Excerpt from Memories of Our Great Towns: With Anecdotic Gleanings Concerning Their Worthies and Their Oddities, 1860-1877 Horace Walpole was building his new tower at Strawberry; Boswell courting the notice of Mrs. Rudd; Cook starting on his last voyage; the Duchess of Kingston in jeopardy for bigamy; the Court in dismay at the news from America - the provincials there were melting for bullets the leaden statue of their 'late king, ' George III.; Charles Fox, no longer Tory, was in ecstasies that the Americans were quietly setting about governing themselves in face of the enemy; and Jack the painter was trying to fire the ships and stores in Portsmouth harbour, - when all the clubs and coteries, whose attention was divided between 'sport' in particular and things in general, forgot the outside world, and began to canvass the enlivening matter of the new stake proposed for Doncaster. The corporation there, when the last quarter of the last century opened on it, had reached the end of its tether with respect to liberality. It had subscribed its few pounds for 'plates, ' and it had appealed to the gentlemen of the county for aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.