XXVIII.-HOUSES IN WHICH EMINENT PERSONS HAVE LIVED.

"THERE is a custom on the Continent well worthy of notice," says the elegant-minded author of the Pleasures of Memory. "In Boulogne, we read as we ramble through it, 'Ici est mort l'Auteur de Gil Blas;' in Rouen, 'Ici est né Pierre Corneille;' in Geneva, Ici est né Jean Jacques Rousseau;' and in Dijon there is the 'Maison Bossuet;' in Paris, the 'Quai Voltaire.' Very rare are such memorials among us; and yet wherever we meet with them, in whatever country they were, or of whatever age, we should surely say that they were evidences of refinement and sensibility in the people. The house of Pindar was spared

When temple and tower
Went to the ground;

and its ruins were held sacred to the last. According to Pausanias they were still to be seen in the second century." Concurring in this sentiment to its fullest extent, I have compiled the following list of eminent persons who have lived in London, and whose houses are known.

Great Duke of Marlborough died in Marlborough House, Pall-mall.

Great Duke of Wellington (d. 1852), reconstructed Apsley House, as it now stands, and lived in it 32 years.

Duke of Schomberg, in Schomberg House, Pall-mall.
Great Lord Clive died in No. 45, Berkeley-square.

Lord Nelson lived at No. 141, New Bond-street, after the battle off Cape St. Vincent and the Expedition to Teneriffe, where he lost his arm.

Sir T. Picton, who fell at Waterloo, at No. 21, Edward-street, Portman-square. Here his body was brought after Waterloo. Lord Hill, the hero of Almarez, in the large house, S.W. corner of Belgrave-square.

Lord Lynedoch, the hero of Barossa, died at No. 12, Stratton-street, Piccadilly.

Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury, in Shaftesbury House, east side of Aldersgate-street.

Lord Chancellor Somers, in the large house N.W. corner of Lincoln's-Inn-fields.

Duke of Newcastle, prime minister in the reign of George II., in the same house.

Lord Mansfield, when only Mr. Murray, at No. 5, King'sBench-walks, Temple.

Lord Chancellor Cowper, at No. 13, Great George-street, Hanover-square.

The polite Earl of Chesterfield died in Chesterfield House, May Fair.

Lord Chancellor Thurlow, at No. 45, Great Ormond-street, where the Great Seal was stolen from him.

Lord Chancellor Eldon, at No. 6, Bedford-square, and W. corner of Hamilton-place, Piccadilly, in which he died. Sir Samuel Romilly died at No. 21, Russell-square. Edmund Burke, at No. 37, Gerard-street, Soho.

R. Brinsley Sheridan died at No. 7, Saville-row, Burlington-gardens.

Sir Robert Peel died at his house in Privy-gardens, Whitehall. Milton lived in a garden-house in Petty France, now No. 19, York-street, Westminster.

Dryden died at No. 43, Gerard-street, Soho.

Prior lived in Duke-street, Westminster, the house facing Charles-street.

Southerne lodged in Tothill-street, Westminster, facing Dartmouth-street. It was an oilman's in his time, and is still. Addison died in Holland House, Kensington.

Byron was born in No. 24, Holles-street, Cavendish-square, and spent the short honeymoon of his married life at No. 139, Piccadilly. In the rooms of the Albany, he wrote Lara.

Sir Walter Scott put up at Miss Dumergue's, corner of White Horse-street, Piccadilly, and at Mr. Lockhart's, 24, Sussexplace, Regent's Park.

Shelley lodged at No. 41, Hans-place, Sloane-street.

Keats wrote his magnificent sonnet on Chapman's Homer, &c., in the second floor of No. 71, Cheapside.

The last London residence of Campbell, author of "The Pleasures of Hope," was at No. 8, Victoria-square, Pimlico. Crabbe lodged at No. 37, Bury-street, St. James's.

Tom Moore, in 1806, dedicates his "Odes and Epistles' to Lord Moira, from No. 27, Bury-street, St. James's-street; and the Advertisement to the fourth number of his "Irish Melodies" is dated Bury-street, Nov., 1811.

Johnson completed his Dictionary in the garret of No. 17, Gough-square, Fleet-street, and died at No. 8, Bolt-court, Fleet-street.

Boswell died at No. 47, Great Portland-street, Oxford-st. Goldsmith died at No. Brick-court, Temple, up two pair of stairs, and on the right as you ascend the staircase. Gibbon wrote his Defence of his Decline and Fall, at No. 7, Bentinck-street, Manchester-square.

Horace Walpole lived at No. 5, Arlington-street, Piccadilly, and died at No. 11, Berkeley-square.

Garrick died in the centre house of the Adelphi-terrace.

Mrs. Siddons lived at No. 49, Great Marlborough-street, and died in Siddons House at the top of Upper Baker-street, Regent's Park (right hand side).

Edmund Kean lived at No. 12, Clarges-street, when at the height of his fame.

Archbishop Laud, Archbishop Sancroft, Archbishop Tillotson, at Lambeth Palace.

Archbishop Leighton died in the Bell Inn, Warwick-lane, Newgate-street.

Bishop Burnet died in St. John's-square, Clerkenwell. Richardson, author of Clarissa Harlowe, lived in Salisburysquare, Fleet-street.

Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, died at No. 41, Old Bond-street.

Charles Lamb, at No. 4, Inner-Temple-lane.

Sir Isaac Newton lived in St. Martin's-street, S. side of Leicester-square. His Observatory is still to be seen on the top of the house.

Sir Joseph Banks lived and held his parties at No. 32, Soho-square, now the Linnæan Society.

Priestley was living in Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square, when he made the discovery of oxygen.

Francis Baily weighed the earth at No. 37, Tavistock-place, Tavistock-square-the house stands isolated in a garden.

Linacre lived on the site of No. 5, Knightrider-street,
Doctor's Commons-the house was bequeathed by him to
the College of Physicians, and is still possessed by them.
Dr. Arbuthnot, in Dover-street, Piccadilly, 2nd door, W.side.
Dr. Mead, at No. 49, Great Ormond-street.

Dr. Jenner, at No. 14, Hertford-street, May Fair.
Dr. Baillie died at No. 25, Cavendish-square.

Mr. Abernethy died at No. 14, Bedford-row.

Sir Astley Cooper died at No. 2, New-street, Spring-gardens. Grinling Gibbons, W. side of Bow-street, Covent-garden, N. corner of King's-court.

Hogarth, in Leicester-square, now northern half of Sablonnière Hotel.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, centre of W. side of Leicester-square. Gainsborough, in western half of Schomberg House,Pall-mall. Flaxman died at No. 7, Buckingham-street, Fitzroy-square. His studio still remains.

Chantrey died in Eccleston-street, Pimlico, corner of Lower Belgrave-place.

Wilkie painted his Rent Day at No. 84, Upper Portland-st., and his Chelsea Pensioners at No. 24, Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington.

Stothard died at No. 28, Newman-street, Oxford-street. Sir Thomas Lawrence died at No. 65, Russell-square. J. M. W. Turner lived at 47, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-sq. Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, lived in Norfolk-street, Strand, last house on left hand side.

"Honest Shippen," half-way down E. side of Norfolkstreet, Strand.

Jonathan Wild, No. 68, Old Bailey.

Brunel

Jeremy Bentham, Queen-square House, Westminster-the long low house looking upon St. James's-park. perfected his block machinery in the same house.

Rev. Sydney Smith died at No. 56, Green-st., Grosvenor-sq. Daniel O'Connell, at No. 29, Bury-street, during the struggle (1829) for Catholic Emancipation.

Handel lived in Burlington House, Piccadilly, with the Earl of Burlington, the architect.

Carl Maria Von Weber died at No. 91, Upper Portland-st. Watteau lived with Dr. Mead at No. 49, Great Ormond-st. Orléans Égalité, at No. 31, South-street, Grosvenor-square. Madame de Staël, at No. 30, Argyll-street, Regent-street. Blucher, when in England in 1814, in St. James's Palace, in the dark brick house, on your right as you pass the narrow opening from St. James's to Stafford House.

Charles X. of France at No. 72, South-Audley-street. Talleyrand, at the house of the French Embassy, N. side of Manchester-square.

Ledru Rollin, at 18, South-street, Thurloe-square.

Joseph Buonaparte and Lucien Buonaparte, at No. 23, Park-crescent, Portland-place.

Louis Philippe's last London lodging was at Cox's Hotel, in Jermyn-street.

M. Guizot, at No. 21, Pelham-crescent, Brompton.

Don Carlos, in 1834, at No. 5, Welbeck-street. Here he had his hair dyed, and here he shaved his moustache prepa ratory to his journey to Spain through France in disguise.

Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the French, lodged at No. 3, King-street, St. James's-square; this was his last London lodging.

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 Brompton. lane, Old Brompton, near the Gloucester-road.

Samuel Rogers (from 1806 to 1855, when he died), at No. 22, St. James's-place, overlooking the Green-park.