasking
the
many,
we
shall proceed
to
iv
PBEFACE.
show
how
lowing
honestlyexist,without folany certain or absolute trade or calling;
nay,
but live comfortably,
not onlyexist,
those wai"|
on
of fortune that fleet by on every breeze.
An obvious question
presents itself. If,say our
a
readers,you
man
may
show
can
us
this,why do you not avow
be the vouchers of
names
? Let your
yourselves
be known;
your knowledge. To know, you must
into the heart of
you could not have thus penetrated
metropolitan
societywithout becoming notorious.
it we
Granted, ladies and gentlemen; we own
"
are
known.
reader
as
Our
his
own,
names
are
as
familiar to
and for this very reason,
subscribe them.
we
every,
must
We
to ppurtray the
profess
of gamblers,
swindlers,peplacesellers,
practices
titioner
not
auctioneers,attornies and
their agents,
"c. "c. "c; to obtain,their secrets w"
kiteflyergj
have soughttheir society""to do a great rightwe
have done a little wrong;" but once
place our*
names
about
to
our
this sheet, and
thus
snatch the
their snares, would wreak
Readers !
we
raise these hornetoi
who, enragedthat
ears;
and
practices,
we
are
not
we
expose their;
from
inexperienced
their vengeance
invulnerable. We
bare the robberiesof the
upon
us*.
shall
lay
prizering-r*do
you
ask
our
PABFAC2.
that
s,
"
ug
ntast
title
IT-'
may enable these ruffians to attack:
we
shall expose the atrocitiesof informers"
We
of our
baptismsin
printthe registry
to haunt
us
page, to enable these reptiles
we
vexatious indictments
with
revenge
under
our
in
obsolete
open to the danger of having
to
every rascal in London watchinghis opportunity
acts"
must
He
we
destroyus?
This work
'
of itstruth. None
"no
would
man
is the best
being anonymous,
but ourselves would dare
dare to
it,who
avow
security
to
write
was
demned
con-
citywith the wretches
thus endeavour by exposure to extirpate.
we
!
So much for onr appellations
from this
ladies and gentlemen,
Do not imagine,
exordium,that our pages are whollydevoted to the
of crime" information
and amusement
exposition*
of
shall tell the history
will go* hand-in-hand; we
to
remain
in the
same
'
shall shudder
some,
and
more,
and you shall
you
laughat
at.
tracted*
our
tention,to describesome
well
"
as
notorious,
persons
of
"
lifeand of human
It will become
"
their follies but each,
carries its warning. Front, the most
knowledgeof
their,crimes
ludicrous,
soene,
nature*
duty,as
of the
most
in the
may
be.ex*
it is our
in-"
eccentric,aa
0a
metropolis^
V|
PKBFACJ5.'
ike tad
will
we
and shun
see
fix
them;"
the eye of
turn
so
to
and
pity,,
the eccentric,whilst
this
well
as
men
may
the uttfortunate we
may
the hand
from
charky;
excite mirth afe their irre-"a
we
moral from their fate*
should
the means,
as
of
r
.
we
shall draw
we
gtdaritiesy
that
; litis onlyjustice
manner,
brand, "that
our
now
by.which
disclosethe
obtained.,
we
knowledge.
c
""
.,
earlylifethe victims
of our inexperienced-fleeced
robbed by,
by gamblers,
in the ring,
crosses
jockiedto the turf,swindled ria*
and fooled by the rafr:
our
shops,
fee. sell it*
We
have bought experience^*now
Our volume will cost yon Tno ShUti*gs'and
Sixpence,
has cost us thousands. Alas!! the days
our experience
We
*
hate been
of anguishthat
miseryand nights
of
us"
4he
account
feuywisdom,
avert
it has t"ccasH"ned.
gray hairs,the* wrinkled1 brows, form
kenjs in
'
ourselves in
;
have
theyare
the' com
hitherto
no
that those;wfc"
paid^may
tins book
it.
Ttt the
following
pages we
tlte languageof others,but
added
to
and elucidated the
this freedom
deemed
an
it is
have sometimes
in thesematter
presumed our
apology*
cases
adopted
we
quoted,and
have
for
confession will be
f
HOW
) Have
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
preface?If not, do; it is asnet
of this book,
into the spirit
cessary to your entering
i as a staircase is for going to a second floor. Prewill at
I suming you have obeyedour injunctions,
we
\ once proceed.
you read the
London
and itsenvirons contain one million and
there are scarcely
; a half of souls; out of this number
kind of
of some
thousand wholly
fifty
independent
; exertion for their means
of existence. Thousand?,
it is true, pursue legitimate
and support
measures,
without niching
themselves and others by commerce,
from their fellow creatures ; but,in so vast a capital,
is not equal
j where so many work, the consumption
to the supply.This circumstance alone drivesmany
j
'
with the into dishonest courses
; and this,coupled
1
to mankind, occaberent love of idleness common
sions hundreds to liveupon the exertions of others,
i
.
t
;
'
j
without
makingany of their own.
in London has givenway to appearance.
Reality
To the unpractised
roli3of Irish
eye, the immense
linen our haberdashers'shops
present,are undeniable
indicationsof -wealth
the apparent Irish is a mere
logof wood, covered with a bit of linen,filledin at
each end with strips
and carefully
of it,
present
packedto reknow
it. The vast machines (forwe
not
"
HOW
LIVE
TO
LONDON.
IN
what
other term to givethem) that appear, and are
if they contained
marked
as
gin,rum, or brandy,
that
meet
the
metropolis,
are,
"all
to
use
outside,"and
in
spirits
vaults in the
wine
every
the phraseologyof Crack,
at
eye
vender, perhaps,buys his
the
small
quantities,
just sufficient to answer
his immediate
The
demand.
grocers'shops, in
which
trembled
we
have, in the days of our ignorance,
heads)
shelf of loaf sugar above our
of the brain, no I
concussion
a
might fall,and cause
of tea, *
longeralarm us ; now, we order our ounce
and
stand fearlessly
by, knowing that the well
lest the
of
shaped plaster
hair
a
under
of
Paris
loaves would
heads.
our
You
see
order
scarcelydisthose
lington
Wel-
boots that tempt you at every turn, glowing
the visitationsof Day and Martin, and labelled
within ;" they are
a variety
onlytwelve shillings,
and not
made
to sell. By
to show
a
particular
these pairs
it is impossible
in the cutting,
manoeuvre
but not
should fit
in fact,they
are
paired,
any one ;
matched, and the
varietywithin" appliesto boots
of a very different priceand quality. A few words
and then to dinner with what
appetites
you
more,
German
and
Yon see those polonies
sausages,
may.
bloomingfreshlyon the counters of the cook-shoprf
not so,
made this morning
theylook as if theywere
oiledlast night! These things are
but they were
kept weeks, nay months ; and to give these ancient
rub
they absolutely
sausages an air of juvenility,
Do not those red sheep*'
them with oilonce
a week.
"
"
"
tongues tempt you
?
Look
the
at
the turn-up bedstead
in your servant's room,
same
liquorpaintsone
of
and colours the other ! To look into the window
that the
H
the silversmith,
you would imagine
,
HOW
TQ
LIVE
IN
LONDON*
O
but when
disposal
;
you
informed that all the plateyou behold belongs
to
are
who deposit
it there for security,
different families,
wealth of Peru
at
was
at
amazement
your
and
leather
and
even
furnish
his
shelves of
the
itself is
royalty
this cheap method
bottles that adorn
of
our
Wood
diminishes.
his riches
said to
our
booksellers,
resorted
have
to
furnishinga library.The
liquorshops,appearingto
contain
brandy,wine, "c.
coloured by alkanet root;*
filled with
are
and
the
water,
apparent
pensive
ex-
exhibited in globules
mists,
cheat our
dilutions of sulphateof iron.
In short,
mixtures
are
wherever
the appearances
it they are
upon
are
gorgeous
or
glittering,
false; riches seeks, no
depend
parade. Look at the shop of Rundell and Bridge,
worth millions,
on
are
Ludgate Hill,the proprietors
and yet their outward show onlyindicates respectability
We
know
guard against appearances.
JUondon. We daijylook upon the gaudytrappings
of
"
tradesmen, who we know are onlya few weeks oft
the gazette,and sighfor their creditors,
luded
who are dethat should forewarn
them.
by the glitter
We
behold these splendidexteriors,
and knowing
sicken at their
what they are, turn away, "and
follotvness."
;
j
Having givena
sketch of our
shall now
we
"their manoeuvres,
in the
of gamblers,
course
tradesmen,and
demonstrate,that infinitely
more
we
than
subject
shall clearly
half London
under that denomination.
We
pose
proto trace this vice from the petty scoundrel who
for a glass,
to the ruby-nosedgentlemanwho
ought to
tosses
of
the
commence
of which
some
*
come
One
halfpennyworih
will colour
a
gallon.
4
HOW
in
speculates
LIVE
TO
time
LONDON.
IN
bargainsat
the Stock
Exchange.
shall take a review of the ruined wretches that
visit B
t's (the Jew's gambling house in LisleWe
well as the grand emporium
as
street, Leicester-square),
in St. James's, and follow their steps,and
delineate all their actions, until, fairly
faithfully
to
worn
out, they retire to rest all day,
preparatory
followingnight.
the
commencing their pursuitson
shall pass the clubs, and leave the fools of
The exiled
fashion to pillage
each other,in peace.
with
earl of P
Me, and B^
n, H
,
We
"
"
,
many
more,
are
of nobility;
examples to all sprigs
middlingclasses our duties compel
awful
it isof the
speak.
Into a publicgaming house you cannot
get,unless
there ; you will find
introduced by some
known
one
to
us
such friends in every coffee-house*
First then of the "games
c. red
: Rouge el noir (t.
and black) is played on
table covered with a
a
.
either
red and blac"ytOn
cloth,alternately
The
of which colours you put down
your monej^
six
then deals out some
cards fflpni
(dealer)
croupier
and stops when
his d
packs,all intermingled,
checkered
amounts
to
or the
thirty-one,
next
nearest
amo
it
this deal is for black ; he then does the sam
for red, and
the one
nearest
to
wim
thirty-one
both the deals amount
Where
to the same
number,'
be that number
what it may, tiieycall apres, and
take half the player's
money, and then deal again;
"
if he
the second
on
gets his
wrong,
these
own
he
money
of
course
trial is
on
back, but
loses all.
the
no
rightcolour,he
more;
if
on
the
cards
By secreting
effected,and
aprds are frequently
cheated.
are
players
thus the
HOW
TO
In the pay of the
IN
LIVE
concern
are
O
LONDON.
a
of ruined
number
gamblers,plucked pigeons,who have no longera
feather to flywith ; they frequentcoffee-houses at
the west-end, introduce themselves
to the acquaint*
ance
of young
and
are
men
of fashion,take them to the houses,
bonus
great, in
by the proprietors,
paid a
their victim has been robbed
to the sum
proportion
of.
The
duct
followingsketch will elucidate the conat No. 5, King Street,St. James's :
"
When
the company
.
musters
thick, and
there is
his hoaryds
rth and
play, Philip H
D
vis take their seats at the table
colleague
oppositeto each other, and deal the cards by turns ;
their fame for sleight
is too well known
of hand
to
suffice it to say, that when
requireany comment;
the colour on which the most money is
they preside,
staked is sure to lose,or if stakes are nearly
equal
both, a thirty-one
on
gives
apres is made, which
them the half of both the stakes.
This is playinga
much
headed
sure
"
"
"
game
;
numberless
monsters
all-devouring
are
the victims whom
these
destroyed;many are
the instances of men,
who, after havingbeen ruined
by them, have been broughtto the gallows.Haywood
is a melancholy example of this.
They 'have
and
ruin than
caused
more
plague, pestilence,
famine could have done; their system of play is
founded on deceit of all sorts, and by such means
they rise like mushrooms, become suddenlyrich,
but such as are
owing their wealth to no qualities
and holdingin utter contempt those
most
despicable,
strive to gain an
who
independenceby slow and
and
Fraud
honest means.
villanyare the deities
satiate
worshippedby them, and at the shrine of their inhave
-
avarice is immolated
the victim,who, had he
HOW
O
not
TO
LIVE
thieves,might still
be happy. To illustrate this,left
been
decoyedto
this den
have continued to
Us cite the exampleof
years ago, rolled in wealth
who, a few
'Change,
v
(Nathan Le
e),whom
"
men,
.
ped
stripthey have actually
"
of incalculable sums,
door to beggary* Two
of
of the firstbill-brokers
one
upon
young
LONDON.
IN
and who
reduced next
is now
the
gallants,
B
Mr.
"
"
s,
officers in the army, who, after
brothers,
ninsula
of the Pehaving escapedthe dangers and perils
in the bosom
to enjoy,
war, returned home
of their
that peace and comfort which their
families,
patrimony,of which they had latelybecome possessed,
the
the
became
them
promised
enjoyment,
tablishment
Serjeants
belongingto this esprey of the recruiting
and
in three
largesum of money
prison. Let us now
years
they are
very
;
in
take
lower in this street, No.
elder,and Dick Desb"
dice
: this
notoriety
least in villany,
to
abetters
are
Bill D
"
w,
a
fleeced of
were
at
a
present both
peep
few
a
doors
vis the
of E. O. table and false-
10, kept by
D"
hell is less in rank, though not
the foregoing
; the aiders and
vis,son
aforementioned,
to the
fair to rival his sire in the arts of false
nder, commonly styled
play. Thomas La
Tommy
Koundhead, ci-devant conductor of stores to the
army, a complete Greek, always ready at hand to
who
bids
"
second
the
motions
of
Dick
Desb
"
w,
when
a
Newcome
is to be fleeced; and last,not
least,behold Squire Pd, who, under the most
meek
and sanctified outward appearance, conceals all
the tricks and devices of an experienced
a
black-leg,
Johnny
perfectIago. Of such materials
staff of this establishment,besides
reserve
alwaysat
hand.
composed the
a
good corps de
to placeon
They profess
is
HOW
the
table
bank
a
100/.
LIVE
TO
IN
of 300",
LONDON.
bat
it
150/.,and; with
or
scarce
ever
ceeds
ex-
this
trifling
sum,
500/. daily,
and
400/* to
it is not rare to see an individual lose from 800/.
1200/. at a sitting. The stakes are from 2*. 6d.
25/. ; Is. 6d. and 2s. are
frequentlyput down
they
the
contrive to win
J
broken
from
punter, and
received
thankfully
behold
by
smallest donations
to
by
are
You
the bank.
daily
may
the table individuals who constantly
win ;
in the secrets of the cabinet,and
for
at
play
they are
the
the
to
and unbank, in order to delude the young
suspecting
punter into a belief that there is a sibility
posof
certain
winning,althoughexperienceproves
ruin is
to
as
overtake
to
sure
him, who
in following
persist
up
is
that
fatuate
in-
so
this destructive
They seldom, at this house, givethe brokendown
of resortingto the
player the opportunity
pawnbroker to recruit his finances ; if the victim has
game.
his person
about
valuable
a
watch, seals,chain,
diamond
of his
broach, or ring,from the moment
enteringthis don of thieves, Tommy Roundhead
has calculated its probablevalue, and steps forward,
and
generously offers
to
lend
about
half its
security,
encouragingthe poor fellow
again to try his luck; and he has alwaysat his elbow
of the recruiting
some
one
accountable
unsquad, to recount
worthy
this
on
story of Mr.
a
few
Such"a~one, who borrowed
the security
of his watch, and won
pounds on
all the money
on
the table. *
The
credulous,again ventures, and,
*
Some
of these tales are
absolutelywon
when
the
with you
and
600/.
on
said
proprietor
;"
"
Take
Bully
At
"
son
going out,
these (five
five-poundnotes)
he staked 25/. againstthem
ultimatelyborrowed
a
nevertheless true.
stake of 5s., and
a
"
in
poor fellow is
few moments,
"
2*. 6V" to pay
lost
"
was
doubled
"
his coach home.
ditto"
8
HOW
TO
LIVE
loses his last stake.
means
When
IN
LONDON.
it is considered
that his
to redeem
exhausted, and he neglects
are
his
pledges in a few days, he is deemed completely
plucked,and is revised admittance, unless he is base
candidate who
enough to consent to introduce some
is flush (to use
words), in
Tommy Roundhead's
he is enrolled on .the recruiting
which
service,
case
and is paidin proportion
to the ruin he entails on
those who
enough to be deluded by
may be weak
B
The
f
him.
notorious Mr.
d, of placeis on the list of the establishment.
selling
notoriety,
The bank can
at first sightdetect a forged note,
being adeptsin that science ; yet, it is very strange*
how many
forgednotes are received by the punters;
ened
and if they attempt to return
them, theyare threat*
with
exposure.
best evidence
The
that
it is impossible
to win
is,that
to
use
;
game
hazard.
On
well
is
rmr
at, if persons continue
a
to
game
play,
gambler,none, of those who are,
sportingterm, wide awake, ever play that,
those who
in the secret, play only at
are
no
a
et
rouge
the
noted
subjectof hazard,
known
at
Grub's, Mother
E., a gentleman
clared
H's., "c., "c, de-
Mr.
for.
(taking us of course
in another*
of the fraternity
who practised
members
quarter),that if he could persuadea gentleman to?
sit down
with him to play hazard, who
possessed.
1000/., and he himself, was
only in possessionof
in
our
presence
20/.,that he could win the 1000/. in the course
night'splay, by securing(i.e.palming one
and securingthat to answer
his purpose, when
on
his
we
the
going to
have
table).We
B
before
remember
on
one
of
a
die,
posed
ex-
occasion
low hell,that
t's,a notoriously
mentioned, without
a
penny
in his
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
he seated himself next
considerable sum
of money
pocket$
had
a
good
gentlemanwho
a
him, and a
silver pieces,
value half-a-crown each,
many
which
9
LONDON.
used at
are
play.
E.
his
snuff-box,and extracted
his elbow, which he threw
before
the
handed
gentleman
under
the table,called for
on
the last caster to
the
pass the box, and challenged
he had stolen. The
gentlemanto set the two pieces
was
challenge
half
piecesfrom
and
accepted,
E. won
25/. in about
hour ; he then counted his money, and said,
an
with
two
the utmost
nonchalance, I must have used two
of your pieces
by mistake, and returned the amount,
which
on
he had built his
done from
fortune ; this was
night's
of honesty,
but merelyas
any motive
of policy,
tell but some
a matter
as he could not
the idlers round the table might have witnessed
not
of
the
theywould have been
entitled to a share of his winnings..These kind of
that
-men
gentlemenare designated,
by the initiated,
live at the best; that is,that no matter
where they
in contact, the
be, or with whom
they come
may
to get the best of every body.
system is invariably
They visit every publichouse that is opened by a
if the man
has not been
landlord,particularly
new
in the trade before; if,in the hurry of business,
transaction,and in that
the
landlord
whom
or
waiter
case
should
be
in doubt, from
received a sovereign
to
change,one of
these worthies will claim it; they are
invariably
he
well
dressed,sometimes
live and
six of them
is,that theyare
*
A
young
about two
man
out
who
at others,
go about in pairs,
together
; the phrasethey use,
flatcatching.* Some
was
years ago, but who
connected with
is
now
a
member
of them
15, Bury Street,
of
Drury
Lane
JO
MOW
LIVE
TO
IN
LONDON.
hells,by way of hush*
Mr.
money, to prevent criminal informations,"c
is to our
D., a tall fair young man,
a friend of EV,
enjoy annuities
knowledge an
from
the
annuitant, and has been
four years.
The publiccan
form
no
idea of the
so
for the last
extraordinary
that
schemes
immense
extent, and
into, and executed, by that class of
are
entered
individuals
termed "playmen." It is a fact,and we
challenge
occasions two
the world to disprove
it,that on some
of fortune in
occupiedin gettinga man
their toils. A journeyto Newcastle or Scotland is
ployed
thoughtnothingof,and three or four months is emin the neighbourhoodwhere
the intended
victim resides. Perhapstwo or more
go down on the
spec, providedwith a dashingturn-out, and every
troduct
thingto correspond
; with such an appearance, an inin the country,is easily
ana
particularly
managed ; playis proposed,
perhaps by the victim
of
what
himself, and no matter
by means
game,
confederacy
they can have the best; but that is
for the flat fish is often a
not the object,
frequently
years
are
winner
town,
of two
to
see
commences.
less wretches
three hundred, and is invited to
the London
lions,when the plunder
which these heart*
The mode of living
or
enjoy the style the luxury" can
onlybe credited by those who have witnessed it.
To enumerate
the number
of modes
by which
the unsuspecting
are
plunderedat the different re*
for the votaries of pleasureand dissiceptacles
"
"
started with a small capital
ness,
of about 25/. on this busitheatre,
and, on the second night,fell in with- an old hand, and
lest every
besides suffering
the
shilling,
heartily
laughedat.
mortification of
being
12
HOW
TO
LONDON.
IN
LIVE
head* is called ' tail'appears,
the tail halfpenny
down his wrist with asruns
tonishing
This ingeniousfellow has often
facility.
terest
and
conceal.
to
200
won
300
or
If
'
in
sovereigns
the
of
course
a
night
who are
by gaffing
; but the landlord,and other men
pitch the baby card'
privy to the robbery,and
(encouragethe loser by sham betting),
alwayscome
in for the
(theirshare of the plunder).
regulars'
This adept,
have here particularly
luded,
alto whom
we
has contrived to bilk all the turnpikes
in the
to a race-course,
or
kingdom. In goingto a light,
when
he reaches a turnpike,
he holds a shilling
tween
behis fingers,
and says to the gate-keeper
c
'
"
'
Here, catch,'and makes
man,
endeavours
who
however, by
shilling,
a
catch what
to
a
towards
movement
he
backward
sees.
jerk,runs
the
The
down
the sleeve of the coat, as if it had life in it,and the
round to look in the dust, when
turns
gatekeeper
the
goffer'drives
change.'"
tall
e
A
young fellow who
billiard table, and who
was
on,
saying
formerlya
'
keep
marker
the
at
a
has the appearance of a soft
inexperienced
country lad, is another great hand at
gaffing.There is a strong adhesive power in his
about
'hand, and such exquisite
sensibility
he can ascertain,by droppinghis palm,
even
up
what
or a shilling,
halfpenny
is he
a master
indeed, so perfect
upon a
side is turned
out
worn
;
that Breslaw
could never
do with a
have done
pair of
it, that
in the
more
science,
upon cards,
(gaffing
coins).
who is celebrated for slipping
A well known
macer,
"old gentleman"(alongcard)into the pack,and
an
of this
is the inheritor by birth of all propensities
although the inheritance is equally
description,
than
he
can
grays
HOW
divided between
a
LIVB
IN
13
LONDON.
His brother and himself,got hold,
ago, of
short time
in his
TO
pocket,and
a
young
fellow,who had 170/.
introduced him
to
one
of. the
Drury Lane theatre,
introduced,
Gaffing was
well primed with wine.
and the billiardmarker was
pitchedupon to do the
the baby card,"and
pitched
stranger. The macer
t(
cock
and hen"
houses
near
"
well as the unfortunate victim. He
to come
had borrowed 10/. of the landlord,who was
the
but when all was
over,
in for the "regulars;"
billiardmarker refused to make
any division of the
had been
the 10/.,which
to return
even
or
spoil,
lost to him in "' bearingup" the cull. The landlord
of
lost
course
as
.
pressedhis demand upon the macer, who, in fact,
reimbursed by the billiard marker ;
Was
privately
told,that he ought not to allow
but he was
coolly
in his house, and that the
such improper practices
recoverable,the transaction being
not
was
sum
in which the
The manner
gaffing
system"
illegal.
is carried on may be judgedfrom the fact,that,in
have
116 sovereigns
of those abominable places,
one
of double headed and double
been lost,by means
toss.
in a single
tailed halfpence,
yond
with our
It is incompatible
purpose, and far beby
limits,to describe the many
games
our
"
which
to
men
pointout
them.
may
a
Games
be robbed ; it will .be sufficient thus
of
few amongst the most
conspicuous
seldom,if ever,
of real skillgamblers
play; at whist, for instance, a black-legwill not
play,unless three are of his party, and then the one
is sold by his partner. A gambler will not play
of
chess at any price. If you suspect your man
having loaded, dice,when throwing,ask him to play
d
by
14
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
dies to win) ; if he refuses
(i.
e., the loftiest
he has been robbingyou.
Let]usnow proceedto describe the well known,
which
e. one, two, five),
game of une, deux, cinq("'.
a
reverse
is
a
standard
well
as
found
at the different race-courses,
as
game
alone m
at the hells inJLondon. This game
to support five or six
sufficiently
profitable
fellows in
the sums
it must
luxury,notwithstanding
cost them in travelling
expenses, paying for stands
booths
and occasionally
the course,
or
on
taking
handsome furnished houses, by the week or month,
is played
The game
as
may best suit their views.
with an ivoryball,
with nine blue,eighteen
red,and
twenty-seven black spots upon it; three of the
black,two of the red, and one of the blue, have a
goldbar across the spot. These bars are the banker's
chances,and are placedon with gum- water, and can
be put on or taken off at pleasure.
The
his money
on
any of the three
choose,and the individual who pre-,
playerstakes
colours he may
if they have
of the players
sides,havingdemanded
made their game, forces the ball up a sort of spout,
it
it bounds back into a kind of well, and when
stops,whatever colour is uppermost wins. If black
wins, the banker
pays
an
equalsum
the amount
the rest; if red
to
that colour,and draws
staked is paidby the banker
wins, twice the amount
self
that colour,and he takes to himto the players
on
staked
on
black and
blue : if blue wins, he pays five times the monies
all the cash
that colour, and draws
betted on
the others.
on
sported
The robberies at this game are effected by having
the
sums
that have
been
hazarded
d
by
on
HOW
unfair balls.
At
LIVE
TO
vast
this game,
and a celebrated
at the head of the concern
;
a
sums
were
won
15
LONDON.
55, Pall Mall, about five years
No.
party got up
sportingattorney was
ago,
IN
until,all on
nightly,
a
sudden,
favourite with
the players,
and the bank lost 3 or 400/. for two
three nightsrunning. A council was
called to
or
divine the cause, and, on inspectingthe ball,it was
discovered that one of the red spotshad been blacked
over
ingeniousgambler,and thus making
by some
the odds much
greater on black; that colour, of
than its complementof spots,
course, havingmore
backed it
most
came
frequently
up, and the players
The gamester contrived,by this trick,
accordingly.
ways
alto bringhimself home.
After this,the ball was
the colour black became
an
immense
locked
carefully
up.
descripti
demand
no
particular
just
being modifications of the game
described.
It is necessary
readers should bear
our
Roulette
and
E.
O.
in
the odds are in favour
mind, that,if phyed fairly,
of the bank, and that even
themselves
gamblers
admit it. For instance,in roulette,which is a multiplicati
of the une
and chances, there are thirtysix numbers, and you put your money
either,the
on
to one
beingthirty-six
againstyou ; if you
times your stake,
win, you only receive thirty-two
four chances go to the bank on the fair
therefore,
chances
game.
At
rouge et noir the punter has a rightto demand
to shuffle the cards, but it is never
done; so at
to throw
or
roulette,
une, "c. you ought to demand
the ball.
At
roulette tables there are
always plenty of
on,
merely looking
persons who, if they see a man
16
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
Sir,I have
tempt him into play,by saying
for
been unfortunate, will you play a coup or two
will
"
"
The
person consents, and the
black-leg
gives
him two or three half-crowns
to play; if he wins
thinks
(and that is generally
managed),he naturally
he might have done as much
for himself,and, despite
of his resolution,
beginsto gamble.
If all these schemes
to a
fan, they will come
a
wrangle,or pick your pocket. Mr. W. B
well known
publiccharacter, was robbed in this
he had the resolution to return, and locking
way;
me."
"
"
"
,
of the theft. After
took a
\him, the croupier
some
attempts to bully
light,and pretendedto find the book under the
table.
To convince our readers of the dangers
ject
they subwill lay
themselves to in this great city,we
the door,accused the company
before
them
rectness
followingnarrative,for the corspectable
we
pledge ourselves :-" At a reof merchants,
in the city,
a number
the
of which
tavern
"c. used, about five or six years ago,
stock-brokers,
nightlyto congregate, for the purpose of passing
their favourite games. The
eveningsin playing
found the cards,and he
waiter invariably
principal
produced them with the wrapper, stamp, "c. bearing
the appearance of never
having been opened; but,
by the followingmethod, this worthy opened the
packs,and cut the edgesof the cards with a machine
such a way, that the party who frequentedthe
in
for the laudable purpose of fleecing
his friends,
room,
could (beingin the secret)win when theypleased.
This individual was
but was
sidered
connever
suspected,
tion
remarkablylucky,and attained the appellaof luckyBob."
The following
is the process:
their
"
ItOW
"Take
TO
IN
LIVE
17
LONDON.
the sponge
make
the stamp quitewet, and in about ten minutes
is put on with gum
the stamp, which
water, will
off easily,
until the stringand the cards will
come
fall out, without
He
could
and
water
warm
then
them
a
sponge, with
the shapeof
altering
cut
the cards
mark
or
the
as
wrapper."
place
agreed,re-
before
with gum water.
For years this plan was
carried
keeps his country house ; and
on, and the waiter now
and put
carefully,
four
months
terms
his
ago
with
turn
blood
a
250
gave
"slap up
on
the
stamp
as
guineas for
what
he
handsome
out," {i.e.
ehesnut
mare,
15
briolet,
ca-
hands
3
inches,harness, "c.)
BLIND
OF
NAME
This game,
when
which
is
of
set
a
BLIND
of
The
and
convex
the
means
into
mode
concave
sharpercan
sition
requi-
monied
set amongst
sharpers
is well known.
flats,
the use
which
called
constantly
THE
BY
KNOWN
HOOKEY.
BETTER
HAZARD,
cheatingis by
packs of cards,by
what card will
cut
of
that
his purpose.
It was
at this game
robbed Thurtell of 300/.,at the Brown
Weare
Bear,
Bow Street. The events on this game are so quick,
best
answer
immediatelychangesits owners, that
calculated to excite the playerto
it is particularly
to
continue
staking,whilst he possesses the ability
scripti
do so.
is a clear,althoughshort deThe following
and money
After
cuts the
so
of the game
cuttingfor
:
"
the dealer
dea^,and shuffling,
five parcels
; the fifth parcelis
pack into
then put at the top of either of the. others
of the
cuts
players
this fifthis called
;
then
one
off any of the fourth,and
parcel
the
dealer's parcel/' Upon the
a
"
c2
18
HOW
Four lots of
cards,the persons playingplacetheir
u
TO
L1YB
blunt," the dealer then
IN
LONBOK.
up his
turns
and
parcel,
if
if any other card,
he takes all the money
of
then the others turn
up; if they (or any one
them) turn up highercards than the dealer,then he
the players
put upon theircards ;
pays whatever sum
lower than the
if the other cards turned up are
dealer's,he wins
or
if they art the same, he
an
ace,
"
"
wins!
in favour
that the odds are materially
of the dealer,if the game is fairly
played; but
odds
when cards are secreted and substituted,
then
It will be
seen
in favour of the
to one
fifty
downy ones."
Judge Ashurst spokeso ably,and so strongly,
upon
the subjectof gambling, on
sentence
on
passing
"
are
Miller,that
He
do better than extract his remarks.
him for treating
said,after reprobating
we
cannot
his offence lightly
"
Whoever
weighsthis crime in the scale of sober
will think very differently
ject;
the subon
reasoning,
I do not hesitate to say, that this crime of
gaming,which you have made your trade and busi*
and
to encourage, is a crime of greaterenormity,
ness
of more
destructive consequences to society,
than
many which the laws of the country have made
"
a
or
capital.What is the crime of stealing
sheep,
pickinga pocketof a handkerchief,when placedin
competitionwith this crime, traced through all its
With regardto those in the higher
?
consequences
walks of life,
experiencetells us it often leads to
and duelling
about gaming debts,which
self-murder,
terminates in the total ruin of families once
opulent,
and reduces to beggarytheir innocent and helpless
children; and as for those in a lower sphereof life,
20
his
to
TO
HOW
threshold
own
IN
LIVE
LONDON.
if all these
"
thingsbe
not
these fatal resorts,
entering
that he endangershis personal
let him remember
by so doing. Any person found gambling
liberty.
enough to
at
of these
one
*
deter him from
houses,* is liable to be committed
reader's memory
The
where
the
as
stances,
probably supply him with inentered by force,and taken into
will
policehave
custodyall persons found in one of these houses x we remember
seeingthirtytradesmen,amongst other persons, thus paraded
of the seizure
account
throughthe publicstreets. The following
the 8th of Sepmade
at No. 10, King Street,St. James's, on
tember,
1822, will
more
fullyelucidate
the power of the law in
'* A
information
regular
this respect,than any thingwe can urge :
at this
having been laid before the magistrates
entrusted
was
to
its execution
office,
Salmon, Ruthven, Smith, Purton, Ni-
cholls,Perry, Lock, and
other
who
officers,
have
been, for
nights,engaged in watchingthe premises,and laying
their plansfor an ' agreeablesurprise.' All efforts to obtain
admission by stratagem havingprovedfruitless,
it was at length
day
determined
to take the citadel by a coup de main
; and, on Friarranged,
night,the preliminaries
having been previously
the assailants arrived at their respective
posts. Several of the
several
friends of the
mitted
garrisonwere seen to enter, but they were adwith such extraordinary
caution,that there offered no
chance
under
of entrance
of the
that disguise.At last one
officers gave a sort of familiar tap at the postern, in the hope
that it might be opened without suspicion
; but the sentinel was
of his dutyto permitthis to avaiL
in the performance
too precise
It is true the door was
opened,but then an envious chain forbaa
further advance without due inspection,
and the firstpeep at the
visageof the obtruder at once created the alarm of * an enemy.'
The preconcerted
signalsfor such a chance were immediately
given,upon which the whole body of the assailants advanced to
the attack,and by main
force broke the chain in fragments.
By this,however,theyonly surmounted one of the difficulties.
There
were
*ttack
was
stilltwo
doors
demolished
soon
pass, one of which was
fastened by iron
was
; but the third, which
securely
the
force
which
bars, resisted all
was
appliedto it. While the
at
the
to
hottest,Purton, one
of
the
patrol,more
HOW
to
vagrant
a
cannot
be
cunning
than
bo
TO
LIVE
21
LONDON.
IN
Brixton; surelya respectable
man
to this baneful vice,
lost,so infatuated,
his
comrades, called
off two
of the
descendinginto the area with an iron crow, with
prepared,forced open the kitchen door,which had
bolted within.
Tanced
and
;
Followed
by
puttingaside
and
interpose,
soundinga retreat
whose
to
to
his
those who
into the very sanctum
the first floor. Here
of the fair
operatedas
found
he
was
been
strongly
adinstantly
who attempted
sex
a
sort of
bugle for
above, he rushed up stairs
which was on
of the fortress,
were
sanctorum
he
which
companions, he
some
screams
force,and
a
rouge
et
now
table,and
one
solitary
gentlemanapparently
readinga
Ids
ease
;
cards,the money,
removed, and
place in forcingan entrance, ample time
The other officerswere
then admitted,and
however, had
had
taken
allowed.
at
perfectly
newspaper
and all the et cetera of play,
for this,
from the delay which
the
been
had
a
been
general
whose sudden
search commenced
for the members
of the garrison,
could not be accounted for. This searchpr
oved
disappearance
five and twenty
successful,
and,on musteringthe prisoners,
of all descriptions,
greatand small,old and young, Englishmen
most
as
well
in the
as
secured. Some
were
foreigners,
beds,some
of these had been found
up the
chimneys,some
in the back yard, and some
half metamorphosed into servant
themselves in the female
maids,havingendeavoured to disguise
attire which
They all appeared
they found in the house.
under
of
the terrors
trembling
exposure, and a few of them
It was all in vain,
offered large
bribes to be permitted
to escape.
however,and theywere conducted in due form to the watchhouse,
of the corps escaped
where they remained all night. One
lodgingon the
altogether,
althoughat the expense of a night's
under
roof of the house.
the
beds, some
endeavoured to secure
him, but he
when he
did not descend till daylight,
Purton
escapedhis
grasp, and
the coast was
clear.
saw
"
On
in Bow
Saturdaymorning,the office,
the friends
by
of the
filledwith groups
was
was
Street,
incarcerated,while the
of persons attracted by the
street
crowded
in front
noveltyof the
scene.
called on the case, and the
Minshull, who presided,
officerswere
to bring in their prisoners. In a few
despatched
files,
seconds*the group were marched into the officein single
w
Mr.
ZZ
HOW
LIVE
LONDON.
IN
and
dangers,these sufferings,
for its gratification.
risk all these
to
as
TO
these exposures
and
placedin front of the magistrate. Their countenances
betrayedthe strong anxietyof their minds, and being desirous
their features,
of concealing
there was rather a ludicrous scramble
should
be able to get farthest from observation ; and it
to see who
would
for,by
4
that theiralarm was not altogether
withou t foundation,
the Act of last Sessions respecting
vagrants,itis provided,
all persons found playing at unlawful games
shall be
seem
That
to three months*
rogues and vagabonds, and be subject
The terrors of Cold bath-fields"
imprisonmentand hard labour/
and the rotatorywheel,therefore,
stared them full in the face.
deemed
was
had been directed,
the warrant
to whom
Smith, the officer,
then examined.
He stated,
that between the hours of nine
and
twelve o'clock the
"
No.
This
preceding
night,he
went
to the
admission*
10, King Street,St. James's, and demanded
and
refused,
house of
alarm was givenup stairsby knocking*
and
After some
time, he and his brother officersgot in by force,
i
n
on
going up stairs,they found a gentlemansitting a room
readinga newspaper. There was a table in the room which had
was
an
of * rouge et noir.9
for playingthe game
It was
covered with a cloth with red and black divisions. [The
cloth was
cards which were
produced.]He also found some
evidentlybeen
marked with
of the game.
used
holes,and which
used in
were
markingthe
chances
deposedto what he had seen : he had
doubt the articles producedwere used in playing
the game of
no
He had seen it played.
rouge et noir.
"
In answer
from Mr. Minshull,the officers
to a question
denied that theyknew the person who kept the house,although
"
George Ruthven
they believed it to
"
Mr.
MinshuU.
be
also
a
man
of the
name
of Davis.
any body say that these
for the purpose
in question,
Can
assembled in the bouse
at an unlawful game ?
"
The officerssaid theyhad
no
doubt
theyhad
were
parties
of playing
assembled for
the purposes of play.
"
Mr. Alleysubmitted,that the belief of the officerswas
had actually
unless proofs
adduced that the parties
were
nothing,
been playing. This had been decided in a case before Lord
Renyon.
Mr.
Alleyhere made
some
observations
d
by
on
the con.
TO
HOW
tfLASH
contrive
coffee-shops,
varietyof deceptionsby
flash houses, oyster-shops,
and
draw"
of
any young man
shopman,whom theyinduce
"
tQ
fortune* or any clerk"or
his master, it is difficult to speak with accuracy,
without
excitinga feelingvery different
rob
to
FREQUENTERS.
of the
account
the visitors of
which
23
LONDON.
THEIR
AND
HOUSES,
the
In
IN
LIVE
that which, in such cases, oughtto absorb every
Some of them sham the man
of birth,education,
other.
from
and fortune
and
fellows.
They
characters,and
of the
otherwise
to
have
that the
"
excellent actors of their several
his brother in inieach would
quity's
cut
a
in draggingtwo
officers,
had behaved
officers
Minshuli.
whether
Give
children from
and
chargeappeared
acknowledged
prisoners
; but
the
bed,
a
this
Vagrant Act ; I
of
under the provisions
the
me
gentlemen come
Alley submitted,that
gH,mex and
of that act.
punishmentof
correctly.
most
these
Mr.
the
if
sovereign,
misconductingthemselves
in a mistake,and
originated
Mr.
"
and
are
throat for
duct
simplecountryman.;
of
sort
devil-may-care
others the
buffoon
the
others
;
rouge
tould
consequently
et noir
not
come
was
will
see
this
act.
not
an
lawful
un-
within the purview
'
This act provides,
That any person found
playingor bettingat any unlawful game, shall be considered as
a
rogue and vagabond/ The punishmentis hard labour for
u
Mr.
Minshuli.
three months
*'
Mr.
game,
"
or
as
having been
to dismiss
"
The
friends."
At
Minshuli, after some
the circumstances
and
of Correction.
present there is no proofof playingat any
unlawful, or unlawful betting.
Alley.
lawful
Mr.
in the House
there
of the case,
consideration,
said,that under
as
the informer had
not
come
all
ward,
for-
found in the house
proofof the parties
he felt himself bound
actually
playingor betting,
was
no
them.
retired amidst
prisoners
the
of
congratulations
their
24
HOW
TO
LONDON.
IN
LIVE
is their
Such
doing could be avoided.
that they
their infamous
love of following
practices,
of 6rf.,although their
would
rob a poor
wretch
The
laden
with
cash.
"gaffer/'of
pockets were
whom
have
we
just spoken, is, perhaps,more
like a human
has ocHe
casionally
being than any of them.
he has
given a trifleto the unfortunates
sneered at
assisted in beggaring,
whilst others have
the entreating
victim, and advised the unfortunate
be A
himself, as he must
gull to hang or drown
death
for
burden
to
Flash
so
himself,and
houses
houses
it has been
are
shut
doors
but
of
like the
and
judiciously
without
but
often
who
knocks
certain
as
well
to
to
as
hour,
strings
officers?
staff,and says
"
"
All's
right,
only me."
in policeoffices.
great privileges
informer goes to Bow
for and
Street, and applies
obtains
house
after
have
of a flash
requiringthe owner
for admittingcustomers
to attend, and answer
The
seasonable
hours.
time for hearing the
a
summons,
arrives,but
case
cove
informer
no
is told that
the
a
the
in the voice of the watchman,
his
with
Informers
An
doubt
No
all shut at
sexes,
is there
magic
twelve
they opened afterwards
are
thieves,of both
What
are
o'clock ;
trulysaid, that they
at
within.
not
of the flash cribs
how
it's
closed
now
are
but
though
public-houses,
most
respectableones.
infamous
are
annuallylicenced
These
bore to others.
a
no
the ken
of
"
The
appears.
stands forward
person
that
agaikst
phraseology
by
being the
which
they denote the landlord of
worship snakes his head, and says
how
this is
then
dismisses the accused
"
we
know
what
"
any
His
house.
a
"Ah!
has caused
without
trate
magis-
I
see
this ;" and
comment
on
TO
HOW
subject. He
paid to withdraw
LIVE
IN
25
LONDON.
knows
same
his evidence, and yet, when
that
has been bribed to absent himself,
fellow,who
for
applies
that the informer
has been
the
againstanother publicanwho
would
is instantly
not
compromise, a summons
granted,and the case proceededin,as if the veracity
of such a villain.was to be,dependedupon.
The publican
who does not harbour prostitutes
or
a
warrant
"
thieves,becomes
thus the victim of a law, aimed
onlyat those who do keep open house for the reception
of such characters.
It is notorious
that
the
informers
paid by
publicanswho are interested in stoppingtheir
called stashing
their gag), and
mouths (technically
that,when the money is given,the moietyof the fine,
that should go elsewhere, drops into the pocket of
the fellow who professes
to the public.
to do justice
About four or fivepoundsadministered every year,
dose to the watchful powers of
operates as a sleeping
the informer,ana
If
are
the flash crib is unmolested.
stranger happensto be in one of the delicate
in the parishof St. Paul, Covent
consarns
Garden,
after Act of Parliament hours, and is told that the
a
takinga go of gin at the bar
he naturally
asks the landlord why
to admit such a dangerousfellow ?
says the publican, pooh ! he and I
another.
If he peachedagainst
me,
of blunt out of his pocket,
besides
person
"
whenever
is
an
informer,
he is so mad
"
as
Dangerous,"
understand
it would
one
be lots
his little drops
in."
he likes to come
Receivers
of stolen goods are
alwaysin droves
about the police
offices. These gentlemenalso have
their privileges.
of civilitiestakes
An interchange
placebetween them and the officers who are willing
26
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
crack a bottle and a jokewith then!
smoke a pipe,
of houses of accommodation for
and the proprietors
houses
of earning
both sexes, of allages
the owners
and those respectable
thieves,who disdain to do a
dirtyaction,but plunderwhen some character is to
be got by the achievement, for which theymay be,
if not scraggedfor death,at all events laggedfor
to
"
"
life.
by Bow Street
where
these ruffians sit all day long. A
office,
and
in,sees them playing
cribbage,
strangerlooking
and might,perhaps,
smoking and drinking,
suppose
There is
a
low
publichouse
close
hour for relaxation from the
is the fact ?
labours of their several trades. What
Why, that theysit there every day,from morning
tillnight,waitingfor the arrival of their nose
(a
of robberies)
fellow deputed
to pickup news
$ the
moment
a thief is broughtup to the office,
away
a
nd
and
watch
the examination,
tain
ascertheyscamper,
theyhad
snatched
an
known
by tne thief's known connexion (t.e.
to them) whether any of the swag can
be got before
it is broughtforward in judgment.
When
is committed,these fellows
a large
robbery
know it. Some act as touters, that is,theytake the
thingsfrom the thief whilst he makes off;when the
thief is taken,theybowl to the fence and givenotice,
so
that it may be removed away
to
some
other
place.
The
notorious Reuben
a frequenter
was
Josephs
of the house to which we
allude,till,
beinghimself
wanted, he could bear it no longer
; IkeySolomons
also a supporterof that house which has brought
was
I
to their graves.
so many
The police
of as*
say, in defence of their practice
HOW
ZO
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
cloth,and make up coats, which theypawn
night for 30*. or 35s.,they then sell the ticket
eaten
at
to
perhapstakes it out; if not, at the end
of the twelvemonth, the pawnbroker discovers that
the moth
first brought,
when
holes,imperceptible
some
who
one,
have
now
so
much
increased,as
to
render the
coat
raggedand useless. An adventurer at Paris had a
cakes, and agreedfor a sum
specimen of white wax
for a waggon
load, and pawned them ; when the
time expiredit was
found,that,excepttwo or three
blocks of wood, covered with thin
dozen,theywere
coats
of
wax.
round
the trade with an
went
Young E
elegantchain, which they would lend just51. 10s.
on
duces
(fortheyhave a rule with regardto gold,that reit to a certainty).
He would
ask six guineas,
when
denly
and
refused, take it up'asif going then sudturn
round, and throw down a petitore chain,
like it,as to deceive the nicest eye ; the jeweller
so
tried it with
and
having previously
aquafortis,
this operweighed it,does not think of repeating
ation,
"
lends 51. 10s. on a chain,which, a year
he discovers will not fetch 15s.
E. had
afterwards,
five hundred of these counterfeit chains,and got rid
and
of them
A
some
with
all in London
and
the country.
who resided in Golden
foreigner,
Square, had
medals
of Napoleon,made
of zinc, covered
plateof gold;the platingwas
equalto what
to the
gold would have been; and, to prevent injury
die, the aquae was
alwaystried on the edge,where
the platewas
thickest. lie got seven
guineasa piece
these medals, and scarcely
on
a pawnbroker in the
trade escaped
him.
Old coats are subjected
with potash
to a scouring
a
HOW
LIVfi
TO
IN
29
LONDON.
Water,and the nap is then reproducedby a wire
brush; these thingswhen pressedlook like new, and
where
there are
are
pawned at night,especially
i keeps several
wily boys in the shop. Old L
persons employed in revivingclothes for this purpose,
whom
he facetiously
calls his resurrection
men.
Sealingup
boxes
and changcontaining
jewellery,
ing
stale device.
H"
d was
connected with a gang, who did the
One
trade as follows:
disguised,
pawned a gold
and
value
about 4/.,for 2/. ; at
Watch, chain,
seals,
them, is
a
"
moment, H
information at some
the
same
d, or
of the gang, gave
office (Queen Square,
some
obscure
robbery,and a printedhandbill
sent to, who,
circulated. The pawnbrokerwas
was
forced to give it up
the oath of the owner,
on
was
without compensation.
By this trick hundreds were
for
instance)of
"
"
a
realized.
AUCTIONS
AND
BOUNCERS,
"c9
The
of
principle
"c.
auction
be put up at what
HORSE-DEALERS,
it is
is,that
selling
worth
actually
it is
the article
at least ;
onlysold on an advance, which, however small,
auctions the goods are
be a profit.In mock
must
always made for sale and not for use.
Egyptian
like
seals,which look
ore
monly
gold at night,are comsold for two guineas,
though not worth more
The knives sold by boys
than as many
shillings.
about the streets, are alwaysmuch
better than those
sold at these places. At Birmingham
man
ceived
reone
knives
order for a thousand dozen sporting
an
of common
for auctions : theywere
made accordingly,
*
d2
SO
HOW
TO
JLIVB
IN
fcONBOJ*.
iron polished,,
damaged horn, "c. "c" at about 4*.
sold at these auctions for 2s. 6d. and
per dozen,and
to the acuteness
or less,
according
3;. 6d. each, more
be
a cheap lot may
of the
purchasers.Occasionally
mock
auctions,but then, depend
bought at even
the
know
stolen goods. We
upon it, they are
will not lead them to in*
minds
of some
morality
reminded
quireinto this fact,but When they are
they will,
that this is dangerousas well as unjust,
desist.
perhaps,
his
d has existed many
I"
years by getting
manufacturers^
glass
billsdiscounted by upholsterers,
"c. takinghalf
shoemakers,chinamen, linen-drapers,
the rest in goods. The goods are then
money, and
tions,
to these aucconveyedto a fence,* and from thence
be sold cheap,if
where they may, perhaps,
of cash,but in
are in want
of the rooms
the proprietors
generalthen can afford to lie out of their money ; they
and then
givea smallsum to the fraudulent owner,
sell the goods by auction,puttingthem up at the
of
priceyou could buy them in the shops,and,
at a heavier price.
course, selling
auctions always sell their goods at night,
Mock
calicoes glazed
flaws in silks,
up
for,by candlelight,
imitate linen,"a
Old tea-caddies are
and sold for new.
to
*
+
A
L"
"c.
deceive any eye.
*r
with French
polish,
would
rubbed
obtained by
placefoe stolen goods,or tilings
i
which it was
,
had
the upholsterer,
the interest of both to
fraud.
stock,
bankrupt's
in
and buy
; they
undervalue,
to
value
a
will not
water
goods,French polished,which warm
L. knew
this,and got the
stain port wine, however,will.
"c with it,theythen appeareddull
bankruptto mark his tables,
price.
let L. take them at his own
and old,and the assignees
new
were
"
HOW
TO
LIVE
IK
31
LONDON.
To elucidate the subjectof
in London, it is
living
necessary to remark, that those,who live by robbing
lows
their feuow*creatures,
are
robbed,in turn, by feland less fortunate than them*
more
despicable,
selves. Indeed, this system may
be compared to
that of animal nature, where the wolf,that exists by
devouringlambs, is,in his turn, preyedupon and
devoured by the vermin that infest him.
bread
At the wine auctions,it is usual to provide
and cheese,which is thoughtto enhance the flavour,
of pert in particular.
Several well dressed vagabonds
from
auction,
to
and
even
to auction,
go daily
vouring
the wine, and dewine merchants' houses, tasting
the bread and cheese, though they never
order a single
bottle,
or bid for a dozen.
A
swindler
house
of this class called at
a
respectable
in York
Street,Covent Garden, and, representing
himself as SpringRice, M.P., requested to
taste some
whiskey. The requestwas, of
raspberry
course, compliedwith, and the imaginarymember
ordered a largequantity
to be sent to his residence;
at
in
the
same
time
his wish
expressing
to taste
some
he was, on his own
water, for which
purpose
conducted to a private
suggestion,
apartment ; there
the best part
the soi disant Spring Rice consumed
and became so elevated,as to attract the
of a bottle,
attention of the spirit
merchant, whose brother arriving
told of the unparliaat that moment,
was
mentary
The
of the presumed M.P.
conduct
brother,who knew Mr. Rice personally,
peepedinto
the room, and detected the imposture. The drunken
veyed
vagabond was destitute of money, and was conwith extraordinary
into the adjacent
facility
kennel ; takingumbrage at this treatment, he created
32
a
HOW
and
disturbance,
TO
IK
LIVE
LONDON.
ultimately
conveyedto
was
Bow
Street.
A
to
vast
number
of
men
go
on
the run,
or
"c.
taverns,coffee-rooms,
chop-houses,
is,after
havingtaken
(forthese
bounce,
The
plan
of reinordinate quantity
freshment
restrain themfellows never
selves
within the bounds of prudence),
to get down
stairs under some
pretence, and run ; but if this is
not practicable,
they call the landlord,say theyhave
an
lost their pocket-book,
unfortunately
purse, "c ; but,
to send thither for the
a card, beg him
presenting
with 3s. for the waiter's trouble.
This
amount,
exterior of those who
trick,from the gentlemanly
it,seldom fails; but if it does,they "goon
practise
the bounce," that is, boldlydeclare they have no
and
money,
or
twice
do not
to
mean
pay.
decided that refreshment
It has
been
once
furnished,is only
simplecontract debt,and though,in some cases,
have extended their protection
to tavernmagistrates
these fellowsget discharged
keepers,
yet,generally,
a
with
an
admonition,and the landlord is left
remedy of summoning
to
his
the scoundrel for the amount.
In several cases these rascals have had the temerity
after
to threaten actions for false imprisonment,
havingbeen sent to the watchhouse on one of these
and
charges,
there
with, who, in the
to be met
plentyof attorneys
hopes of gettingtheir costs, will
are
undertake the case.
These kind of persons
are
in
generally
racies
confede-
genious
inBy one of them the following
gangs.
trick was
lately
practised:Two fellows
after the other, into the tap-room of a
one
came,
in the Kent Road, elose by the side of
public-house
the canal ; one ordered a pintof porter,the other a
or
"
TO
HOW
glassof gin and
LIVE
water.
IN
The
33
LONDON.
his beer,
the side of the
first drank
left the house,going down by
canal ; he had not been gone more
than a minute,
when
the other fellow called to the landlord,and
said
That chap has stole the pot he was
drinking
then
"
"
out
of,let 'scome
his customer,
for about
after him."
and
half
a
theyboth
mile, where
The
ran
the
landlord thanked
after the
placeis
pot-stealer
excessively
and the instant the land-'
stopped,
lord seized him, his accomplice
clappeda pistolto
the publican's
head ; they jointly
robbed him, and
escapedacross the fields.
made
During a sojournin the country we were
infamous
fraud,that
acquaintedwith the following
the familyof a gentlemanof large
on
was
practised
property,who died suddenly. The fraud we allude
frauds are, effected by means
to was,
as all extensive
of confederacy,
under the following
circumstances :
-"The
familyof the deceased gentleman,deter-*
mining to leave a spot where every objectreminded
them of the loss they had sustained,employed an
auctioneer to sell off the familystock, stud,housebold furniture,carts, carriages,
in fact,every thing
but plateand linen,and Mr. Auctioneer was busied,
for several days,takingan inventory,
preparatoryto
of the effectsfor sale. In
the catalogue
publishing
he (and his assistant
of his overhauling,
the course
contrived to make
sprites)
every article of furniture
ployers,
appear to the worst advantage; of course, his emabsorbed
his
in grief,did not
observe
conduct; and, on the morning of the sale,having
and run
a sharp
placed odd wheels on the carriages,
half an inch Ions into the frogof the feet
instrument
of two of the most valuable torses,which, althoughit
solitary
; he
there
34
did
lame
HOW
them
no
TO
LIVE
ultimate
at the time
of the
of tricks upon
the
stable,he mounted
IN
LONDON.
injury,made them appear
sale,and practising
a variety
rest
*
of the
inhabitants
of the
pulpit,and commenced
weTe
sellingbut not until his brother conspirators
preparedto bid, for certain lots,a givensum.
By
the showing of these lots (from the tricks that had
been practised),
would bid any thing near
no
one
their value ; and thus 1400/. was
netted by the projectors
his
"
and
executors
had many
of
a
imitators.
DUFFERS,
on
less,
scheme, that has, doubt-
"c.
While
lotterieslasted,little goes, beinglotteries
also existed in despite
of the efforts
a small scale,
of the law to suppress
is a nefarious concern
them; indeed,whenever there
on
a large
scale,small ones on
will be found. These petty rogues
the same
principle
often,from their necessities,
are
more
daringthan
their wealthier prototypes.Besides the mock auctioneers
have alluded,a set of perambulatto whom
we
ing
auctioneers exist;these fellows are called duffers*
all London
has heard of a creature
of the
of Bowers, who has been taken up on charges
of
name
fraud. The principle
by which these men prey on the
of the unsuspecting
of both sexes, is,by plycredulity
ing
of the streets, courts, and alleys,
at the corners
their contraband
to vend
which
wares,
generally
consist of silk handkerchiefs made
in Spitalfields
;
of silk purchased at the piece-brokers,
remnants
which theytell you are true India ; stockings
from
Rag Fair or Field Lane, sometimes stolen,sometimes
which they declare are
bought at a very low price,
Almost
justsmuggledfrom France, and therefore can
afford
36
HOW
thrashing
you for
takingyou before
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
the threat of
or
rascality,
magistrate.Many individuals
your
a
terrified at the idea of such an excape,
posure, that theyhave been gladto make their esand quietly
put up with their loss.
A jew, named
few months
Maddocks, was
some
have
been
"
"
so
since
of charges,
and
proceeded
againston a variety
short account
of his depredations
a
to
may serve
the reader againstthe whole fraternity.
He
warn
firstchargedwith obtaining
from the
was
ten guineas
Hon.
Brooke Greville,
Grosvenor Street,
of Lower
him two silk shawls, which he pretended
by selling
articlesof foreign
manufacture
mere,
viz.,one Cashwere
and the other Indian. The facts elicited were
Lord Belgraveand the Hon. Brooke Greville
these ;
to Marlborough
came
Street,and the latter informed
Mr. Roe, the magistrate,
that a man,
havingthe appearance
of a foreigner,
who spokeFrench fluently,
and stated his name
to be Jean Francaise,and
by
weeks
birth a Frenchman, had been for some
going
the
of
houses
about to
the nobility
and gentry,pretending
Indiaman
that he was
of
a captain
an
lying
in the river,and that he had in his possession
some
and valuable shawls of the eastern manufacture,
very costly
which he had broughtwith him from India.
The Hon. Brooke Greville said,he had purchased
of the shawls for ten guineas,
two
upon the fakir of
his representations,
from his having
and particularly
said that Lady Blandford Brooke had recommended
him (whichit subsequently
On'
was
false).
appeared
the day after he made
he found that
the purchase,
of the shawls was
and the
worth eightshillings,
one
of British manuother about sixteen,and both were
facture,
but India patterns.He had discovered abo,
"
"
HOW
TO
LIVB
fN
37
LONDON.
had been at the house of Lord
Crew, Lady Kinnoul, and many other persons of
distinction,and Lord Crew had given ten guineas
had
for two shawls not worth one. pound. The man
the
to them
imposed upon several others By taking,
in the same
cards of persons of distinction,
residing
mended
neighbourhood,and statingthat he was recomto call and show his shawls. Lord Belgrave
.said,that the same man
called upon him in Grosvenor
Square that morning*and made the. same retion
to him, and having received informapresentafcions
from his friend, Mr. GreviHe, of the man's
.frauds,he directed him to call again on Monday,
and requested
the magistrate
to advise what ought
Mr. Roe. said,that he would send an
to be done?
the officer,
officerto take him intocustody
"-r-Ballard"
which Lord Belgrave
said,that from the description
.had givenhim of the person, he knew him to be a
for offering
Jew, whom he had had before in custody
a
shawl and a watch- to the familyp" a noble duke lor
which were
not worth two pounds.
.twenty guineas,
The Hon. Mr. Greville said the man
not a Jew,
.was
but he was
and could not speaka word
a Frenchman,
of English. Ballard said,that he had no doubt he
in a much
should, teach him the English language
of those learned professors
shorter time than some
who
advertise to teach in six lessons ; he was
confident he should be able to teach him the
languagein one lesson- The officer,in pursuance
of the directionshe had received ftom the magistrate,
and waited
went
to Lord Belgrade's
house,;
there till the arrival of the said French East India
When
-he had Untied his pack, and wns
captain.
them to Lord Belgrave,the officerenexhibiting
that the
same
man
.
"
"
"
.
E
38
HOW
tered the
room.
the
if he
man
TO
LIVJB
IN
LONDON.
had previously
asked
lordship
could not speak English,and the
His
could get was, the moment
he saw
the officer "( It is all up, I am
done ;" and
he begged very hard for forgiveness.
On
being
laced before the magistrate,
in the private
roonr,
fr. Greville repeated
the statement
made by him,
and produced the shawls.
In addition,the Hon.
onlyreplyhe
"
E
Oentleman stated,that the prisoner
told him his ve"eel was
lyingin the docks at an expense of three
pounds a day, and that he was
sellingshawls at
lessthan one-half their value"in consequence of being
in want
of money
also sail
to clear the river. He
that he was
goingto Brussels immediately.
A
silk
respectable
mercer
produced, and said they were
examined
worth, one
the shawls
lings,
eightshil-
and the other about sixteen. Mr. Roe asked
the prisoner
ifhe had anythingto say ?-" He replied,
that he had purchased
the shawls of a man
who said
had
he was
of an Indiaman, and the man
a captain
imposed upon him, for he had given him a gtfftd
"
pricefor
The
them.
schemes of these
to
the
differof course, according
reptiles,
they severally
degreeof ingenuity
Some of
possess, and the circumstances of each case.
servient
them exist solely
by this ; others make duffingsub"c.
to their purposes of robbery,
have said that petty thieves are often the
We
tible
desperate,
theyare alwaysthe most contempfellows exist by calling,
respectabl
; many
the
dressed,at houses, after they have watched
out.
owner
They ask for him, and hearinghe is not
most
at
home, request leave
to write
a
their appearance, is grantedwithout
note; this,from
; they
suspicion
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
38
LONDON.
out of the
to send the servant
opportunity
to seal the letter (generally
carrying
rjponi for a light
and, during her absence,pocket
wax
themselves),
articles that may be in the apartment.
any portable
take
an
Others stand in the passage and send the
servant
up
stairs to her mistress with a message ; the moment
ishe has turned her back, theysteal coats, hats,or
any thingthat may be left in the hall. Some of these
fallowsdress in liveries,
and, bearingthe appearance
of
servants, are never
gentlemen's
suspected.But
the hut of miseryis not exempted from the
even
villains.
of these contemptible
Some of
depredations
them
under
accustomed
to visit various alms-houses,
colour of being employedby the trustees
to
for the purpose of ascertaining
inspectthe buildings,
what repairs
maybe needful; and, in the course
of their pretended-examinations,
theytake an opportunity
of stealing
littlevaluable
article
which
any
in their way.
of the aged tenants
Some
may come
of the benevolent retreats which these wretches have
visited with this infamous design,
have formerly
oc*
and probably
stations in life,
tain
recupiedrespectable
are
At the alms-houses near
few relicsof value.
lost a watch,
Shoreditch church one poor old woman
Similar depreand another three silver spoons.
dations
where.
committed
in the Borough and elsewere
It would be highlygratifying
to see these
a
surveyors
One
at
standing
the bar of
a
court
of
justice.
servinghis time at
Botany Bay, was the inventor of the following
plan;
with a largebag filled with
Dressed in a livery,
p"
clothes,he would enter a shop,followed by an old
"Jew, a noted receiver of stolen goods,who would
importune this Simeon to sell him the clothes con-*
Simeon, who
is
now
40
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
tained in the bag,sayinghe would give3/. for them.
Simeon
would
reply,"I'll not deal with any Jew
thieves,"and say to the shopkeeper(he generally
went
to a woman's
shop),u I 'd rather sell tnem to a
Christian for 3/.,than to you for 5/. you old thief."
article at
Simeon would then purchasesome
trifling
shop,and say-^"these clothes are my master's,
Lord Dudley ana Ward, Earl Grey, (or any other
he thoughtproper to name), let me
leave
nobleman
them here while I step to the Sadler's (naming some
in the neighbourhood),
and when
tradesman known
I come
back, ma'am, perhapsyou can tell me where
I can find a Christian dealer to buy my master's coats."
had gone, the old Jew would
The instant Simeon
say
the
"
"
dere's
an
obstinate
fellow,the clothes
are
worth
dere worth a farthing.If you'll
buy 'em of
and
him
for 3/. or 4/.,I'll allow you 10*. profit;"
he would quitthe
a pound as a deposit,
then, leaving
10/.
as
shop.
The shopkeeper,
to
willing
the snare.
On Simeon's return
for 31.
of him
or
4/.,and it is needless
a
to
add, that
that the Jew
shillings,
the pound note he had left
tated,
imiThis trick has been frequently
forgery.
and is practised
to this day.
theywere not worth as
and
never
re-appeared,
was
gainthe 10*.,fell into
she boughtthe clothes
many
HORSE-DEALERS,
"c
as that
men,
vanityso common
among
of knowing somethingof horse flesh : but my worthy,
self-sufficient reader, look before you
unsuspecting,
experience,
leap; read what we are enabled, from personal
to write.
Buy a horse,do you know what
Why, to purchasea magasine
you are liable to?"
There
is no
"
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
41
LONDON.
of diseases in the
shapeof a horse,an animal afflicted
with spasm, speedy-cut,
wind gall,corns, broken
in the tongue ; a
and cancer
knees, staggers,gravel,
that has been
thathas been eating
roarer
hay chops,
blistered in the knees, fired in the hock, or (ifdeficient
in these points)
that has been stolen.
one
It was our lot,about four years
ago,to meet a wellbred intelligent
at Bath, who had (much
young man
to his credit)
who
just partedwith his employer,
the professions
of a horsewas
a fellow that blended
dealer and an auctioneer. This individual possessed
that great gift,
excellent address,ana
he had,
an
from his love of horses,and his lack of means,
been
made the dupe of the employer,
he had left
whom
firstmet him, having,at that precise
at the time we
discovered the nefarious trade in which he was
period,
a primary
innocently
agent. He stated to us that he
became
acquaintedwith the dealer and auctioneer
above alluded to in Wales, who commenced
making
of him by askinghim to ride any horse
a cat's paw
he had to sell,as he stated that no person could
better " set off" a horse than himself. This flattering
unction induced the young gentleman,
who
an ampleportionof vanity,to
possessed
consent
to
and our auctioneer and horseand Bristol,
for travelling
dealer furnished the capital
expenses.
and showy horses : the
He always
had good-carcased
nothingabout a horse,but how
young fellow knew
to ride one
(to use his own
words) "effectively
It was
made known
at the inns that he stoppedat,
that he wanted to part with the animal he rode,and
visit Bath
"
morning he would ride about the town and
its.vicinity.
Bath beingthe resort of the fashionable
the
next
world, was
an
excellent spot for
a
swindler in the
e2
42
TO
HOW
horse line to
LIVE
pitchupon;
IN
LONDON.
for
every
chinks that he is, or,
than
more
at
bauchee
de-
worn-out
least, looks
in
although,
twenty-three,
not
fact,he will
These poor sprigsof
again see forty-three.
fashion,and shadows of men, grasp at any thingthat
immediately a field for aisplay;they, of
opens
think themselves
infallible on all subjects,
course,
never
the rider is ; and, in
and endeavour
to ascertain who
of the inquiry,
"the course
as a
hearinghim represented
ing,
of fortune,
but in want of money, and wishman
young
in consequence,
to
tliisfashionable young
while a stable-boy
runs
his stud, they see
and examine the horse,
part with
man,
ing
yard.After lookwise on a subject
of which he is utterly
ignorant,
beau
the cash
the ancient
agreed upon,
pays
thinking,of course, he has a bargain,under
circumstances,whilst he actually
pays three times
the value of a horse,which
that
has every frailty
it down
the
young friend,and new
discovered that he had been the means
acquaintance,
horse flesh is heir
to.
Our
of
broken-winded, broken-knee'd,spavined,
selling
and, in fact,ruined rozinantes, with
wind-galled,
the sun, and immediately
every complaintunder
quittedthis dishonourable course; not, however*
suffered. The
before his character had materially
the sale
transaction that first opened his eyes, was
of
horse
honourable member
of the House
of
Commons
animal's spirit
and action made
it
: the
attraction in the fashionable
an
objectof peculiar
discovered
cityof Bath, but the purchaserultimately
he had purchased
and immediatelytaxed
a cripple,the seller with the fraud that had been practised
An explanation
the animal*
took place,
upon him.
shoes were
removed, and it appearedpalpable,
a
to
an
44
TO
HOW.
MVB
IN
LONDON.
state,that,to an inexperienced
eye, it appears
that nothingbut hard work will quellits exuberant
pan*
$t
spirit.
SPECULATION.
when
Swindling,
performedon a largescale,ob*"
We
need merely
speculation.
tains the title of
nity
mention one word to remind our readers of the affiand swindling that one
between speculation
astrous
the disword is panic. Every one must remember
events of 1825, the era when every species
of fraud was
We
do not of course
at its summit.
nefarious
to infer that all speculations
mean
are
has
but we
do affirm,
and experience
transactions,
roved it,that most schemes are tricks of a few to
In 1825, no less than one hundred
efraud the many.
and fifty
in existence
were
companies
amongst
how
exist ? not one-sixth.
The
them,
many now
followinglist,in which we believe there are few
and
of the respectable
omissions,contain the names
the fraudulent schemes.
The law of libel prohibits
our
making out the latter,the memories of our
readers may perhapsserve
We
have
the purpose.
of each comadded to the list,
the alleged
pany,
capital
the bare view of which is sufficientto expose
their hollow and fallacious pretensions.
The list,
which has been collected with considerable trouble,
will be an invaluable record,some
few years hence,
of the number
of adventurers that inundated London,
of the citizens of this great
and of the gullibility
"
S
"
metropolis.
Companies.
Capital.
Gas Company
Inter-National
EgyptianTradingCompany
Welch
....
"
.
.
Slate,Copper, and Lead Mining Company
Dgtzed
by
l,000,CiO
500,090
HOW
TO
IK
LIVE
48
LONDON.
Capital.
Way Company
of England Cobalt and Copper Company
West
and Med way Lime and Brick Company
Thames
Ijondon CarpetCompany
Devon
Haytor Granite. Company
Persian Mining and Trading Company
British Steam and Patent NavigationCompany
Leasehold Estate Investment
Company
Scottish National Mining Company
United
Medical,.Chemical,and Drug Company
Hibernian Hemp, and Flax Company
ImperialPlate Glass Company
Honduras
IndigoCompany.
Columbian
AgriculturalCompany
National
Stone
.
.
"
.
"
125,000
.
100,000
SOtk.000
.
200,000
.
600,000
1,000,000
"
"
250,000
.
.
200,000
1,000,000
1,300,000
....
'
.
.
..
.
.
.
..'...
GxeshamburyCompany
Foreign Wine Association
Medway Lime and Coke Company
Central- American
Mining,.Pearl, Fishing, and
Trading Association
Pearl and Coral FisheryAssociation
General
South Wales
Mining Company
Northern Mining Company
of .Suez Canal Company
Isthmus
.
.
.
.
"
.
100,000
.
1,500,000
000,000
.
.
.
500,000
....
British Barilla and Soda Company
Gem
American
South
Company
Worcester and Gloucester Union Canal
OU Gas Company
Jamaica
Flour and Com
Depot Company
Bengal Sugar Company
Royal Anglo.Hanoverian
Irish
Grand
Hartz
.
"
.
.
.
.
.
"
"
1,000,000
1 ,000,000
Mining Association
300,000
ShippingCompany
Commercial
Assurance
rantee
Gua-
and
Company
Association
Saint Katherine Dock
Company
and Severn Railway Company
Thames
3,000,000
...
Company
Coast Mining and Trading Company
Gold
Chilian and Peruvian
Mining Association
Vein Mining Association
Biscaina and Moran
Mexican
Trading Company
Timber
200,000
1,000,000
250,000
and
Wood
....
.
.
.
.
1*000,000
"...
Columbian
AgriculturalAssociation
.
.
1,030,000
750,000
1,000,000
.
1,300,000
46
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
Capital.
Hibernian Joint Stock Banking
British Distillery
Company
Atlantic
and
Company
.
PacificShip Canal, "c. Company
Western
1,000,000
500,000
....
Canal Gas Engine Company
Mediterranean Steam Company
Grand
.
.
1,000,000
.
3,000,000
....
Rail-Road
.
.
.
and Bristol ditto
London
Peruvian Tradingand Mining Company
City of London Central Street and Northern
1,500,000
provement
Im'
Company
"
.
.
Union Bread Company
British Invention and Discovery Company
"
"
.
.
800,000
750,000
1,000,000
Haytian TradingCompany
300,000
Bognor and Aid wick Improvement Company
The
Licensed Victuallers' RectifyingDistillery
Company
500,000
'
"
"
Cattle Food Culture Association
British Lead Company
Sootia and New
Brunswick
Nova
.
.
"
.
.
.
.
100,000
,
500,000
Ship Building
Company
100,000
Guernsey and JerseyShip-BuildingCompany
200,000
"United Kingdom Estate Association
2,000,000
Patent Steam Canal Company
60,000
and
I
slands'
Association
Philippine
Mining
Trading
"
"
"
.
.
.
2,500,000
.
.
2^000,000
....
British Rock
and Patent
SaltCompany
Potosi Mining Company
Irish Manufacturing
Association
New
Levant Free TradingCompany
Cheshire Iron and Coal Company
British Forest PlantingCompany
Alliance Pearl FisheryAssociation
London
Abattoir
Birmingham
Association
Water
Works
"
...
.
.
.
.
.
.
50,000
1,000,000
....
125,000
500,000
....
British North American
Ship-BuildingCompany
Canada
and Nova
pany
Scotia Steam NavigationCom-
50,000
Cotton
Importingand ManufacturingCompany
2,000,000
British and ForeignPatent Association
500,000
Societyfor the Prosecution and Encouragement of
the Herringand Cod Fisheries in the Deep Sea,
.
and
on
the Coasts of Scotland
.
.
.
.
.
500,000
TO
HOW
LIVE
IK
47
LQNDON.
Mining Association
Anglo-Peruvian
London
French
and Hibernian Corn
and flour
Capital.
000,000
.
Company
.
600,000
160,000
Brandy Distillery
Company
Waggon, Van, and Post-chaise Gas Vacuum Engine
300,000
Company
Association
300,000
Royal Cornish Mining
Manchester
and Liverpool
300,000
RailwayCompany
Rail-Road
60,000
Surrey
Company
Rent Redemption Company
1,000,000
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
....
General Burial Ground
London
Cemetery
Association
.
.
.
......
Oil,Colour,Varnish,and Dry Saltery
Company
Van
Dieman's Land TradingCompany
ImportationPlate Glass Company
Ground
Rent
Company
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
...
Crimson
Dye Company
General StageCoach Company
London Short StageCoach Company
Economic
Funeral Society
and Jewel Company
Brazilian Agricultural
Patent Scarlet And
.
.
300,000
750,000
300,000
1,000,000
200,000
260,000
.
....
.
.
Mansion
House
Street
Company
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
500,000
150,000
600,000
.
350,000
.
.
Company for the Sale of Horses
London
and Car-
10,000
riages
General
United
Life Insurance
Mining Association
General PostingCompany
City ImprovementCompany
Bolivar
Company
.
.
....
....
Company
Agricultural
British
Mining Association
Royal
British Stone and Slate Company
Patent Steam Carriage
Home
Investment and Annuity Company
Peruvian Mining Company
African Company
United Englishand Italian Coral Fishery
Englishand ForeignShare Exchange
pany
Comand Colonial Hemp and Max
British,Irish,
Rio
de la Plata
,
Stannaryand
.
.
.
"
"
.
.
National
2,000,000
....
.
Mining Company of Ireland
600,000
1,000,000
500,000
500,000
....
.
200,000
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
"
150,000
25,000
30,000
....
PoultryJoint Stock Company
.
d
by
2,000,000
48
West
India. Company
Pacific Pearl and
Iillrm IN
TO.
BOW
iONB"*.
'
.
.
.
CrystalFishery
'
Association
London
Ale
.
and Beer
.
2,060,9011
.
1*0,000
FUhety
"
....
.
.
.
.
Pacific Trading,Mining,and Pearl
United
"
.
Company
Canada
Ship Building.Company
Cornwall and Deronahire
Tin, Copper, and
Mining Company.
300,000
"
...
Lead
500,000
....
British Tontine Association
."
STOCK
We
000,000
EXCHANGE.
meditated
considerable space to this
devoting
mediatel
of robberydoes not imbut, as this species
subject,
in
affect the publicat large,
but merges
the result of one pack of gamblersfleecing
another,
shall enter into no minute detail of its proceedwe
ings.
It is to expose delinquencies,
that affect the
The followingsketch is
that we
many,
engage.
from the pen of a gentleman,
well known on 'Change,
of it :
who has obligingly
our
permitted
publication
What is money ? change! If money be change,
he who wants
wish to changehis
it,must necessarily
condition J Our firstquestionis, therefore,where
"
"
"
are
to
we
look for it ?
-
Oh ! sirs," the
cap!" On the
answer
is
as
side of
official
lord
Sir William
Walworth, where
.time immemorial
have sat in judgment
east
ready as a borrower's
of the
Temple Bar, within the jurisdiction
successor
\of
.
.
mayors
from
and calipee,
while aldermen and
calipashalderwomen
have smiled silent*
ciferated
voor
approbation,
riotous applause,
to the edification of the
London 'prentices*
who, viewingthe sweets of office"
in the perspective,,
"the
vowed to make civicdignity
over
"
end
and
scope of their
native London
the queen
ambition,"and
stamp their
of the arts, and mistress of
H0W
JLITS
TO
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49
LONDON.
look for
Yes ! it is to the citywe
the world.
must
we
there, which way soever
turn, nothing
money
but money
encounters
our
view; money-brokers,
money-bankers,money-scriveners
; in short,money
"
might be superaddedto
*
the
of the. multitu-
whole
dinous tribes that infest the
city,and few would be
of
found
willingto quarrelwith the superaddition
to their ordinary
qualifications.
money
London
is the soul of commercial
speculations
;
"soul no ! itis the body of mercantile enterprise,
and
the blood that circulates through its veins,
money
impartinglife,vigour,and motion, to every limb of
Remove
it is
the many-headed monster.
money,
seized with a sort of commercial epilepsy
^constantly
of the body besickness
comes
"a
falling
every member
listlessnessand inactivity
supersede
paralyzed,
the bustle of life,
and a stranger would almost fancy
"himself transported
to Glubdubdrib
for,to say truth,
London
without
would
be but the ghost of
money
her former self; lackingthis essential article,she
slacks every thing possessing
it,she lacks nothing.
He
then, who possesses the art of making money,
it ; he, who
and possessing,
by adventurous
applies
it to flow in new
channels,reverting
eauses
enterprise
in the end to generalbenefit ; he, who
successfully
iinds vent
for surpluscapital,
and thus avoids the
danger occasioned by its superincumbency,may
justlylay claim to the applausesof his fellow^citizens for the highestattainment
of commercial
virtue, and becomes, in the languageof the "old
to the more
tfrity
grubs," a good man, or, according
classic vocabularyof the junior branches, a regular
"
"
"
"
"
jnoutt
'
substantive"
vBe it our
task to
analyzethese good
trten, to
F
iu-
50
AOW
TO
hlXM
IN
LONOOM
of tbete
of the qualities
expressive
adjectives
noatn
substantives; and showing the springsand
of individual wealth, ana
sources
exposingthe chi*
a little
canery of trade,to put the world, in general,
its guard
the money-makingtribes,
more
on
against
be theychildren of wrath, or of grace; Israelites of
with the
Gentiles; the modern Jews Tie in gentility
of the holymysteries
most
orthodox professors
of
mother church. But in this nidus of money-spinners,
with what classshall we begin?Each seems
to claim
precedence,
clamouringfor placeas loudlyas an ex*
trodace
ex-minister,or any ex-officed individual,
tortioner,
who
wishes
to exert
his
for
ingenuity
the benefit of
shall we
choose ? which class select for our coup d'essai? Our
brain,thrown into chaos by the contest, is scarcely
calm enough to venture a selection; fortune beckons
himself,and
the
common
weal.
Where
onward, and, trustingin her inspirations,
we
decide on the doctrine of chances, and dash at once
us
into the Stock Exchange.
is in the neighbourhood
This regionof speculation
of Threadneedle Street.
Here we
may see Jews,
Christians,
NullifidianSi
Mahometans, Multifidians,
and Omnindians, all jostling
and elbowingin one
universal scramble after the root of all evil; and
each
content
if he
can
save
his
from
neighbours
the whole of the
Pandemonium, by absorbing
root
in
and leaving
them in a state of virtuous
question,
poverty,that fitsthem for futurebeatitude. Here,
reared at a mightyexpense, peers the British and
ForeignStock Exchange,the Temple of Mammon,
where
whole
his votaries sacrifice to the infernal cod their
soul,and stand with inverted umbrellasin an*
of a goldens/tower.
ticipation
Here
assemble the
52
HOW
TO
LIVE
LONDON.
IN
firsttosses the Consolidated
Threes
"
as
if he wonUT
of the moon," the last beat*
them down to that abyss which Milton has so ably
described; it is heaven or hell with them, and the*
hang them
joysof
comprisesas
the
must
uses
assume
Mentor
felt in
the pangs of the other, are
downs
of the market.
Yet, as
and
One,
the ups and
as
the horns
on
our
plan
well the mode of transacting
business-,
and abuses of the Stock Exchange, we
serious tone in our observations.
a more
and, as we venerate
jest,
we
goddess,
every hair on the beard of the disguised
will try the effectof gravity
constitution ; and*
our
on
business here beingto prevent the publicbeing
our
the use ef their
led by the nose elsewhere, we crave
the sober truisms which we are about
eyes to inspect
to
never
brake
once
a
promulgate.
All readers of whatever class,
rank, or condition;
will
agree that nature intended every rational biped
should
wear
a
nose;
this
granted,we
Truth
application.
first place,
truth is one"
is like
to its
the
awkward
deficient
utterly
were
"
the property of a
truth is indivisible so
"
nose
is
a
a
man's
man
with two
more
appear
if he
much
and
a
will
proceed
hose; in
would
tainly
cer-
noses,
than
therefore,is a*
unity,
of truth.
as
Seeondljr,
man's
nose
;
divided,it
by losingits unity. Thirdly;
truth leads mankind
to a justand proper conclusion
does a man's nose
"so
we
; whence
**J"" Follow
and you can't go wrong.*' Thus
having
your nose
and we
the affinity
tween
betrust
satisfactorily,
proved,
truth and a man's nose, we will proceedto
ceases
make
to
be
a
the truth
nose,
as
apparent
as
any
nose
on
any face
will accompany
in our
reader who
us
praiseworthyand meritorious undertaking.
of any
truly
HOW
Now
TO
troth,whom
LIVB
we
XN
53
LONDON.
fcavetaken for
our
guidein
this
is really
so charming in her nainvestigation,
kedness,
that we
refuse to obey her first
cannot
and point out the difference between
suggestion,
a
and a broker. And, as the last is the more
gbSer
nourable
of the
-
introduce him
first. Courteous reader ! imagine him before
you,
and go throughthe necessary forms which a polite
knowledgeof the world exacts, on being presented
to the notice or societyof a stranger; you will derive
much
benefit from the exercise of your politeness,
and, what is stillbetter,leave us at leisure to.somanother paragraph.
mence
Returning to our subjectthen, a broker is one
who buys or sells any commodity for a third party.
A stock-broker,
who superintends
the transfer
one
twain, suppose
we
of stock for valuable consideration
;
his commission
is 2". 6d. per cent., and, by this
buyer and seller mutuallysecure
the
sacrifice,
trifling
witness to
a legal
the transfer,besides preventingimposition,
fraud,
and forgery. So longas the broker is not identified
in time bargains
with the jobber,or one who speculates
his own
on
account, we respecthis profession
;
forfeits
he
take to jobbing,
let him once
our
esteem
There are so many temptations
to wrong,
for ever.
the jobbing
broker,that if his clientsfind
influencing
relative tion
propora
nd
his
credit
will
be
saved
at the
to his folly,
is there
man
expense of his understanding.What
bim
honest, his
will bear
honesty
a
for another, will'
who, doing business confidentially
of his own
endeavour to foist a bad bargain
not
(if
the shoulders of a client? Few,
it be practicable)
on
we
if any.
believe,
of nature, dictates
the firstlaw
Self-preservation,
the course, and he who, soaring
p2
54
HOW
IN
LIVE
TO
LONDON.
self in this
the vapour of philosophy,
contemns
too
possesses feelings
age of refinement and luxury,
the soul of a stock-jobber.
romantic to inspire
The commission above quotedappears too small a
remuneration for a broker.
Oh ! you will exclaim,
take
there are too many to live by it,and they must
Fair
to drag on
miserable existence.
to jobbing
a
on
gentlereader,that existence must indeed
softly,
miserable,which dependson the fluctuations of
and
be
for there is very littlecalculation on
of credit
Exchange,albeit a largeportion
fortune alone
the Stock
;
is givento the market
of
a
The
that score.
on
profession
gamester,at all times hazardous, is here particularl
so;' for if he
the
market
keep
after
;
his
not
day,he
which, if he
is
must
pelled
ex-
still
tauntthe scenes of his former glory,
he appears in
of -the house,sunk in self-abandonment,
the precincts
crest-fallen,
a poor spirit-stricken
completely
lator.
specuair
t
he
keen
of
Here, breathing
CapelCourt
and Bartholomew
Lane, he looks for a job among
even
he
misfortune,uncertain
in
his brothers
should he
on
speculate
all
practises
midians
"
the
the
of payment,
rightside.
virtues of the
Here
ancient Nu-
"
One
course
Within
some
his.meal"
if fortunate in spec,
he sipshis beer
public-house
"
He '8 either bull
or bear tillfour o'clock,
the market's closed,he hies him. home
To rest bis limbs upon a bed Hill morn
;
Then rises fresh,and runs to Capel-court
he should gain
Where, if by speculation
And
when
"
A
new
half-crown
"
he
buys
a
mutton
chop
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.'*
The broker may
live without
jobbingon
his
own
TO
HOW
IN
LIVS
his commission,small
respectably.An immense
aocount
him
"
released
daily
from
55
LONDON,
as
it is,will support
of
is
sum
money
trade,which
be productively
must
and here it is necessary to employ a
applied,
in the transaction.
This money
broker for safety
is
in-vested in the purchaseof exchequerbills,
or
any
other available security
in the market, to the end
that the surplus,
not
immediatelyrequired,
may be
put to use at a small interest,until it can be more
cient
beneficially
employed. This alone would be suffiof this,
to support brokers; but, independent
there
are
immense
sums
for permanent
-daily
broughtinto
investment
the market, which, on
of business,would yieldeach broker
profitto
make
it worth
his while to be
sion
fair divi-
a
sufficient
an
honest
man.
We
known to many brokers in the
personally
who, during
neighbourhoodof Throgmorton-street,
have alwaysavoided jobbing
a long life of business,
are
for time, either for themselves or others; who have
accessions of fortune
been contented with the gradual
from real business,and have prospered.It is not
strange,therefore,that our bias should be favourable
honest
and legitimate
to
practices,
seeing these
men
have
prosperedby
and
that
the
theyhave
siness,
gradualinflux of bumade money, although
commend
degrees.Is it wonderful that we should reto our
reader,the slow and secure
youthful
rather than a recurrence
mode
of making profit,
to a
system of jobbingin time bargains inconsiderate,
because in such a system hope takes the place of
and rash,because temerity
alone can givethe
reason
by
slow
"
"
chance
or
prospectof success?
d
by
56
TO
HOW
MONEY
A
LIVE
LENDERS,
IN
LONDON.
DISCOUNTERS,
See.
lifeof modern
man's conduct
at
a
dissipation
(supposing
young
the outset not very regular)
quickly
enoughgenerates the
with
inexperienced,
want
of money.
Raw, rash,and
tion,
by cauunimpregnated.
with
let us suppose him mixingindiscriminately
on
a race
ground
every rank of miscellaneous society
ness
and the loosewhere the plan of modern
manners,
of modern
to invite
education,is most likely
a
mind
suppose him to have lost his 501. The
and the smiles of Burr
charms of women,
bewitching
him.
Let
us
and with
for pleasure,
gundy, inflame his appetite
let us observe him, casually
wants
suddenlymultiplied,
taking up his residence at a coffee-house in
cause
town, or Jet us imagine him, from some
or
The firstthingthat preother,in want of money.
sents
itself to his eyes is a newspaper.
A modern
is not like one
of those old fashioned
newspaper
vehicles of intelligence,
denominated
a
formerly
gazette,the dull chronicle of the tunes, and
a
faithful
It
relation of remarkable domestic occurrences.
is the mirror of the age, and one
of its most
ordinary
extracharacteristicsis,that it holds out remedies
for every
dicinal
mething,independentof the numerous
aids for every possible
disorder incident to
the human
body ; the mistress who wants a keeper,
the pregnant ladywho wants
the
to lie in secretly,
wife who is desirous of leavinga husband, or the
unmarried
find one, is here instructed in the way
their respective
to satisfy
wishes.
Curacies,cellars,
advertised for hire or
benefices,and bagnios,
are
in the House of Commons, at a
sale,and even
a seat
fixed price,
through the channel of a modern newsto
flOW
TO' LIVE
IN
those who
5f
LONDON.
are
want
press-
money
above all,
:"
Japer
have known
invited to relief. Let those who
uigly
well as the pleasure
as
of wanting money,
the curse
of touchingit, after long and fruitless solicitude,
it givesto see
judge(for no one else can) the joy and
's
K
one
of Mr.
advertisements
in
in the front of the
capitals,Money
"
advanced
to
's
*s,orMessrs. H
N
to
lend," or
any amount/'
"
and young
paper,
inscribed
Money instantly
gentlemen, "c.
with
the
utmost
it,but
promised
onlyliberally
additional
takes an
He
secrecy and expedition.
a thousand
of it,reads it over
bottle on the strength
plainor fair ; he can
times ; nothingcan be more
a
borrow a few hundreds, or perhaps
now
instantly
he can
little interest,
a
What
signifies
thousand.
not
acted
whole affair is transat any time, and the
one
-no
honour and secrecy
with the utmost
pay that
"
for the firsta long
night,perhaps,
undisturbed by dreams, or forgetting
4ime, he sleeps
dreams onlyof
4be incessant clamour of his duns,
knows
of it. This
and ease.
pleasure,
happiness,
The very next day,the faithful servant
of
a
letter
fidant
(theconallhis master's secrets)is despatchedwith
he
the importantbusiness, in which
on
connexions,
address,
his name,
wiselycommunicates
carefully
These are, in the interval,
"c.
expectations,
sented,
and being found true as repreinvestigated,
the third dayappointed
'an interview is on
house. The
at the advertiser's own
in the evening,
a ready furnished one,
advertiser's house is generally
the hailis well lighted
up, and servants
and splendid;'
dressed,open the door ; the
purposely
in profusion,
rooms,
destined victim is conducted through many
an
exhibiting
appearance
and
of clerks and business,
58
TO
HOW
the
appointedlor
room
earated
with
UWMHi
IN
UVH
him
to rest
of which*
from
doe* not
distinguish
running back-*
perpetually
sideboard, the
a
though plated,the eye
silver and gold,clerks are
in, is richlyde*
contents
letters, announcing the
of different noblemen, who
are
pompously
names
desired to wait, when, in fact, the whole is a. delu*
but by
to them
sion, no such persons being known
He enters almost tremblingwith diffidence*
name.
wards
forwards
and
conscious of
with
bein"about
do
to
somethingimproper,
exalted ideas of the wealth and
he is about to address ; add to this,that
consequence
indeed, but sensible
a certain littleness(indescribable
to feeling)hangs about the breast of every one, who
and
impressedwith
asks the loan of money
proverb,than
in
a
to
the borrower.
through,and
if mountains
;
in that which
The
there
was
never
more
misery
announces
narrative is
whole
truth
now
gone
advertiser,as
Hundreds
indeed wanted, it
talked of, by the
money
of it were
at his command.
nothing; if thousands were
might be an object. The goldenapplesof the Hea*
are
hung full in view, to invite the touch,
perides
time before he is permittedto handle
out it is some
They are suffered to hang in view,
any of them.
are
but to elude the grasp, and like the delusive waters
that tormented
Tantalus, serve
only to provoke
thirst instead of
ever,
findinghimself
flattered
moreover
which
he very
so
into
three
or*
four hundred
(sixweeks
or
two
it.
belief of
a
never
properly
longed to him, returns
leavingbills behind him
The
youth, how*
treated, and being,
kindly
quenching
to have
in
joy,
perhaps,of
home
to
consequence,
conceived
the
a
be*
delirium of
amount,
pounds, at very short dates
months),for which he is desired
60
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDON.
new
friend,often hk a**
good-natured,
acquired
not only to take them
sistance,
up, but to assist fain*
farther,should it be necessary. A hint is enough; it
is a d"
d good-natured
action, that is the truth/'
and further accommodation
is not only desired,but
and what signifies
? It
become absolutely
necessary
is onlysigninghis name,
and nothing is more
easy
his
"
"
"
when' once
It is
a
knows
man
how
to write.
hundred
to
one
too, but that he is
flattered into a belief that he signshis name
in a
and may be known for a
manner
graceful,
peculiarly
man
of
a
fashion, by his signature. The
interview
of business
parade, the
takes
now
second
place,the same
splendouris visible,
and, if
by Jar greaterfamiliarity,
flattery.After a load of ignominious
affectation of
same
but their is also
possible,
grosser
epithetsupon
nature
pointsout
that1 character,
which
as
the most
the law of
sacred,he is addressed
somethingin this style My dear fellow ! pardon
of business contract unfashionable
my hint,but men
habits ; the old scoundrel I thoughtmight not bleed
freelyat the moment, and a wish to serve so fine a
young fellow,induced me. to make a tender of my
"
"
services.
fellow,if I
serving
my
knew
friends my
Chit
conversation
which
most
which
chat
the devil take me,
Nothing else ;
ever
"
the necessary
consummate
it ends
I
pleasureequalto
services you may
dear
that
of
command.'"
follows,of course, hi
are
made, with the
inquiries
art ;
now
but
this is the
climax with
I cannot
heartily
chagrined
give
d run of ill luck
myself,but a d
"
"
a
my
am
you the money
of
at the gaming table,puts it out
my power ; my
however, is at your service. I will indorse your
name,
endeavour
to
bills,and we must
get them dis~
HOW
counted
money,
"
LONDON.
61
however, is uncommonly bard
to
LIVK
TO
IN
be
like a
got." This unexpecteddeclaration comes
thunder
clap,and naturally
producesa suspensive
the countenance
pause of reflection,
of the
youthful
borrower
imbibes
a
positionof involuntary
gloom,
than dissipated
which, however, is no sooner
perceived,
of the advertiser's
by the most heartyassurances
In a word, the young gentleman
assistance.
writes again for double the sum, or perhapsfor
now
a
thousand, which it is odds but the advertising
the
as
money-lender discounts in the same
way
former (i.e.
amongst the connexions of the borrower),
of rewho, when he comes, however,-in expectation
ceiving
the money,
as
before,is
sure
to
meet
the
and it is now
that
of disappointment;
the arts of procrastination
begin. Every possible
tillcredulity
is givento satisfy
excuse
on
one
delay,
firstadvances
aide,and falsehood
the
In
other,is exhausted.
the youth finds himself involved,his
as
proportion
fears of discovery
increase, and, to complete his
on
misery,when
in the money-lender's
irretrievably
be had
can
power, he is bluntlytold that no money
for his bills. Humiliatingsubmission
is all that is
left him, and it is too late,and too dangerous
to complain,
threaten,for if he does, the
whole is detected,and then ruin (he thinks)must
follow.
If,"says the tremblingoffender, I dared
much
more
to
"
"
not
I owed onlytwo or three
pounds,how much less dare I now, that my
The good moneya coupleof thousand ?"
lender
inform
hundred
debts
are
my
father when
lengthprevailed
upon, from
motives ofthe purest
with
to do something
friendship,
them, and though he has himself received the whole
in cask, he pretends
a few dayslonger
(after
delay),
is,however,
at
6
TO
HOW
TO
LIVB
IK
LONDON.
half the date of liiebillis Spired,to hare dm*
which
in goods,
counted them with infinite difficulty
commission,
gwtk when sold,and interest,brokerage,
with nameless chargesare deducted, do little
than cancel the Jir"tdebt, seldom yielding
more
more
of necessity
than half. The
makes the
pungency
youtheager to catch any twig (however slender)to
when
save
such
himself,but it is generally,
unhappily,
a
the smallest pressure.
Become
inebriated,
he is, by various artifices,
almost desperate,
and seduced to a gaming table,kept in
the same
channel of connexion, where his losses are
heavy of course, and (as this secret must be kept
like the rest)after submittingto be bullied out of
payment of parti and a very small part, in ready
for which
he sacrifices his monthly or
money,
allowance,which the parent supposes is ap*
quarterly
pliedto other purposes, the remainder is paidin bills,
bonds,or any other security
required
; the load of debt
swelled beyondall hopesof payment" death
is now
befriend him.
Calcu*
alone, it should seem,
can
lations begin to be made on lives,and if any title
deeds can be found to show an interest in remainder,
one
or
as
breaks
on
nothing.His
or
the same
most
way for allifeis next insured ; nay two
reversion,theygo, of
three annuities
own
are
course,
done upon
him, for which, after
usual
not
charges and impositions,
than two
more
years'purchaseis received; and if
there
is some
dexterityused (which in fact is
seldom wanted),to inculcatea belief in the lender
that the old gentlemancannot
live long,post obits
deductingthe
follow at littlemore
than the expense of paper and
stamps ; here the clouds beginto blacken
they
"
the
storm;
approaching
here
commences
tend
porreal
HOW
trouble, and
TO
MVK
IN
63
LONDON.
serious affliction,
of which words are
the description"-"
When
sorrows
come,
to
inadequate
(says Hamlet) theycone
The
not
talions.
single,but in bat-
has now
fallen off from the
but it is too late ; a closer intimacy
money-lender,
hereafter necessarily
succeeds between
them, and
to borrow
every stratagem is put in practice
money
their
on
bond, and annuity in
jointnames, by bill,
short by
The pittance
received from his
any means.
securities,
throughthe medium of goods,is divided
between
wasted
that small portion
them, and even
in numerous
and fruitless attendances.
Moreover,
that personalcredit,which he was
unconscious at
in
the time he possessed,
is*gone, and now, flying
despairto the banker or familytradesman, in hopes
of relief from that quarter, he finds these very
and the holders of his bills.
peoplehis creditors,,
Something must yet be done, and every thing he
thinks better than discovery.
More billscontinue
to be done, with pawnbrokersand Jews, for any
goods that can be got. When they will no longer
pass for the better articles of merchandise, such as
cloth,furniture,brandy,and
linen,silk stockings,
mask
"
discounted
known
them
in
plate,we have actually
old books, pictures,
and
old platedcandlesticks,
Birmingham halfpence;*blubber,whalebone, and
old hay,are very excellent articlesin the discounter's
School Jar Scandal'*
The pictures
in the
catalogue.
Minor"
and the
are
picturesof reid life,and
dailypractice.A faithful delineation of the arts of
would require
a volume, instead of a
money-lenders
"
"
few
"
scanty pages.
A
actually
proposedto one of the present writers,to
bill,half in cash,and the remainder in pastry.
fellow
jloft 30/.
64
-
The
men,
LIVE
TO
HOW
IN
with this
connexion
slightest
terminates
generally
and fortune.
with
means
so much
impossible,
almost
of
description
chain the ruin both of racter
volved
is inman
once
a young
When
them, the
LONDON.
of extrication become
is he subjected
to their
gaol,the want of bread,
guarded
unand, perhaps,
a
(forsome
prosecution
act),is suspendedover his head, held up in
terrorem, to induce a readycompliancewith thenIt is observable too, that being always
demands.
of
in leaguewith some
of the worst, but ablest men
of the law, theycan very easily
the profession
ecute
extheir threats. These unhappy young men,
of their fortunes, and the
after the total dissipation
to
destruction, of their characters,are often obliged
The
power.
indorse any
of
criminal
terrors
a
bills of accommodation
that may
hands,
through the money-lender's
or
.to
pass
act
as
as best suits the
drawers, accepters,or indorsers,
of the
a
names
case
;
and
complimentof
on
billsto the
cessity
ne-
ceive
glad to refrequently
five guineas,
for puttingtheir
are
amount
of
as
many
thousand
and
pounds. They are retained as decoy-ducks,
their exploits
be traced in publicadvertisements,
may
with offers
of,advantageous
partnershipsto
joinother young men offashionin raisingloans
to
exchangeofbius interestto procure appointments
lucrative places,
first led
are
fyc.fyc. Tradesmen
into the practice
of discounting
billsfrom motives of
"avarice,
as
by this means
they sell what they could
not otherwise dispose
of, at an advanced price; but
.
"
"
"
it is
observable,that all who
are
in habits of discounting
accommodation
them
in what
bills (even those who
do
is called the
fair way, i.e. giving
all,
cept
exsomethinglike value,two-thirds,perhaps),
the old experienced
advertising
money-lenders,
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TO
LIVE
IN
SB
LONDON.
ruined.
The roguery of this business
ultimately
is evident, from the enormityof the sums
nually
they anfrom the
expend in publicadvertisements
of them
of their bankruptcies some
are
frequency
.five or six times bankrupt in the course
of a few
of dealers and chapmen.
years, under the denomination
The ruined tradesman afterwards joins
to bait
*are
"
"
.the trap, and ruins others as
ruined ; he is made the source
he has been himself
of reference for character
of other tradesmen, by means
of which goods
and thousands of petty
taken up, billsdiscounted,
are
frauds perpetrated
both at home and
with impunity,
But to pursue the delineation of the road
abroad.
to ruin.
Bills
becoming due,
frequently
and the arts of procrastination
being exhausted,
other harpiesare appliedto, called attornies,
who
carnivorous
sinners
"introduce to his acquaintance
denominated
bailiffs,
and, by aid of their reciprocal
is fast accelerating
the last scene
to
good offices,
conclude^thetragedy. It seems
as if the youthful
victim was
only begottento be devoured. These
the remnants, prey and gloatover the unnatural
.cannibals,
that is insatiable.
repast,with an appetite
of the attornies'
The
enormityand the injustice
stroke ; it being no unchargesgivethe finishing
to put as many
as
names
"common
possible
practice
in the writ (havingpreviously
put as many Jriendfy
with the sole view of swelling
indorsers on the bill),
now
more
the expense ; for no one of them is arrested or held
voured,
victim,marked out to be deto bail but the single
of
The
who pays for the whole.
measure
to the brim; the unhappy
filling
misery is now
youth becomes the prey of anxiety,and ceaseless
the effect
corrodingcare, most sevexely
experiencing
o2
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LONDON.
of that heaviest loss,the loss of character,and
his swaUam
sequent desertion of his friends,even
and leave
Mends, who smile only on his summer,
him when
the winter of adversity
sets in; for it
is observable,that these men, like the forest-deer,
When
avoid their bleedingcomrade.
"done up"
will associate with him;
(as the phraseis),none
the
he is, on
contrary, every where regarded
with the averted eye of contempt, and even
his
the first to slander and
confederates in evil are
to
asperse him, while he is left without any means
repeltheir shafts,or deprecatetheir influence,and
hourlyexposedto the pangs of insult and neglect.
"
and the malignity
of
The proud man's contumely,
bitter
Smollett, very justly),
are
ignorance(says.
in
in his whose
ingredients
any cup, but particularly
only alternative is. to swallow or to starve:" it is in
vain he looks for assistance
relations or friends"?*
That timid prudencewhich prevails
he has none.
in
dividua
most
families,
againstassisting
any unfortunate inWhat
to
him every hope of relief.
of it,precludes
then is his situation ? judge ye that have felt
it
of the
describe it,who can ? There are agitations
mind that will not be reduced to the regularity
of
thought,and which words cannot, therefore,
convey*
This scheme of random
lifesometimes, exists four or
Ave years, thoughit generally
terminates in the second.
The advertiser,
with the bills,
elopes
perhaps,
with which he is intrusted to discount; in the first
instance they are indorsed over, and not a shilling
consideration ever givenfin*.them.
Thus his namo
sets upon town, and his business is soon
despatched,
the longerthe scene
out
perate
descontinues,the more
and incurable is the disease. The procrasti"
t
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of former
least,the repetition
'
LONDON.
ones.
"
Think
of tkk,
ye fathers !
ing
descendremember
In our limited circle,
a son
we
the area of his father's house, and there blowing
his brains,driven to desperation
out
by his father's
!
austerity
unrelenting
has driven many
Severity
"
who were
onlyfoolish
counters
and carried several from the disto become criminal,
from the counting-house
to the highway,
to
the gallows.
BEGGING.
Under
.
titlecome
this comprehensive
a
vast number
of persons.
Many exist by writinglyingletters,
of the great will
that the indolentgenerosity
trusting
the strengthof their petitions,
relieve them
on
without takingthe troublesome course
of inquiry
into the truth of their statements.
They are too
whose birth,education,
often successful. A man
those of a gentleman,
and manners
are
has for years
lived in extravagance,by the sums
he thus extracted
from the hand of humanity. The late Bishop of
of his benefactors,
but that eminent
Durham
was
one
divine at length
discovered the imposture.
who really
serviceable
are more
There,is a society
than many
of superior
that
mean
pretensions
; we
called the
Philanthropic
Society.They
undertake
relieve cases of distress,
and receive,
of course, an
immense
number of applications
of the
: five-eighths
letters are written in one hand.
We heard of this,
and found that a fellow
and instituted an inquiry,
in Church Lane, Dyot Street,writes these petitions
at 6d., 8d,,and Is. a- piece,
to the length
of
according
tliestorytp be told,or the power of payingthat his
to
d
by
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have. We hare some
to believe that
reason
employers
this man
and dreadfully
(who is grossly
ignorant,
depraved)is in collusion with many
applicators,
and receives a portion
of whatever
tract
they thus exfrom the Society.When
we
spokewith this
he made
what
to
as
creature,
by his trade, he
and said
There are too many
evaded our question,
in my line;" and he enumerated
twenty or thirty
quiry,
persons who live by writingthese things. On inin tilth and
we
found, that,though existing
and often
treats the
misery,he is very expensive,
"
"
"
whole
lane /"
One
agent,we
the
in which this
record:- An
must
case,
"
Societyfor relief;two
her, and found her in
worthy was
Irish
woman
the
literary
to
applied
of the committee
visited
wretched attic,with only a
straw, whilst the miserable children
rug and some
were
eatinggrains,which they had obtained from
Meux's
brewery. Touched with the sightof so
much wretchedness,these gentlemenhumanely relieved
them
of their own
out
instantaneously,
and made such a report to the Society,
as
pockets,
obtained the woman
After this
a considerable sum.
calls upon them, till,
she -made repeated
at length;
forced to refuse any further aid. Soon
they-were
after this,they received a letter (inthe same
hand),
saying that one of the wretched children had been
dead seven
days that the mother beingIrish,the
and that she had the
parishwould not bury the girl,
a
"
"
The
committee
came
nightlyin her room.
again,saw the survivingchildren eatinggrains as
before, and the girllaid out, covered with the old
The effluviawas
that theyquitted
so dreadful,
rug.
and were
the room
about to reportthe neinstantly,
corpse
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LONDON.
but, 'ere
of sendingher money
immediately,
cessity
that
they had reached the street,it occurred to them
inquirynecessary on the
theyhad neglectedsome
ran
The gentlemenaccordingly
occasion.
up stairs,
the dead child sitting
up,
and saw, to their surprise,
and
saying Need I lay here any longernow f"
the other children pullinga saucepan of sausages
from out of a hole,where theyhad been stuffed.
Far be it from us to close the hand of charity,
"'
"
know it is
.when meagre want calls for relief. We
than
better that a hundred
impostorsbe supplied,
these things
We name
unfortunate be denied.
one
beingslive in London,
elucidationsof how some
as
but
not casually
to inquire,
hints to the
and
many
as
carefully,
upon
whom
theybestow
their
bounty.
seek seclusion,not ex"
unfortunates who
fain give to their tattered ments
garposure, who would
-those are the real
the semblance of decency"
Those
of charity.
objects
"
than by a
subject,
Inquiryinto the Case
reference to a Parliamentary
of Common
Beggars.
by
practised
To detail one half of the deceptions
We
cannot
better conclude this
No. class
these wretches,would filla folio volume.
the
of peoplehave laid greater contributions on
live in greater extravagance, than the
public,
nor
to the Mendicity
of London; but thanks
beggars
and excesses
their depredations
Society,
nearly
by
appointed
are
was
end. In 1817, a Committee
into the State of
to inquire
the House of Commons
minutes we
the Police of the Metropolis
; from whose
facts :"
the following
astonishing
extract
he
"
in a statement, wherein
Mr. Martin
at
an
gave
estimates there are six thousand
upon
beggarsfloating
HOW
TO
LIVE
and
daily;
this town
day,300/.
is taken
IN
Jb
LONDON.
that if each
dailyout
of
a
beg a shilling
the pocketsof the
public.
"Sir
about
as
the
Daniel
Williams
Whitechapelresort
Weavers'
stated,that the beggars
to a publichouse, known
Arms, but its slangname
was
the
after havingperamv*
evening,
bulated their different circuits;they Uvea well/
had hot suppers, and regaledthemselves with beer,
stillmore
expensive.
punch,ana other liquors
Mr. Buttenvorth,M.P.gave in evidence:
There
Beggars'Opera,on
an
"
"
are
two
houses
public
in Church
Lane, St. Giles's,
chief support depends upon
whose
beggars;one,
called the Beggars'Opera, which is the Rose and
Crown
publicnouse, and the other,the Robin Hood.
The numbers that frequentthose houses at various
times,are computedto be from two to three hundred*
I have been credibly
informed,theyare divided into
each
companies,
company is divided into what are
eallea walks, and each company
has its particular
the whole
walk; if this walk be considered beneficial,
take it by turns, each person keeping it
company
hour to three or four hours: their
from half an
be less
at a moderate
calculation,cannot
receipts,
than from three to five shillings
a
day each person,
more.
frequently
They cannot be supposedto spend
less than half-a-crown,and they generally
pay sixpence for their beds. They are to be found in those
nouses
throughoutthe day,but in great numbers
from eightto nine in the morning,and late in the
in the
evening. It is their custom to sallyout early
morning; and those who have any money left of the
treat the rest with spirits
precedingday'searnings,
before
of
theybeginthe operation*
the
day.
I have
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LONDON.
kind of committee
the walks to be frequented
to organize
by each per*
the best walk to
son, and theygenerally
appropriate
their senior beggars,
There is an Irishin rotation.
man
been
informed, that they have
a
who
cuts
pretendsto be a sailor,and frequently
legsto excite compassion
; he begsshoes and sells
his
them
;
he is
times been
"
"'
I
a
most
fellow,and has several
audacious
imprisoned.
understand,that, after the business of the day
is over, they frequentthose houses and partake of
the best food they can
obtain, and they spend their
eveningsin
a
very riotous
by benevolent
fiven
either throw
it away
them
ut
Women
have
manner
;
the food that is
they do not eat,
give it to the dogs.
persons
or
been
frequently
known
to
assume
an
of pregnancy, in order to obtain child-bed
linen,which in many cases theyhave done eightor
appearance
times
ten
over.
I have heard the beggars
Mr. S. Stevenson :
have made three or four shillings
a day
say, that they
in beggingshoes,for sometimes they
got shoes that
were
citing
really
very good ones ; and their mode of exto go bare*
charityfor shoes is invariably
their feet and heelswith something
footed,and scarify
the blood to flow. I have sees
or another to cause
them in that situation many times,and thus theysally
"
"
their different
departments,
invariably
ing
changis scarcely
their routes each day,for one
in
seen
but another
direction two
the same
days together,
takes his situation. I have seen them myself. I have
of money
considerable sums
seen
pulledout and
and those
shared amongst them, both collectively,
who
go two or three together. Victuals I do not
them eat, for I rather think they
think I -ever saw
out
to
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and
ctothing;
those,they sell immediately;
when they get it ; shoes
it~away
and such thingsas
whose
There is one beggar,
name
I do not
know, but
Manoo
he goes by the name
of Granne
; he is a man
in
is scarcely
out of gaolthree months
Who, I believe,
the
he is so abusive and vile a character ; he is
year,
in gaolfor his abuse and mendicity
; he is
frequently
young enough to serve at sea, but I believe he has
been ruptured,
they will not take him.
consequently
I have seen
him scratch his*legsabout his ankles,to
them bleed,and he never
goes out with shoes;
of
That isthe man
who collectsthe greatestquantity
so
shoes and other habiliments ; for he goes literally
to see him.
naked, that it is almost disgusting
I have known
"Another
man
upon the town these
and as
fifteen or twenty years; he is a young man,
I have seen him fencing
be.
nimble as any man
can
make
with
the
other
people,and jumping about, as you
in the pugilistic
would see a man
that was
practised
coat
He goes generally
ait.
without a hat,with a waistthroughwhich his arms are thrust,and his*arms
with a canvass
"bore,
bag at his back ; he beginsgene*
rally
by singingsome sort of a song, for he has the
he takes primroses
voice of a decent ballad-singer;
or
somethingin his hand, and generally
goes limpingor
crawlingin such a way, that- any person -would
suppose he could
1 hove
'dine
also seen
in
not
him, if a
walk
sight,
people.There
step
Bow
one
foot before another.
Street officeror beadle
offthe
as most
groundas quickly
who has had a very genteel
is a man
man,
education,and has been in the medical line,an Irishwho
writes a most beautiful hand, and gets
for
ids livelihood principally
by writingpetitions
those kind of people,
of various descriptions,
whether
'
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truth
or
TO
LIVJS
falsehood I know
writingthem,
shilling.
I have
for which
m
LONDON.
not, but I have seen fcoa
he gets from sixpence
to a
from twenty to thirty
beggarscome
out of the bottom of a street, formerlycalled i"wet
callednow
Street,
GeorgeStreet,they branch off fere
six together,
or
one
one
way, another another;
before theyget to any distance,they go
invariably,
into a liquorshop,and if one of them has saved
of the
(and it is rare bat one of them saves some
he*,sets them off
wreck of his fortune over
night),
with a pintof gin,
half a pint,amongst them ;
"x
theytrust to the day for raisingthe contributions
necessary for their subsistence in the evening.They
have all their divisions;and they go. one
partv
In regard
one
way, and another party another.
to the mendicitypeoplebegging with children,I
can
give a littleinformation upon that: there is
is practised
one
person of an acute nature, who
in the art of begging; he will collect three,four,or
five children from different parents of the lower
class of people,
and will give those parents -six*
for their children to ge
pence, or even more, per day.
with $ theygp in those kinds of gangs, and
a begging
the children some*
make a very great noise, letting
the people*
times
from
cry,in order to extort charity
Theywill,if necessary, swear theyareralltheir own
who had been in the
children. There was a woman
five shillings
habit of receiving
week from the
a
parishof St. Giles,when, at Last,another woman
forward and taxedher with three of the children
"came
not beingher own.
"
tillthey
It is very
go to their family
"
seen
seldenvthey
have been
at
their
house;
public
in fact,most
of
76
at
down
such
woman
a
will
myself,I
told her to go
follow her ; I said
and
very much,
placeand he would
the
'Swore
to
beggars,were
both
woman,
Boad, a man' and a
quarrelling;the mail
Court
Tottenham
comingdown
LONDOW.
IN
LIVB
TO
HOW
this
see
She
out.
be
appeared to
down
I went
her time.
be very near
There was
her there.
he sent
to Sheen's,I think
and he said,I will do for you presently
a
pregnant, and
to
quarrel;
"and
he
down
came
kind, and she
of
I have been informed
"
of the
man
a
lost
he had
dog
the
straw,
soon
a
or
thing
some-
delivered.
circumstance
Butler, that
ing
respect-
went
about
:
told he had been
I am
of his eyes.
with a stick';
had a dog, and walked
before him, and he hit the curb with
blind with both
he was
went
his stick.
of
name
one
He
sea.
with
was
her, and
kicked
and
foot
his
pillow stuffed
a
of the
to
with
up
.
People supposed
that he
turned his eyes up in such a way
he
eyes;
he returned to his hotel,he
appeared blind. When
wrote letters for
could see as well as I could,and he
has been dead two or
this man
his brother
beggars;
three
months.
There
is another
man
he
Keppel Street, Russell Square;
than
his
"not
and
walks
the other, and
companions
him
ask
with
to
a
take
has
who
one
stick.
any
begs in
leglonger
If any
thing,he
of
will
draught ;
quartern of gin at a
kennels by three
dailyhe is rollingabout in the
take
less than
a
My opinion is,
of the beggarswho
go about
that fea great number
ledge
but are impostors.I have knownot in distress,
are
that goes about and
in particular,
of one
man
he chews
soap,
pretendsto be in fits in the streets ;
in imposingupon
and has been taken several times
about
Inn Fields.,
people; he was token in Lincoln's
or
four
o'clock
in the
afternoon.
M*W
fortnight
ago,
a:
is John
name
beadle
"
TO
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77
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IN
and committed
Collins, and
for a mpnth. Hit
he is known
by t^e
the soap-eater.*
There is another,a woman,
coln's
a good deal in LinInn Fields,of the name
of Ann
she
Phillips;
as
kas
been passed
of
number
to St. Sepulchre's
a
times, but it is impossible
to keep her away from
that neighbourhood.There is a tittleblack man,
who has frequently
been brought into the watchhouse for begging. I have seen
him have a bag
with silver,
and another with copper; and, at other
to take up people
-times,he has come
to fetch me
who have robbed him of a great deal of money, as
he stated ; and I have been told at the public-house,
for his board ;
he would spend fifty
a week
shillings
h% would
duck, and
spithis own
goose or his own
live very well. I am
that many of these
positive
beggarsare in a much better situation than most of
the workingpeople. I have seen them, at the end
of Compton Street,come
out of the houses where
theyhave been, with a legand an arm tied up, and
so
they have had four or fire glassesof gin
on;
'before they started,and have settled which way
theyshould go. They meet againin the evening,
and cook their own
or
turkeys,
geese, or their own
;they trillcook a turkey,and put sausages round it,
in chains.' There
alderman
is a
and call it an
who goes about Holborn ; she pretendsto
woman
This trickof
*
*
by
none
soap
foam
so
shamming
inimitablyas by
into their
mouths, which
Mister
CoUnm
they work
up
:
but
practised,
they put some
and
to a lather,
their Bps, making it appear
in dreadful convulsive fits.
it out between
they were
fits ha* been often
exactlyas
h2
if
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be in
and barks like a dog; when
she saw me,
fits,
she got up and walked
away immediately.
I certainly
believe the gene*
?*J6hn Furzeman
:
"
of beggarsare impostors
rality
; I
have many times
heard them say, that it is a
very bad day if ther do
and more
I have
not get eightshillings,
than that.
the black man,
Toby, toss up for a pintof gin,
of beer.
and, I think,for a quart of ginand a gallon
I have heard the people
that a publican
had ten
seen
say,
pounds of his in his hands, while,at the
he went
about begging.
"
Thomas
Davis
I took
;-^-Most
up
one
of the
whose
impostors.
wooden
beggarsare
in
legwas
frame, but his legwas very well,and when
off with the wooden
to take him, he ran
found
time,
same
a
I
came
leg,and
escaped.About two years
who
old woman
an
kept a night
ago, there was
children to
not for the purpose of instructing
school,
spelland read, but for the sole purpose of teaching
the street language"that is, to scold ; this
them
One female child,acfor females particularly.
was
cording
two
goodones,
and
declaration to me, would act
the part of Mother
Barlow, and the ether Mother
the fictitiousnames
these were
Cummins;*
they
instructed them in all the
The old woman
gave.
their hands at
and clapping
of scolding
manoeuvres
to the woman's
each
other,and
making
use
of the
most
infamous
led them into the most disgraceful
When
these children met, if one entered into
scenes.
of the other,the next daytheywere
the department
and to excite a mob.
to defend their station,
prepared
this
expressions;
*
These
vicinity.
are
keepersof brothels.in Dyot
Street and
Its
BOW
TO
QUACKS
tlVE
IN
Jft
LONDON,
DISSENTERS.
AND
Of allthe villainsthat infest London, none are so
much to be dreaded as quack doctors j and, although
the
sionally
sharpers*and informers lay plans,and occamerous
levycontributions on them, yet, so very nu-
are
the credulous,that most
enabled
lows
of these fel-
luxury. The
bills they circulate throughLondon, are enough to
individual distracted)
drive any nervous
and, in
the midst of the alarm their perusal
excites,the
promisedremedy with which they
easy and the fairly
mind to be withstood.
to a weak
conclude,is too alluring
are
to
live in
ease
and
takes care
the firstinterview,
The quack,
on
him that he has
to soothe his victim,congratulating
been a day
arrived justin time ; had the application
heaven knows what had been the consequence,
later,
but now,
by strict attention to the instructions
the medicines regularly,
given,and by swallowing
in time,to be in better health
the patient
might hope,
than ever.
in certain
Some of these would-be doctors receive,
cases, exorbitant fees for speedycures, and, by means
of their infernal remedies,givea presentappearance
undermines
the constiof health,which ultimately
carried on
or*the knowing ones of the metropolis.
these fellows by some
against
boured
but who stated he lawithout complaint,
A patient,
used to call on the different
under nervous
debility,
quacks,hear with attention all the advice given,and carry
tinued
havingpaid the necessary fees ; and conaway the medicine,
of
notes
his visits twice or three times,takingcopious
and taking
aU that passed
at the interviews,
care of the medicine,
were
A threat of exposure was then made, unless certain terms
compliedwith,and by this means a considerablesum was realised.
"
.
The
A
on
conspiracy
rather
system is carriedon
an
extensive scale
to this hour.
was
09
POW
TO
IN
MVH
VBNP9H*
who, in all prophtient,
bability
of disgust
for the few
object
tution of the unfortunate
is rendered
an
and
years be may drag out bis miserable existence,
A Watchsinks into an earlygrave.
maker,
eventually
in Clerkenwell,was
under tbe care, as it is
of one of these wretches for two years and
"termed,
a
half,and paid for such care upwardsof 15tt?"
Accident threw him in the way of a regularpractitioner,
induced him to
who, after great difficulty,
submit to become his patient
and exfor a fortnight,
tracted
expired,
promisethat,until that periodhad
a
would not return
viser.
to his favourite medical adof the time stipulated,
At the expiration
the
man
was
quitewell,the disorder beingfar from one
of a dangeroustendency; and his doctor's bill
Thus
the effect of
amounted
to 3/. 3s.
we
see
quackeryand puff;the quack,who oughtnot to be
obtains 150/. for avoiding
allowed to practise,
a cure
31. 3s. for making one.
the regular
practitioner
There is an anecdote told of the celebrated quad
S."who was .accostedin a coffee-room*in the Strand
hood.
by a surgeon, who had known him from his boy-
he
*"
"
How isitthat you, who
said
affordto ride
bred to the profession,
can
never
were
in your carriage
a regular
; whilst I, who am
titioner,
prac"I'll
subsist?"
can
explainit to
scarcely
Ine
surgeon
"
two
S.," onlyanswer
me
moment," replied
how many persons do you imagine
first,
?'*"
ave
past tbis window sincewe have been talking
the reply. "How
"A
was
hundred, perhaps,"
many out of that hundred do you think were fools r"
r"
Ninety,probably."" Now, sir,I can satisfy
yon,
the
have
wiie
t have the fools for my patients,
you
for yours."
men
One
of the advertising
genus was a .porterin a
you in
a
Questions
"
HOW
TO
LIVE
81
LONDON:
IN
few years 8111069
coach-office,
a
though now
of
a
Another
newspaper.
a
prietor
pro-
kept tinshopin
a
Baldwin's Gardens.
Is it not astonishing
that any person will go for
advice to Cooper,
Lamert, Goss, Eady, Peel, "c,
ance
when, for half-a-guinea,
they may obtain the assistof such
eminent
men
as
Sir
Astky Cooper,
Abernethy,Cline,Travers,Bell,Darling,"c. Nay,
have a consultation with all
they might absolutely
these great and tried practitioners,
for less than they
will ultimately
have to pay to one of these ignorant
and hardened wretches,who live upon popularcredulity.
Having concluded our
the bodies of
on
practised
next
consider
notice
our
of the
quackeries
shall
their souls. It
countrymen, we
the.assaults made
on
of
sectarians,
and their various modes and principles,
and, so long
were
endless
to
recount
the
number
the object
is purelyto worshipthe Almighty,far
be it from us to introduce into our work the slightest
reflection on them ; but,when we see and know that
rather the semblance of it,is made the
religion,
or
Vehicle for fraud and extortion of every description*
self-created
bound
at our
to take a peep
we
are
as
clergy.
preachonlycosts 1*.,and then the
with some
senter,
disintended preachergets acquainted
who bringshim out, that is,allows him to
preachin some room or chapel.The infamous C
has thus broughtout many.
A
license to
of learning,
There are amongst dissenters many men
but not one of genius;and the generality
are
ignorantand vicious. A short time since,one of
committed for drunken and dis*
these preachers
was
82
TO
HOW
LIVB
IN
IONM1*
been convicted forindecent assaults,
and,indeed,the casts wnereyoung
females have been seduced by these marauders
are
several have
orderlyconduct;
troduct
insures their inprofession
and they too frequently
abuse it. Our
in point,
readers will remember
a case
occurring bat
Their
very numerous.
a
short time since.
writer of the present day,whose popularity
is
coeval with his merit,has immortalised one preacher
in song.
The merit of the composition
tempts us to
A
as it forms
copy it,more especially
tamingadjunctto the article.
THE
PARSON'S
a
true
and enter*
CLERK.
(founded sn facts.)
Near Moorfidds is ft house of prayer,
Which
knows,
every chapel-goer
Pious folks they do go there,
To" sporttheir Sunday clothes!
filTd with gospelgrace,
The parson
Could show good livingin his face,
And the fruitsof the spirit
you might trace.
In the dark !
Just beneath him did appear
A. man, who sang so sweet and clear,
The hymns, for" twenty pounds a-year,
"
The
paifen*sdqrki
Mister
JosephJoshua Twight,
Always dressed as if in print"
His eyes were
beautifully
bright,
Though theyhad a littlesquint!
He gave out a hymn
his head he shoofe,
One eye was fixed upon the book,
T* other would round the chaf"d
look,
Only mark
"
i
84
itoW
And
got
as
LtV*
TO
drank
David's sow,*'
"
as
LONDON.
IN
parson'sclerk !
The
short time after that,
and
These revels turn'd to grief
Only
He
a
with
care,
largecock'd hat,'*
Before
Mayor.
him
not
a
few,
jCltargesagainst
Vox being in love,and being untrue.
was
And
took
by
man"
the great Lord
children
a
sworn"
"
dozen
a
two
or
"
Fair and
And
when
at
the truth
show what
To
he did
game
*d three wives besides"
He
drive,
and all alive !
This
Committed
guiltbeyond
And
quitefresh,came
then"
His
wives
And
what
He
wanted
were
gone
more
was
a
trade
he knew
"
"
"
He
gospelgrace
he did not
the wind was
had
And
now
a
his bowels
call ! it was
he 's
a
not
where,
care
yearn
REPORTERS;
;
fair
embark
!
'd,
spum'd,
turn'd !
methodist parson
The
SHAM
*
'
out.
not
To
For
!
all doubt,
Clerkehwefl,
serv'd three years in
He
clerk
parson's
Newgate'sdrearycell,
to
Proof of
!
theydid arrive,
rare
a
dark
OF
SELLERS
ATTORNIES.
parson**clerk
!
SITUATIONS;
the war" without
the following
or business,are
:
any regular profession
^Gentlemen connected with the press"legalgentlemen,
of
the
and
who know
law,
never
nothing
initiated into its mysteries
and benevolent
were
who pick up well,dressed "youths
elderly
gentlemen,
at coffee-houses,in the park,"c.
determiningto
Amongst
those who
"
carry
on
"
"
serve
them, get them
government
situations,ap-
ttOty
LIVB
TO
in
"T
London.
Ointments abroad, and so forth. With regardto
the press gentlemen,
they want nothingto set up
their trade but tolerable clothes,
and pencil
to
a book
take notes, and a system of making hieroglyphics,'
that the stander-by
may fancy they are short-hand
writers. Thus armed, they push their way into the?
of law, the Court of Chancery,the police
courts
to all public meetings,frequently
Offices,
getting
tickets for public
tance
admitdinners,and often obtaining
and
without tickets. They strut forth boldly,
get in,to use the cant phrase, on the bounce."
Suitors in Chancery,
nesses,
defendants,witplaintiffs,
"e
all
ane
attornies,and young barristers,
awed
by these personages, who, by their anxious
the attention
attract
looks,and extraordinary
gestures^
of all present; and it is odd, indeed,if theyfail
green
in
catchingone
to
appear
"some
flat a week
"
one
some
who
wishes
one*'in the newspapers, or a person,
will willingly
give51. not to appear at
perhaps,who
all in print.This system is carried to a great extent
offices; 20 or 30/. are sometimes
at our
given
police
to suppress cases, and a fellow of good address,who
of getting
a report into
actuallyhas not the means
sum
; he
papers at all,gets hold of the large
then invites " the penny-a-line
men" (thereporters)
to a tavern, givesthem
a
pound a-piece invites
and getstheir
them to dinner
makes them drunk"
the
"
"
from them
happensthat
by
notes
so
course
the
no
the matter
gentlemanwho
any
means
reporteron
appears in the papers, and
never
has
If it
in his power.
of
is present,
a salary
managed the
great influence
perhaps(and,indeed,we know one
at
it
as
did
a
man
so
of
the
.happen)
matter
is pointed
press, and
instance in which
on
the
individual gets into
i
a
con-
9$
WW
TO
LI VB
|H
-
UfeiBOif
9
of
the ne"*asifcy
ptsecladet
the wind.
old,system of raising
nexion and credit,that
to his
againresorting
Of the legalgentlemen,we
must, inform
our
readers,that a London lawyer need know nothing
of the law to be a first-rateattorney" dt onlyrequires
well
of common
that lie should be a man
sense
; ana
fortunate .enough
would it be for clientsif theywere
to meet
with this grand essential in their prof***
sional advisers (asthese gentlemenare termed)*
The pretended
sellersof situations have a variety
:
A person advertises to
of plans"let us detail one:"
of a place,
to which he pretends
havingtha
dispose
and the same
person at the
power of appointment,
time (out in another paper)advertises,a sum
same
of money
readyfor such a placeas ha thinks will
from
his purpose. These produceapplications
answer
the party wanting to buy, and the
both parties,
party wanting to sell,and though sometimes a fail
%qnaJide contract and sale accidentally
takes place,
yet,in nineteen cases in twenty,the whole is a fiction,
which serves
and to
as a cloak to cover
many frauds,
the advertiser's purpose, in touchingden*
answer
and fees from both description
of applicants,
ceurs
which are generally
numerous.
Several of these
men
are
about London
now
know no reptiles
more
despicable.
Sanctified old villains unsettle the minds
; we
of am*
fortunate unemployedlads,by picturing
to them
in,them
of future honour and glory,
scenes
creating
and luxury,
a love-of ease
to which all are too nrone,
and inducing
theirunsuspecting
dupesto expend timey
and
money, thus making them forfeitthe friendship
and ultimately
of their friends,
them to the
reducing
A young' and ardent
lowest gradeof wretchedness.
"
f
HOW
mind
MVB
TO
IK
Have
must
disappointed,
aside all the
to throw
philosophy
so
habits
which
8f
LONDON.
Chan
more
absurd
ordinary
notions
these heartless scoundrels
and
inculcate;
amd it
indeed, to turn from this
requires
philosophy,
and set forth to look for an honest
picturedparadise;
employment. These vagabonds,whose original
object
ia generally
than
to obtain a chop and
nothingmore
with letters from noble*
* glass,are generallyprovided
men., ministers of state, "c. ; a few musty parchments,
old
for the army, and
commission
perhapsan
its honours and emolument, are a grand theme
with
them, and generallyan agreeablesubjectto the
gudgeons they catch* The conversation,as
young
the cloth is drawn, generally
fei*
soon
as
runs
as
\gws:+-"
I could offer you a situation in the exdse"
firom the interest I have with Lord
the salary
,
1502. per annum,
and the hours are from ten till
m
three.
But should a young fellow like you stick
behind a desk? You had better get into the
jspurself
with 20/. or 30,009" ;
woman
nay, and marry some
"
there
are
yon*"
hundreds
The
would
villain then
jump
runs
"
high to
mast
through
a
havo
hundred
in*
anecdotes,some
popularand true, others mere
of the few verfeci*
but which, the publicity
vsfitions,
ma
ones,
The
Induees
reader
the
has of
dupe to
course
receive
gospel.
seen
large
frequently
as
lOOOi, offered for permanent appointmen
these locusts alwaysanswer
and
them*;
often
etaftcenrs,
in our
the frequent exposures
policeoffices have
shown
fallacious were
how
the hopes of
entirely
those who reHed on these promises*
PRISONS
-
Thereapotwo
forward
path of
PRISONERS.
AND
ways
some
living.The plainstraight
useful profession
(now fast
of
88
HOW
TO
LONDON.
IN
LIVJB
wearingout),and what' are called the luckyhit*:-ef
out
turn
life,which so frequently
very unlucky
share of the
pnes, yet form the studyof the greatest
the sentiments; of
From
juvenile
part of mankind
but
loose characters,they learn that life is a lottery,
merous
nuforgetthat in all lotteries the blanks are more
and the great prizes
than the prizes,
as
so few
and
to those that are
to bear no
trifling
proportion
inconsiderable. To. preach patienceto the disappointed
.
gamester of lifeis in vain, his mind has no
the
for such consolation. The man, on
receptacle
weathers the storm of life,
contrary, who patiently
in the pursuitsof .an
and by a becoming assiduity
has kept himself above, mere
honourable profession,
coose*
want, to such a man, in the hour of calamity,
ktion may be offered,and will be accepted;he has
the source
of a
of it within himself,in the reflections
who wastes
but the gamester of life,,
well spent life,
his time and strength,
the days of health and utility,
in watchinga luckyhit,such a man
may sometimes
but will never
he pitied,
be assisted" he has stepped
and beaten track of life. There is
out of the known
no
The
map of that country in which he wanders.
fate of a gaol is trulydreadful,unless indeed conof mind renders him a fit associate
genial
depravity
of the beings,
who generally
these miserable
tenant
mansions.
Calamity may receive a temporary opiate
in momentary relief from suspense, and the dis*
vicissitudes of hope and disappointment;
tressing
but it is in every pointof view a serious evil; and
though many are even gorged with bounty misap?
riot,and debauchery,
plied,and live in profusion,
within these walls,yet here is also to be found every
speciesof human misery" the wretch of keen sen*
blasted by accident in the blossom of for
aatj'ons,
"
D,g,tlzedby
80V
90
IAYV
IN
W
LONDON.
in the solitary
of
numbers, tkfyering
recess
iftdigenee-^the
parent who had seen happierdays,
For our
enrrounded by a wretched naked oflspring.
parts,we never heard the openingof the gate, with*
lliflfr
oat
the
of
Milton's description
in imagination,
seeing,
the gates of
opening
hell"
"
In the keyholeturn'd
The intricate wards, and every, bolt and bar
Of massy iron,or solid rock,with ease
UftfitfteaM: onaaudden
open fly
and jarringsound,
With impetuousrecoil,
and
their hingesgrate
Th' infernal doors,
on
Harsh thunder.**
u
.
Liberty! sweet
smiles not
bright,
heavenly
goddess!
he*e,to enliven the
with
solitude and Borrow
but " to disclose the secrets
sorts of
transient gleam;
single
house," would be onlycommitting
*f the imprisoned
In the space of
nn
outrage on the reader's feelings.
*
-these few scanty pages, the mind
of
has
sensibility
of its
languageadequateto the expression
tear is at this moment
The
involuntary
-feelings.
sufrecollectionof our own
gushingwith the painful
tad
no
in confinement,
'lerings
from
the
onlyof
source
prisonerany mind, be
from the
anguish,
poignant
irritationof negleet,
seeingone relationpass his door
to Tookin,or another visiting
once
without deigning
his misery
or to aggravate
him onlyfrom ostentation,
of
-bythe acrimonyof reproach.Satan is accused
the scenes
the abodes of Paradise,to intercept
visiting
that awaited our firstparents
"of primaeval
happiness
this latter instant
ih Eden"
improvesupon that
being intruding
and exhibits an unfeeling
-example,
"
wounded feelings,Had
would receive the most
the
I
a
W
HOW
*0
LIVE
IN
fcQNBOK.
onlytoopen
upon the mansion of misery,
new
ftvanae*
the unhappy more
wretched ;
and make
despair,
are the prisoner's
nor, perhaps,
tranquillized,
feelings
and mortifying
holding
at the very frequent
prospectof besuccessful blockheads every day tumbled
to
his head in the
over
cf active life,
instead of
in their natural order of descent.
scenes
beneath
gravitating
We
into reflection painful
to ourselves,
digressing
and, though not unprofitable,
probablyonto our readers. We
do not wish to annoy the
pleasing
are
world with"
"
of the
TJiestingings
souls the world have stung !"
is
duty is merelyto show how life in prison.
conducted.
! yet we
Liberty! how art thou prized
remember
than one instance of a fellow,
more
getting
our
friend to arrest him, because he could live better
out
by kedgingin Whitecross Street than he could withits walls. One man
who had been years in the
Fleet,repinedto leave it,and many, onee in,voluntarily
remain.
a
A
prisoncontains an
admixture
of the
profligate
and the unfortunate. The foUo wing ingenious
query
reconcile
those
to
in
us
perhaps
may
sufferingsother*,
that become so intolerablewhen theyare. our own:
"With
for debt, while it
respect to prisoners
would be foolish to deny,that a
of
great proportion
them must
consist of the idle,the profligate,
and
above all,of the incapable,
it may not be improper
to ask, if,under
an
expanded commercial system,
the failure of a great portion
of the communityis not
of the remainder ? anp!
necessary to the prosperity
.
d
by
M
'
HOW
A
TO
who
gentleman,
LIVB
now
m
LONPCW.
holds
a
post of
seme
nence,
emi-
shop m Fleet Market.
kepta liquor
formerly
in the habit of obliging
his customers, the
He was
fish and
with loans of 5*. to go to
fruit women,
him 5*. 6d, at night.
market, for which they
dM this daily
-Some of his customers
or
; others two
He had no less
three times, and some
once
a week.
"than thirty
his debtors on this system* Those
women
who contracted these loans daily,
paidtheirieredibte
thousand three hundred per cent, t
interest of seven
Let us return
to a review of the King'sBench
"Prison. It contains within She walls about two hun-f
dred rooms, eightof which are the state rooms, and
let at 2*. 6d. each per week unfurnished; the
are
are (orought
remainingone hundred and ninety-two
who are compelled
-to be) occupied
by the prisoners,
also unfurnished;
to pay weekly 1*. for a single
room,
if two
room
6d,
persons live in the same
each ; if three,4d. each.
But the marshal states,
"thathe never
demands
any rent from those who are
unable to pay. On a prisoner's
arrival at the gate,
he is called upon to pay his commitment
fees,amount*
ing to 10*. 2d. It has been stated,that whether the
fees are paidor not, he receives on demand
a chum
ticket (asit is called),
whkh
is a ticket of admission
paid
"
to some
room
in the
prison.
The
may
which this chummage takes place,
on
principle,
be thus explained
:
Supposingone hundred and
"
in the prisonare occupied
Kunefy-two rooms
by one
each,and there is an arrivalo"fresh persons,
prisoner
which, in term time, often occurs to the number of
twenty or thirtya night,and churn tickets are
demanded
from the'chum
; if the
so
prisoner/
and has
a ticket,is of decent
requiring
-appearance,
the air of good circumstances,
is givenhim upon
one
master
ROW
TO
f*lVB
IN
99
LONDON.
fc;roqm already
by a persoriof his station in
occupied
life; but if the applicant
be poor, he receives his ticket
tipon
a
room
held
by
out, that is to say,
one
who
is enabled
to
pay
him
per week,
which generally
amounts
to 5 *., wherebyhe yields
to
the existing
and
the whole right
to his room,
occupier
with persons
class
of his own
pays for his lodgings
and situation;so that it is not uncommon
to. find
six or eightpersons of the poorer classes sleeping
in a bed, or on the floor,
of the ditwo
in rooms
mension
of sixteen feet by thirteen;some
also of
these sleepat the tap on benches and tables,and aa
weighthave sleptthere at one time.
.many as forty
The choice then of the chummage is thus perfectly
with the chum master, who is one of the turnkeys,
optional
and has the sole management of the business,
far aa the ordinary
as
rooms
are concerned ; but those
of a better description,
from their situation,
are
con*
*idered as beingat the disposal
of the first clerk to
the marshal,who has,in pointof feet,the direction
and management of the whole prison.The prisoner,
"who has sold his share of the room, is considered aa
chooses to break
entitled to re-enter it,whenerer*he
week.
the bargain,it lastingonly for one
But
it appears that this righthas been denied, or is
evaded, and that persons who have interest with
give him
so
much
the officersof the prison,
may either keep a room
free from chummage, or prevent those who
are
chummed
to their rooms,
upon them from returning
if 5". a week
be regularly
paid. In this latter
his rightto return, is
the person, insisting
on
case
and chummed
on another.
shiftedfrom his own
room
No
on
care
seems
to
the prisoners,
acquaint
the prison,that .a chum
be taken to
firstentrance
tfeeir
to
54
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONBOW.
Some
haver
ticket is to be obtained on application.
been several
within the walls,payinga heavy
before theylearned from thefr
rent for their lodgings,
that they had a legalrightto a
fellow prisoners
The
share of a room.
ordinaryproceedingis for
of the turnkeysto take the prisoner,
his aron
rival,
one
days
to
vide*
a
the
room
the
coffee-house^
at
the cost
master
of about
""
of which
a
pro**
night,
or
a
lodgingis engagedfrom some one of that numerous
class of persons who, havingbeen longin the prison,
out their own
gaintheir livelihood by letting
rooms, of
their share of a room, to new comets.
Bight shifting*
and l"r. a nighthave been givenfor a bed,but the
usual price
is from 14*. to a guineaa week. The first
clerk says that some
takes pl"ae~fct
delay
necessarily
and that It fe some*
the delivery
of chum tickets,
times difficultto providesituations,
the emer^i
on
gency
of the moment,
fitted to the station of life
and who are therefore inclined
claimants ;
either to look out for themselves,and find a lodging
in the prison,
of some
or to wait, in the expectation
one
going out, when theycan succeed to the vacant
The rule of cnummage is,that the person who
room.
in prisonkeeps his room
has been longest
free from
chummed
on
it,till allthe
havinganother prisoner
held by those of a juniordate to himself*,
rooms,
them.
chummed
have each a*prisener
The sysi
on
of rotation,
and if the pri*
tern purports to be one
be poor, and wishes to be bought out, he is
8oner
chummed
upon .one who can aflbrd to pay him? if
he wish to remain, he is placedin the room
Of a
person who will keep him, and he has, accordingly,
ticket upon the. youngest prisoner
in one or
a chum
other of these classes. The committee, that sat
of the
BOW
LIVE
TO
95
jtf LONDON.
declared
several dayswithin the prison
(in 1815),of de"
they endeavoured to understand the manner
chum tickets,"but
livenng.the
though there be
is regua rule stated to exist,
by which this delivery
lated,
it
that
are
so
yet
exceptions
many
appears
made to that rule, that the whole system seems
to
be one
of favouritism and partiality,
and liable to
great abuse."
stated will givethe reader
What we have already
in which one class of
into"the manner
sftne insight
debtors live on the others in prison;there,in fact"
seeming is broughtto perfection. If we wished to
with the world,
spake,any man
thoroughly
acquainted
completemaster of all the tricks and shifts of
we
woujidplacehim, for six months, within
society,
the walls of the King's Bench
prison
; he would
and
need
a
further initiation. But
no
-we
fear the
demoraliz
the
than
harm
lesson would do more
knowledge would do good: it is a useful but a
those who,,guile*
acquirement
; blessedare
painful
themselves, suspect no guilein others, and
less
miserable indeed the wretches who " suspect all
breasts hide it.'*
bosoms of deceit,
because their own
The
of the Fleet used alwaysto
racket master
ployed
charge 4rf.for every ball that was lost,but he em-
boy,in
Belle
Sauvage yard,to find
them
-time that fell over, and used to repurchase
Hot water
is sold
each.
of him at one halfpenny
in the last named
"
prisonat one farthing
quart;
a
tne
potatoesboiled for
penny, "c; whilst*in other
a man
prisons,
may, and does, exist by eookingfor
of prisoners.This is particularly
the ease in
a mess
Whitecross Street*
be
There is no situationinto which a man
can
a
96
tO
HOW
LlVfi
IK
LONDON.
the idleness of others will gfc"
him employment. Where
he seeks that alone,he is
the prisonertoo
praisewortny
; but, unfortunately,
often strives to live by tridtery
and fraud, rather
than by honestyand exertion.
thrown, but where
THE
Race
TURF
AND
RING.
combined
thousands
all
accompanyingpursuits,
under the sporting
term, the turf,enable
to exist. The
systems of fraud and vHlariy
that
present themselves,
courses
now
and their
forefathers robbed
not
are
novel, for it
and
jockiedone anblackother,as commonly as the most experienced
lees of the present day. An old writer,who published
in ly46* gives the following
of
description
Newmarket, in the reignof Queen Anne:-"
Beingthere in October, I had the opportunity
our
seems
-
"
"
the race-horses,and a great concourse
and gentry,as well from London,
nobility
to
see
parts of England ; but they were
all
as
of the
from all
intent,ad
part of their sport,
eager, so busy upon the sharping
their wagers ana
bets,that to me theyseemed just
horse-coursers in Smithfield,descending
as
so many
the greatest part of them from their high dignity
and
and
to the pickingone
quality,
bitingone another as much
with
so
acted
much
without
eagerness,
respect
to
as
so
another's
pockets,
and that
as
possible,
it might be said they
faith,honour, or good
manners.
There
Frampton,the oldest,and as some
saycunningest,
jockeyin England; one dayhe lost
the next
he won
a thousand
two
hundred,
guineas,
and so alternately.
He made as* lightof throwing
do of their poeket
away 500/. or 1000/* as other men
"
was
Mr.
HOW
and
money;
unconcerned
when
as
when
had
he
LIVE
as
was
Sir Robert
was
tO
he
IN
On
most
howsoever
tneir master
side there
fame says
the other
Fag, of Sussex, of
he has the
"
calm, 'cheerful,and
perfectly
had lost a thousand
pounds,
it.
won
9f
L"N0ON.
whom
in
him, and the least to show of it,
to jockeyship,
of any man
there,yet he often
relating
carried the prize.His horses he said were
all cheats,
horse,but
a
and
ever
scarcely
he looked like what
nobody could expect
what
was
for he
was,
he
produced
not,
was
him to-be.
If he
lightas the wind, and could flylike a meteor*
he was
cart horse, as
to look as clumsy as
sure
a
and grooms could make
all the cunningof his master
of the
he bit some
him, and just in this manner
was
as
greatestgamesters in the field.
I was
sick of the jockeying
so
wit,that I leftthe
and pleased
crowds about the posts',
serving
myselfwith obthe horses,how the creatures
yieldedto all
the arts and managements of their masters ; how
in sport,and playedwith the
theytook their airings
before
dailyheats which they ran over the course
"C
the
grand day ;
so
well
their utmost
of them
two
be rubbed
"At
a
at
much
as
strength,
and that
itself,
race
or
as
ence
but how, as not knowing the differtheir riders,they would then exert
to
at
the time
an
after the firstheat.
distance,I fancied myselfin Circus
Rome, seeingthe
this deception,
was
more
of the
extremitythat
when they came
stable,
such
died in the
as
one
to
ma*
Maxi-
ancient games ; and, under
could
than I possibly
pleased
the crowds of gentlemen at the
among
weighingand starting
posts ; or at their meetings
after the
at the coffee-housesand the gaming-tables
have
been
.
races
were
over.
Pray take ijwith
you
as
you
K
go,
98
HOW
TO
LIVS
IN
LOKBON.
ladies at Newmarket,
exceptingft
few of the neighbouring
families,who
gentlemen's
in their carriages
then go
to see
a race, and
come
home again."
modern
Of our
importantare,
races, the most
Ascot, Newmarket, Doncaster, and Epsom. Most
towns, however, have somethingof the sort ; Baraefc,
Chelmsford,Stamford, Margate,"c. "c. aTe among
stakes (sums of
the " littlegoes." Sweepstakes,
are
of three or more,
money) made up by a subscription
of thirty
frequently
; for these stakes any number
of horses,according
to agreement, and quantityof
that yon
'
see
no
The horse that comes
run.
in,takes all,
subscribers,
that is,literally,
sweeps off the stakes. The robbery
is done by jockeying,
that certain horses shall be kept
if that is too
the riders,
or
back, either by bribing
then they are
or altogether
expensive,
impracticable,
and crossed by other horses,whilst the horse
jostled
meant
to win is given*
a clear field.
Betting,though apparently
complex, is really
simple. If twentyhoises start, the agreedodds are
less
againstany one of the horses,for unthe horses are known* one's chance is as good as
the other $ but the favourite,
horse,
a well known
will alter the terms, as thus-" twenty horses to go, it
is twenty to one against
any other,but onlythirteen
twenty
to one
favourite. When
young
thick"
it
the
on
favourite,
sportsmen "lay
upon
and make a certainty
of its coming in, the jockeyis
"
rides under orders,an inferior
giventhe office,"
horse wins, and the betting
gentlemenpocket,
long
to one,
the
perhaps,against
odds.
sold thus by his riding
The Earl of
was
boy*
who was. bribed with one thousand guineasto lose.
t
100
HOW
TO
LIVB
IN
LONDON.
it look like the real thing,
stood up to make
Ward
and lost with marks of punishment
; but had
in half the time that
chosen, he could have won
fightlasted, and without a scratched face too.
Crosses are sometimes conducted by connivance with
the trainer of one of the fighting
men
; this is a dead
and
cross
are
man
(i.e.one in which the backers of the losing
deceived,as well as the rest of the world). The
his man, so that he trains
fatigues
doctors
or
off,and gets weaker instead of stronger,
this doctoringis
him on the morning of fighting;
deleterious
him some
drug,either in his food
'giving
or
him, and renders him incapable
drink,that stupifies
of exercising
his powers ; the thinggiven,is generally
comes
benarcotic and purgative,
so that the man
gether
heavy,and suffers an intense head-ache,toHis
with very sharppains in his stomach.
opponent has the office" to fightat these points,
fail of winning.
and can scarcely
trainer either
over
"
to
double cross, is where a boxer receives money
lose,and afterwards goes in and beats his man.
Issy
did so with the Norfolk poetJBelasco very properly
boy. Some scoundrels gave the Jew 40/. to lose;
he playedwith his man, until his tempters had laid
largesums, and then finished off the Norfolk lad in
The swindlers fell into their own
few rounds.
a
to town.
snare, and returned pennyless
nings,
Reuben
Martin received a gratuity
to sell to Jenthe
but he " did the knowing ones," and won
of the rogues,
fight. Such has been the animosity
has been
who thus found their match, that Keuben
obligedto fightall his subsequentbattles a long
march
from town, as many
of the fancy
members
in and break the ring
in revenge, to run
awore,
whenever theysaw him winningin any battle.
A
*IOW
T6
Seoekman" when
^
hissed
IN
*IVB
accused of
at the Tennis
101
LONDOH.
and
a fight,
selling
Court, said
Gentlemen, you
"
"
wduld not have said a Word if you had all been in
the robbery
this silenced the hissers.
Among the minor sort of robberies are bets on
matched.
Betters
time, when two fast fighters
are
will bet that the fightlasts an hour, or any particular
"
.
time
sell
and then pay the men
to
period,
play that
will do this that would not
Many men
away.
a
fight.Ned O'Neal did it with Sampson a
short time since.
Pierce Egan has said,he does not know
what
and Soares may also say
are
crosses
; Messrs. Novel
believe these three knowing ones have
so; but we
suffered by them ; and others,who stand
occasionally
these
as high in the sporting
world,have profited
on
occasions.
is inclined to give up
To conclude : unless a man
lose
the whole of his attention to the ring,he must
in his
and
bets; the
if he
he deems
thus
consent
pursuit,he may
remark
same
the
turf;
sacrifice his life to the
suddenlybetrayed
by
be
his surest
to
appliesto
the
man
friend.
CYPRIANS.
The
name
which
mythologyhas
connected with
the attributes of incontinence, is the
for
appellation
sale
of their
those
caresses.
onlydelicate
unhappy beingswho
This
live
by
a
dreadful traffic has
existed ju all countries for ages.
alluded to, and seems
continually
In.holywrit, it is
been the
concomitant of every established society.It is not
the different gradesof the
to our purpose to trace
k2
to
have
102
nOW
unfortunates
TO
LIVE
IN
LOHBOX.
of former times, we
must
confine
oar-
Helves to the presentday.
this
In the firstplace,
be it remembered, that,jut
the crime of
country, the law does not recognise
and that therefore
its perpetration,
or
prostitution,
all women
this course
of life are liable to
following
commitment
vagrants.
the
the improved condition of society,
From
as
ing
light-
violences of
streets, "c
has sunk
all kinds have become
abated,the footpad
into the pickpocket,
and the highwayman is no more
and
watching of
the
heard of; but crime has not therebydiminished, it
in
murdered
has onlychangedits features. A man
hundred
brothel,was
a
a
occurrence
one
common
it is unusual to hear of any one even
years ago, now
tented
a blow in such a receptacle;
receiving
theyare conin these days with rifling
his pockets,
and
make
attack on his person, knowing that for the
no
former transportation
onlyis the punishment,whilst
the latter would endangertheir lives.
We wish to state absolute truths on this subject,
and shall steer clear of those grandams'tales,
that
'in
and death in every
paintbutchery
every bagnio,
embrace
these sort' of lessons excite derision,but
inculcate caution.
We
shall attempt to arnever
range
the principal
under different
castes of cyprians
the means
heads, and display
by which theyNve,
and how theyprey upon those who fallwithin their
dutches.
But one word 'ere we commence.
"
On
It is
than
an
purs,
either
more
axiom
that
Women
from
women
virtuous or
in General.
abler pens, and older heads
in extremes, and
are
ever
vicious than men;
this
more
I
i
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
1"3
LON0OK.
is easily
accounted for * theirimaginationsare warmer
theirreason
less acute
theirfancymore
indulged
"
"
their
" "
more
knowledge
It is not
our
circumscribed.
to injure
object
any
one
of these
happy
un-
creatures, who, bruised in heart as theyare,
has reof society.,
become the harpies
after society
nounced
them, who are forced to deceive all men,
after being deceived by one.
Heaven
help them !
their sufferings
their
are
enough their privations,
"
endurances,their wants,
any
crimes
onjg pang
hand
are
ampleretributions
theymay commit. We
rather
to their miseries;
would
with
not
a
for
add
healing
bind up the wounds
the world has
and restore the wretched children of guilt
inflicted,
to peace and to happiness
; that cannot be, and our
would
we
bids us undraw
and disf
the curtain,
duty to society
the means
cover
by which the unfortunate are be;
driven to
and the profligate
trayedinto profligacy,
deepercrimes. We would lessen crime,rather than
not
punishcriminals we would deter the tempted,
"
crush the tempter
"
that urges her
for it is her
fate,not
ner
will,
on.
be she who or what she may, has
she loves ; depend upon this,reader,
it is a
one
some
have seen
females in exWe
law in their nature.
alted
rank, known
myriadsin middlinglife,and
Every woman,
lision
into colof causes
have been throwi* by a variety
with those in the lowest state of degradation-"
stilleach loved some
Man
is differently
one.
structed;
conwith the world at length
longacquaintance
renders him callous to it his heart becomes impervious
have seen
to affection woman's
We
never.
the fondness of a woman
burst the walls of a prison,
endure chains herself to
and,like Madame Lavelette,
"
"
d
by
Hft
sow
Wer
Liva
to
i*
londok.
bare also seen the lowest of
degradedcreatures take her shawl from her neck"
her gown from her back,and pawn them, to givethe
set a
free; we
to her transported
favourite.
proceeds
Having
women
laid
must
down,
love
some
invariable rule, that
to
one, let us proceed
as
an
Kept Mistresses.
in general,
do not mean
to assert that they,
love their protectors,
the contrary,
seldom do
on
On as nice a calculation as
than endure them.
more
find that
it is possible
to make on such a subject,
we
in one
thousand is kept by her
not
woman
one
have generally
been acseducer!
The protectors
quaintances
We
they
of the
when
first lover, who
the unfortunate
was
came
forward
deserted,and who
were
then accepted
absolute
as the firstresource
against
starvation.
These women
do not alwaysfind generosity
in
their protectors
and
; idleness induces extravagance,
these poof creatures expendmoney in fancied wants,
because theyhave literally
nothingelse to do ; the
their situation,
know
servants that surround tnem
of it. Every demand the lady
and take advantage
makes upon the purse of her new
sidered
paramour is conof her
by him as a tax, and, as the novelty
charms wears
off,he begins to* look at expense,
he at first thoughtonlyof pleasure.
where
He
denies her requests. What
before indifference
was
becomes hatred,and she looks on her protector
now
the gaoler
of her person.
The embraces, that
a"
from
habit become
at firstendured, and
were
and she now looks around
agreeable,
grow loathsome,
her fox some one whose person is more agreeable,
d
by
HjOW
TO
IN
LIVB
105
LONDON.
fundwhose
is more
extensive. She finds
liberality
an
one
who, unequalto the task of supporting
#eme
establishment for her, is willingto enjoy her caresses,
and aid her as far as his means
permit.Now
of two things
of
one
a man
occur
; she either meets
limited means
into debt to
who, liking
her, runs
supplyher with money, or she meets a degraded
villain who, seeingher situation,
strives to make
a
subsistence by her,and who makes himself agreeable
to her,and then robs her,or induces her to plunder
.others.
Reader
cumstanc
under these cir! if you know a woman
be a stoic to avoid the snare.
you must
anecdote will better illustrateyour fate,than
aught we can say.
Louisa L
seduced,and afterwards lived
was
with a friend of her .seducer,
the gun maker.
,
He did not supplyher with the money her wishes
her. She found
demanded, and otherwise neglected
that,thoughher person was idle,her mind was not.
inflames the passions,
instead of quelling,
Solitude,
and one evening,
she
in the country,
when
was
There she met
with "Harry
.went to the Saloon.
An
"
"
"
,
a
man
of
*
"
but
exterior,
gentlemanly
one
of the
fellow's person
and manner
her; theybecame intimate; he
pleased
visited her at the apartments
had furnished
for her; and he persuaded
her, from time to time,to
pawn the spoons, forks,and other articles of plate,
and lend him the produce. She did so.
At last,
these resources
failed;he brutalized her mind from
he persuaded
her to tryher
to another,till
excess
one
of P
charms upon a young man, then %inthe office
in Lincoln's ljan. This young
the conveyancer,'
lowest of heaven's creatures.
This
"
',
d
by
106
fiOW
TO
LONDO"
IN
LZVB
shall call Mr. Spring) fell
love with Louisa,and ran into every
m
desperately
extravaganceto supplyher with money, which was
takea by Harry
and spent by him
instantly
,
with whom
he associated*
amongst lower cyprians
taken
Springwas at last introduced to Harry
,
of
"byhim to the gaming table,and, in a moment
intoxication,
prevailedon to forgehis uncle's name
to a chequefor 500/.
Harry :
got this cheque
cashed by Levy, whose sen took it to the bankers
and received the money ; Springhimself never
ceived
reof the money for which he had
me
farthing
The forgery
was
discovered,
put his lifein jeopardy.
'And, by the kindness of his relation,Spring was
gentleman (whom
we
"
"
"
"
hours run, he quitted
England,and is now
at Sierra Leone.
Going to such a climate with a
constitution shattered by excesses, there are little
'ere tilts
record
hopes of his surviving
; and probably,
given six
of his.folliessees the light,
he, of whom theyare recorded,
will sleepin darkness for ever.
Harry
and may be seen nightafter night
stillexists,
at Mother
's,the Saloon,or the Finish ; and
H:
the last we heard of Louisa L-r
her commitment
was
conduct in the
to the treadmill for disorderly
"
"
streets.
draw our deduction from this case:
Louisa
L
loved this villain(Harry
-) ; for his sake
she plunged into every vice, sinkinglower and
until habit sustained what aflower at each plunge,
fection
filused by him, and havingfor
induced,
of
she took to
his sake lost the protection
"
a
mere
walker,
streetdrinking,and at length became
and has been refused a shilling
by the
scoundrelon whom she has lavished hundreds.
Let
us
"
"
-
gitizedbyVjOOQlC
-
108
HOW
LIVE
TO
LONDON."
IN
tofihe
the common
sort, and the titleand precedence
latter. If you associate with ladies of this stamp,"
though -that
expect to pay accordingly,
you must
will not exempt any from the accidents liable to the
of common
stews, few of these having
frequenters
billsof health about them, to ensure
their customers
from disasters.
"
The next class are prostitutes
of fashion,the
refuse and cast-off mistresses of men
of quality,
who,
affect
beingleft with a few clothes and some
money,
"the
grandeur and genteellife,and therebyensnare
and inconsiderate,
who are indifferent
unsuspecting
about the money
squanderedupon them, if they can
but have the credit of being looked on as persons
to the foibles and follies of
capableof administering
fine woman,
a
though the refuse of a noblemanl
These ladies of- pleasure,
as
they are styledby the
beau monde, reserve
themselves
only for such as are
able,by ample fortunes,to pay for the favours they
bestow ; ana beingfollowed: by officersthey become
toasts, and are
therebysought after by wealthy
merchants
and
tradesmen, to show
their taste and
of the bah ton for their
in selecting
women
"breeding;
leisure moments,
'
and hours of
indulgence.
To speak of these ladies as theydeserve,I must
confess tney are the most specious
of all prostitute*
whatever ; for,as amongstthieves,
so amongst them,
"
a
to honour
pretension
some
dependenceis to
in the
though,
condescensions
The
is
same
to be
be
found, and therefore
end, you pay
tions,
assevera-
dearlyfor their
and favours."
Writer
has
some
remarks
condition of this portion
of
:"
quotation
their
placedoh
on
the unfortunate
that
society,
merit
IilVB
TO
BOW
109
LONDON.
IN
recollected,
theyhave, poor crean
in the bitter
to bear up
tares,
against,
recollection of their past and present conduct;
ence;
existthe dreadful anxietyof procuring
a wretched
and
of better
the remembrance
happier
of scorn":
sad objects
days,and beingunprotected,
"
"It
oughtto
enough
be
render
them
all these circumstances
peculiarly
attention of the
worthy of the most compassionate
of feeling
man
: we
ought not to break the bruised
ill use the unfortunate
who can
seed :' and the man
'
is a million times a greater sinner
prostitute,
and
the poor, unprotected,
forlorn,despised,
objectof his savage barbarity.Shun
than,
neglected
them
their fascia
and their company
their allurements
for "their touch is
and their embraces
nations
and taunts,
Pass them
with Curses
death !"
not
but, like the good Samaritan, pour, if you can, the
balm
of comfort to their distracted,
wretched, and
"
"
"
"
disordered minds.
06is the greatest
prostitute
in London V*
offender
The
jectofpityof any
in
Cyprians
These
women
Private
Lodgings.
differ in
from the flaunting
grades,
year for a ready furnished
dame, who pays 300/. a
cottage,to the unfortunate, who
pays 5*. per week
for
who
rooms
a
miserable
to
attic.
Persons
let houses
these women,
of
alwayscalculate on the
loss,and,therefore,
chargedouble.
assertion is not made
at random.
The
or
bability
proThis
of any
rent
house in
ThornhaughStreet,occupied
by a respectable
is less by nearlyhalf than that of another
person,
the same
house,of exactly
dimensions,occupied
L
110
HOW
LONDON^
IN
LIVE
TO
The landlords say they
by a nest of cyprians.
and lay it on thick
chargesomethingfor disgrace,
birds of passage*"'The same
aTe
as their tenants
in the lowest hovels; go into
prevails
principle
Gloucester Court, Holborn, or any of its contiguous
room
week for his bedthe mechanic
pays "s. per
alleys,
the poor prostitute,
occupyingthe back room,
is charged6*. Thus we see that
the same
floor,
on
"
"
exist in this way are
those who
expenses of
We could enumerate
greaterthan that of other persons.
least,who pay three guineas
a 'hundred, at
the
for lodgingsalone, and
pay more
many
week
Dressmakers^ shoemakers*
than double that sum.
butchers,that supply
wine
merchants, nay, even
creatures at the
these
them with articles,
a
charge
poor
what they are
extravagant rate,* and thus,
support, would,
forced to expend for their own
same
out, maintain
been laid down
laid
properly
It has
man's
woman
a
largefamily.
as
a
maxim,
that every
with a
ruin could be traced to his connexion
that every woman's
it is much more
certain,
;
ruin is
man.,
causcjdrby
...
thus cheated by all around them, thus
and expenses, must find or make
driven to excesses
them ; add to this,their education
to satisfy
means
of business.
and habits render them weak and incapable
Women,
Very
few
women
act
for themselves
in any
friend,their
more
their flash man
(ofwhom
favourite" in slang,
hereafter)manages for them, and lives upon them,
station" these
women
never.
Their
"
whilst he excites them to rob others.
where money
of smiling
soon
Women
gaina facility
where it is not :
is,and scowling
robbingthem
d
by
TO
HOW
M
The
lover that had
She
can
And
gain'dher
grace,
day disown,
the strange man's
she ne'er had kaown."
one
in
Ill
ZiOKDON.
stare upon
As
Women
next
Iff
LIVE
face,
have
lodgingsgenerally
private
a
male
the kind we allude to ; therefore,let
that he
rake remember, in his profusion,
dependent of
the
young
the wants
of the woman
alone,but
supplying
of her degradedpara**
ministeringto the depravity
he is not enriching
her, but him.
mour
is not
"
forward
the
these fellows come
Sometimes
as
birds : formerly,
husband of the lady,
to frightenyoung
heard of their
when
swords were
we
worn,
stabbingtheir victim,now they relyupon their pugilistic
and
to
seldom
r
esort
actually
powers,
very
.
at
such a situation,reader, fight
but
"all bullies are cowards" is an old saying,
once;
debilitated crea~
flash men
are
alwaysdissipated,
tures; shattered constitutions are bad groundworks
These
fellows do not mean
to light
for boxers.
to a contest
you, and if it comes
you, but to frighten
that.
at
If
placedin
last,nature
deserts them
;
they cannot fightlong
for their lives
strength,
their want of wind and
We
induce weakness.
must
say this much to warn:
The grandam'sadvice," don't go in
readers.
our
the
way of such things,"is better,but who can be
induced to follow it ?
from
justcome
are
generally
lodgings
supposedto be
out; this is sometimes a false supposition,
for many
get
Women
exists,and
'
in
a
his
great many
equipagemay
starts.
be
seen
A
villain
in every
now
shionab
fa-
and
street,who has for years seduced girls,
then set them up in lodgings
; his brother is a pro*
of many
houses in C"
Street and its
prietor
112
HOW
and
vicinity,
The
there be takes the victims
extra
the
nix."
have the
costs
pleasure
his victim,we
melancholytale to relate :" Some
following
Of
another
eightyears
wretch
ago,
cality.
ras-
these poor girls
subsequently
his
his expenses, and, to use
phrase,"thus
brutal
of his
rents
him
pay, reimburse
own
LONDON.
IN
LIVE
TO
a
and
beautiful
seven
or
twentycountry girl,
four years of age, came
to the metropolis,
upon the
would
of her friends that her qualifications
assurance
soon
by which she would be
procure her a situation,
enabled to contribute to the assistance of her parents
setshire.
than she could do in Somermore
effectually
education had not been neglected,
the result of a
and her manners
and habits were
and exclusive intercourse with her parents
constant
and friends. She arrived in London ; but the hopes,
in the very
of those who loved her were
disappointed
Her
of her
commencement
It
career.
impossible,
was
her limited knowledge of the world, and her
which were
from their extreme
objectionable
manners,
and she was
to obtain a situation,
simplicity,
which
compelled,
by the approachof an exigency,
with
is
seldom
to
an
calculated
so
as
to
self
opposed by accident, to adapt heroccupationfor which she was not well
to
as
strength,althoughcompletely
servant
to a
and she became
patience,
With
tradesman
in Westminster.
for which
claim upon her gratitude,
some
cause,
by showing a
tenderness
"
was
became
servant
pregnancy.
Her
occasional
he had
for the
given
delicacy
breakingup all
supposedto be
his companionby
sequence
by day. The conmaster, through
of her constitution,
he succeeded in
those principles
by which she was
stronglyprotected she
night,but continued his
an
HOW
LIVB
TO
and
was.
disgusted,
caprice,
IN
113
LONDON.
turned her
of doors
out
;
he, however, afforded her the necessaries of life,in
from the parish. But, at
order to keep his name
length,thinkingthis too much, he gave her 5s\
weekly (a sum insufficient to pay even her lodging),
her that she knew how to get more.
telling
The poor girlcould not endure such an accumulation
of torments
heard to say,
long: she was
.that she could find
conformitywith
to
She
comfort but in death ; and, in
this frantic lamentation,she resolved
no
her melancholytheory.
practice
poison,and, for the purpose of
put into
swallowed
wringing the bosom of
into
under its operation,
f
her
lover," went,
his presence.
She
while
told
than a few
that she would trouble him no longer
moments,
duringwhich she would say her prayers
before him, and take leave for ever.
Even
in this
state, when she was
deplorable
upon the confines of
she was, with unparalleled
dered
orbarbarity,
eternity,
the street $ but, from the shock of her
into
and the effects of the poison,
which
feelings,
began
themselves in all their terrors, he thought
to show
this order. Convulsions
it prudentto countermand
him
and no surgical
seized upon the unfortunate girl,
called in for eightor nine hours after
assistance was
She lingered
for twentythe dose had been taken.
two
hours,and then expiredin the greatest agony.
in many
The corpse was
parts as black as jet from
An inquest
(he quantityof poisonswallowed.
was
held upon the body, which lasted for five hours,
amined.
duringwhich a great number of witnesses were exsoon
The
verdict of the
Died
jurywas""
by
occasioned by despondencyof mind,
takingpoison,
which caused a temporary insanity."
l2
114
TO
BOW
LIVE
IN
LONBOH,
Had
lives !" dare he think of death,?
Thfe man
this poor girlfollowed his brutal mandate, she would
in her turn
have become
the
If
were
a
spoiler
; but she flew from
of her Maker.
protection
crueltyof man to the
her wrongs
aught can expiateself-destruction,
sited
or viMay her sins be forgiven,
an
expiation.
!
the head of her destroyer
on
said tends to illustrate our
sition,
pounder
in lodgingsare generally
that women
gusting
and so far less corrupt and dismale influence,
What
some
we.
have
in mind than those who are in open brothels,
where they are in intimacywith hackneyedwomen,
vent
and with aged wretches,who desert nature, and in-
iniquities.
lodgingsare more
than
but less demoralizing
acquaintances
weUers in bagnios.
In
one
word,
in
women
Sensive,
Bagnios and
ex*.
the
their Inmates.
houses of ill-fame,
formerlycalled
The firstsort which it
stews, are of various kinds.
is necessary for us to consider,are those in which
keepers.
to the houselive who pay a certain sum
women
in
are
ones
Of these houses the principal
Bagnios,or
Street,
Lisle Street, Leicester Square, Howland
and King'sPlace,Pall Mall. They are called
"
Dress Houses,
They providethe
wretched
gaudy
fortunate
Any un-
inmates with
isthis :"
and their mode of proceeding
attire,
girlwho seeks admission,obtains it if her
clothes are, on
all attractive ; her own
person is at
taken from her, and certain
her entering
the^ouse,
thingslent
to her.
She is told that ifshe makes off
216
TO
HOW
Mother
W
Iff IiOKDOV.
MVJB
is Chattertcm,
whose real name
in her house.
twelve girls
at once
',
*
"
has sometimes
RECEIPTS.
Twelve,"t
three
week
guineasper
dresses
on
Supposed profit
".
9.
37
16
0
12
12
0
0
0
*
0
5
0
16
0
n
J
ft
9
a
3
3
0
3
3
0
10
0
"23
19
0
"61
19
0
.
.
.
sold and lent weekly
d.
Rooms
the money
paidby the visitors for \
(i.e.
the room, though it is the apartment of the girl,
25
"
and paid for every week by her)
.)
and
I
Wine, profit
on
an inferiorarticle,
(always
5
sold very dear)
S
"c
Suppers,breakfasts,
(which are always~|
5
for
the
charged
twoy though
girlpays weekly for "
her board)
I
.J
.
"
.
.
.
.
.
"
"80
EXPENSES.
The
board
of twelve
servants, Mrs.
four
girls,
\
J
C. and
family
Washing, "c
Rent
Wear
and
and
Wages
vants
to
taxes
as
hire
,
.
leaves
The
a
.
4
.
of these
well
"
.440
.
ser-"J
by pre-
.
.
.
"
Weekly profit
average,
few
(though
do
(heygenerally
.
Mrs. C"
"c.
clothes,
furniture,
servants
.
Coach
of
tear
take any,
sent*)
"
1
"
.J
.
.
"
.2100
.
.
.
declares she loses2QL per week,
by her runaways, sick list,"c.
of 40/.,or 2000/. a year.
profit
few extenuative
;
on
an
yet that
circumstances we know
we
We believe Mrs. C
has acted
state.
cheerfully
in a variety
of instances. We have been
charitably
told that she does not exercise
any tyranny over the*
"
"
BOW
TO
IN
LIVE
of her victims
feelings
117
LONDON
that she has supported
many
in sickness
whilst other houses turn the poor creatures
forth the]instant they have contracted the
disease their wretched
callingengenders. Mrs.
C
has two daughters
Of the ladies we
and a son.
have lately
of valost sight the son has a variety
gabond
"
"
"
and
propensities,
was
for
longperiodat
a
Richardson'sbooth in Bartholomew
other fairs,
that sort of life to any that could be
preferring
offered him.
The houses in King'sPlace are generally
fashionable
and
no one
can
frequentedby
men,
out under 2/.,to do the thing at all
expect to come
genteelly.The 2/. are thus expended
and
"
however, drop the
Many visitors,
servant
5s,,10*.,
far as 20*. at a time.
The
infamous A
impudent and
n, the most
the most fashionable of flash men, used to visit once'
who doted upon him, at
a week
a poor deluded
girl,
this identical house ; and the wretch has been heard
slummed
the coves
to boast that his " Kate generally
for him."
This sum
out of 10 or 12/. every week
of course, exclusive of her own
was,
expenses, and
idea of the sums
gives some
expended at these
as
nay,
receptacles.
Houses
Under
f
this head
Jar
come
Visitors.
all houses
where
Digitizedby
VjOOQIC
women
UB
to.
mam
fanned
not
are
Chandos
in
which
regularlylodged,bat
or
the White
are
londobr
ik
The
for casual calls.
kept open
these
live
are
celebrated
most
of
House, in Soho Square ; the Key,
Street; and
the
in
Brunswick,
Bow
Street.
These
houses
attempt
their
by
are
to detail one
rooms
at
far too
for
numerous
7s. per night; but
this is
to
best, let
The
quarter of them.
us
nominal
a
you are expected,at the superiorhouses,
to incur other expenses, such as wine, servant, "c. ; so
that the house seldom costs you less than one guinea
for
charge,
a
visit.
of these houses are, in several in-^
proprietors
The
of large property.
stances, men
majority
Belasco, the fighter,
keeps recepbelong to Jews.
tacles
The
-
of this
and seven
description,
fruiterers carry
The
the trade
with
keepersof-these placesagree
their
"use
on
eightnoted
covertly.
or
houses," and
centage for every
Fleet Street,the
visit
pay
them
a
they
priceof rooms
certain
In the
make.
to
women
per
alleysin
differs from 7**with,
extras
at all.
the usual extras, to 1*. and no
We
might proceedto a number
of houses
which
''supplythe theatres." We are actuallyquoting
their own
language but we have said enough upon
this subject.
We
anxious to impress upon the minds of our
are
readers
fact (t.e.
enables
that every prostitute
one
to live). She generally
some
owe, if not more,
sup*
and always aids very considerablym
ports a man,
"
the
support of her landlord,and of the brothel
"
she
uses."
Besides
the streets and theatres,the
of these poor creatures
are*.
.
sorts
reprincipal
BOW
Grub's
the
;
TO
IK
LIVE
OysterRoams
119
LONIMnK
H"
Mother
;
's ; and
"
the Saloon.
These
known ; tho3e to whom
shall not pointthem
we
placesare too well
not are happy,and
they are
out.
The
H
Saloon
s
-
by
is
kept by
of the
man
a
Godered; Mother
one
of
Page.
and to
our
police,
placesexist. Here
name
It is an opprobriumto
Home
that these
Secretary,
assemble to
men
young
wretches who live by the crimes
Here, too, the flash
excite.
men
those
meet
to
solute
dispoor
and
they commit
attend
our
"
give
the office"* to their women.
At the Saloon the liquors
are
justendurable. At
H"
Mother
's (where8$. is chargedfor a bowl of
that costs Is. 6d.)they are inferior. We
negus
and our last
must
bringthis article to a conclusion,
duty is to unmask
"
Flash
Under
this denomination
might comprisean
we
Men.
limits
(did our
infinite number
permit)
of persons.
sold his wife for 300/. per annum
D
? for by that term we
d, a flash man
understand one who exists upon the money
gained
Is
of others.
the caresses
by a woman's permitting
not he,known
a
throughLondon as the bullyA,
who obtained from a weak woman
valuable
flash man,
Is not
to H
B
"
who
with
tailor,
and, in conjunction
deprived
Eictures,
of them?
Was
the transport Jacobs,maugre
a
er
his
*
any
respectable
origin,any thing else?
This is
a
cant
phrasefor pointingout
trick;or, in short,
givingthe
word
to do
a
Are
likelyvictim
not
for
any certain act.
ISO
BOW
TO
LIVE
LONDON*
IN
and C
{thoughonce
{withhis curricle),
and B
(thoughalsoengagedin literature),
rich),
and C"
and H
.(tnesha**1
(thoughan actor),
cend
are
they not all flash men ? Nay, to asattorney),
have we
two
not one
a colonel,
or
marquisses,
deserve no
and a great legalcharacter,
who
other
will not fly
?
But, gentlereader, we
appellation
would be useful rather than
at such high game
we
satirical we will let these wealthyvillains wallow
in their filth;we
the
will proceed to generalize
M
.
"
"
"
may intrude themselves
moving in the middle classes.
wretched
man
we
crew
who
upon
a
termed bullies ; but, as
Flash men
were
formerly
have before stated,
the violences of former years
havingdisappeared,
theybullyless,thoughtheyrob
Flash men
and defraud more.
are
.generally
young
have plunderedtheir masters
fellows who
or
latives,
reand been discarded, and who, too lazy to
with a few pounds
work, have come
upon the town
in pocketprobably;they formed
an
acquaintance
with some
who, havinghelpedthem to expend
cyprian,
their circumstances,
that,and then learning
as
all women
in
have a natural leaningtowards
men
distress,have befriended them
the system; thus/ as theybecome
this
"
commences
experienced,
more
learn a few flash
upon different women,
character,and amuse
songs, a few tales of a light
their victims by takingthem
to free and
easies
theyfasten
where women
(called,
to vulgardances, "c.
for these
who
are,
"c.
attentions,grow
treat
frequently
them
"
cock
The
and hen
clubs"),
grateful
girls,
poor
fond of these
in the
most
manner.,
In
a
scoundrels,
barbarous
,
walk
down
Fleet Street you may
see
twenty
""WV
*0
LIVE
IN
121
LONDON.
b" these characters any
night. Fellows well dressed,
of intellect could mistake for
bat that no obtusity
a littlemore
gentlemen creatures dressed gaudily,
than prize-fighters,
but in the same
style.
genteelly
About eighto'clockin the evening,
you will find some
of these wretches walk their girls
up to the parade,
these unthen speakto and part from them, leaving
fortunate
"
females
to
pursue
their trade, whilst
the
and
public-house,
"gentlemen"adjournto some
At twelve
their pipe,and song.
enjoytheir glass,
if you have the curiosity,
reader,to
o'clock,
or one
visitFleet Street again,
turn
you will see these fellows reand ask
what
and severally
their girls,
accost
"
luck?"
and if the poor creatures
have
received
too
after fivehours'
(asoften occurs
take
tramp),the brutal harpywill desire her to
another hour's chance," whilst he goes to a night-
littlemoney,
or
none
''
house
no
will start at the apparent
will
all
of
this,reader $ you
impossibility
sav,
could be so idiotic as to submit to it. We
to
woman
drink.
We
know
you
affirmthat it w true twenty years'experiencehas
the women
and the
We
have known
taughtit us.
and, thank Heaven, have succeeded in taking
men,
them
from these wretches, and placing
two
or
one
"
in the
Magdalen.
If you would
be farther assured
of these facts,take this article to any experienced
and ask him if one line in it is false.
officer,
police
Our lives upon his answer.
endure
The privations
and labour that prostitutes
incredible.
these men
to support and
are
pamper
They exceed in endurance even the most exalted
instances of the force of chaste affection.
A few words will end this chapter. " Wherever
there are thieves''" in genteeler
there are prostitutes
M
122
BOW
circles called
TO
LIVB
LONDON.
is,however,
gamblers the principle
"
that axiom, reader,and think
Remember
the same.
that your
IN
is transitory
(oftendisgusting)-**
pleasure
danger twofold. It is a game at which you
nothingto win, and money, health,and reputation
your
have
lose.
to
of the situation
foregoingexposition
would
invoke the pity
and arts of the cyprian,
we
Lister has made a
of mankind
to their sufferings.
this subject,
beautiful appealto our sympathies
on
the
After
and,
his poems
as
this extract, which
"
are
seldom
now
is here
seen,
we
present
beautiful and
equally
I will not chide thy sins ;
profligate,
though the coldlyvirtuous turn away,
shall stalk indignant
the proud priest
by,
Poor
What
And
himself
should he hold
polluted,
with thy guiltysoul,
A moment's
converse
To such as thee,
Yet thou shalt have my tear.
Sinful,abased,and unbefriended,came
The world's great Saviour ; from his gentlelesson
deem
And
No
Fell
Bade
of
highreproofor bitter scorn
chilly
; but his exhortation mUd
the meek radiance of celestial hope
word
Beam
on
the faded brow
Againstthis
woman
die
'
"
Who
first shall throw
accusingstone
Farewell,poor profligate
; and
as
I
?'
give
The trifleto avert to-morrow's want,
Should no licentious drunkard make thee rich*
Oh
! could
I to that bosom's hell impart
One ray of that pure lightof virtuous thought,
Which, 'ere the soul seducer raveningcame,
with mild radiance in thy angel face.
the envious Levite shrink,
behold
Sullen,
Glow'd
Whispering
While
busy
his mutter'd
conscience
curse
of angry
shame,
slumbers now
no
more.
Hear this,
hard
of
reprovers' ^mankind,
ye
propria
ap-
124
riOW
Of youthful
Thy
To
TO
IN
LITE
triumph;
yes, he leftthee thus,
parent'scurse, the world's unpitied
scorn.
earn
the
fleeting
wages
of
disgrace,
out
linger
Thy sad remains of life to
In hopeless
prostitution.Dead
And
which
penitence,
And
shun
thee
hope
awaits
No
Who
knows
And
with
as
shame
to
refuse,
now
pestilential
blight,
thee,but in Him
each
no
all would
the
alone"
springthat
secret
moves
the
justicerules the world."
narrow
THE
ON
Such
LONDON.
heart,
.
.,
KEDGE.
blessed with sufficient confidence to
sit at the head of a table and call "order," may
derive a sort of existence from publicans,
who%are
all literally
now
turningtheir houses into placesof
entertainment.
have known
We
could
'who
men
neither sing nor
who, by good
speak effectively,
as
are
conduct, have actually
grown
this wretched
drink
"the
and
into respect even
by
mode
of living. But
precarious
the
arink"
generallydestroysthose
for their reputation."
take this course
who
We
do better than offer to the publicthe following
cannot
the subjectof Free and
admirable article on
time back in a celebrated
Easies,which appearedsome
sporting
paper :
"
"
"
"
"The
take
amusements
their tones
Free
and
Easies,Spc.
of the lower orders must and do
from the taste of their superiors.
Sixty years since,when
the drama, and
the fashionable world
when
tronise
pa-
the
Covent Garoen
actuallyknew by observation what his
manager
clubs abounded in the
house,could contain,spouting
vanished,like the race
metropolis
; theyare extinct,
SOW
TO
m
LIVE
125
W"NDOJt,
Bees and
if it was not for Tom
Decastro,I should not know where to look for living
evidences of their former existence. The present
and their devotions
St. Cecilia,
age has patronised
strides since the peace*
have taken seven-leagued
Britons
Singingdid not do much duringthe war.
the
that no time for shaking; but peace
vf mammotha*-"ind
thought
'pipingtimes
the few
'
"
of
peace/ made
the world
was
made
us
melodists.
Whilst
over
for/ languished
of Catalani,Garcia, Pasta,
out-breathings'
idle. Mrs.
not
were
the plebeians
Velluti
the
'
and
"
Fubbs, of Clare Market, visited what she termed the
St. Martin's Lane/ and her daughter
of musical
tortured the 'peany.' To this expansion
the extension of Free and Easies ;
owe
taste do we
but how B"
have existed,indeed,many years
'
Polony,in
they
"
that they
It is onlylately
in dullness and obscurity.
blazed into brightness.Let us draw a picture
nave
of one of these templesof Apollo. First : A room,
of table from one
longand narrow, with a continuity
end to the other ; at the conclusion of which are two
both elevated above their fellows ; in these
chairs,
in
chairs sit President and Vice, with hammers
hand : before each of these officialpersonages is a
"
or
not, you
plate,in which, whether you smoke
The equityof
one
must
deposit
penny for tobacco.
the nonconform*,
this arrangement, as far as regards
dubious ; but let
ists of the Raleighschool,seems
scripti
the company are rather of a mixed deshirtsSome
gents will run in, in their
in
others come
sleeves; and, to judgeby externals,
without any shirts at all. The smoke is as dense as
here the onlydestructionis
that pass
on
a
"
though
battle-field,
of verse, porter,tunes, and tobacco.
The
common
196
n"#
w
stvfi
m
Logoff.
of
the spirit
of 1780;
at a Free and
the good old custom
UMcribed"
of which was
oil the cards invitatory
"N.B.
Fightingallowed.' This sketch is of the
wind-up of
these
meetingsis a mill,in
Easy
*"
lowest order of these entertainments; and if you
step on a Monday nightto The Hog and Looking
or The Custard and
Glass,The Cat and Currycomb,
Cheese, or any of the Bunches
of Grapes,in Cow
Lane,
Oross, Nightingale
or
Street,you will
Kent
in all their glory.
brightoriginals
comes
Second : The next gradeof Free and Easies bein the
distinguished
by hating a piano-forte
Here you willsee more
bacco
coats, and less to-
find the
"
"
room.
;
here,too, appear
denominated
a
set of
persons,
facetiousl
men'
gentlemen who
professional
brated
week
at BagniggeWells, or less cele'
"
singby the
You
concert-rooms.
will discover
one
of
by a certain swagger of assumption,
and, probably,
though
by his being very shaunty,
these persons
'
his hair is
Jittleout
will have a
sky-blueneck-cloth,or a scarlet one, the giftof
damsel who yielded
to the charms of his song:
some
but he'll have one glove
he'll be unshaven, perhaps,
he takes that this evidence
4kt least" and especial
care
of
be not lost upon the company.
When
he is asked to sing,
the applause
will be prodigious,
and the whisper and gaze soon
announce
the fame of the performer;he rises from his seat,
"and marches boldlyup to the instrument,shakes
hands with the performer,
his cfidesAchates,'
mentions
the
song and key,and begins* On hk cntrt,
the landlord has insinuated a glass
of gin and water
"into his hand"
the wages of his worth.
The visitors
to these places
are more
regularthan those of JEsee
a
of his hat.'
He
gentility
d
by
ftOw
and
Easies,No.
TO
LIVE
1. ;
wno
IN
are
127
LONDON.
apt, oddlyenough,to
thin
justabout the time they are trying
amazingly
and on Clerkenwell Green.
peopleat the Old Bailey,
The consequence of this regularity
of visitation is,
4hat
certain songs become
identified with certain
'members; and when Mr. Muggs is announced, the
pianiste
playsthe symphony of his song without at
all consulting
the vocalist. The act of invadingthe
property of another (formelodies become thus the
is considered little
private
propertyof individuals),
better than a musical misdemeanour, the perpetrator
whereof is a vocal latrocinist,
tion
and the exclama'
That is Mr. Maggot'ssong/ may be heard
appliedto Kelvin Grove,or The Woodpecker,
maugre
Braham's claims to their original
introduction.
"
Third :
mitted.
Free and Easies where ladies are adThese places
known
are
by a metaphorical
with which
suggestedby the
cognomen,
I shallnot sully
grees
theydiffer in demy description:
grees
in deof respectability,
or, to speakcorrectly,
of disreputability.
find a
Here, also, we
"
"
farm-yard,
musician, and somethinghe calls a piano. Apropos,
of these musicians ; they are of aD sorts and sizes,
both with reference
some
are,
to
bodilyand
indeed, excellent
mental
calibre"-
performers"
many
lerable"a
to-
who have the pleasing
peculiarity
of playing
onlyin one key. You may singin F, in
A, or in B, but accompany you in G theywill. The
of this sort also differs
at different rooms
company
some
strangely:The
Chequers,at Westminster;
The
Golden Ball,
PaviUon, "c. "c have their different coteries. I
do not mean
to individualize amid these,
or the many
Bull and Butcher
.nameless
*
in Smithfield ; The
for
receptacles
the
same
company.
The
188
ROW
LIVE
TO
IN
LONDON.
of. these rooms
in
are
inhabitants (pro tempore)
better odour with their tailors and hatters than ait
claret coats and white toppers
the other temples,
as
colours of theirneckties,
too,
testify
; the variegated
fastened by a gilt
remarkable from the morone
are
"
ring,to the spruce pink. Here juvenileBenedicts
bringtheir wives, and theytheir babes here lads
take their intendeds;and here, ladies with no ma*
"
all may
be found.
The
under the guidanceof a presingingis not usually
sident,
but one of the aforesaid professional
gentle*
of the ceremonies.
Here
men, who acts as master
trimonial intentions
some
at
comic)may
good singing(especially
be
heard;
draws forth the powers
of the vocalist;the ladies' songs, too, are worth
and all; from the married dame, who
one
hearing,
and beats her child,
sitsand sings,
to keep it still,
duringthe symphony,to the bolder fair one, who
stands beside the musician,and emulates the tone
and action of Paton or Vestris. What
effect these
let others
meetingshave on the morals of the peonle,
inquire;what effecttheyhave on our drama, empty
benches reply;the fact that there are, for the first
three days in each week at least,upwards of five
hundred nightly
meetings,of the kinds I have par~
and its immediate vicinity,
in London,
ticularized,
is
time will prove whether it be not also
singular"
the presence of the other
sex
alarming/'
FARMING.
Reader ! Do you not know that we hare firstrate
tailorswho never
used a needle ? bootmakers who
know nothingof the art ? in fact,men
in all businesseswho, althoughthe principals,
not
the
are
HOW
TO
lit LONDOtf
LIVE
.
120'
of them.
We have editors who do not"
cannot
write) and authors who never
attempt it.
Their business and their fame is carried on and
maintained
cessary
by "farming talent'' It may be nethe meaning of the term farming
to explain
in this instance.
It means
as applied
producingby
*
for instance,
if A. has a sum
agency or assistants;
of money
that he wishes to employ in a newspaper,
he has onlyto make
of
up his mind on the course
he means
features
to pursue, and the general
politics
that he intends to producein it ; he then applies
to
B. for the leading
C. for theatrical criticisms,'
article,
D. for police
reports,"c. "c. ; these are all brought
did I say?
to him oy poor talented devils-" brought,
masters
delivered by a ragged
No, reader ! theyare generally
ing
starvingchild,from its wretched parent,who, lackthe
means
goes forth
to
(when
"
decent appearance,
out of gaol)until"
make
a
never
The shades of nightare round him !"
In many cases
the miserable pittanceis not regularly
of the heartless
and some
flatter,
speculators
and serobtain the opinions
vices
e, and by these means
Slid,
of these unfortunates,pocketthe
and
from their efforts,
nerated.
Thus, in new
"
of
a
Whilst
on
this
profits
arising
leave them
whollyunremu-.
frethe public
publications,
we
subject,
gentleman,who understands
will
the
giveour readersan
term
"
account
farming" very well,
he carries it to a laughableextent, for he give* no man
stance,
is affixed ; for incredit for any productionto which his name
"
he says
Pierce Egan did not write a line of Life in
etched
London, but I know who did ;" " Cruikuhanks never
those plates
;M and so on. This gentleman is well known in the
but
world,and
sporting
is very often in the cabin at the GaxiUk's
130
HOW
quentlySee
two
or
an
TO
or
LONDON.
ablywritten prospectus,and
three numbers
in such
some
IN
LIVE
are
cases,
are
very
the ftwfc"
talented; the prospectuse
most
written by
likely
Cross Street,the Fleet,
poor fellow in White
him
had inspired
the Bench, after the publisher
a
dinner, and a bottle of wine,
sovereign,
with a plentiful
and promises*:
supply of flattery
and writes
The poor coopedbird racks his invention,
he is not
that,of the accruing
profit,
away, but finding
his
he throws down
allowed a small portion,
even
raise it,
if he can
and over a glass,
pen in disgust,
all publishers.
curses
has succeeded in getting
As soon as a man
a book
published,and advertised,he is surrounded by a
with
a
littlefryof would-be
ask his
productions,
authors,who
opinion,and
their
their
him, that
hand him
do all in
graftthemselves so much upon
strumen
throughhis inthey may get hold of a publisher,
he, in return, well knowing what they
their productions,
for the
are
at, borrows
driving
the M.S. with more
purpose of,as he states,reading
attention,and by this means
gets an article for a
book.
idea for a new
or perhapsan
periodical,
The title of author is frequently
most
improperly
of the gentry who are so called,are
applied
; most
merelybook makers, and get up a work by means
of artists and engravers, and by cuttingdown, fitting
the productions
of others. Before
in, or dove-tailing
leave this subject,
let us give our
readers some
we
idea of the comprehension
of publishers.
Shortly
after the death of Lord Byron, a well known
seller
bookpower
to
celebrated editor of Sporting
Chronicles (P. E.),and offered him 100/. down, and
his own
consent
to finish Don
terms, if he would
waited
on
a
133
TO
HOW
LONDON.
IN
LIVB
in his
inmate
comfortable in
house. Our Hero knew well,
of it"
be in favour with the mistress
ahouse,you must
be upon good terms
so, you must
and to be perfectly
under the roof; he therefore
with every woman
to
siege; he was as respectful
a
an
became
ultimately
family/and
that to be
regular
commenced
the
ladyof
the house
as
"
a
;"
to a commander-in-chief
excess
to an
and was
leggeddrummer
he smiled
polite
a
duck
to
every
at
the servants,
though
alone
; and
the most
bad temper, and surrounded by.
breathed
children that perhapsever
disagreeable
into
betrayed
never
in any country,yet was
any
did he ever
display
nor
incautious expression,
;
and cheerful countenance
but the most placid
thing,
all occasions to
on
willingness
he showed the utmost
and wishes of his new
administer to the wants
looked upon as a completerara
friends,until he was
was
and to foregosuch a companion,
in tertis,
wis
The husband
for a moment.
not to be contemplated
on
every other
he
an
wife, althoughthey disagreed
; he
coincided in this one opinion
perfectly
subject,
and well
in dispute,
referee on all matters
became
the casting
of the family,
gave
the
politics
knowing
but his style
in favour of Madame;
and
vote
invariably
was
so
it
was
scendingly
conde-
unobtrusive,and he apologised
that j
both parties,
for not agreeingwith
lost by his
for those who
almost
so
impossible
Before he had been a
feel offended.
prime
the roof, he became
under
and in two years laid down
the
in
family,
minister
For five
matters, and things.
.the law on all subjects,
the roof in
under
he remained
altogether
years
able
in
luxury,and for a consider-
decision to
twelvemonth
living great
question*
of the time
portion
enjoyingthe
comforts of
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
138
LONDON.
"c. "c;
when death,the
shooting,
disturber of highand of low/' deprived
him of al^
and three years ago he found himself in the cityof
As a proof
London, without a friend or a penny.
horse exercute,
"
of the address and confidence of the individual we
allude to, we must state, that during
his residence in
London with his obliging
patron, he waited on the
of a London
theatre, who engaged him
manager
appeared,except before
(althoughhe had never
friends in private),
and he acted for more
than twenty
nights. But to return to our hero in his pennyless
situation. The five years of ease had rendered him
and he
very unfit to endure his present situation,
wanted food,and was
not very scrupulous
now
as to
it. Towards evening
he walked
the mode of obtaining
if Mr.
into the SurreyCoffee-house,and inquired
in ? Being answered by the waiter
Smith had come
he ordered supper, called for the
in the negative,
of brandy
boots,and composinghimself with a glass
and water, he retired to rest; the next morning,after
which
breakfast,he walked into the coach-office,
joinsthe SurreyHotel, and then down Fleet Street,
and did not return ; this sort of living
he continued
with a
for two or three nights,
when, in conjunction
he obtained a situation as reporter on a
relation,
his attention
which occupied
Sunday newspaper,*
This he did with a littlewholesome impudence. He went on
to the
heard some
to Bow
a
Street,
Saturday
cases, then went
here are to-day
** cases, Mr.
News* office,
and said to the editor,
has informed me
for early
that you would pay liberally
and was sorryan
The editor knew not Mr
intelligence.
,
adventurer had taken die trouble,but yet saw- that tiles*
*
*
reports would be essential to bis paper ; he thereforereceived
them, and afterwards employedour hero.
N'
134
HOW
TO
LIVE
IN
LONDOtf.
dayand a half at the latterend of each week ;
with the proprietor,
however, closed
a disagreement
this resource
of months,
in the course
of a -couple
and our adventurer was
a gentlemanat
more
once
about
a
large.But duringhis engagement
on
the press, he
had
made a comfortable arrangement with a lady,
whose character would not bear the strictestinquiry,
and furnished a small house on credit his situation
An offer
not so desperate
as before.
was, therefore,
patible
of clerkship
was
made, but refused,as it was incomand disposition
with his nature
to endure
"
But
any thingin the shapeof regularity.
as
it
was
tory
to do something
to keep the masticaindispensable
arrangeda
organs in motion, he alphabetically
of every
listof the names,
addresses,and profession
with.
This
individual he had ever been acquainted
listhe used to read over
at breakfast,and came
to
the following
ence
his existresolutions for carrying
on
A. wont
for the day :
lend me
half-a-crown,
book that will pawn
for that
but he'll lend me
a
B. is mixed up with gamblingtransactions
amount.
"a
gambleris alwaysgood for a trifle.C. will give
credit for so many
me
months, and so f_/rth. He
self
used to argue, that if a man
would onlydress him"
he must
get a livingin
London.
contriver took the ehair at
free and easies,
and twice a week held forth at a
celebrated spouting
shop,for which he was always
paid. Added to this,he managed to get some
to teach the art of speakvictims,who he professed
ing,
in prose; he also wrote
and of composition
and drew out
letters for any one, penned petitions,
hand bills,and this increased his income
and the
About this time he
number of his acquaintance.
to
"
forageabout"
At night,
our
HOW
had
a
TO
LITE
135
LONDON.
IN
occasion for about 20/.,without
pressing
ing
know-
where to raise it. He (after
ture
mahit on the following
consideration)
expedient:"
fie dressed himself with more
than ordinary
care,
and started from home
every morningbefore nine
o'clock,walked throughthe cityfirst (as the city
and borrowed triflesof every
men
are
alwaysearly),
soul he saw, that he could at all claim as an acquaintance
he wrote to those who were
out of town,
otherwise not accessible,
or
got goods where he
could not get money, frequently
reigns,
showingfive soveana
sayinghe wanted another to make up a
and adopting
a
varietyof methods to inthe holders* of metallic substances to " fork
uce
of
out)"he, in six days,found himself in possession
25/.
of this
Either men
idle,or pursuits
are
naturally
kind requiremore
time to be allowed to recruit
those wno
follow them
than any other. For no
make
does a man
a
sooner
hit, than
upon town
down
he sits himself,to enjoy his favourite pleasures,
thinks of business,until
and never
at
the moment
Sayment,
"
Ii
Wan"a" worldlywant, that hungrymeagre fiend,
at
his
heels,and
Thus, instead
in moments
*
of
chases him
following
up
in view."
his
which,
advantage,
of affluence,
he could do with
more
con-
dressed to
droll enotfgh
; he got a friend shabbily
walk with him, and he would then call on any one he had the
"
ashamed
I am
trude,
to inwith,and say
slightest
acquaintance
but I *ye leftmy purse at home, and in walkingalong unfortunately
broke,with my umbrella,this fellow's window; he
take my address*pray pay him 5".,and I'll send it to
want
irresistible
; this appealwas
; the most obstinate
you to-morrow
would lend under such circumstances.
One
was
"
n2
136
HOW
fidence,and
TO
LIVB
IN
LONDON.
he gets out of
certain success,
and imbibes a distaste for active exertion.
practice,
of his
Our
hero's life involved the necessity
with business generally
making himself acquainted
;
his advice was
asked, and his common
frequently
"
time is money to me, 111 sit with yon
replywas
for an hour for half a sovereign."
This we
have
heard him say, and this sum
have seen him paid
we
for an hour's conversation;he has frequently
ceived
rea guineaand a half a day,merelyfor ^s
ciety.
somore
"
^
He
able
and ishonoursettled in life,
reputably
nate,
and charitable to the less fortudealings,
and both respected
and respectable.
must
quitthis individual instance,to generalize
is now
in his
We
our
remarks-
It is necessary to inform the reader that he
legally
charge for
leases,or
any
the
not
can-
drawingof agreements,
other
instrument, nor can he make
attorney or conveyancer, without
chargeas an
himself to a severe
but any man
subjecting
penalty,
of considerable
e is a man
foradvice. L
may charge
of
to the regulation
talent,and who (previous
the Insolvent Court) had very extensive practice,
any
the abolition of agency
which
in insolvent matters
destroyed.That gentlemanhavingnever
entirely
been articled to an attorney,
certificated as a
nor
couldnot charge for acts
of course
conveyancer,
done in either capacity,
but he chargesfor advice
his purand this answers
given,and time employed,
pose.
If
be
he oughtto be
capableof advising,
and this mode
to that capability,
paidin proportion
of existenceis neither disreputable,
dishonest ;
nor
a
man
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the path,
those who would follow it,to see that their
we
warn
He who
do not exceed their powers.
pretensions
of society
advises well,is a useful member
; he who
pretendsto do it,is a charlatan and a villain.
With regardto trades,
it is a general
supposition
that a man
exercise them, without: having
cannot
Half the
this is an error.
served his apprenticeship"
shoemakers, natters, and tailors in London, never
serve*!their time. Grocers,bakers,butchers,cheeses
under the
mongers, and all trades that do not come
denomination of trades of skill,
are
menced
commonlycomwithout any initiation.
The important
business of a printer
menced
may be comwithout apprenticeship.
Mr. Moncrieff,
the
dramatic writer, set up as a printer
a littletime
this as a
since ; we name
ing
instance. Printof the arts, which a man
with talent,
is one
but without money, may easily
the use
commence
of types he may have, and one shilling
is the price
of
Go to the office
his certificate! It is thus obtained
of the Clerk of the Peace for the Countyin which
you wish to set up (thatfor Middlesex is the
Sessions House, Clerkenwell
Green),give in your
and address on a pieceof paper, and theygive
name
you a printedform, in which it is averred that you
have a printing
be witnessed
press, "c. This paper must
by some one whom you bringwith you. The
of form,and its truth is
is mere
matter
averment
trat at the
same
moment
that
we
pointout
popular
"
"
never
inquiredinto.
Reader, if you
would
succeed in this world,
"
abandon the use of the words " I can't,"
I
Some may advise " I'll try,'*
wiH."
as
a medium
;
adopt
bat the latter expression
a
implies
doubt,and does
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sufficient confidence in those in whom
inspire
you may desire to create that feeling.
used to speak the
We remember poor Stebbing
lines in a celebrated character which he
following
"If I commanded
acted at the Sanspareil:
an army,
not
"
I'd put my soldiers into petticoats;
theymust fight,
if theycould run." Our sentiments to a
for d"
me
tittle.
Every man, who has to fight
throughthe world,
himself boldly
should place
forward,never dream of
of
out
cases
retreat, or defeat,and in ninety-nine
he will succeed. There
is a common
a hundred
in the
used among actors, when imperfect
phrase,
text, "don't stick ;" this is altered by a well known
"
stick at nothing,
who says
character in the city,
but keep out of the paleof the criminal law."
We
do not approve of the sentiment which this conveys;
what we
wish to inculcate,
is a styleof putting
all matters, in which you are en*a goodface upon
gaged. A very useful lesson on this head may be
taken from hearing
of
a bench
Adolphusaddressing
when he has no law on his side;lie tells
magistrates,
what is not the law of the case, and
the magistrate
that
thus getshim or them into such a labyrinth,
and send the case to the
theydecline deciding,
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THE
END.
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PRINTED
SY
JAM"S
BULLOCK,
WH1TEFRIARS,
LONDON.