city of London, >or within three miles thereof, and can give satisfactory security for the repayment of the money so lent to them.

"And my mind and will is, that not more than three hundred pounds, nor less than one hundred pounds be lent to any one person, or persons in copartnership, nor for a longer term than five years; and that every person, to whom any of this money shall be lent, do, for the first year, pay one per cent. per annum for the sum borrowed, and for the remainder of the time he shall keep the same, two per cent. per annum, and no more; and that the borrowers do punctually carry the interest due from them every half year to the said chamberlain of London..

all in regular order, without their situations being previously announced to him. In the younger part of his life, riding on horseback was one of his favourite exercises; and, of late years, when he lived in Salter's Buildings, on Epping' Forest, and wished to give his friends an airing, he would often take them the most pleasant road, and point out to them the most pleasing prospects. He played at whist with great readiness and judgment: each card was marked at the corner with the point of a needle; but those marks were so delicately made, as hardly to be perceived by any person not previously apprised of it: his hand was generally the first that was arranged; and it was not uncommon for him to complain to the party, that they were tedious in sorting the cards.

By the sound alone, he could distinguish with great accuracy the size of a room. He could also distinguish colours, tell the precise time by a watch, "name the notes in music, and do many other things dependent on the ear and touch, which his friends had long ceased to consider as extraordinary in him. But his naming the number of persons in a room on entering it; his directing his voice to each person in particular, even to strangers when they had once spoken; his missing any person absent, and telling who that person was; in a word, his conceptions of youth, beauty, symmetry, and shape, were such wonderful attainments, as to be, perhaps, peculiar to himself.

Mr. Stanley, whose great talents both as a composer and a performer, are too universally acknowledged to require an eulogy, died on Friday the 19th of May, 1786, in the seventy-third year of his age; and, in the evening of the 27th, his remains were interred in the New Burial Ground belonging to St. Andrew's church; at which, on Sunday the 28th, instead of the usual Voluntary, a solemn Dirge, and after service, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," were, with great propriety, performed upon that organ, on which he had, with such eminence, and for such a number of years, displayed his musical abilities.

"And my mind is, that such part of the capital of the said fund, as shall at any time remain unemployed in the manner herein before by me directed, shall or may be placed out, by and with the consent and approbation in writing of the said lord mayor, the two senior aldermen, the recorder, and chamberlain, at interest on government securities, but not so as to impede my primary intentions of lending this money to young men, as above directed.

"And my mind and will is, that all the interest arising from the said money so be lent be applied, first, to pay such a salary, • not exceeding forty pounds a year, as the lord mayor, the two senior aldermen, the recorder, and chamberlain of London, shall think proper to give to a clerk in the said chamberlain's office, who may be appointed to keep the accounts of the loan of this money, and transact other matters incident thereto; and to defray all other charges relating to this trust: Secondly, to pay to Richard Wilkins, nephew of my late wife, thirty pounds a year; and to my servant, Durance Hall, if she be in my service at the time of my decease, twenty pounds a year; during his and her respective - natural lives, by four equal quarterly payments: The first quarterly payment to begin when William Syms shall no longer pay the said annuities to the said Robert Wilkins and the said Durance Hall as he is herein and hereafter, directed to do

And, thirdly, my mind and will is, that all the residue of the interest arising from the said money so to be lent shall be added to the principal, to make up losses which may happen, or to increase the capital of the said perpetual fund.

" And I do humbly request that the said lord mayor of the city of London, the two senior aldermen, the recorder, and the chamberlain thereof, for the time beꞌng, do direct and appoint the persons to whom, and the proportions in which the said money shall be lent, not exceeding the abovementioned limited sum of three hundred pounds to one person or persons in copartnership; and also not less than one hundred pounds to one person. And I do desire that no part of this money may be lent without the order and direction in writing of the said lord mayor, two senior aldermen the recorder, and the chamberlain. And I also desire, that, at every meeting of the said gentlemen to transact any affairs relative to the management of this trust, those who are actually present, if the business they meet upon be effected, will please, each of them, to accept half a guinea,

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"And my mind and will is, that the beforementioned sum of money bequeathed by me may be lent, as far as the best information can be obtained, only to persons of honesty, sobriety, and industry; and who can make appear, that, for the time they have been in business, they have, on the whole gained, and not lost thereby; and that they do not owe more than they are able to pay: And I desire that no person who may offer himself as a borrower of part of this money be refused on account of the religion he may profess, provided he be a Protestant. And I earnestly request that this fund may never be made subservient to any party views.

" And, further, my mind and will is, that no part of this money shall be lent to an alehouse-keeper, a distiller, or a vender of distilled liquors. And I desire that a particular regard may be had to all such persons as shall be recommended by my executors as borrowers of part of this money.

"And, as I repose full confidence in the integrity of my executors, my mind and will expressly is, that, if, by the account they shall give into the said chamberlain's office, it shall appear that, after payment of my debts, my specific legacies, and my funeral charges, and the expences attending the probate and execution of this my will, the residuum of my estate doth not amount to the said sum of twenty thousand pounds, then the account so given in by them, or the survivors or survivor of them (if no er rors appear therein) shall be accepted at the said office as just and right; and the sum therein stated to be the residuum of my estate shall be received by the said chamberlain in lieu and full satisfaction of and for the said sum of twenty thousand pounds; and his receipt shall be a good and sufficient discharge for the same to my sad executors. And my will further is, that my said executors, or any of them, shall not be sued or molested by any person or per-ons whatsoever touching such residue of my estate, unless any error shall appear in their or his account thereof, which error they or he refuse to rectify.

"And my mind and will also is, that my said executors shall' not be answerable one for the other, nor for the act, deed, or receipt of the other. And whereas it may happen that some of the debts or sums of money due and owing to me upon mortgages, bonds, notes, or other securities, may be attended with hazard or trouble in the recovery thereof; I do therefore hereby authorise and fully impower my executors, the survivors or survivor of them, to compound any such debts or sums in such manner as they

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or he, in their or his discretion, shall think fit. And I do hereby - will and direct, that whilst William Syms (one of my executors} shall be indebted to my estate in such a sum as the interest thereof, at four per cent. per annum, shall amount to fifty pounds, that he, the said William Syms, do pay the two annuities of thirty pounds and twenty pounds a year to Richard Witkins and Durance Hall, in the manner as in this my will before directed. And when be, the said William Syms, shall have paid in what he may be indebted to my estate, or so much thereof, as that the interest of the remainder shall not amount to the said sum of fifty pounds, then my mind and will expressly is, and I hereby order and direct, that the said annuities of thirty pounds a year to Richard Wilkins, and twenty pounds a year to Durance Hall, be punctually paid according to the directions before given in this my will, out of the interest arising from the money bequeathed by me in trust to be paid to the chamberlain of London, to be lent to young men."

In Hatton Street, is one of the public offices for conducting the business of the police in the county of Middlesex; and at the north-west end is a turner's shop, which has been in the same occupation upwards of one hundred years.

Passing Christopher Street, so called from Sir Christopher Hatton, in which is a very antient inn, the sign of the Black Bull; we arrive at Leather, or Lither Lane, implying sloth, and filth, which denomination at the south end it still is intitled to; thence proceeding to Liquor pond Street, in which are the extensive premises of MEUX's BREWERY.

The sight of a great London brewhouse," says Mr. Pennant, "exhibits a magnificence unspeakable. The vessels evince the extent of the trade. Mr. Meux can shew twenty-four tons, containing in all, thirty-five thousand barrels; one alone holds four thousand five hundred barrels of wholesome liquor, which enables the London porter drinkers to undergo tasks that ten gin drinkers would sink under. In the present year (1795) he has built a vessel sixty feet in diameter, one hundred and seventy-six feet in circumference, and twenty-three feet in height. It cost 5000/. in building; and contains from ten thousand to twelve thousand

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thousand barrels of beer, valued at 20,000%. A dinner was given to two hundred people at the bottom, and two hun dred more joined the company to drink success to the vat!

"They have one vat that holds twenty thousand barrels of porter, cost 10,000l. in building, and when full of beer is worth 40,000l.; is seventy feet in diameter; thirty feet deep: the circumference I could not measure. Many of the hoops weigh three ton, and cost 300l. each." (Another has lately been built of the same size). There is one that

holds ten thousand barrels, one five thousand, and about forty that hold from five thousand to two thousand, containing in the whole one hundred thousand." The wonderful additions which have lately been made to these premises, have made it one of the largest concerns in the world.

This was the very extent of London in the reign of queen Elizabeth. All the east side of Gray's Inn Lane were fields, except a row of houses, extending to a road from "the road to Oxford" and Clerkenwell; these might have been the twelve shops (duodecim shoppis) mentioned in the escheat, 17 Edward II. respecting the possessions of John le Grey, deceased.

THEOBALDS ROAD, and KING'S ROAD, were so denominated, because they were the ways through which James I. usually passed when he came to town from his palace of Theobalds, in Herts.

GRAY'S INN LANE, is very long and very dirty, and runs into the road to Hampstead; the western side is occupied by the buildings of Gray's Inn, and a few poor houses towards Holborn; the east side consists of irregular and old built houses, alleys, and streets.

Within a few doors of Liquorpond Street, is an antient structure of grotesque appearance, of the architecture of queen Elizabeth's reign, supposed to have been the residence of lady Andrewes; as appears by the following extract from the register of St. Andrew's: "In 1645, Frances Andrewes, daughter of the lady Andrews, died in the house the further end of Gray's Inn Lane, April."

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