place, Misses Fuller. rectory, Lord Boston. HOLLAND HOUSE, Lord Holland. Hornsey, Jacob Warner, esq. Hounslow-manor, Mrs. Bulstrode. Hyde-house, Christopher Smith, esq. Isleworth, Mrs. Gotobed. Francis Gosling, esq. Mrs. Franks. General Bland. Miss Morgan. Ivy-cottage, Sir Robt. Barclay, bart. William Marsh, esq. Marble-hill, C. A. Tulk, esq. cottage, T. Brent, esq. Mill-hill, late Lady Anderson. Minchendon, Marchioness of Buck late - Prior, esq. ingham. Montague-grove, Rev. S. White. Mount, The, Sir Charles Hamilton, bt. Mustow-house, J. W. Croker, esq. Neasdon, James Hall, esq. house, John Nicoll, esq. manor, Newington, William Crawshay, esq. J.W. Freshfield, esq. North-end, late A. Robarts, esq. OSTERLEY HOUSE, Earl of Jersey. Paddington-house, John Symmons, esq. Page-street, William Le Blanc, esq. Radnor-house, Charles Marsh, esq. Richmond house, Countess of Elgin. Rosslyn-house, General Disney. Shirley-house, Benj. Bousfield, esq. Sion-hill, Duke of Marlborough. SION-HOUSE, DukeofNorthumberland. Southall-green, Mr. T. Parker. grove, Walker Gray, esq. South Mims, Mrs. Vincent. Spring-grove, SIR JOSEPH BANKS, bt. Stanley-house, Will. Hamilton, esq. Stanmore-hill, lately J. Hume, esq. Mrs. Hemming. house,Countess ofAylesford. Magua, Colonel Roberts. Rev. E. Dwyer. -- Stanwell-place, Sir John Gibbons. STRAWBERRY-HILL, Countess Dowager Waldegrave. Strawberry-hill, Little, Alderm.Wood. Sunbury, Robert Burnet, esq. Hon. Percy Wyndham. Sutton-court, R. Sidebottam, esq. Swakeley-house, Thomas Clarke, esq. Teddington, E. Fletcher, esq: lately John Walter, esq. Tottenham, H. P. Sperling, esq. Trent-place, John Cumming, esq. Twickenham, Rev. C. Pettingall. Mrs. Vaillant. Peerage. Chelsea viscounty to Cadogan Earl Cadogan: Enfield barony to Nassau Earl of Rochford: Harlington (the aspirate being dropped) earldom and barony to Fitzroy Duke of Grafton: Kensington Irish harony to Edwardes: Middlesex earldom to Germaine Duke of Dorset: Ossulston (hundred) barony to Bennett Earl of Tankerville: Uxbridge earldom to Paget, Marquess of Anglesea: of Cane-wood, Mansfield earldom and Towns containing not less than 1000 inhabitants; viz. and Murray barony to Murray: of Hanworth, Vere barony to Beauclerk Duke of St. Alban's. Members to Parliament. For the County, 2. [See London and Westminster.] Produce. Wheat, for which Heston was so famous, that it was reserved for Royal use, and Elizabeth had her manchets made of it; Barley; Peas; Beans; Oats; Hay; Osiers; garden vegetables and fruit, particularly raspberries for distillers; Milk; Poultry; House-lamb; Clay for bricks. Manufactures. Calico-printing; Bleaching; Dyeing; Silk-weaving; Distilling; Brewing; Floor-cloth; Stained-paper; Paste-board; Iron; Copper-sheets, bolts, and bars; Anchors; Mooring-chains; Ropes; Oil; Vitriol; White-lead; Stone jars and pots; Crucibles; Bricks, Furcutting; Gunpowder; Flax. POPULATION. Including London and Westminster. Hundreds, 6; Market-towns, 11; Parishes, 234; Houses, 134,939, Families employed in Agriculture, 9,088; in Trade, 135,398; in neither, 77,524 total, 222,010. Baptisms. Males, 11,859; Females, 11,701. Marriages, 10,666. Burials, Males, 11,370; Females, 11,026. London city within the walls.. London city without a star*, which are also suburbal.... 50,255 367,370 Westminster city... 18,102 162,085 New Brentford (coun ty town).... Chelsea.... hamlets 2,812 16,771 Uxbridge, in Hilling Islington*.. 2,471 15,065 don parish.. Mile End Old Town * Stratford le Bow* in Stepney parish.. 2,660 14,465 Hillingdon..... Kensington with its Heston, including part hamlets of Hounslow Shadwell* 1,689 9,955 Stoke Newington.......... Poplar and Black Staines... wall* in Stepney parish... 1,476 7,708 Roxeth and Sud Hammersmith in Ful Limehouse* 7,386 Ratcliffe in Stepney parish... 1,176 6,998 Edmonton, 4 wards.. 1,205 6,824 Enfield, 4 quarters.. 1,194 6,636 Mile End New Town* in Stepney parish.. Harefield Fulham, exclusive of Total, Houses, 134,162; inhabitants, 943,815. Remarks Remarks on the Signs of Inns, &c. (Continued from p. 408.) Tof castle bitter HE CASTLE. The greater part Saxons were in ruins at the time of the Norman invasion, which was one reason why William made himself master of the country with so much facility. The Conqueror, to overawe his newly-acquired subjects, began to repair and augment the old castles, and to erect new fortresses in the principal cities; and, as he parceled out the lands of the English among his followers, they, to protect themselves against the resentment of those whom they had despoiled, built castles for their own residence on their estates. These baronial edifices multiplied so fast, that in the turbulent reign of Stephen there were no less than 1,115 castles in this kingdom. Numerous venerable remains of feudal strength and grandeur still exist; and it is therefore not to be wondered at that "the Castle" should be a favourite sign. Among the houses thus distinguished, I would particularize for their excellence the splendid hotel at Marlborough, built on the site of the antient fortress, of which no other vestige remains than the artificial mount in the garden, on which the keep once stood; and that most comfortable house, the principal inn at Tamworth, situated near the venerable castle which proudly overlooks that antient town, once the residence of the Mercian monarchs, the scene of many events of historic interest, and where the heroic Ethelfleda, who followed her father Alfred with hardly unequal steps, and who rebuilt the castle and town after their destruction by the Danes, breathed her last, July 19, 919. Tamworth Castle, with the adjacent property, I am grieved to say, was alienated about a year or two ago, for the first time since the Conquest; it having descended in a direct line from Robert Marmion, Lord of Fontenoy, in Normandy, to whom the Conqueror originally granted it, through the families of Frevile and Ferrers, to its late noble possessor, George Ferrers Townshend, Marquess Town shend, Earl of Leicester, and President of the Antiquarian Society, who was much attached to the venerable fabrick, and expended a considerable sum in its restoration and improve- of coronation; but it appears that Of Tamworth tower and town." of the first battle of St. Alban's, fought "So lie thou there For underneath an ale-house paltry sign" The plays of our immortal Dramalist, derived from our credulous historians, have embalmed several instances of similar prophetic accom plishments. Thus of Henry IV. it was predicted that he should die at Jerusalem; and accordingly he expires in a room in the palace of the Abbot of Westminster, that was called the Jerusalem Chamber. It was foretold of William de la Pole, first Duke of Suffolk: "And be those juggling fiends no more . believ'd That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope." Julius Ferettus, as quoted by Grose, has given au etymology of castrum too ridiculous to be omitted, "Castra dicta sunt a castitate, quia ibi omDes caste vivere debent." CAT AND FIDDLE. CAT AND BAG PIPES. PUSS IN BOOTS. I have read in comedies and ludicrous essays, of public-houses called the Cat and Fiddle, and the Cat and Bag-pipes; but 1 own that I never saw either of these odd combinations; nor indeed do I recollect any sign in which the figure of a Cat has been introduced, excepting a Civet-cat over the door of a perfumer's, and a public-house called "The Puss in Boots." However, I believe that the above-mentioned signs have been exhibited in or near London, and probably are so still. Between the Cat and Fiddle there may indeed appear some connexion, as the entrails of the one are supposed to furnish the strings of the other; or the sign might originate in the ambiguity of the word kit, at once the abbreviation of kitten, and a small violin. If the house became popular, a rival landlord might perhaps be induced to adopt a sign somewhat similar; and if a Scotchman (as Touchstone says, "Moch virtue in If") he was not unlikely to chuse the national bagpipe as the adjunct to his cat. But although my attempted explanation of signs al together is merely "desipere in loco," yet perhaps it is rather too silly to be attempting to account for what may never have appeared, or, if they did, bad their origin in mere caprice, the very dissimilitude and incongruity of the objects being the sole reason for coupling them together, as appears to have been the case at the villagecity of Llandaff in Glamorganshire, where is a public-house, denominated "The Cow and Snuffers." It may perhaps be quite as prudent always to ascertain the existence of a presumed fact, prior to reasoning upon it. I copy the following extract from the portfolio of a punster in the European Magazine: "I happened to mention to my friend Simplex that I knew an old man who at the age of sixty had cut a complete new set of teeth, and he immediately wrote an essay of fourteen sheets upon the subject, which he read with infinite applause at the Royal Society. It was an erudite production, beginning with Marcus Curius Deutatus and Cneius Papyrius Carbo, who were born with all their teeth; quoting the cases of Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, and Prussias, son of the King of Bithynia, who had only one continued tooth, reaching the whole-length of the jaw; noticing the assertions of Mentzalius a German physician, and our English Dr. Stare, who state instances of a new set of teeth being cut at the ages of 80 and 110; and embracing in the progress of the discussion, all the opinions that had been expressed upon the subject from Galen down to Peyer, Dr. Quincey, M. de la Harpe, Dr. Derham, Riolanus, and others. omitted at the time to mention one circumstance which might have saved Simplex a deal of trouble, and the Society a deal of time: the man to whom I alluded was a comb-cutter." · It was Dean Swift, who, when a lady had thrown down a Cremona fiddle with a frisk of her Mantua, made the happy quotation: "Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremona !" I Hardly, if at all inferior, was the exclamation of Warton, when he snuffed out a candle: "Brevis esse laboro : Obscurus fio." I shall not enter into the surprizing history of Puss in Boots, as I think there are very few above six years old who are not thoroughly acquainted with the great services she rendered to her Master, "My Lord the Marquess of Carabas," and who do not know that, after he had married the King's daughter, Puss lived in great pomp, and only caught mice now and then, just for amusement. Another Cat of equal celebrity claims some commemoration, though I am not aware that her whiskers have ever figured on a sign-board. At Islington stands an upright stone. inscribed "Whittington-stone," which marks the spot where tradition says Whittington sat down when he had run away from the cruelty of the cook-maid, and where he thought that he heard the bells of Bowchurch, then in full peal, ring merrily in his ears, "Turn "Turn again, Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London.” Every child will tell, how Whittington, obedient to the sound, returned to his master's house, and reluctantly parted with his sole possession, a favourite Cat, on an adventure in his master's vessel :-how the ship arrived in a strange country, where the King and Queen bad their meat 'snatched from table as soon as it was put on by innumerable rats and mice:-how Puss killed or drove them all away:-bow the King sent immense presents to Whittington in lieu of his Cat, which, being fortunately in the family way, stocked the whole Country:-how Whittington married his master's daughter-and finally, "How London city, thrice beneath his sway, Confirm'd the presage of that happy day, When echoing bells their greeting thus begun, Return thrice Mayor, return, O Whittington." BISHOP. Foote, in bis Comedy of the Nabob, makes Sir Matthew Mite thus address the Society of Antiquaries: "That Whittington lived, no doubt can be made; that he was Lord Mayor of London, is equally true; but as to his Cat, that, Gentlemen, is the Gordian knot to untie. And here, Gentlemen, be it permitted me to define what a Cat is. A Cat is a domestic, whiskered, four-footed animal, whose employment is catching of mice; but let Puss have been ever so subtle, let Puss have been ever so successful, to what could Puss's captures amount? No tanner can curry the skin of a mouse, no family make a meal of the meat; consequently no Cat could give Whittington his wealth. "From whence then does this error proceed? Be that my care to point out. The commerce this worthy merchant carried on was chiefly confined to our coasts; for this purpose he constructed a vessel, which from its agility and lightness, be aptly christened a Cat. Nay, to this our day, Gentlemen, all our coals from Newcastle are imported in nothing but Cats: from hence it appears that it was not the whiskered, four-footed, mouse-killing cat, that was the source of the magistrate's wealth, but the coasting, sailing, coal-carrying cat: that, Gentlemen, was Whittington's. Cat." 6 Sir Richard Whittington was Lord Mayor in 1397, 1406, and 1419. 1413 he founded a College (now converted into an alms-house for 13 poor men, and vested in the Mercers' com. pany) on the hill, thence called College-hill; and lies buried in the church of St. Michael Pater Noster Royal, which he had rebuilt. When Typhon forced all the gods: and goddesses to conceal themselves in the form of animals, Diana assumed the shape of a Cat, as Ovid informs us: "Fele soror Phoebi la.. tuit." Hence the Cat was considered as sacred to her, and as the charac-> ters of Cynthia or Luna, and Proserpine or Hecate, are appropriated by mythologists to this goddess, whose triple name and office is described in the memorial lines, "Terret, lustrat, agit, Proserpina, Luna, Diana, [sagittis." Ima, superna, feras, sceptro, fulgore, "Earth, Heaven, Hell is hunted, lighted, aw'd, [rod." By Dian's, Luna's, Hecate's, dart, ray,: And as Hecate peculiarly presided over witchcraft, we may with great probability conjecture, that hence arose the invariable association of a Cat as the agent and favourite of witches. Thus Mr. Brand says, "Cats were antiently revered as the emblems of the Moon, and among the Egyptians were on that account so highly honoured as to receive sacrifices and devotions, and had stately temples erected to their honour. It is said that in whatever house a cat died, all the family shaved their eyebrows. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus relate that a Roman happening accidentally to kill a Cat, the mob immediately gathered about the house where he was; and neither the entreaties of some principal men sent by the King, nor the fear of the Romans, with whom they were then negociating a peace, could save the man's life." There is a common adage, “ta turn Cat in the pan," to forsake your principles for advantage, tergiversation; and it is thus used in the wellknown song of "the Vicar of Bray," a man whose conduct eminently exemplified its meaning: "When George in pudding-time came o'er, And moderate men look'd big, Sir, "There |
