[37] “A View of London; or, The Stranger’s Guide, 1803-4.”
[38] “The Picture of London for 1802.”
[39] The generic name for coachman.
[40] Morning Post, June 9, 1808.
[41] Annual Register, vol. lix. p. 883.
[42] Sculls, as being lighter, were always cheaper than the heavy oars.
[43] Par parenthèse. This Mr. Waddington, whilst in the King’s Bench Prison, gave away a ton of potatoes a day, about Christmas time. They were first of all sold at one halfpenny a pound, and the produce in money was put in the poor’s box, for the benefit of the poor prisoners.
[44] Owing to the war, it was found safer for many merchant vessels to sail in company, and these fleets usually had two or three men-of-war in attendance to act as guards, and to protect them; they were called “the Convoy.”
[45] This probably was the shop of Owen and Bradley whose names first appear in the London Directory of 1812, as fruiterers, 77, New Bond Street.—J.A.
[46] “The grand Dramatic Romance of Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity.” The Words by George Colman the younger—the Music composed and selected by M. K. (Michael Kelly). London, 1798.