The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-31

The Associations OF a London Square.
A writer in Belgra0ia gossips about some of
the squares of London Here is what he has
to say of one of them -
'Now, with a stride westward, let us pass
on to Grosvenor square, which Pope mentions
as early as l7l6. 1t derived its name, Mr..
Cunningham tells us, from Sir Richard Gros-
venor, fourth baronet (of the Gros- Veneurs),
who died in 1882. That arrogant, virulent
friend of Pope's, Bishop Warburton, lived in
this spot here he propounded his paradoxes,
and reviled Methodists, Wilkites, infdels, and
indeed anybody that differed from him.
Thrale, the good brewer, who with his gene
rous hospitality at Streatham cheered the
melancholy of his friend DR.. johnson, died in
this square in 1871. At No. 80 John Wilkes
died. The distiller's son, thin, squirting,
isping, yet delightful, after all his duels, and
political squabbles, and sedition, came here
and ended his days as quiet constitutionalist,
active against the Lord George Gordon rioters.
''Wilkie's patron and HaydOn's horror, Sir
George Beaumont lived at No. 20. Here he
talked his pleasant platitudes about high art
and descanted over the Claudes that he used
to carry about with him in his carriage. Il
see no brown in grass said Constable to him
one day in the country, laying an old Gre
mona on the dazzlingly green lawn, to prove
that the old masters were darker than they
should be. But Sir Georges mind was not
original; and he went off with his brown trees
and his receipt for composition till Turner
came and painted as Claude should have done,
and put twenty miles more landscape within
the four sides of frame than Lorraine ever
could pack.
''No 80 Grosvenor square is a house indis-
solubly connected with the Cato street con-
spiracy, 23d of February, 1920. The conspi-
rators-of whom the chief was Thistlewood-
ex-ensign in West India regiment and dis
graced gambler of infamous character, who
had dabbled in the Spafeld troubles and in all
the dangerous seditions of the day-with his
heutenants, Ings, savage pork-butcher a
man of color, and a cobbler, met in loft over
stable in Cato street (now Homer street,
Edgeware road. They were armed with pixies,
pistols, swords, and hand-grenades; and were
to rush into Lord Harrowby's, directly Thistle
wood rang the bell, with a pretended letter.
Some of them were to guard the kitchen stairs
and the area, to keep back the servants; while
the rest were to enter the dining-room and
slay all the Cabinet Ministers that day invited
to dinner. Ings carried two bags one intended
TO contain Lord Sidmouth's, the other Lord
Castlereagh's head, which were to be put on
mixes and carried before the conspirators
through the streets. They were then to seize
the cannon of the City Light Horse in Gray'f
Inn lane. fire some houses near there anC
then march on the Bank and the Mansion
House. The Bow street runners surprised
them as they were arming, and secured tn,
rinpleaders. Thistlewood, however, ran
Smfthers, one of the officers, through, and es
caped. He was soon after captured, and will
his coadiutors, Ings, Brunt, Tidd, and David
son. hung at the Old Bailey; and atterward
olumsily beheaded, much to the disgust an'
horror Of the crowd"