THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 380.] 



APRIL 1, 1823. 



[3 of Vol. 55. 



LORD SHAFTESBURY'S HOUSE AT LITTLE CHELSEA. 

 Here resided during many years Anthony Ashley earl of Shaftesbury, author of 

 "Characteristics," and the friend and companion of the most distinguished philosophers 

 and poets of his time. He entered on these premises in 1699, and resided in them till his 

 death ; after which they passed into the hands of Dr. Wynne, at wliose death they were 

 purcliased by the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, and appropriated as an extra 

 poor.honse, as which they are occupied (o this day. The situation seems to have been a 

 favourite of Addison; he having written several of his " Spectators" on these premises, 

 and most of them at Sandy End, about a quarter of a mile distant. Mr. Locke, too, 

 was often an inmate of Lord Shaftesbury's, and some of his productions were written 

 in a summer-house, still standing, at the bottom of the garden ; but not his " Es?ay," as 

 has been vulgarly supposed,— for that work appeared several years before Lord 

 Shaftesbury entered on these premises. Within a mile (at Battersea) resided the 

 kindred genius, Lord Bolenbroke; and, indeed, at that time this neighbourhood was 

 distinguished by the preference of many men of superior talents. 



For the Monthhi Magazine. 



KCCI.ESIISTICAL STATISTICS. 



THE pecuniary difficaltics of the 

 country render the cliurch esta- 

 blishment an object of ;inxiou.s inquiry, 

 and perhaps in nd branch of public 

 economy is there so great an absence 

 of authentic information. The best 

 recent work on ccclesiiislioal cxpeudi- 

 MoNTiiLY Mao. No. 3by. 



tiire, is the pamphlet on flie "Con- 

 sumption of Public Wealth by the 

 Clergy :" but even in this, so far as 

 relates to the English cliurch, the 

 writer lias chiefly contented himself 

 with copying the statements of his 

 predecessors; and it is with a view of 

 stipply ing the deficiencies of this popu- 

 lar publication that a few stalislical 

 C c facts 



