...street-police is another. A hundred years later S. James's Square was still the receptacle for'all offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster, whilst Voltaire's scathing description of the streets of Paris was no exaggeration. It was a state...

...accumulated in heaps at the thresholds of the Countess ' of Berkshire and of the Bishop of Durham. . . . St. James's ' Square was a receptacle for all the offal...dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster. At one time a * cudgel-player kept the ring there. At another time an impu* dent squatter settled himself there,...

...streets recked with unspeakable abominations. " St. James's Square was a receptacle fur all the offul and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster." The parts of London inhabited by the poor were in still worse condition. In rainy weather, the gutters...

...royal palace—they could not keep out the city around them. St. James's Square, Macaulay reports, "was a receptacle for all the offal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster." 11 It was not until the 1720s and the 1730s that the great aristocratic estates mastered the design...