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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he villageof Charing, he was ridiculed for having chosen asituation so fixr distant from his town residence ;and, indeed, if we cast our eye over the maps ofLondon, published about that period, we shall notbe surprised at the remark. land House has more tlian once suffered severelyfrom fire. The following is an account ot onethat occurred on Saturday, March iSth, 17So:— It broke out about five in the morning, and ragedtill eight, in which time it burnt from the east end,where it began, to the west. Among the apart-ments consumed are those of Dr. Percy, Dean ofCarlisle. Wc are happy to inform our readers thatthe greatest part of the doctors invaluable libraryis fortunately preserved. It was here that thepoetical doctor, whilst residing as chaplain, wasvisited by his brother poet, Oliver Goldsmith. In tlie year 1749 the whole building was repairedand altered, the blue lion (the crest of the Perries)being placed in the position in which he was to be Northumberland House.) THE LION. 139
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I40 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Northumberland House. seen for 125 years. There is an apocryphal legendin connection with that noble brute, that he was atfirst placed with his head towards Carlton Houseand St. Jamess Palace, but afterwards, on theoccasion of some slight received by one of theDukes of Northumberland, turned round with itsface to the Corporation of London. The quarrelbeing made up after the accession of the PrinceRegent as George IV., the lion returned to hisoriginal bearings. It was on this occasion, webeheve, that the first gentleman in Europe re-marked that the king knows nothing and remem-bers nothing of the quarrels of the Prince of Wales.■ Pennant, writing in 1806, observes, It is un-fortunate that nothing can be more confined thanthe situation of this great house. The noble frontis pent up by a very narrow part of the Strand,and behind by a mean cluster of houses, coal-wharves, and other offensive objects, as far as thebanks of the Thames. He congratulates himself,how

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