The Microcosm of London (Volume 3); Or, London in Miniature (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pleted, and opened on the Easter Monday following, to a numerous and fashionable audience, under the joint controul of five respectable gentlemen as trustees, assisted by the stage management of Mr. Cross. They continued their exertions to render it worthy of the public patronage, till it was, previous to the commencement of the present season, let for a term of years to Mr. Elliston, of the late Theatre Royal in Drury-lane. The Royal Circus, in its present renewed and improved state, is a very handsome Theatre. The stage is judiciously adapted to the various kinds of amusement which it exhibits, the scenery is various and beautiful, and the audience part offers a very pleasing coup d'ceil of taste and elegance. THE KOYAL EXCHANGE THE Royal Exchange may be considered as the emporium of the world; and, rising in all the majesty of commerce, presents an object which must fill the mind of every Englishman with delight and pride, as a principal support of that greatness which is unrivalled among the nations of the earth. This magnificent edifice arose from the munificent spirit of a private citizen, Sir Thomas Gresham. His foreign correspondent and agent, Richard Clough, who had originally been his servant, and was afterwards knighted, having reproached the English merchants with transacting their business more like pedlars than in.?c men of their commercial consequence, and that no foreign trading city was without a commodious place for the public transaction of business, Sir Thomas Gresham, stimulated by this sarcasm, proposed to the corporation of London to erect, at his own expence, a convenient building for merchants to meet in, provided they would procure him a convenient spot for that purpose; which they accordingly did, at the expence of 3532/. Sir Thomas acc...