The Sun. — 1833-08-31 (London, England)

LONDON LOCALITIES.  Lord Byron wrote the Siege of Corinth in No. 13, ',Piccadilly, which overlooks the Green-parkGibbons, the celebrated carver, was born in Spuralley, in the Strand, and resided in Belle Sauvageyard, 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, Clerkenwell, was one of the resorts of Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, 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 Northroad began. In a house which looks into Fetterlane and Fleur-de-lys-court, lived Elizabethißrownr% of her in the year 1767, for cruelty and murder her apprentice. Dryden resided in Fetterlane, in a house which stands at the corner of Fleurde-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 nothing till midnight. In the his friend Alderman Bridger, in Lovell's•court Paternosterrow, now belongiug to Messrs. Rivin it Richardson 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 Leadenhall-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 occupied 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, 31uscovia, 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 churchyard, was intended as a satire upon the Academy of Ancient Music, when a separation followed a dispute 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 Innfields. 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 resided, Sir I. Newton's house, in St. Martin'sstreet, Leicester-fields, is still in perfect preservation ; it stands between the chapel and Long's-court. Thomson wrote his " Winter" in a house in Whitehall, opposite the Admiralty. 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 Ludgatehill, from Great Bridge-street, through St. Martin'scourt, 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 churchyard, where are the remains of the only one of the round towers which used to crown the wall, at given distances.