SATIRICAL

VIEW OF LONDON

AT THE COMMENCEMENT

OF

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,

BY AN OBSERVER.

Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,
Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.

POPE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET;
T. HURST, PATERNOSTER-ROW; OGILVY

AND SON,

HOLBORN; R. OGLE, TURNSTILE; AND OGLE
AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH,

1801.

[T. Davifon, White-Friars.]

Comparison of the English, Scotch, and

Irish now refident in London

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INTRODUCTION.

LONDON

was founded by the Romans about the middle of the first century. That polished people, who introduced arts and fciences wherever their arms prevailed, first taught our ancestors how to profit by their infular fituation, the innumerable refources prefented by the fertility of the foil, and the adventurous fpirit of com

merce.

It must be grateful to the philofophic mind to explore the gradual progrefs of civilisation, and the useful and polite arts, in this country. By a retrofpective view he may trace the increase of this great city in extent and population, through a series of centuries and generations: here improvements in architecture and mechanics have gradually attained greater per