The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-27

where Gay lived and wrote the "Elegy :"
fell heir to the property and sold it to the
Cremorne Garden corporation. Wicked
enough 1t grew in time. Decorous associa-
tions retrieved it and an innocent nursery
garden now wells its unhalloWed site and
memories.
At least three ancient taverns In the
peighborhood have peculiar old-time in-
terest. Two, one at the western and the
other at the eastern edge Of the parish, are
directly associated with Neil Gwyune.
That to the west, In which l found a noble
sort OF publican, and, oddly enough, a
cousin OF that rampant little pugilist whose
skill OF tongue has never been defeated,
Charley Mitchell. was built by Charles II.
as home for bis favorite. IL was from
the windows of this house, now a resort
of Chelsea pensioners, that Nell's eyes
looked In upon the then fine meadows
Of King James College, in her dream, when
she saw the beautiful palace rise with its
thousand chambers out of which "divers
many old and worn out soldier men" came
and cried, God bless King Charlesl" which
led to the merciful founding of the splendid
hospital.
The other associated with the fame Of the
pretty orange-girl is sedate old rookery at
the western side Of Chelsea. It is called
the "Nell Gwynne tavern" and
many q rare tradition OF Charles,
companion fingers about the mellow old
place. Another curious inn still in exist
ence is the prince of Wales at the corner
OF Lawrence street and Justice walk, but
squares distance from the old Carlyle home
in Great Cheyne row. Chelsea was once
made known through the artistic world for
its famous china. For the forty wears
after l745 its china works, which stood on
the site Of the Prince of Wales"
turned out a product equal to that
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you can see the remains of the ovens and
baking rooms, just as they were aban-
doned. DR.. Samuel Johnson was suddenly
possessed of the idea that he could as easily
make china as a dictionary; and the
doughty old scholar, but mn killed native
workman, for long time came here daily
to spoil good material, his faithful house
keeper trudging after him with q huge
basket containing his daily food.
In Great Cheyne row Smollett lived,
long before Carlyle came, and here he wrote
Ferdinand Count Fathom" and finished
Hume's History of England;D while
George Eliot died In a house near Car
lyle's In the same modest little thorough
fare. Chelsea old church, one Of the
sweetest old places in London, overlooks the
Thames but q few rods distance.
slab OF Sir Thomas Moore. Lady Dsore.
Lady Jane Cheyne and the Duchess of
Northumberland, three Of Chelsea's former
grand ladies, lie beneath monuments within
the church, while Charles, George and
Henry Kingsley, once lived In It's rectory
with their father, who bad received the
Giving" from Lord Cadogan.
In Cheyne walk along the riverside lived
Turner, the painter. Rossetti lived and
sang here among bis birds and flowers,
Leigh Hunts gypsy-like home, Of which
Carlyle has left inimitable descrip-
ton, was Just around the corner from @ eat
Cheyne row. Queen Elizabeth used to visit
the Earl OF Shrewsbury at Shrewsbury
house JUST back of Cheyne walk The poet
George Herbert dwelt in the same neighbor-
hood; and at little barber shop, coffee
house and quaint museum, called "Don