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Excerpt from Matthew Hargraves IN the year 1807, there was born to Thomas Hargraves, stout and respected landlord of the Hope and Anchor inn at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, a first and only son. A very charming little country village was the Greenwich of those days, with its Silver streak of river running through it, its great park with fine old elms, its noble palace, and its historic associa tions. In 1807, it was still a fashionable place, with Princess Sophia, the jolly, fat, generous, good natured niece of George III living inthe Ranger's Lodge, and, in the summer, parties of gentlemen from the House of Commons constantly coming down on the ordnance barges to eat whitebait dinners ...
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The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.