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at the Bricklayer’s Arms on the right, a moft frequented 
rendezvous for Itages and coaches between London and 
the weftern cities, boroughs, and villages of Sulfex and 
Kent. Perhaps he may fee at a diftance the verdant tops 
of the fellive groves belonging to V'auxhall, where the eye 
is delightfully pleafed with the glow of artificial and co¬ 
loured lights ; and loon he will meet the Hofpital lately ef- 
tablifhed for the Blind, jult by the Philanthropic School. 
The Afylum for Unprotected Women, the (lately build¬ 
ing deftined for the Lunatics, riling in niajeftic fimplicity 
on his left ; the Free Mafons’ Schools; the Magdalen, 
where loll virtue learns to blulh again ; and the Surrey 
Theatre, where vice, as in other playhoufes, is very gently 
upbraided, whillt its votaries circulate, without any 
blufhes, at the backs of the feats : all tliefe will meet his 
exploring eyes in fucceflive exhibitions. But the pen is 
incomoetent to deferibe the feelings of the ftranger, when, 
after walking or riding along the noble and wide “Surrey 
Road,” he arrives at the foot of “ Blackfriars Bridge,” on 
the fouth fide of the city.—All then is aftonifhment and 
enthufiafrn :—the view difplays itfelf in magnificent gran¬ 
deur from Whitehall to the Tower, in an immenfe range 
of buildings and wharfs, adorned by Somerfet Houfe, the 
Temple Gardens, numerous extenlive warehoufes, the whole 
crowned by a foreft of ffeeples and towers, in the centre 
of which the baiilica of St. Paul, ere&ed on the higheft 
ground of the city, feems to raile the majelty of its dome 
above the clouds. This, perhaps, is the moft interefting 
Icene that may ever be circumfcribed within the orbit of 
the human eye. The breadth and elegance of the bridge, 
the neatnefs of Albion and Chatham Places, the immenfe 
concourfe of people, of horfes, of carriages of all de- 
feriptions, mull certainly fill the mind of the traveller 
with wonder, and make him furmife that he is on the 
threlhold of the metropolis, not only of Great Britain, 
but of the whole world. 
The Romans, who knew as well and perhaps (let it be 
faid without difparagement to our modern patriots) better 
than we do how to fire the public mind, how to kindle 
the torch of enthufiafrn, and bring into public and pro¬ 
fitable action that which might have appeared to others 
merely private and trifling; the inhabitants of Rome, and 
their neighbours, made a geddefs of their own city.—In¬ 
deed a form of worflrip was ettablithed in her honour; 
fanes w'ere erected and temples dedicated to her name, not 
only on the banks of the Tiber, but alfo in conquered 
provinces, where, furely, the vvorfliip mud have been as 
hypocritical as obfequious. We are not fo far gone, in 
point of fuperftition, it is true ; but the facred and inex- 
tinguilhable flame of our love for our city of London, the 
concern which her commerce, the veneration which her 
antiquity, infpire, will apologize for the poet who per- 
fbnified her in the following fragment: 
— --See how Augufta fits, 
Britannia’s eldeft daughter, and her pride, 
Fall by the wealthy banks of bufy Thames 
Magnificent—her temple-crowned brow 
Elate, and half conceal’d in wond’ring clouds; 
The bidden tributes of both hemifpheres 
Brought and unfurled at her filver feet ; 
Her feet, which, from the bofom of the main. 
In fwelling tides approaching twice a-day. 
Old Ocean fondly kifies, and retires; 
Whillt Ir.dufiry and Trade, in facred bands 
United, fill her ample zone with gold, 
And all the riches of the call and weft, 
Subfervient to the brav’ry of her fons. 
For her, proud Liban, in his feented groves. 
Gives (belter to the filk-entombed worm. 
And citron-forefts breathe their Iweets.—-For her 
Wild Africa works fmooth the milk-white tulks 
Of giant quadrupeds.—For her the canes 
Ambrofial, prefs’d in fair Columbia’s ifles, 
Profufely yield their ne&ar.—For her lake 
The quick-ey’d Chinefe plucks the em’rald leaf 
DON - . s-r 
Of nice perfume, to grace the breakfaft-board 
In fiow’ry cups his plaitic hands had form’d.— 
For her the ruddy vintager has trod 
The purple grapes whofe juice high Teneriffe*- 
Or Burgundy, or Lufitania, fends, 
Stores inexhauftible, to London marts ; 
The bleifed fpring of mirth, of quarrels oft; 
Yet fraught with feeds of harmony and love. 
By her the mules all the garlands weave 
That genius, fciences, and wit, deferve, 
And twift them round Augufta’s lofty throne. 
Meanwhile the Graces with her daughters play ; 
Fair Hebe knits the finews of her fons ; 
And, as a queen, Hie ftoutly holds and wields 
Her potent Ihield and feeptre o’er the world ! 2 b 
Introspection of London. —Having been favoured 
with the perufal of a manulcript intended to-give a com¬ 
plete view of the interior of the metropolis in the form 
ot an itinerary, in order to enable every one to conceive 
a juft and adequate idea of this immenfe bee-hive, we 
have obtained leave to extrafl fome part of it, which may 
prove not only amufing, but interefting and ufeful, to our 
readers. The itinerant fuppofes himfelf at the top of 
Ludgate-ftreet, ready to ftart for a perambulatory jaunt 
towards Temple Bar. 
“ Having carefully furveyed the whole of St. Paul’s 
church-yard, I now Hand upon the higheft or nearly (if 
we attach any credit to the baflo relievo and infeription 
in Panier-alley) the higheft fummit of the hill which 
gently rifes on the north fide of the Thames between 
Walbreok and Fleet-ditch, two rivulets which were origi¬ 
nally the confined boundaries of Londinium ; the firft 
running on the eaft fall by the walls, the other milling, 
with great Jleetnefs, from the weftern height where modern 
Hoiborn (lands, down to the noble river. In this fitua- 
tion, looking toward the weft, my view darts down to 
the bottom of the hill, as weft, at leaft, as the ferpentine- 
windings of Ludgate hill and Itreet accidentally permit. 
The firft'and moft powerful impreflion which is then made 
on my mind is that numerous and clattering aflemblagc 
of carriages, chariots, chaifes, hackney-coaches, ftages, 
carts, and waggons, of all lhapes, fizes, and deferiptions^. 
afeending and defeending the hill, buftling and juftling 
againll each other, Ifruggling to pafs; and flanked on 
both fides by a thick cloud of foot-palfengers, running 
btiiily up and down on the trottoirs of the Itreet, or walk¬ 
ing lei 1 urely and gazing at the (hop-windows as they 
crawl along. Among thefe paiTengers I remark feveral 
who feem to have made a point of regulating their watches 
upon the oracular face of the metropolitan clock ;—and 
there you will catch a moft curious fund of entertainment. 
The clerk or Ihopman who has overflept himfelf looks up to 
the dial with wrinkled brows, then to his watch, and runs; 
the neat and correct man, who finds that his watch is 
right, gives but a glance, and Hides along with a fmile ; 
whillt the plodding tradelinan or lounging quality hardly 
takes notice of the finger of time. To Hand a few mi¬ 
nutes, and look at the various impreflions wrought on 
the features of people, by the ever-moving hand of the 
clock, with refpeCl to their correfponding concerns, would 
afford matter for a Theophraftes or a Lavater to write vo¬ 
lumes upon.— The impatience of expectation, the irnpe- 
tuofity of defire, tire indifference of idlenefs, the frown of 
dilappointment, the fmile of fatisfaftion, all regulated by 
the Jilent teller of the hours, pafs fo rapidly from one face 
to the other, that the whole feene afiumes the appearance 
of a magic exhibition. 
“ The firft houfe on the right in Ludgate-ftreet, (an¬ 
ciently called Bowyer Rowe, lays Stow, “on account of 
bowyers dwelling there in old time, but now worne out by 
mercers and others;”) forming the north-weft corner of 
the church-yard, preients the Juvenile Library, united: 
with the Medicinal Repofitory, (fo long known and ao- 
culloined under the name of Nevvbery;) a happy com¬ 
pound, which feems to imply at ouce the improving of the 
