LONDON,
advantages of it, ii. 120;
Black Wednesday, v. 196, n. 3;
bones gathered for various uses, iv. 204;
Boswell's love for London: See BOSWELL, London;
buildings, new, iv. 209;
rents not fallen in consequence, iii. 56, 226;
Burke, described by, iii. 178, n. 1;
burrow, near one's, i. 82, n. 3; iii. 379;
censure escaped in it, See below, freedom from censure;
centre of learning, ii. 75;
circulating libraries, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36. n. 2;
City, aldermen, political divisions among the, iii. 460;
Camden, Lord, honours shown to, ii. 353, n. 2;
Common-Council, inflammable, ii. 164;
petitions for mercy to Dodd, iii. 120, n. 3, 143;
subscribes to Carte's _History_, i. 42, n. 3;
contest with House of Commons, ii. 300, n. 5; iii. 459-60; iv. 139;
division in the popular party, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1;
King, presents a remonstrance to the (1770), iii. 460;
an Address (1770), iii. 201, n. 3;
an Address (1781), iv. 139, n. 4;
'leans towards him' (1784), iv. 266;
'in unison with the Court' (1791), iv. 329, n. 3;
Lord Mayors not elected by seniority, iii. 356, 459-60;
ministers for seven years not asked to the Lord Mayor's feast, iii. 460;
Wilkes, the Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;
City-poet, iii. 75;
City, women of the, iii. 353;
Culloden, news of, v. 196, n. 3;
dangers from robbers in 1743, i. 163, n. 2;
Johnson attacked, ii. 299;
'dangers of the night,' i. 119, n. 1;
dear to men of letters, ii. 133;
deaths, from hunger, iii: 401;
from all causes, iv. 209;
eating houses unsociable, i. 400;
economy, a place for, iii. 378;
freedom from censure, ii. 356; iii. 378;
Gibbon loves its dust, iii. 178, n. 1;
and the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2;
gin-shops, iii. 292, n. 1;
glasshouses, i. 164, n. 1;
Gordon riots, iii. 427-31;
greatest series of shops in the world, ii. 218;
hackney-coaches, number of, iv. 330;
happiness to be had out of it, iii. 363;
heaven upon earth, iii. 176, 378;
hospitality, ii. 222;
hospitals, iii. 53, n. 5;
increase, complaints of its, iii. 226;
influence extended everywhere, ii. 124;
intellectual pleasure, affords, iii. 5, 378; iv. 164; v. 14;
Irish chairmen, ii. 101;
Johnson loves it, i. 320; ii. 75, 120; iii. 5; iv. 358;
returns to it to die, iv. 374-5;
life on £30 a year, i. 105;
_London_, described in Johnson's, i. 118;
London-bred men strong, ii. 101; iv. 210;
magnitude and variety, i. 421; ii. 75, 473; iii. 21; iv. 201;
Minorca, compared with life in, iii. 246;
mobs and illuminations, iii. 383: see below, riots;
mortality of children, iv. 209;
parish, a London, ii. 128;
pavement, the new, v. 84, n. 3;
Pekin, compared with, v. 305;
population not increased, iv. 209;
preferable to all other places, iii. 363, 378;
press-gangs not suffered to enter the city in Sawbridge's Mayoralty,
iii. 460;
Recorder's report to the King of sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1;
relations in London, ii. 177;
Reynolds's love of it, iii. 178, n. 1;
riots in 1768. ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5;
shoe-blacks, ii. 326; iii. 262;
shopkeeper compared with a savage, v. 81, 83;
slaughter-houses, v. 247;
society, compared with Paris, iii. 253;
strikes, iii. 46, n. 5;
theatre, proposal for a third, iv. 113;
tires of it, no man, iii. 178;
Boswell will tire of it, iii. 353;
too large, ii. 356;
Trained Bands, iv. 319;
universality, ii. 133;
wall, taking the, i. 110; v. 230;
wits, ii. 466;
wheat, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.