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 Rh might not be detained; and the oorpse actually remained uninterred until a bricklayer could enlarge the vault for its reception.

Upon Patterson's leaving his Auction-room in King-street, it was taken by the triumvirate, King, Collins, and Chapman, who held it for the sale of books and prints, but occasionally let it out for an evening; and it was here that the veteran Collins gave what he called his "Evening Brush," consisting principally of anecdotes of prisons who had left this world before the birth of three-fourths of his audience. But what renders this room far more memorable is, that it was under this roof that Charles Dibdin commenced his "London Amusement;" and here his pathetic and popular song of "Poor Jack" was often encored: