Portraits of Curious Characters in London, &c. &c. / With Descriptive and Entertaining Ancedotes.

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Portraits of Curious Characters in London, &c. &c., by Anonymous
 
WITH
DESCRIPTIVE AND ENTERTAINING ANECDOTES .
There's none but has some fault; and he's the best,
Most perfect he, who's spotted with the least.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY AND FOR W. DARTON, JUN. 58, HOLBORN-HILL.
1814
Mr. Bentley resided at the corner of the avenue leading to the house formerly the Old Crown Tavern, Leadenhall-street, not far from the East-India House.
The house and character of this eccentric individual are so well described in a poem published in the European Magazine, for January 1801, that we shall transcribe it:
Who but has seen (if he can see at all)