Louis Blanc, on his flight from France in 1848, took up his lodgings at No. 126, Piccadilly.

L. Kossuth lives at 21, Alpha-road, Regent's-park.

Jenny Lind lived in a small garden-house in Bromptonlane, Old Brompton, near the Gloucester-road.

STREETS (HOUSES UNKNOWN OR NOT STANDING) IN WHICH EMINENT PERSONS HAVE LIVED.

Sir Thomas More lived at Chelsea, in a house immediately facing the present Battersea Bridge. He is buried in Chelsea old Church.

Charles V. of Spain was lodged in the Blackfriars.

Shakespeare is said to have lived on the Bankside, in Southwark, near the Globe Theatre. He was possessed of a house in Ireland-yard, Blackfriars.

Spenser died for lack of bread in King-street, Westminster, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Izaak Walton lived in Chancery-lane, in the 7th house on the left hand as you walk from Fleet-street to Holborn.

Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, lived with his brother, in Cockaine House, in the City.

Oliver Cromwell lived in Long-acre; in King-street, Westminster; in the Cockpit, now the site of the Treasury; and at Whitehall, of which the Banqueting-house only remains. Van Dyck died in the Blackfriars, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Vandervelde the younger lived in Piccadilly, over against the church of St. James, in which he is buried.

Peter the Great lived in a house (Pepys's) on the site of the last house on the W. side of Buckingham-street, Strand, and frequented the Czar of Muscovy Public House, 48, Great Tower-street.

Voltaire, when in London, in 1726, lodged at the White Peruke in Maiden-lane.

Andrew Marvell was living in Maiden-lane when he refused a bribe from the Lord Treasurer Danby.

Nell Gwyn died in a house on the site of No. 79, Pall-mall. Locke dates the dedication of his " Essay on Human Understanding" from Dorset-court, Fleet-street.

Addison lived, when a bachelor, in St. James's-place, St. James's-street, where it is said Mr. Rogers, the poet, now lives. Fielding lived in Bow-street, Covent-garden, in a house on the site of the present Police-office.

Butler, author of Hudibras, died in Rose-street, Covent

garden, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent-garden.

Benjamin Franklin worked as a journeyman printer in Bartholomew-close, West Smithfield. He lived also at No. 7, Craven-street, Strand.

John Wilkes (Wilkes and Liberty) lived in Prince's-court, Great George-street, Westminster, and was buried in SouthAudley-street Chapel.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu died in Great George-street, Hanover-square, and was buried in South-Audley-street Chapel. General Paoli died (1807) "at his house near the Edgewareroad," and was buried in old St. Pancras Churchyard.

PLACES AND SITES (NOT ALREADY MENTIONED) CONNECTED WITH REMARKABLE EVENTS,

OR OTHERWISE DISTINGUISHED.

London Wall: remains to be seen off Ludgate-hill, Towerhill, and in the churchyard of St. Giles's, Cripplegate.

London Stone: which Jack Cade struck with his staff, in outer wall of the church of St. Swithin Cannon-street, Watling-street.

Smithfield: scene of Wat Tyler's death; of Wallace's execution at the Elms; of Bartholomew Fair; and of the dreadful burnings in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Mary.*

Charing-cross; Statue of Charles I. by Le Sour: site of the last cross erected by Edward I. to Queen Eleanor, as the last place at which the coffin rested on its way to Westminster Abbey. Site also of the execution of the Regicides.

St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, and the Knights of St. John; Cave, Dr. Johnson, and The Gentleman's Magazine.

Tabard Inn, Southwark: the starting-place of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims.

Friday-street, Cheapside, and the curious evidence given by the poet Chaucer on the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.

* In March, 1849, during excavations necessary for a new sewer, and at a depth of three feet below the surface, immediately opposite the entrance to the church of St Bartholomew the Great, the workmen laid open a mass of unhewn stones, blackened as if by fire, and covered with ashes, and human bones charred and partially consumed. This I believe to have been the spot generally used for the Smithfield burnings-the face of the sufferer being turned to the east and to the great gate of St. Bartholomew, the prior of which was generally present on such occasions. Many bones were carried away as relics. The spot should be marked by an appropriate monument.

North-East corner of St. Paul's Churchyard: site of Paul's Cross, where the Paul's Cross Sermons were preached.

Rising ground in the Tower, near the chapel of St. Peterad-Vincula: place of execution of Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, &c.

Westminster Abbey: place of coronation of our kings and queens, and sepulchre of many of them.

Westminster Hall: place of trial of Earl of Strafford, of Charles I., and of Warren Hastings.

New Houses of Parliament: site of Star-Chamber, Painted Chamber, and Guy Faux' Cellar.

Almonry, Westminster, in which Caxton erected his printing-press.

Sir Thomas More's chapel on south side of chancel of Chelsea old church.

Centre of St. Paul's: site of tomb of John of Gaunt, and of the first Duke Humphrey's Walk.

Bridewell, Bridge-street, Blackfriars: scene of Queen Katherine's Trial.

Ludgate-hill, over against Saracen's Head, where Wyat, in the reign of Queen Mary, was stayed in his rebellion.

Palace Yard, Westminster, in which Sir Walter Raleigh was executed.

Street facing the Banqueting-house at Whitehall, in which Charles I. was executed.

Centre of Lincoln's-Inn-fields, in which William Lord Russell was executed.

Pall-mall end of Haymarket: scene of the murder of Mr. Thynn by assassins hired by Count Koningsmarck.

Corner of Suffolk-street, Pall-mall scene of the barbarous revenge on Sir John Coventry, which led to the famous Coventry Act against cutting and maiming.

Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, where, in a garret, and with only cold mutton before him for his dinner, Andrew Marvell refused the bribe of Lord Treasurer Danby.

Gray's-Inn-lane, where Hampden and Pym lived, and where they held their consultations for resisting the impost of shipmoney.

Middle Temple Gate, Fleet-street, occupying site of former gate built by Sir Amias Paulet, as a fine laid upon him by Cardinal Wolsey.

Coleman-street, in the city, whither the five members accused by Charles I. of high treason fled for concealment. N. E. corner of the Parade in the Tower: scene of Blood's stealing the crown in the reign of Charles II.

Rose-alley, King-street, Covent-garden: scene of Dryden's beating by bullies hired by the Earl of Rochester.

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Ground between Dover-street and Bond-street, facing St. James's-street: site of Clarendon House.

Hyde Park (probably near the Ring), where Oliver Cromwell drove the six horses presented to him by the Earl of Oldenburgh, and where, when thrown from his seat, a pistol went off in his pocket..

Black Jack Public-house, Portsmouth-street, Clare Market: favourite resort of Joe Miller, and celebrated for the jump which Jack Sheppard made from one of its first-floor windows to escape the emissaries of Jonathan Wild.

Roman Catholic Chapel, Duke-street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields: the first building destroyed in the riots of 1780.

Room in Colonial Office in Downing-street in which Nelson and Wellington met for the first and only time..

N. E. corner of Bloomsbury-square: site of Lord Mansfield's house, destroyed in the riots of 1780..

Barclay's Brewhouse, on the Bankside: site of Globe: Theatre, in which Shakespeare played.

Statue of William IV., facing London Bridge: site of Boar's Head Tavern, immortalised by Shakespeare,

Bread-street, Cheapside, in which the Mermaid Tavern of Sir Walter Raleigh and Shakespeare stood.

Child's Banking-house, No. 1, Fleet-street: site of Devil Tavern, favourite resort of Ben Jonson and of Dr. Johnson. Ham and Beef-shop, corner of Bow-street: site of Will's Coffee-house..

Centre house on S. side of Great Russell-street, Coventgarden: site of Button's Coffee-house.

Essex Head, in Essex-street, Strand, kept in Johnson's last years by a servant of Thrale's, and where the Doctor established his last club.

Essex-street, Strand, in the house of Lady Primrose (now unknown), where the young Pretender was concealed when in London (Sept., 1750) for the first and last time.

Tower-hill, on which the scaffold stood on which, in 1747, the last person (Lord Lovat) was beheaded in this country. Pudding-lane, Monument-yard, in which the Fire of London began..

Pie-corner, in Giltspur-street, in which it ended.

Cock-lane, Giltspur-street, famous for its ghost.

Mitre Tavern, Fleet-street, where Johnson and Boswell determined on making a tour to the Hebrides.

Grub-street, Cripplegate, now Milton-street, long cele brated as the resort of poor and distressed authors.

Alsatia, or Whitefriars, immortalised by Sir Walter Scott in "The Fortunes of Nigel."

Picthatch, nearly opposite the Charter-House-end of Oldstreet-road, called by Falstaff, Pistol's "manor of Picthatch." Blue Boar Inn, No. 270, High Holborn, where Cromwell intercepted a letter from Charles I., which is said to have settled the king's execution.

St. James's-square, round which Johnson and Savage have often walked a whole night for want of a bed.

House at the top of Crane-court, Fleet-street, now Royal Scottish Hospital, with its handsome room built by Wren, in which Sir Isaac Newton sat as President of the Royal Society. W. end of Serpentine: scene of memorable duel between Duke Hamilton and Lord Mohun.

W. side of Gateway of Inner Temple Lane, Fleet-street (a confectioner's), where, in the shop of Robinson the bookseller, Pope and Warburton met for the first time.

No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden: the shop of Tom Davies, where Johnson and Boswell met for the first time. Burlington House Gate, Piccadilly: scene of Hogarth's print, in which he attacks Pope for his satire on the Duke of Chandos. Jew's-row, Chelsea: scene of Wilkie's Chelsea Pensioners reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo.

Ground between the Piazza and Bow-street: site of the two gardens which led to the memorable retort made by Dr. Radcliffe to sir Godfrey Kneller.

Howard-street, Norfolk-street, Strand: scene (before the door of Mrs. Bracegirdle) of the murder, by Lord Mohun, of Mountfort, the actor.

Fox-court, Gray's-Inn-lane: birth-place of Richard Savage. Brook-street, Holborn, where Chatterton poisoned himself. Shire-lane, Fleet-street, where the Kit-Kat Club met.

Foot of Primrose-hill, where the body of Sir Edmundsbury Godfrey was found.

Vacant space on E. side of Farringdon-street: site of the Fleet Prison.

Ground W. of Chelsea Hospital: site of Ranelagh Gardens. House in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, in which Lord Nelson and his wife quarrelled, and saw one another for the last time. Lansdowne House, in which Priestley was living when he discovered oxygen.

House off Tavistock-place, Tavistock-square, in which Francis Baily weighed the earth.

Homer-street, facing Cato-street: scene of the Cato Conspiracy of Thistlewood and his associates.

No. 39, Grosvenor-square (Lord Harrowby's), where his Majesty's ministers were to have been murdered as they sat at dinner, by Thistlewood and his gang.