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LIVERPOOL
A FEW YEARS SINCE:

 

BY
AN OLD STAGER.

 
 

THIRD EDITION.

 
 

LIVERPOOL:
ADAM HOLDEN, 48, CHURCH STREET.

 

1885.

p.vCONTENTS.

 

Page

CHAPTER I.

Liverpool fifty years since.  Goree warehouses. The docks.  Extent of the town.  Ships in dock. Ships for sea.  Outward bound

1

CHAPTER II.

War.  The old “Princess.”  ThePress-gangs—their unpopularity—Jack’s race forlife

6

CHAPTER III.

Captain Colquitt.  Convoys.  Privateers. Dublin packets. The deserts of Cheshire

12

CHAPTER IV.

Volunteers.  Captain Bolton.  The Marquis ofLondonderry.  General Benson.  General Fisher

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CHAPTER V.

Prince William of Gloucester.  The Prince ofWales.  The Duke of Clarence.  Scene at theMayor’s dinner

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CHAPTER VI.

Old stagers—Dr. Currie, John Foster, Dr. Brandreth,Sir William Barton, John Bridge Aspinall, John Bolton

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p. viCHAPTERVII.

Moses Benson.  Fashionables.  Militarybeaux.  Major Brackenbury.  Thomas Leyland. Pudsey Dawson

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CHAPTER VIII.

Fletcher Raincock.  James Clark.  The Recordernon-suited.  George Rowe.  Jack Shaw.  The oldCorporation

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CHAPTER IX.

Sir George Dunbar.  Tom Dunbar.  ThomasWilson.  Edward Houghton.  Mr. Black’s whitewig.  Roger Leigh

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CHAPTER X.

Joseph Leigh.  Shakespeare Tom.  WilliamHarper. 

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