here was Charles Ratcliffe, brother to the Earl of Derwentwater, who was beheaded in 1715. Savage Gardens, on the north of Tower-Hill, formerly belonged to the Crutched Friars. Henry the Eighth gave this ground to Sir Thomas Wyat; afterwards, in the reign of James the First, it took its name from Sir Thomas Savage. Opposite Postern Row, an excellent Spring is called the Postern, from being the place where the Tower Postern abutted on the city wall. - Facing Great Tower-Hill, is the Trinity House, a beautiful specimen of the abilities of the late Samuel Wyatt. It forms a grand front of two series, opposite the Tower. The interior also is equally beautiful in its architecture, and contains the following curiosities: -the flag taken from the Spaniards by Sir Francis Drake, in 1588, and various portraits of Sir Francis, Sir John Leake, and other eminent men; a large and exact model of a ship entirely rigged; two very large globes; and five fine pen and ink drawings of naval engagements in the reign of Charles the Second. The Secretary's Office contains a beautiful model of the Royal William. The hall is light and elegant, as is also the court-room, the ceiling of which is finished in a peculiar style: this room contains portraits of the King and Queen, Lord Sandwich, Lord Howe, and Mr. Pitt, besides four and twenty portraits of the elder brethren. Strangers may be admitted to see the Trinity House, by giving the servant a shilling. Opposite this house, on the 9th of April, 1810, the military, escorting Sir Francis Burdett to the Tower, being provoked by the populace, resisted, and some persons were killed and wounded. The church of All-Hallows, Barking, built in the style of the modern Gothic, stands at the western extremity of Tower-Hill, at the bottom of Mark-Lane in Tower-Street; and is so called from having anciently belonged to the Abbess and Convent of Barking in Essex. Richard the First founded a chapel on the north side of it, and bis heart is supposed to have been buried there. This church, in some measure, escaped the Fire of London, and formerly contained the ashes of Bishop Fisher, and the accomplished Earl of Surrey, who all fell by the axe on Tower-Hill. They were removed--the archbishop to St. John's College, Oxford; the bishop to the side of Sir Thomas Moore, in the Tower Chapel; and the Earl to Framlingham, in Suffolk. This church has recently undergone a complete repair. The Tower stands on the celebrated eminence called Tower Hill, and though said to be of very ancient date, cannot be traced with any certainty beyond the time of William the Conqueror, who built what is now called the White Tower, and enlarged the whole, which at present covers twelve superficial acres; its ramparts are surrounded by a deep and wide, ditch, proceeding north on each side of the fortress, nearly in a parallel line, and meeting in a semi-circular projection. The slope is faced with brick-work, and the walls have been so much mended, that the original stone is scarcely to |