New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-26
London streets.
Awriter in Once Week gives the follow
ing interesting statistics;

Awriter in Once a Week gives the follow
ing interesting statistics;
A writer OIL London Streets" in Once a
Week makes the following record: Dryden
wrote and died in Gerard street; at the
Turks Head, in Gerard street, were held
the meetings of the famous Literary Club
in Johnson's days; Peter the Great lodged
at the Cars Head, in Great Tower street;
Voltaire lodged, when in England, at the
sign of the White Peruke, in Maiden lane;
the Royal Society met for seventy years,
and Sir Isaac Newton presided over its de-
alterations for part of the time, in house
at the end of Crane court, Fleet street; Hor-
ace Walpole lived for many years. and died
in Berkeley square; Sheridan died at
Sayille row; Lord Give killed himself in
the house Of the Earl of Fowls, Berkeley
square; the young Pretender lay concealed
in q house in Bolton street; Newton had
residence and an observatory in ST.
Martin street, on the south side OF Leicester
square; Hogarth lived on the east side OF
Leicester square, and Reynolds on the
west; Francis Bailey weighed the earth in
house in Tavistock place: Garrick died in
Adelphi terrace; Boswell first saw DR.. john
son in Tom Davies back parlor in Great
Russell street, Covent Garden; Flaxman
lived, and wrought, and died in Bucking.
ham street, Fitzroy square; Wllkle painted
his "Rent Day" at 81 Upper Portland street;
Richard Savage was born in room over the
end of Fox court, Gray's Inn lane; Gibbon
finished his decline aud Falln at house in
Bentinck street; John Hunter died in his
apartments in st. Georges Hospital: Lord
Eldon lived in Bedford squarej Rogers
lived and wrote, and talked in ST. James
place; the present Emperor of the
French, when Prince Louis Napoleon,
and refugee in England, lodged in King
street, st. James; Handel lived for more
than thirty years, and composed the "Mesi.
ahn in Lower Brook street; Mulready lived
! for more than forty years in Lindengrove,
Bayswater; Baxter lived in Bloomsbury
square, preached in Jermyn street, and was
| one time incarcerated in the Kings bench;
/ Lori UiranUeifUI Siiafst555GTJ, olcG C the
Oabal, lived at Shattesbury house, in AL
dersgate street; johnson wrote his dictien-
ary in the garnet Of " Cough square, and
! died at Bolt court, Fleet street; Caneletti
| once lodged in Silver street, and Mrs. Sid
| dons in Great Marlborough street; Chantry
| wrought most of his finest works in Lower
Belgrave place; John Martin lived and
painted in Allsopp terrace; Byron wrote
| his Lara, and Macaulay most OF MS
History of England in the Albany; Shelley
| lodged at Al Hans place, Sloane street;
| Keats wrote Ms sonneton Chapman's Homer
on the second floor Of II Chespside; Milton
was born in Bread street, Cheapside, and
wrote the last books of his Paradise Lost in
| a room overlooking st. James park, in what
was called Petty France; Potts vinegar fac
tory occupies the site of the palace of the
Bishops of Winchester in days gone by; the
ancient commercial emporium known as
the steelyard was, till lately, marked by a
site now occupied by the Cannon street sta
ton; the house and lecture room of the So
ciety of Arts stand on what was once the
garden of the house in which Lady Jane
Grey was married to Lord Gnilford Dudley,
and in which Sir Walter Raleigh atterward
| lived