Transcribed from the 1858 William Tweedie edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON. * * * * * BY J. EWING RITCHIE, AUTHOR OF THE “LONDON PULPIT,” ETC. * * * * * “In cities vice is hidden with most ease. Or seen with least reproach. * * * I do confess them nurseries of the arts. * * * Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim’d The fairest capital of all the world, By riot and incontinence the worst.” COWPER. * * * * * Second Edition, revised. * * * * * LONDON: WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND. MDCCCLVIII. * * * * * JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS. * * * * * CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 SEEING A MAN HANGED 34 CATHERINE-STREET 45 THE BAL MASQUE 52 UP THE HAYMARKET 59 THE CANTERBURY HALL 67 RATCLIFFE-HIGHWAY 75 JUDGE AND JURY CLUBS 85 THE CAVE OF HARMONY 92 DISCUSSION CLUBS 99 THE CYDER CELLARS 108 LEICESTER-SQUARE 115 DR JOHNSON’S TAVERN 123 THE SPORTING PUBLIC-HOUSE 131 THE PUBLIC-HOUSE WITH A BILLIARD-ROOM 137 THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC-HOUSE 143 NIGHT-HOUSES 149 HIGHBURY BARN 160 BOXING NIGHT 166 THE MOGUL 173 CALDWELL’S 180 CREMORNE 191 THE COSTERMONGER’S FREE-AND-EASY 200 THE POLICE-COURT 208 THE EAGLE TAVERN 218 THE LUNATIC ASYLUM 227 INTRODUCTION.