A London Year by Travis Elborough

Author:Travis Elborough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

SHIPS ON THE SERPENTINE

Went to London to see the Grand Jubilee. I saw by the placards that the public was respectfully informed that the Parks were shut up. I dined at Cuthbert’s, and went with him, Miss Doyle, Lady L., and Lord P. Bentinck, to the Hyde Park, where the ships fought, on the Serpentine, coming on stern foremost and firing one pop-gun at a time. Afterwards I went to Burdett’s house, and sat in a room there with a large party until past one to see the fireworks from the Castle in the Green Park, which were very brilliant but very tiresome. The whole room was asleep. I rode off to Whitton, tired to death. The pagoda in St. James’s Park was burnt down accidentally, and two men killed.

John Cam Hobhouse, Diary, 1814

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