This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler. _LIVERPOOL_ _A FEW YEARS SINCE_: * * * * * BY AN OLD STAGER. * * * * * * * * * * THIRD EDITION. * * * * * * * * * * LIVERPOOL: ADAM HOLDEN, 48, CHURCH STREET. * * * * * 1885. CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I. Liverpool fifty years since. Goree warehouses. The 1 docks. Extent of the town. Ships in dock. Ships for sea. Outward bound CHAPTER II. War. The old “Princess.” The Press-gangs—their 6 unpopularity—Jack’s race for life CHAPTER III. Captain Colquitt. Convoys. Privateers. Dublin packets. 12 The deserts of Cheshire CHAPTER IV. Volunteers. Captain Bolton. The Marquis of Londonderry. 18 General Benson. General Fisher CHAPTER V. Prince William of Gloucester. The Prince of Wales. The 23 Duke of Clarence. Scene at the Mayor’s dinner CHAPTER VI. Old stagers—Dr. Currie, John Foster, Dr. Brandreth, Sir 29 William Barton, John Bridge Aspinall, John Bolton CHAPTER VII. Moses Benson. Fashionables. Military beaux. Major 35 Brackenbury. Thomas Leyland. Pudsey Dawson CHAPTER VIII. Fletcher Raincock. James Clark. The Recorder non-suited. 41 George Rowe. Jack Shaw. The old Corporation CHAPTER IX. Sir George Dunbar. Tom Dunbar. Thomas Wilson. Edward 47 Houghton. Mr. Black’s white wig. Roger Leigh CHAPTER X. Joseph Leigh. Shakespeare Tom. William Harper. Bamber 54 Gascoigne CHAPTER XI. Society. Sets. Roscoe—how appreciated. Anecdote. Dr. 61 Shepherd CHAPTER XII. Sir Joseph Birch. Arthur Heywood. Tom Lowndes. Colonel 68 Nicholson. Rushton. Captain Crowe. Night Action. Peter Tyrer CHAPTER XIII. William James. Silvester Richmond. Anecdotes. Joseph 76 Daltera. Puns. Jokes. Sermon CHAPTER XIV. Practical Jokes and Jokers. Committee of Taste—their 83 doings and misdoings. Quarrel with Mr. Staniforth—how settled. Their Chairman. Improvement of the present age CHAPTER XV.