“There is now published the Cryes and Habits of London, lately drawn after the life in great variety of actions, curiously engraved upon fifty copper-plates, fit for the ingenious and lovers of art. Printed and sold by P. Tempest, over against Somerset House, in the Strand.” The _Morning Chronicle_, whose office was opposite Somerset House, was started in 1770. It was to Perry, of the _Morning Chronicle_, that Coleridge, when penniless and about to enlist in a cavalry regiment, sent a poem and a request for a guinea, which he got. Hazlitt was theatrical critic to this paper, succeeding Lord Campbell in the post. In 1810 David Ricardo began his letters on the depreciation of the currency in the _Chronicle_. James Perry, whose career we have no room to follow, lived in great style at Tavistock House, the house afterwards occupied for many years by Mr. Charles Dickens. _The Sketches by Boz_ of Charles Dickens first appeared in the columns of the _Chronicle_. The last _Morning Chronicle_ appeared on Wednesday, March 19, 1862. Latterly the paper was said to have been in the pay of the Emperor of France. No. 346, at the east corner of Wellington Street, now the office of the _Law Times_, the _Queen_, and the _Field_, was Doyley’s celebrated warehouse for woollen articles. Dryden, in his _Kind Keeper_, speaks of “Doyley” petticoats; Steele, in his _Guardian_,[310] of his “Doyley” suit; while Gay, in the _Trivia_, describes a “Doyley” as a poor defence against the cold. Doyley’s warehouse stood on the ancient site of Wimbledon House, built by Sir Edward Cecil, son to the first Earl of Exeter, and created Viscount Wimbledon by Charles I. The house was burnt to the ground in 1628, and the day before the viscount had had part of his house at Wimbledon accidentally blown up by gunpowder. Pennant, when a boy, was brought by his mother to a large glass shop, a little beyond Wimbledon House; the old man who kept it remembered Nell Gwynne coming to the shop when he was an apprentice; her footman, a country lad, got fighting in the street with some men who had abused his mistress.[311] Mr. Doyley was a much respected warehouseman of Dr. Johnson’s time, whose family had resided in their great old house, next to Hodsall the banker’s, at the corner of Wellington Street, ever since Queen Anne’s time. The dessert napkins called Doyleys derived their name from this firm. Mr. Doyley’s house was built by Inigo Jones, and forms a prominent feature in old engravings of the Strand, as it had a covered entrance that ran out like a promontory into the carriage-way. It was pulled down about 1782.[312] Mr. Doyley, a man of humour and a friend of Garrick and Sterne, was a frequenter of the Precinct Club, held at the Turk’s Head, opposite his own house. The rector of St. Mary’s attended the same club, and enjoyed the seat of honour next the fire. [Illustration: THE OLD ROMAN BATH, STRAND.]