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Hatchett's Coffee House & Hotel/White Horse Cellars
1-3 Dover Street, Piccadilly
(1801 - 1838)

In 1801 Hatchett's Coffee House is described as "much frequented on
account of its proximity to the villages Westward of London. Good
dinners, wines and beds". Copper tokens are recorded showing
"Hatchett's Hotel Piccadilly". In 1813 it featured in a court case when
John Briggs, Mate on HMS Tortoise captained by Cook, was charged
with stealing silver from Capt. Cook. He paid for a meal at Hackett's
Hotel with a £50 Bank of England note which was proved to be part of
the proceeds of his crime. John Hackett was still proprietor in 1827 when
he was also shown as proprietor of the adjoining New White Horse
Cellar. The same year it is depicted in a drawing of the funeral procession
of the late Duke ofYork. From 1833 T. Thomas is shown as proprietor
and is listed under hotels "for Families and single Gentlemen". Described
as a well known coaching establishment Hazlitt mentions "the finest sight
in the Metropolis is the setting out of the mail coaches from Piccadilly".

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A wrapper posted in Basingstoke addressed to J.R. Birnie, Esq at
Hatchett's Hotel, Piccadilly where it arrived on 9t1i August 1834.