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Which may be rendered thus : 
Here, on each fide, a lofty pillar (lands 
And ftatues mis’ry w ithin doors reveal: 
This (hakes the chains that bind his ft niggling hands; 
That feeds the grief he willies to conceal. 
Various their madnels; yet, each in his gui'e 
The artift’s fenfe and Ikill proclaims to wond’ring eyes. Z. 
The wall enclofed a range of gardens ; in the eafi divifion 
of which, feparated by the entrance into the hofpital, 
thofe of the lunatics, who were well enough to be fuf- 
fered to go about, were allowed to enjoy the benefit of the 
frefh air. The exnenfe of erecting this edifice amounted 
to i7,oool. The inlide of the building chiefly confided 
of two galleries, one over the other, a hundred and ninety- 
three yards long, thirteen feet high, and fixteen broad, 
exclufive of the cells. The galleries were divided by iron 
gates, in order to feparate the men from the women. At 
the entrance between thefe two gates, on the right hand, 
was a handfome apartment for the Iteward, or manager; 
and on the left was a fpacious room, in which the com¬ 
mittee fat to receive and difcharge patients. Below-ftairs 
were the kitchen and all neceflary offices ; and at the 
fouth-eaft corner a bath. The accommodations were 
calculated for about 200 patients.—One wing of this 
building has been pulled down ; and the whole w ill be en¬ 
tirely levelled with the ground as foon as that moll noble 
fabric which is rifing in St. George’s Fields dial! be com¬ 
pleted, and ready to receive the patients. Of that fabric 
we flial! fpeak when we perambulate on the Surry fide of 
the Thames. In the mean time we have thought it not 
amifs to leave upon record a few particulars of an edifice 
which cannot again be furveyed. 
From Moorfields we return to our walk through Broad- 
Jlreet ; the name of which is derived from its being be¬ 
fore the fire of London one of the width: within the walls 
of the city. It gives name to the ward. The principal 
objeft of attention is a handfome plain building of four 
flories in height, with an entrance through the middle of 
it, into a large yard, in which is another building of brick, 
nearly the fize of the principal one. This is the Excise 
Office, where immenfe duties are paid ; a gulph which 
in 17S7, according to Pennant, had abforbed the film of 
5,531,114!. 6s. 10-J-d. and, in 1812, 27,492,539). os. 6fd. an 
increafe the more afionifhing, in that it took place during 
a lapfe of time when the dawn of peace never appeared 
but for a few months in the courfe of more than 17 years. 
This is the principal office of excife in his majelty’s do¬ 
minions, and the bufinefs of it is conducted by nine com- 
miffioners, under whom are a great number of officers, 
both within and without the houfe. Thefe receive the 
duties on beer, ale, and fpirituous liquors ; on tea, coffee, 
and chocolate ; on malt, hops, foap, ftarch, candles, paper, 
parchment, and other excifeable commodities : for the 
f'urveying and collecting of which duties, a great number 
of out-door officers are employed in different diltricts or 
divifions, throughout the kingdom, to prevent frauds and 
Ioffes. Before thefe commiffioners all cafes of feizure for 
frauds committed in the feveral branches of the revenue 
under their direction, are tried ; and from their determi¬ 
nation there is no appeal except to the commiffioners of 
appeal, who are part of themfelves, for a re-hearing. 
Where this building now Hands—where bufy hands re¬ 
ceive from reluftant ones a premium upon their purchafes 
or the refult of their induftry, which however is no more 
than a fair compenfation for the fecurity and other com¬ 
forts which we all enjoy under a folid and well-fupported 
government—where now the found of money or the magic 
value of filent paper calls the attention of fo many clerks 
—ten peaceful alms-houfes once contained the poor, who, 
in their grateful orifons, might thank Providence for the 
benevolentdifpofition of fir Thomas Grefliam, who founded 
them in 1575. 
On the weft fide of Broad-ftreet is the pariflv-churcb of 
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St. Petcr-le-Poor. This church is of very ancient foun¬ 
dation, as appears from a regifler of it fo far back as the 
year 1181. It was dedicated to St. Peter the Apollle, 
and is diftinguifhed from other churches of that name by 
the additional epithet of Le Poor, which Stow' conjeClures 
was given to it from the ancient ftate of the parilh, though, 
in his time, there were many fair houfes in it, polfefled by 
rich merchants and others. The old church projected a 
confiderable diftance beyond the line of the houfes, and 
was a great obftruCtion to the pafl'age of the ftreet; in con- 
fequence of which, an aCt of parliament was pafled, in, 
1788, for taking it down and rebuilding it further back, 
taking in the fite of a court behind. This delirable ob¬ 
ject was completed in 1791, at an expenfe of upwards of 
four thoufand pounds, of which the city of London fub- 
(cribed four hundred ; the remainder was railed by an¬ 
nuities in the parifh. The weft end of this new church 
is elegantly Ample; the door is in the centre, between 
doubled Ionic columns; the ends of the front are adorned 
with pilafters of the fame order, between which and the co¬ 
lumns is a blank window on each fide. Above the door 
is a moulded pediment, with a plain tympanum ; over which 
riles a fquare tower, in two ftories; the firft plain, for the 
clock and bells, the fecond ornamented with double Co¬ 
rinthian pi 1 alters at the corners, on each of which Hands 
a handfome vafe. The whole is furmounted with an ele¬ 
gant bell (haped dome, terminated by a weathercock. It 
is a reClory, the advowlon of which appears to have been 
always in the dean and chapter of St. Paul’s. 
The hermits of the order of St. Augultine, by corrup¬ 
tion or abbreviation Aultin, who was bifhop of Hippo in 
Africa, had a convent built for them by Humphry Bohun, 
earl of Hereford and Efl'ex, a little to the welt of this 
church. Edward VI. in the fourth year of his reign, 
granted all the church, except the choir and Iteeple, to a 
congregation of Germans, and other. Hrangers, who fled 
here for the fake of religion, and ordered it to be called 
The Temple of the Lord Jefus. Several fucceffive princes 
have confirmed it to the Dutch, by whom it is Hill ufed 
as a place of worfhip. It is a large and fpacious Gothic 
edifice, fupported by two rows of Hone pillars. At the 
eaft end are feveral Heps, leading to a large platform, on 
which is placed a long table, with feats againft the wall, 
and forms round, for the ufe of perfons receiving the holy 
communion; the windows, on one fide, have the words 
Jefus' Temple painted on them, in feveral places. At the 
welt end is a library, that contains feveral valuable ma- 
nuferipts; among which are the letters of Calvin, Peter 
Martyr, and other foreign reformers. This place of wor- 
(liip, which is now called “the Dutch Church in Aultin 
Friars,” is ferved by two miniflers, who preach twice every 
Sunday, and once in the week. They adminiHer the ia- 
crament on the lalt Sunday in every month ; and exchange 
churches every firft Sunday in the month with the Wal¬ 
loon congregation, for the adminifiration of the Eucha- 
rilf; their own church in Threadneedle-Hreet being too 
fmall. The minifiers have good falaries, and the church 
provides a fufficient fubfiftence for their widows. 
Part of the houfe, gardens, and cloifters, belonging to 
this priory, were granted to fir William Paulet, lord-trea- 
furer to Henry VIII. who erected a Hately edifice on the fite, 
which afterwards devolved to his fon, the marquis of Win- 
chefter, with the choir and Heepleof the conventual church : 
he difpofed of the pavement thereof, with all the magnificent 
fepulchral monuments of the nobility, for the pitiful fum 
of one hundred pounds; he alfo Hripped the roof of the 
lead, and converted the building into a Hable. The re¬ 
mains of the manfion-houf'e are Hill to be feen in the old 
Pay-office, at the corner of WincheHer-Hreet, now con¬ 
verted into dwelling and counting-houfes for merchants. 
—Winchdler-Hreet was built on the ground of the gar¬ 
dens, and contains feveral houfes worthy of the notice of 
the antiquary, particularly that in the fouth-weft angle, 
which is fuppol'ed to be the one alluded to by Strype, 
4 whea 
