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, afterwards 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,
Doctors' 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," E. side of Norfolk-street, Strand. Jonathan Wild, No. 68, Old Bailey.

Jeremy Bentham, No. 2, Queen-square place, Westminster. Rev. Sydney Smith died at No. 56, Green-st., Grosvenor-sq. Daniel O'Connell lodged 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, and died in Brook-street, Hanover-square.

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 opening from St. James's (Ambassador's Court) 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.

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 preparatory 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.

Canaletti, on site of corner house of Richmond-terrace, in a garret over a small shop.

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

XXIX.

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, lately lived.

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, Coventgarden, 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 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.

XXX.

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 Sœur 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, originally belonged to the Knights of St. John. Here Dr. Johnson met Cave, and here was printed The Gentleman's Magazine.

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

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

The Tower Green, near the chapel of St. Peter-ad-Vincula : place of execution of Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, &c. (See Tower.)

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. Thynne by assassins hired by Count Köningsmarck.

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

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.