CHAPTER VIII.

COVENT GARDEN CONTINUED AND LEICESTER SQUARE.

Bow Street once the Bond Street of London -- Fashions at that time -- Infamous frolic of Sir Charles Sedley and others -- Wycherly and the Countess of Drogheda -- Tonson the Bookseller -- Fielding -- Russell Street -- Dryden beaten by hired ruffians in Rose Street -- His Presidency at Will's Coffee-House -- Character of that Place -- Addison and Button's Coffee-House -- Pope, Philips, and Garth -- Armstrong -- Boswell's introduction to Johnson -- The Hummums -- Ghost Story there -- Covent Garden -- The Church -- Car, Earl of Somerset -- Butler, Southern, Eastcourt, Sir Robert Strange -- Macklin -- Curious Dialogue with him when past a century -- Dr. Walcot -- Covent Garden Market -- Story of Lord Sandwich, Hackman, and Miss Ray -- Henrietta Street -- Mrs. Clive -- James Street -- Partridge, the almanack-maker -- Mysterious lady -- King Street -- Arne and his Father -- The four Indian Kings -- Southampton Row -- Maiden Lane -- Voltaire -- Long Acre and its Mug-Houses -- Prior's resort there -- Newport Street -- St. Martin's Lane, and Leicester Square -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Hogarth -- Sir Isaac Newton 306