The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-31 00:00:00

LONDON LOCALITIES.

Lord Byron wrote the Siege of Corinth in No.
13, ',Piccadilly, which overlooks the Green-park-
Gibbons, the celebrated carver, was born in Spur-
alley, in the Strand, and resided in Belle Sauvage-
yard, Ludgate-hill, where he carved a pot of flowers
so exquisitely that they shook in the wind. The
Baptist Head public-house, in Sr. John's-lane, Clerk-
enwell, was one of the resorts of Dr. Johnson, Gold-
smith, and others, who used to call in there on their
way to and from Cave's house at St. John's Gate.
En Clerkenwell-close, near Newcastle-place, is the
house of Colonel Titus, and the place of conference
between Cromwell, Ireton, and other republicans.
At the place called King's Cross was fought the
battle in which Queen Boadicea so distinguished
herself against the Romans, whence its former name
of Battle-bridge, and here the orignal Roman North-
road began. In a house which looks into Fetter-
lane and Fleur-de-lys-court, lived Elizabethißrown-
r%
of her
in the year 1767, for cruelty and mur-
der her apprentice. Dryden resided in Fetter-
lane, in a house which stands at the corner of Fleur-
de-lys-court ; it was then a genteel neighbourhood;
it has also an entrance from Holborn, between Nos.
22 and 23. No. 3, Ivy-lanef, formerly a tavern, was
frequented by the literati of days of Goldsmith
and Johnson ; here, accordingto the Spectator,
was held the Humdrum
smoke their Club, who used to
sit together,
gal. pipes,deo and
o f say no-
thing till midnight. In the his friend
Alderman Bridger, in Lovell's•court Paternoster-
row, now belongiug to Messrs. Rivin it
Richard-
son wrote his novels of Pamela and jrracTiClisott.
the Bell Inn, Warwick-lane, Archbishop Leighton At
died. Gray the poet was born at the house now
No. 41, Cornhill ; the original house was destroyedow
by fire in 1748. Defoe kept a hosier's shop in
Cornhill, and stood in the pilory there for writing
a pamphlet entitled " The shortest Way with the
Dissenters." The shop of Sir Thomas Gresham
was in Lombard-street, on the site of the house
No. 68. The Old King's Head Tavern, in Leaden-
hall-street, %t as the house where Guy Fawkes and
his city adherents assembled; it escaped the great
fife. Stowe lived and died on the site now occu-
pied as No. 71, tedenliall-street; the remains of a
little Norman Chapel arc still to be seen nnder
it. In Fenchurch-sirea, :at Denmark House, plc;
lodged, according to 1t0ti....e he first ambassa-
"l4.
dor sent here." from the-ttiiVitOr Cathaie, 31usco-
via, and Ruslttptl." in *ethiir-lane, in the reign
of Elizabetii;‘-weive tht reiiiienoes of Sir F. \Val-
''ll'gh am, StleMbeftittW.le Earl of Essex, and

other eminent personages. The sign of the Goose
and Gridiron, on the north side of St. Paul's church-
yard, was intended as a satire upon the Academy of
Ancient Music, when a separation followed a dis-
pute among the members. Dr. Franklin worked at
Wall's printing-house in Portugal-street, in 1725,
and lodged at an Italian warehouse, facing the
Roman Catholic chapel in Duke-street. Lord
William Russell and Algernon Sidney were both
beheaded on the site of the present Lincoln's Inn-
fields. At No. 436, Strand, was Wimbledon
House, a large mansion, built and inhabited by Sir
Edward Cecil. The chapel in Oxendon-street,
Haymarket, was first used for religious purposes by
Richard Baxter. Hogarth resided in what is now
the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester-square ; and there,
when lately in town, the Countess Cuiccioli also re-
sided, Sir I. Newton's house, in St. Martin's-
street, Leicester-fields, is still in perfect pre-
servation ; it stands between the chapel and
Long's-court. Thomson wrote his " Win-
ter" in a house in Whitehall, opposite the Admi-
ralty. John Bunyan, when in town, used to preach
in the chapel in Union-street, Borough, the oldest
dissenting meeting-house in London. The Flying
Horse public-house, in Bishopsgate-street, opposite
Widegate-st., was the residence of Sir Paul Pinder ;
its ancient gothic front still remains. The only
places in which the ancient London Wall can be
seen to any extent are in Little Bridge-street, a
passage running in a parallel line behind Ludgate-
hill, from Great Bridge-street, through St. Martin's-
court, into the Broadway; next on the south side
of the churchyard of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, where
this wall forms a barrier to the yards of the houses
on the north side of Bull and Mouth-street ; and
the third is on the south side of Cripplegate church-
yard, where are the remains of the only one of the
round towers which used to crown the wall, at given
distances.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Acv. 16.

The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Tho-
mas Henry Lord Foley to be Captain of his Majesty's Band of
Pensioners.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 47.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has been
pleased to appoint the Reverend John Hot sley Dakins to be one
of his Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains.

WAR-OFFICE, Auc. 30.

3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain E Cormick, from
Paymaster 4th Light Dragoons, to be Paymaster, vice Johnson,
Aug. 30.
4th Light Dragoons—Captain H. Heyman, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Paymaster, vice Cormick, appointed to the
3d Light Dragoons, Aug. 30.
10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant B. 0. Ward to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Petre, who retires; Cornet Sir J.
G. Baird, Bart. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ward ;
W. G. Cavendish, Gentleman, to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Baird, Aug. 30.

11th Light Dragoons—Ensign H. W. Bunbury, from the
43d Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George, pro-
moted, Aug. 30.

Ist Regiment of Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon K. M‘Gas-
kill, to be Assistant. Surgeon, vice Torrie, deceased, Aug. 30.
26th Foot —Staff Assistant-Surgeon C. Pine, to be Assist-
ant-Surgeon, vice Minto, appointed to the Staff, Aug. 30.
43(1 Foot—Hon. C. R. West to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Bunbury, promoted in the 11th Light Dragoons, Aug. 30.
49th Foot—Capt. S. D. Pritchard, from the s•_'d Foot, to be
Major, by purchase, vice Townshend, who retires, Aug. 30.

52c1 Foot—Lieut. Hon. C. F. Norton to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Pritchard, promoted in the 49th Foot ; Ensign E.
H. F. Pocklington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Norton ;
J. G. Jarvis, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pockling.
ton, Aug. 30.
70th Foot—Staff-Assistant Surgeon J. Stuart to be Assistant-
Surgeon, Aug. 30.
71st Foot—Lieut.-Col. lion. C. Grey, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice J. T. Pidgeon, who ex.
changes, receiving the difference, Aug. 30.
78th Foot—Ensign A. W. Browne to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Macleod, who retires ; D. B. St. Vincent Ha.
milton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne, Aug 30.