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having been erected within the last thirty years, and they now constitute several spacious and handsome streets; a neat hall has been built here for the administration of justice and other public purposes, this part of the town being in the county of York, and not under the jurisdiction of the magistrates of Hull. The third and last division has arisen still more recently, and lies to the west of the Humber dock, occupying the situation of the ancient hamlet of Myton, by which name it is now distinguished, and is included in the county of the town of Hull. A suburb has also lately sprung up on the Holderness side of the river, in the parishes of Drypool and Sutton, encompassing the garrison, and connected with the town by a bridge of four arches, with a draw bridge in the centre wide enough to admit the largest vessel that has to pass through it.

The population of Hull has increased at the rate of about 15 per cent. during the last twenty years. In 1801, the aggregate number of inhabitants was 27,502, in 1811, that number was swelled to 32,944; and by the last returns to 39,073.

The following is the Population return of 1821, including the suburbs:

POPULATION OF HULL IN 1821.

Total......20344 24580 44924

The mortality of the place is rather below than above the usual average, which may be taken at one in thirty, Here the average is one in thirty-three, while in London it is one in twenty.

The eminent men born in, or elosely connected with Hull, are quite as numerous as in most other places. Passing over the De la Poles and coming nearer to our own times, we find Admiral Sir John Lawson, who fought and died for his country on the 3d of June 1665, and to whom Hull and Scar

borough make joint pretensions. Andrew Marvel, the friend and colleague of Milton: at the time of his birth his father was the rector of Winestead near Patrington in the East Riding, and the baptism of his son is entered in the parish register of that place, on the last day of March 1621, in his father's hand writing. Having received the rudiments of his classical education in the Free Grammar School at Hull, of which his father was then master, he was sent to Cambridge, and pursued his studies at Trinity College. He afterwards made the tour of Europe, and was secretary to the embassy at Constantinople in the time of the Commonwealth. His first appearance in public business at home was to assist John Milton, Latin secretary to the Protector. In 1658, two years before the Restoration, he was elected member for Hull, and during the twenty years that he represented this borough in parliament, he maintained the character of an honest man, a true patriot, and an incorruptible senator. He is recorded as the last member of parliament who received the wages anciently paid to members by their constituents. His integrity rendered him obnoxious to a corrupt court, which spared no pains to seduce him from his fidelity and to obtain the powerful influence of his name and character for their measures. Many instances are adduced of his heroic firmness in resisting the alluring offers made to win him over to the court party, one of which may suffice as an example: The King, Charles

II. sought by the fascination of his own com. pany to attach to him the patriot, and one morning after having on the preceding evening given Marvel an entertainment, he dispatched the Lord Treasurer, Danby, to his lodgings which were on a second floor in a court in the Strand. The courtier owing to the narrowness of the stairs fell into the room where he found the patriot at his desk. After apologizing for the abruptness of his entry, his lordship said that he came on a message from the King, who wished to do Mr. Marvel some signal service to testify his high opinion of his merits.

Mr. Marvel expressed himself highly sensible of this mark of his sovereign's affec tion, but declined to accept any place in his Majesty's service; alleging, that if after having done so he should vote against the wishes of his ministers, he might be deemed guilty of ingratitude, and if he voted with them, he might do injustice to his country and to his conscience; he therefore begged that his Majesty would allow him to enjoy a state of liberty, and to esteem him his

* It has been generally but erroneously supposed that Mr. Marvel was born at Hulle

faithful and dutiful subject. The Royal
offer of a place under the government having
proved vain, Lord Danby begged to assure
Mr. Marvel that the King had ordered
him a thousand guineas, which he hoped
he would be pleased to receive, till he
could bring his mind to accept something
better and more durable. At this Mr. Mar-
vel, with his usual smile, said that his
means were equal to his wants. His apart-
ments he said were sufficiently commodious,
and as for his living it was plentiful and
wholesome, as he would prove to his lord-
ship, then calling to his servant, he said-
Pray what had I to dinner yesterday?" A
shoulder of mutton, Sir," was the reply
"And what do you allow me to-day," con-
tinued the master?
The remainder
hashed," replied the servant, and withdrew.
"And to-morrow, my Lord," said Mr.
Marvel, "I shall have the blade bone
broiled; and when your lordship makes
honourable mention of my cook and diet,
I am sure his Majesty will be too wise in
future to attempt to bribe a man with
golden apples, who lives so well on the viands
of his native country!" Many other in-
stances might be adduced of his heroic
firmness, which would have done honour to
Fabricius or Cincinnatus. Mr. Marvel was
eminent as a poet as well as a senator; and
his satires against the vices of the age,
which did not spare majesty itself, and
which lashed Dr. Parker, the Bishop of
Oxford, into phrenzy, are very well known.
The general tendency of his works was
against popery and arbitrary power, which
were then too closely allied; and his me-
morable assertions, which the records of
history have since abundantly established,
that the Dutch war, entered into by Charles
II. was owing to the corruption of the
court, and that the French were the leaders
of our councils, establish his claim to poli-
tical sagacity, as well as to undaunted firm-
ness. The death of this distinguished pa-
triot, which took place on the 16th August,
1678, was sudden and unexpected; nearly
up to the hour of his dissolution he was in
full health and vigour, and there is but too
much reason to believe that he died by
poison, administered by some murderous
hand, but by whom and for what reason
will now probably remain for ever unex-
plained. The corporation of Hull, in gra-
titude for his services, voted the sum of
50%. to defray the expenses of his funeral,
and contributed a sum of money to erect a
monument over his remains in the Church
of St. Giles in the Fields, London, where
he was interred, but the minister of that
church forbad the monument to be erected,

and the inscription was never placed there which recorded that "he was a man so endowed by nature, so improved by education, study, and travel, so consummate by experience, that joining the most peculiar grace of wit and learning, with a singular penetration and strength of judgment, and exercising all these with unalterable steadiness in the ways of virtue, he became the ornament and the example of his age; beloved by good men, feared by bad, and admired by all; though imitated, alas! by few, and scarcely paralleled by any."

Thomas Watson, D. D. the unfortunate Bishop of St. David's, was born at North Ferriby, near Hull, in the year 1637. He founded the hospital at Hull, which is still called by his name, and entertained the inten. tion of liberally endowing it, but his misfortunes overtook him before that intention could be fulfilled, and he fell, partly the victim of his own violence, and partly of the violence of the times in which he lived.

Hull has also given birth to several other persons of distinction, amongst these may be mentioned Dr. Thomas Johnson, the physician, &c.; the Rev. Wm. Mason, the poet, precenter of York, who was born at the vicarage; William Wilberforce, Esq. the senator and philanthropist; and William Porden, Esq. the architect. We may also mention several living gentlemen of literary talent: Charles Frost, Esq. F.S.A. author of some tracts on legal subjects; John Crosse, Esq. F.S.A. and John Broadley, Esq. F.S.A. the unostentatious but efficient promoters of every object of literature and science connected with their native town and county: and A. H. Haworth, Esq. F.L.S. author of Lepidoptera Britannica, &c. Wm Spence, Esq. F.L.S. author of tracts on Political Economy, and an introduction to Entomo logy; Thomas Thompson. Esq. F.S.A. author of tracts on the Poor Laws, and on the antiquities of this district; and P. W. Watson, Esq. the author of Dendrologia Britannica, are all natives of the neighbourhood and residents in Hull. Nor ought the venerable name of the late vicar, the Rev. Joseph Milner, M. A. the author of "The History of the Church," to be passed over in an aecount of that town with which his memory is so nearly associated,

Hull does not at present give title to any noble family. Robert de Pierrepont,, who was created by Charles I. Baron Pierrepont and Viscount Newark, was made Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1628; and Evelyn, 4th Earl, was advanced to be Duke of Kingston, in 1715; on the death of whose grandson, William, the second Duke, in 1773, all the titles became extinct.

Adelphi court, George yard, 17, Lowgate
Air street, Church street, Sculeoates
Albany court, 17, Finkłe street
Albion place, Naylor's row, Witham
Alhion street, Bond street
Albion street, Mews, Bond street
Aldbro' street, 5, Katharine street
Alfred street, Humber bank
Atlass alley, 22, Trippet
Atlass gallery, 20, Trippet
Altofts yard, 50, Scott's street
Anlaby road, N. W. from Carr lane
Ann street, 3, Robert street
Ann street, Newton street
Ann's court, 20, Spencer street
Apollo court, Marvel street, Drypool
Appleton's court, Charlotte street
Atkinson's court, 50, Blanket row
Back square, Humber street
Back walls, St. John street
Baines' court, 13, Ordovas place
Baker's entry, 12, Mill street
Baker street, 1, New Brook street
Bambrough court, 31, West street
Bank's court, 37, Blackfriargate
Bank's court, Dagger lane
Bank's place, 13, Sykes street
Barker's court, 45, Blanket row
Barker's court, 7, Spencer street
Barker's entry, 116, High street
Barnard's square, 13, Sykes street
Bartlett's buildings, 31, Church lane
Bean's court, 30, Blanket row
Bean's gallery, Wincolmlee
Beast market, New John street
Bellamy's square, 32, Millstreet
Belshaw's yard, 48, West street
Belt's place, 5, Blanket row
Berridge court, 9, Aldbro' street
Beverley road, 46, Prospect street
Beverley street, Prospect street
Bielby's square, 11, North street
Bilton's court, 8, Machell street
Bishop lane, 29, Lowgate
Blackfriargate, 10, Queen street
Blackfriargate alleys, 27, Blackfriargate
Blanket row, 9, Queen street
Blanket row court, 37, Blanket row
Blaydes' staith, 8, High street
Bloomsbury square, 47, Dock street
Blue Bell entry, 107, High street
Blue Bell entry, 17, Waterworks street
Boalk's yard, Green lane, Drypool
Bond street, George street
Bores' entry, 1, Trippet street
Botelar street, 4, Cannon street

Boulton's square, Whitefriargate Bourne street, 9, North street Bowlalley lane, 46, Lowgate Bowlby's place, 2, Aldbro' street Bowling green court, 8, Milk street Brazil gardens, Patrick ground lane Bricklebank's square, Hodgson's street Bridge street, N. E. end of Old Dock Broad entry, 36, Scale lane Broadley's entry, 39, Humber street Broadley's square, 8, Manor alley Broadley street, Manor alley Brook street, 19, Prospect street Brook street square, 22, Brook street Brown's square, 27, Scott street Bryant's entry, High street Builder's court, 28, Scale lane Burden street, 77, West street Burke's entry, Market place Burnham's yard, 33, West street Burton's street, 16, Great Passage street Caley's court, 6, Trippet street Cannon place, Gibson street Cannon place, 1, Cannon street Cannon street, 3, Foundry Capes lane, Great Union street Carr lane, 39, Waterhouse lane Carr street, 44, Scott street Cartwright place, 1, Spring bank Castle row, 2, Myton place Castle street, New Dock bridge Carlisle street, 19, Chariot street Caroline street, Worship street Catharine square, Mason street Catterson's entry, 34, Lowgate Cent per cent street, Pottery Chafer's alley. Witham Chapel court, 79, West street Chapel court, George yard Chapel court, 15, Salthouse lane Chapel lane, 36, Blanket row Chapel lane, 25, Lowgate Chapel lane, Castle street Chapel place, 21, Scott street Chapel street, 1, Paragon street Chariot street, 10, Waterworks street Charles court, 15, Wincolmlee Charles square, 7, Mason street Charles street, 14, Jarratt street Charlotte street, North side Old Dock Charlotte street, Mews, back of Charlotte

street

Charter house lane, 29, Trippet Church lane, 17, Market place Church street, 36, Wincolmlee Heighley's court, 3, Prospect street

Church street, Drypool
Clappison's square, 23, Sykes street
Clarence court, 2, Princess street
Clark's square, 22, Sykes street
Clark's yard, 7, Carr lane

Clarkson's square, 24, Silver street
Clean Alley, Witham
Cleveland street, Lime street
Cliff's square, Hodgson street
Cockpit yard, 7, Castle street
Colley's entry, 14, Mytongate
Colton's square, 24, New George street
Commercelane, Edgar street
Commercial buildings, 29, 30, High st.
Commercial court, 195, High street
Conduit street, Worship street
Constable's buildings, 11, English street
Cook's buildings, 16, Bowlalley lane
Corn market, North side Trinity church
Cottage row, Anlaby road
Cross street, 59, West street
Cross's yard, Myton place
Crown court, 4, Dock street
Cumberland street, 18, Church street
Cutsworth's entry, 4, Dock street
Dagger lane, 48, Mytongate
Daltry's entry, 30, Mytongate
Daltry's square, Mytongate
Damaris square, Garden street
Danson lane or Mill lane, end of Witham
Darley's court, 9, New George street
Darley's square, 15, New George street
Dawson's court, 16, Wincolmlee
Deighton's entry, 185, High street
De la Pole court, 6, Manor street
Dent's row, English street
Derby court, 23, Scott street
Dibb's yard, 30, North street
Dickin's entry, 6, Grimsby lane
Dickon's entry, Mytongate
Discount court, 6, Cent per cent street

Dixon's court, Blue Bell entry, 107, High

street

Dixon's entry, 14, Lowgate
Dixon's square, Fetter lane
Dock office row, 40, Bridge street
Dock street, 27, Bridge street
Dossor's entry, 2, Blanket row
Dresser's entry, 129, High street
Drewer's entry, 129, High street
Dryden's entry, 49, Salt house lane
Drypool, over the North bridge
Drypool green, Drypool
Drypool square, Great Union street
Ducket's yard, 136, High street
Duke street, 1, South side Old Dock
Duke street, Hanover square
Duncan's court, Silver street
Duncan's place, 13, Manor street
Duncan street, Jennings street
Dunn's court, Witham
Dyer's place, 4, Wells street
East street, Church street, Drypool
Eaton street, Lowgate
Edgar street, Cent per cent street
Edward's place, Love lane

Elephant & Castle entry, 37, Mytongate
Elizabeth's square, Great Union street
Elliott's gallery, 10, Milk street
Engine street, 36, Waterworks street
English street, Pottery

Etherington place, 7, Prospect street
Etherington square, 37, High street

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Foster's yard, Whitefriargate
Foundry row, Cannon street
Fountain's square, Hodgson street
Fox street, 25, Bond street
Foy's square, Grimsby lane
Free Masons' Lodge yard, 34, Mytongate
Friends' burial ground, Hodgson street
Gallows lane, Anlaby road

Garden Cottage row, Great Passage st.
Garden passage, Castle row
Garden place, Hodgson street
Garden place, 24, Sykes street
Garden place, Church street, Drypool
Garden place, Raikes street
Garden square, 9, Princess street
Garden street, 21, Brook street
Garrison side, North bridge
Gell's court, 11, Middle street
George's place, 14, Mytongate
George's place, 14, Dock street
George's place, 12, Lower Union street
George street, 27, Savile street
George yard, 17, Lowgate
Gibson's square, 18, Brook street
Gibson's square, 22, English street
Gibson street, 2, Botelar street, Foundry
Gibson's yard, 43, Carr lane
Gibson's yard, Lime street
Globe entry, 182, High street
Goodwin's square, 39, West street
Graham's row, St. Quintin's place
Granby square, Pig alley
Grantham's entry, Dagger lane
Great passage street, 2, Myton place
Great Union street, Drypool
Green lane, 3, Church st. Wincolmlee
Green lane, end of Church st. Drypool
Green's court, 10, Machell street
Grimsby lane, 27, Market place
Grimsby lane alley, 9, Grimsby lane
Grimsby lane court, 27, Grimsby lane
Grimston court, 20, Savile street
Grimston street, 25, Dock street
Grotto square, 10, Mason street
Groves, Lime street
Hackman's square, Katharine street
Hale's entry, 12, Market place
Hanover square, 68, Lowgate
Harcourt street, Great Union street
Hardy's court, 15, Posterngate
Hardman's entry, 18, Chapel lane
Hardy's yard, 4, North street
Harewood place, 21, English street
Hatters' alley, New Dock walls
Hatters' square, 13, Queen street
Hawthorn court, 4, Fawcett street

Hellard's yard, Green lane, Drypoo!
Henry's square, 33, Lower Union street
Herdsman's place, 14, English street
Hewett's entry, 44, Whitefriargate
Hewett's yard, 45, Whitefriargate
Hickson's yard, Castle street
High street, West side river Hull
Higson's court, 39, Blanket row
Hill's court, 17, Princess street
Hill's court, 8, Machell street
Hipponas court, 12, Spencer street
Hitching's court, English street
Hodgson's square, 16, Sykes street
Hodgson street, Lime street
Holderness road, Witham

Holdsworth's entry, 54, Salthouse lane
Holland's yard, 65, Church street, Win-

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Holland's yard, 25, Mill street
Holmes' court, 12, Blackfriargate
Hood street, Jennings street
Hope street, 8, Chariot street
Horner's square, 23, Humberstreet
Hospital entry, Whitefriargate
Hospital yard, 12, Chapel lane
Hudson's entry, 53, Mytongate
Humber bank, West side of New Dock
Humber street, Queen street
Humble's school entry, 159, High street
Hutchinson's court, 12, Ordovas place
Hyperion street, Great Union street
Irish court, 38, Scott street
Irvin's court, 12, Roper's row
Jackson's court, 3, Posterngate
Jackson street, Neptune street
James' court, 18, Waterhouse lane
James' place, 2, Mason street
Jarratt street, Grimston street
Jarvis square, 29, Bridge street
Jarvis street, Jennings street
Jefferson's passage, 31, Waterhouse lane
Jennings street, Lime street
John street, Church street, Drypool
John street, Neptune street
John's court, Osborne street
John's place, 18, Osborne street
Johnson's court, 156, High street
Johnson's court, 14, Princess street
Johnson's square, 7, New George street
Johnson's yard, 1, New George street
Johnson's yard, 31, North street
Joiners' court, 3, Mill street
Joseph's court, 13, Lower Union street
Katharine square, 4, Mason street
Katharine street, 19, Machell street
Keeling's entry, 24, Mytongate
Kelsey's court, 20, West street
Kelsor's entry, Dock street

Leadenhall square, 62, Lowgate
Leadmill entry, Whitefriargate
Leak's court, 19, Garden street
Leek's buildings, 2, Mill street
Leek's square, 12, Trippet street
Lee's entry, 193, High street
Lee's entry, 3, Lower Union street
Lee's gallery, Waltham street
Lee's row, 24, Milk street
Lee's square, 2, Great Passage street
Lever's place, West street
Levitt's court, 19, Ordovas place
Levitt's square, Hodgson street
Lewis square, Upper Union street
Lime street, over the North bridge, Groves

Lincoln street, Wapping
Lingard's court, 5, South side Old Doek
Linnæus street, Anlaby road
Little lane, 10, Blackfriargate
Little Passage street, 6, Providence street
Locke's court, 21, Humber street
Lock's entry, Humber street
Long entry, 48, Salthouse lane
Love lane, 1, Great Passage street
Low church alleys, 25, Lowgate
Lower Union street, Great Passage st.
Lowgate, 17, North end of Market place
Lowther's square, 45, Weststreet
Mabb's entry, 165, High street
Machell square, 23, Machell street
Machell street, 21, Wincolmlee
Malt kiln entry, 8, Trinity house lane
Manor alley, Lowgate
Manor square, Manor alley
Manor street, 12, Bowlal ley lane
Marine row, 29, Great Passage street
Mariner's square, 13, Sykes street
Market place, Queen street to Lowgate
Marvel court, Marvel street
Marvel place, 17, Mason street
Marvel square, 30, English street
Marvel square, Marvel street
Marvel street, Raikes street
Mary's square, 19, Lower Union street
Mary's square, 56, West street
Mary's square, 30, New George street
Mason place, 1, Mason street
Mason street, 4, Bourne street
Mechanic lane, 27, Edgar street
Medley's entry, 5, Machell street
Medley's square, Great Union street
Mews street, Bond street
Middle street, 4, Cross street
Milk street, 1, Mews street
Mill court, Prospect street
Mill court, 17, Princess street
Mill court, 21, Machell street
Mill court, 36, New George street
Mill hill, 1, Prospect street
Mill lane, Garden cottage row

Kidd's entry, 16, Chariot street King's court, 126, High street

King's place, 19, Dock street

Mill square, 9, Beverley road

King street, 14, North side Trinity church Mill street, 4, Burdon street

Kingston court, 19, Blanket row

Milton's square, 24, Bourne street

Kingston court, 19, Church street

Mitchell's court, 35, Aldbro' street

Kingston square, Jarratt street

Moira buildings' 58, Prospect street

Kingston street, 13, Church street, Win- Mulgrave street, 17, Aldbro' street

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Myton court, 17, Chariot street Mytongate, 38, Market place Myton place, Castle street Myton square, Passage street Myton street, 19, Castle street

Naylor's row, Holderness road

Lawson's court, 19, Wincolmlee

Nelson square, 6, New George street

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