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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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like spiritsin the guise of mechanism, and tell news of thespread of liberty and knowledge all over the world. M OLD AND M£W London. tWhitehail. What would he have said if he could have lookedforward only five short years and seen the machineon which he dwelt thus proudly laid quiedy on theshelf, being superseded by a far more ingeniousand subtle mechanism, the result of the scientificresearches of Sir Charles Wheatstone and of SirWilliam Fothergill Cooke ? The interior of the Admiralty, although con-venient and capacious, offers nothing remarkable; early part of the seventeenth century; in 1632 itwas, for the first time, put into commission, orits duty and authority confided to a Board of Com-missioners, consisting of all the chief officers ofstate. At the Restoration the Duke of York wasappointed Lord High Admiral, and he retained tlieoftice till 1684, when Charles II. took it upon him-self; but James resumed it in the following year, onbecoming king. The Revolution caused it again
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THE HORSE GUARDS, FROM ST. JAMESs PARK. (7>;«/. Charles 11.) nor do any particular ceremonies take place withinits walls; ii is business, not ceremony, that is herethe order of the day. It has been remarked withtruth that, without any very extravagant stretchof fancy, the Admiralty may be said to be themighty steam-engine which sets in motion and givesenergy to all the rest of the materiel and machineryof our naval power, and consequently contributesmuch to that of the whole empire. The authority and jurisdiction now vested in theAdmiralty was originally exercised by an individual,a high officer of state, called the Admiral of theKing. The first upon actual record was William deLeybourne, Admiral de la Mer du Roy dAngle-terre, in 1297. The office of High Admiralcontinued to be held by an individual until the to be put into commission, till 1707, when PrinceGeorge of Denmark became Lord High Admiral,with an assisting council of four members. On hisdeath, in the following year, the

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