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arion to, and eemmnmcation with, the New Cut from the 
church to the Bricklayers’Arms. This noble road, com- 
fnunicating with the Surry Road, connects alfo the cities 
of London diid Weftminlter with Southwark and the ad* 
jacent places. 
The number of little preaching and finging houfes in 
this neighbourhood is altonilhing.—In one of the fmall 
ftreets near Mint-fquare is a fort of ground-floor, where 
in the courfe of the week rufty iron, bug-haunted bed- 
ftead*, broken-winded bellows, deformed Ibovels, limp¬ 
ing tongs, and incurably-crooked pokers, are expofed to 
fale; but on Sunday all this trumpery difappears, a blanket 
is fpread before the door, and a congregation liften molt 
devoutly to the licenfed nonfenfe of a man who fcems to 
have forgotten, if he ever knew it, the ancient adage! Ne 
Jutor ultra crcpidam ; “ Let the cobler ltick to his la ft.”— 
On the fouth of Lant-dreet, at the entrance of John-ftreet, 
was ereCted, in 1811, Sion Chapel, a neat building, and 
now pretty-well attended. Oiiginally, the walls rel'ound- 
«d only with the timid voices of a riling and modelt con¬ 
gregation ; but now an organ has been introduced; te¬ 
nors, bafes, and fopranos, of both fexes, unite in metha- 
Heal , or rather methodijlical, harmony, and gladden the 
neighbours with their evening melody. However, reli¬ 
gious concerns, like others, have their ups and downs ; 
for we remarked at each entrance a modeft mahogany box 
with this inlcription : “ Contributions are received here 
for liquidating the debts of this chapel.”—Farther on, in 
a narrow and hitherto-namelefs ftreet, leading from Great 
Suffolk-ftreet to Stones End, and at the foot of the fo- 
lemn and grim-looking walls of the Bench, is another 
place of worfhip : but here the fuccefs has been fmall; 
for the poor preacher fpends his time and lungs on an 
empty houfe or to a fleeping auditory.—The belt-attended 
chapel in this quarter, is the Wellh one in Little Guil- 
ford-ftreet. This was erected about feven years ago, and 
continues flourilliing and increaling. Thole who are not 
acquainted with the Celtic liturgy are altonilhed at the 
tones which the preacher aflumes in the pulpit: fometirnes 
it is a monotonous and rapid delivery of words upon 
the fame key, touching at times the fifth above, or graz¬ 
ing lightly upon the fourth below ; fometirnes getting 
into a lively mood, in the fame way as an aria feems to 
ilfue out of a recitativo ; at other times the thumping of 
the Bible, and the wiping of his oozing forehead, fets by 
degrees the whole congregation a-groaning, and fighing, 
and fobbing, till at laft they difperle. 
At the end of Blackman-ftreet, and where the road 
branches on one fide towards Newington, and on the 
other towards the Obelilk, is the King’s-Bench prifon. 
It is a place of confinement for debtors ; and for thofe 
fentenced by the court of King’s-Bench to fuffer impri- 
fonment for libels and other mildemeanors j but thofe 
who can purchafe the libertiet have the benefit of walking 
through a part of the Borough, and in St. George’s Fields. 
This prifon is fituated in a fine air; but all profpeCt of 
the fields, even from the uppermoft windows, is excluded 
by the height of the walls with which it is furrounded. 
It has a neat chapel; and only one bed in each roon» ; 
but thefe rooms are extremely fmall; they are all exactly 
alike, and none above nine feet in length. It is a very 
extenfive brick building, outfide of which the marlhal, 
who has the keeping of this gaol, has very- handfome 
apartments. 
Nearly oppofite to this prifon, in Horfemonger-lane, is 
the New Gaol for the county of Surry. It is a mafiy 
brick building, furrounded with a Itrong wall ; and the 
place of execution is a temporary fcaffold erected on the 
top of the lodge on the north fide of it. The keeper’s 
houfe is a handfome building on the wed fide.—Annexed 
to it, and making part of the whole plan, is the feifions- 
houfe, where caul'es are tried for the county. 
. A little farther, towards the fields, is a delightful fpot, 
where a penfive mind may, in a lummcr-cvcning, indulge 
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an hour or two of delightful muffng and wholefome pro¬ 
menade. It is planted with poplars and willow-trees, fur¬ 
rounded and interfeCted by fmall canals of water, which 
fiiould always be kept pure and limpid ; but this fort of 
defideratum does not always meet the fatisfaCtion of the 
vifitors.-—The folitary walks breathe a fweet melancholy 
air that pervades the feeling mind ; and the gentle rip¬ 
pling of thewvater, united to the fofc ruffling of the leaves, 
a mules the fonl, and, when unhappy, foothes it into a 
welcome repofe. The place is well frequented in gene¬ 
ral, and reminds us of the lines of the poet: 
--;---There fee 
Tlie tall grey poplars nodding in the wind; 1 
A faithful image of my waving mind, 
When, with contending palfions daily toft, 
’Twixt hopes and fears, it feems oft to be lofts 
The trembling leaf to cv’ry breeze obey, 
And yields indiff’rent to the ltrongeft f'way. 
It is furrounded by a number of fmall private gardens, 
whole Ihrubs and flowers pay inccflantly their tribute of 
fweets to the ambient air. The place is called the Half¬ 
penny Hatch ; and the pallage through it (hortens the way 
confiderably from Stones End to the Greenwich Road. 
At the end of this road we find the Paragon, a neat cir¬ 
cle of houfes, faced by a thick row of beautiful Italian 
poplars ; and the Bricklayers’ Arms, mentioned at p. 51.— 
A little farther on the right we meet with the excellent elia- 
blifhment lately . appropriated for the Deaf and Dumb. 
See Plate VII 0. where this fitnple but elegant building is 
faithfully reprefented. It was with pleafure that, parting 
near the Obelilk in our furvey, we heard the blind exe¬ 
cuting pieces of inltrumental mu lie and military marches 
in the yard of their fchool; this appeared to us an ex¬ 
cellent plan ; that is, employing the blind in an art which 
requires keennefs and correcfnefs in the fenle of hearing. 
And it prefently llruck us that the art of drawing and 
painting fiiould be taught and learned at the Afyluni for 
the Deaf and Dumb. It has been obferved that the lofis 
of one of the five fenfes is generally compenfated by a fu- 
perior corrednefs in thofe which remain ; and that tha 
hearing and touch of the blind is more perfect, and, vice 
verfa, the fight of the dumb more keen, than in others. 
It would be therefore a wife fpeculation to profit by ths 
advantages which nature prefent s to us in thofe unfortu¬ 
nate individuals whom Providence has vifited with Inch 
privations.—The plan of this Afylum, however, does not 
extend to drawing. Writing and arithmetic are taught j 
and alfo /peaking, in the manner deferibed under Dumb¬ 
ness, vol. vi. p. 115. The prefent building was completed 
in the year 1809 ; and, fince that time, the old Alylum, 
in Fort Place, Bertnondfey, has been fitted up as a manu¬ 
factory, and proper mailers are engaged to infiruCt in ufe- 
ful trades Inch of the poor children as have no parents or 
friends to whom they can be returned with a profpeft of 
future maintenance. The trades at prefent feleded for 
this purpole are thofe of printers, tailors, and Ihoemakera. 
Many of the boys are now under this highly-ufeful in- 
ftruction ; and, as the feveral works are executed at the 
ufual prices, the humane and benevolent have here the 
opportunity of performing a very eflential aCl of charity, 
without a direCt contribution, by fending feme of their 
orders tothifc manufactory. 
At the bifurcation between the Borough Road and 
Newington Caufeway, are St. George's alms-houfes, and 
3 fchool l'upported by voluntary contribution.—This fmall 
mafs of houfes, fenced on one fide by a low wall, and 
adorned with an old fycamore-tree, is exceedingly pic- 
turefque, having on the right a diliant view of the Obe¬ 
lilk, 3nd on the left another nearly as far as the Elephant 
and Caltle.—One of the ornaments of Newington Caufe¬ 
way is the front of Hayward’s floor-cloth manufactory, exe¬ 
cuted in compofition or ftucco, with handfome pilalter* s 
and the inlcription raifed boldly on the ground.—On the 
right wc find, a large piece of ground commonly called 
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