[8] From the National Review, No. 8.
[9] We question whether the Coffee-house general business was entirely given up immediately after the transition.
[10] 'The Magistrate: Description of London and Westminster,' 1776.
[11] The Dane Coffee-house, between the Upper and Lower Malls, Hammersmith, was frequented by Thomson, who wrote here a part of his Winter. On the Terrace resided, for many years, Arthur Murphy, and Loutherbourg, the painter. The latter died there, in 1812.
[12] Cumberland's Memoirs, vol. i.
[13] Cunningham's Walpole, vol. ii. p. 196, note.
[14] Will's Coffee-house first had the title of the Red Cow, then of the Rose, and, we believe, is the same house alluded to in the pleasant story in the second number of the Tatler:—
"Supper and friends expect we at the Rose."
The Rose, however, was a common sign for houses of public entertainment.
[15] The Spectator, No. 398.