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Early in the morning of the ninth in November 1810 in London resident Mrs door knocked Tottenham bellhop. He brought her coal. Mrs. Tottenham, who lived at Berners Street, Building 10, said that there was no coal did not order, and sent a messenger back. At that moment, she probably thought it was a little Events does not deserve attention. She was sadly mistaken.

Soon the door again, someone knocked. It turned out, came and brought bread baker. A little surprised Mrs. Tottenham also sent him away, but the couriers of all stripes continued to arrive. They were carrying furniture, musical instruments, flowers, fish, fresh vegetables, wedding cakes and barrels filled with lager - all for Mrs. Tottenham.



on Berners Street grew rapidly crowd of doctors, vicars, priests and chimney sweeps, somehow convinced that the inhabitants of the house number 10 need their urgent help. Then they were joined by fishmongers and shoemakers, who also began to offer their goods Mrs. Tottenham. Finally, we show the many porters, puffing heavily under the weight of the piano - and not one, but a dozen. Completes the process of six strong peasants who dragged the body.

That's all not over to the house puzzled Mrs. Tottenham arrived Bank of England, Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Mayor of London and London a few celebrities of the time.

Narrow street was filled with people of all classes and professions - the majority came in the case, but the idle onlookers also missing. The surroundings were formed with serious traffic jams, somewhere overturned cart, started the brawl and nearly broke out armed uprising. The crowd began to disperse only to sunset.

Of course, no fault of Mrs. Tottenham in this confusion was not. When the dust settled from next door came two men, then one of them gave more money. They were 22-year-old Theodore Hook, author of the popular comic operas, and his friend Samuel Beazley. All they have arranged.

A week before the events described Beazley argued with Hook for a guinea, that he can not make the whole of London to discuss one nobody interesting house - the house of Mrs. Tottenham. Hook approached the case seriously and smog. For seven days he sent on behalf of Mrs Tottenham thousands of letters, orders and invitations to anyone who can. It is said that he called and King George III, but that's just crazy and could not attend the fun.

At the time, Theodore Hook went unpunished and even won another guinea, but a few years later he still landed behind bars, though for a different reason: caught stealing a giant amount when served as treasurer of the island of Mauritius. However, two years later, Hook was free and began to publish (with the help of Sir Walter Scott) own newspaper "John Bull" and write novels.