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Dick's Coffee House (No. 8, south) was kept in George II.'s time by a Mrs. Yarrow and her daughter, who were much admired by the young Templars who patronised the place. The Rev. James Miller, reviving an old French comedietta by Rousseau, called
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The Coffee House, and introducing malicious allusions to the landlady and her fair daughter, so exasperated the young barristers that frequented
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Dick's, that they went in a body and hissed the piece from the boards. The author then wrote an apology, and published the play; but unluckily the artist who illustrated it took the bar at
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Dick's as the background of his sketch. The Templars went madder than ever at this, and the Rev. Miller, who translated Voltaire's
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Mahomet for Garrick, never came up to the surface again. It was at
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Dick's that Cowper the poet showed the first symptoms of derangement. When his mind was off its balance he read a letter in a newspaper at
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Dick's,