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

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Title: Portraits of Curious Characters in London, &c. &c.

With Descriptive and Entertaining Ancedotes.

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PORTRAITS
OF
CURIOUS CHARACTERS
IN
LONDON, &c. &c.



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

Contents

A man

  NATHANIEL BENTLEY, Esq.

Known by the Name of Dirty Dick,

Late a Hardware Merchant, in Leadenhall-street.

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)
'Twixt Aldgate's well-known pump and Leadenhall,
A curious hard-ware shop, in general full
Of wares, from Birmingham and Pontipool?
Begrim'd with dirt, behold its ample front,
With thirty years collected filth upon't.
See festoon'd cobwebs pendent o'er the door,
While boxes, bales, and trunks, are strew'd around the floor.
"Behold how whistling winds and driving rain
Gain free admission at each broken pain,
Save where the dingy tenant keeps them out
With urn or tray, knife-case, or dirty clout!
Here snuffers, waiters, patent screws for corks;
There castors, card-racks, cheese-trays, knives and forks:
Here empty cases pil'd in heaps on high;
There pack-thread, papers, rope, in wild disorder

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