HISTORIANS AND ANTIQUARIES:

Fox, author of "Acts and Monuments" St. Giles's, Cripplegate.

Capt. John Smith, author of "History
of Virginia"

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. Hither 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-walk, 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.

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, born in No. 16, Holles-street, Cavendish-square, spent his short married life at No. 139, Piccadilly. In the rooms of the Albany, facing Saville-row, 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. 2, 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, 1797.

Garrick died in the centre house of the Adelphi-terrace. Mrs. Siddons lived at No. 49, Great Marlborough-street,