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rity, and manifested this conviction 
upon all occasions. The comedy of 
The Suspicious Husband, it is sup- 
posed, was written by Mr. Hoadly for 
the purpose of evincing the incon- 
clusiveness of presumptive evidence. 
The strongest presumption of the Prin- 
cess’s guilt was the circumstance of 
Count Koningsmark’s hat being found 
in her private apartment, for his visits 
were alleged to have been paid to one 
of her ladies: the author has a similar 
incident in his drama; which Quin, 
aware of the felicity of the allusion, 
sarcastically observed, ought to have 
been called “The Hat and the Lad- 
der.” George II. attended the repre- 
sentation of this his favourite play very 
frequently, always displaying particular 
delight in the exposure of the ground- 
less jealousy of Mr. Strickland. 
The gallant Duke of Schomberg lived 
in Pall-Mall; and the friend of his coun- 
try’s freedom will pay his passing ho- 
mage to the memory of a man who, 
according to Burnet, “ wrote with the 
elegant simplicity of a Cesar, and to 
whose reputation and conduct, next to 
those of King William, the English 
nation owes the Revolution.” 
Pall-Mall is also famous as having 
been the residence of the Hon. Robert 
Boyle, seventh son of the great Earl of 
Corke, a gentleman who devoted himself 
entirely to science, and who was one of 
the first and most celebrated adven- 
turers in the philosophical world. Un- 
moved by the idle carpings of envious 
jesters, he laboured constantly and 
zealously to promote the useful arts. 
The father of the pneumatic philoso- 
phy, he cultivated chemistry for the 
worthy purpose of general improve- 
ment, at a time when most others were 
pursuing chimerical schemes for per- 
sonal advantage; his eminent station 
in society, as well as the virtues which 
adorned his private character, rendered 
him an object of universal respect and 
celebrity. Swift satirized the -produc- 
tions of his early youth, in a piece 
called “ Meditations ou a Broomstick 
after the manner of Mr. Boyle,” which, 
it has been said, may be pronounced 
as cruel and unjust as it was trivial and 
indecent. When his declining health 
made him apprehensive that he should 
scarcely have time to put his’papers in 
order for publication, that his vast col- 
lection might be useful.after his de- 
cease, he abridged himseif of the plea- 
sures of society, and directed that a 
placard should be placed over his door, 
notifying when he was at liberty to re- 
Walks in London.—No. II. 
[Feb. L, 
ceive company, or stating the necessity 
of declining all visits. These arrange- 
ments, his biographer continues, which ° 
in another man might have seemed the 
effusions of vanity, or assumed impor- 
tance, serve only to shew in Mr. Boyle: 
that his celebrity was great, and his 
motives so far superior to any affec- 
tation of that kind, as to permit him to 
do with ease and simplicity, what in 
other men would have required much 
apology, Many of the discoveries of 
Mr. Robert Boyle are so generally use- 
ful, aud lead to such extensive practical: 
results, that they have become too fa-: 
miliar to direct the attention towards 
their author: as have the loom, the 
plough, the pump, the mill, &c. whose 
inventors have been forgotten. The air> 
pump, the thermometer, the hydros 
meter, and numerous other instruments 
and processes, essential to philosophical 
research, were invented or improved by 
Boyle, Upwards of a century has 
elapsed since he opened the path of 
philosophical chemistry. Thousands 
of active and intelligent operators have 
repeated and extended his discoveries,: 
and every subsequent fact has proved 
his inviolable fidelity. 
It may be considered necessary to 
mention Carlton Palace. This magni- 
ficent house belonged to the Earl of 
Burlington, who sold it to Frederick 
Prince of Wales,-son of George II. It 
is somewhat extraordinary that Pennant 
passes it over in silence in his History 
of London, since, notwithstanding its 
modern improvements, it must always 
have been an object of particular at- 
traction. The screen, though generally 
reprobated, is a fine specimen of the 
Ionic order of architecture, and the 
splendid portico which it partially re- 
veals to the distant gazer, is modelled 
after that of the temple of Jupiter Sta- 
tor at Rome. 
The Opera House was originally 
erected after a design by Sir John Van- 
brugh, who usually mingled a little too 
much of the Dutch taste with his build- 
ings. He was more happy as a writer 
of comedy: the Provok’d Husband, 
which he produced in conjunction with 
Cibber, promises to be even more 
durable than his massy edifices. It is 
said that the last scene of the above- 
mentioned excellent comedy occasioned 
a warm discussion between the authors ; 
Sir John, enraged at the misconduct of 
Lady Townley, insisted that she should 
be turned out of doors, declaring that 
she had behaved so ill, it would be im- 
possible 
