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Greek names) is called the Pantherion, From wav, all, and 
S«pa, a wild bead. Tlie arrangement of this place is on 
a plan entirety novel, intended to difplay the whole of 
the known quadrupeds in a manner that will convey a 
more perfeft idea of their haunts and mode of life than 
has hitherto been done, keeping them at the fame time 
in their claffical arrangement, and preferving them from 
the injury of duff and air. It occupies an extenfive apart¬ 
ment, nearly forty feet high, erected for the purpofe. 
The vifitor is introduced through abafaltic cavern (of the 
fame kind as the Giants’ Caufeway, or Fingall’s Cave, in 
the Ille of Staffa) into an Indian hut, fituated in a tro¬ 
pical foreft, in which are difplayed moll of the quadrupeds 
defcribed by naturalills ; with correft models from nature, 
or the bell authorities, of the trees and other vegetable 
productions of the torrid climes, remarkable for the rich- 
nefs or beauty of their fruit, or the Angularity of their 
foliage ; the whole affifted by an appropriate panoramic 
effeft of diftance, which makes the illufion produced fo 
Itrong, that the furprifed vifitor finds himfelf fuddenly 
tranfported from a crowded metropolis to the depth of an 
Indian foreft, every part of which is occupied by its va¬ 
rious favage inhabitants. 
From thefe we turn to the polifhed inhabitants of Jermyn- 
flreet, who, though directly behind St. James’s church, do 
not feem to profit much by the excellent principles deli¬ 
vered from that pulpit, as they ftill harbour difgraceful 
nelts of gamblers, and tolerate thefe houfes where feveral 
of our young nobility ruin themlelves in the genteeleft 
and moft elegant manner. 
At the end of Piccadilly, on the fouth fide of the road 
leading to Kenfington, hands St. George’s Hofpital. This 
Undertaking was fet on foot, in the year 1733, bv fome 
gentlemen who had been concerned in a charity of fimilar 
defeription in Chapcl-ftreet, Weftminfter. But, the houfe 
In which that inftitution had been carried on being old 
and ruinous, it was found neceffary to remove; when a 
confiderable number, but not the majority, gave the pre¬ 
ference to this building, which had been the refidence 
®f lord Lanefborough, who died there in 1724, but was 
then vacant. Having determined upon this fpot, and 
being fupported by the medical department, the minority 
feparated from the old inftitution, and folicited fubferip- 
tions for their new cftablilhinent, with fuch zeal, that in 
lefs than three months the wings were built, and in a con¬ 
dition to receive patients. This hofpital enjoys a fine 
fituation, and has all the benefit of a clear and pure air. 
It is a very neat building, and, though extremely plain, 
yet is not devoid of elegance. It has two fmall wings, 
and a large front, with only one door, which is in the 
middle, and to which there is an afeent by a few lteps. 
On the top of this part of the building is a pediment railed 
above the reft of the edifice; and under this ornament is 
a ftone with an infcription, exprefiing the noble ufe to 
which this ftrlifture is applied. 
Returning through Piccadilly on the north fide, we pafs 
many elegant houfes of the nobility, and come again oppo- 
lite to St. James’s church, where we find the Albany, which 
extends backward to Burlington Gardens, a Itreet fo 
called from the north wall of the gardens of Burlington-houfe 
forming one fide of it. The front of the Albany, in Picca¬ 
dilly, is formed by two handfome buildings, between which 
isapalfageinto the court-yard of Melbourne-houfe, late the 
refidence of the duke of York, from whofe fecond title its 
name is derived. It is now converted into an hotel; and 
in the gardens behind are two rows of convenient cham¬ 
bers, or, a plan nearly refembling thofe of the inns of court; 
to which there are entrances at each end. Between thefe 
ranges of buildings is a long paved palfage, covered by a 
roof, fupported on fmall pillars; and the entrance to each 
door is ftieltered from the weather in a fimilar manner. 
This leads to Saville-row. 
St. Martin, as we are told in the legend, divided his 
mantle in two, gave a part to a naked beggar, and kept 
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the other for himfelf; a moll excellent infeance of charity 
and difintereltednefs, which, whether founded upon faft 
or not, may, like other apocrypha , be read “ for example of 
life and inliruftion of manners.” The church of St. Mar¬ 
tin in the Fields has divided its mantle, or parilh, among 
many others; and St. Anne’s was feparated from it, as 
well as St. James’s. This fort of extra-feetation took place 
in the year 1661 ; previous to which, a piece of ground 
was laid out, under the authority of the bilhop of Lon¬ 
don, in Kemp’s field, now King-ftreer, for the fite of a 
church and church yard, and alfo for a glebe for the fupport 
of a reftor. But, the inhabitants not being empowered by 
this aft to raife money foraccomplilhing their purpofe, the 
building of thechurch waslong interrupted ; at length a le- 
cond aft was obtained to enable them to raife the fum of five 
thoufand pounds,forthe completion ofthe church, reftory- 
houfe, &c. and on the 25th of March, 1685, the church 
and cemetery were confecrated by the bilhop of London, 
The walls of this church are of brick, with ruftic quoins 
of ftone, and at the eaft end is a large modillion-cornice 
and triangular pediment. This church has been lately 
repaired, and a handfome painted-glafs window has been 
put up at the eaft end. The tower and lleeple at the weft: 
end were alfo rebuilt at the fame time. The interior of 
the building is handfome: the roof is arched, and divided 
into pannels; it is fupported by columns of the Ionic or¬ 
der; and the gallery is raifed on thofe of the Tufcan or¬ 
der. The organ is the gift of king William. The parifh 
is a rectory, in the gift of the bilhop of London. 
Againft the tower is a tablet erefted to the memory of 
Theodore-Anthony NewhofF, king of Corfica, who died in 
this parilh in the year 1756, foon after his liberation from 
the King’s Bench prifon by an aft of infolvency. The 
malice of fortune purftied this unfortunate man even aftea 
death. The friend, who iheltered him in the laft days of 
his wretched exiftence, was himfelf fo poor as to be unable 
to defray the coft of his funeral; and his remains were 
about to be configned to the grave by the parilh, when 
Mr. Wright, an oilman, in Compton-ftreet, declared that 
h t,for once, would pay the funeral expenfes. of a king; which 
heaftually did. The marble was erefted, and the epitaph, 
written by Horace Walpole. It is as follows.: 
The grave, great teacher, to a level brings 
Heroes and beggars, galley-llaves and kings. 
But Theodore this moral learn’d ere dead ; 
Fate pour’d its lelfons on his living head, V 
Bellow’d a kingdom, and denied him bread. Jt 
We cannot help obferving here the prepofterous idea,, 
that Theodore learned the moral, hinted in the two firft 
lines ,beforeke was dead. Surety weare not toexpeft any fuch 
learning when cold and deaf in the grave, which, if a teacher, 
mujl give its lelfons to the living. This epigrammatical epi¬ 
taph is altogether unworthy of the witty and learned author,, 
who moft likely produced it as an extempore effulion of his 
fenfibility, without intending to have it recorded. 
In the parilh of St. Anne we find Soho-fquare, which 
was built in the reign of Charles II. It is of confiderable 
extent, with a garden in the middle, enclofed with iron, 
rails. In the centre is a ftatue of Charles II. Handing 
upon a pedeltal, placed in the midft of a fmall bafon; a~t 
his feet lie the representations of the four principal rivers, 
the Thames, the Trent, the Humber, and the Severn. 
This fquare was originally called Monmouth-fquare, in 
honour of the duke of Monmouth, whofe manlion ftood 
on the fouth fide of it. This houfe afterwards came into 
the polfelfion of lord Bateman, by whom it was pulled 
down, and the fite of it and the gardens covered with a 
number of dwelling-houfes. The name of the fquare was 
probably altered to King’s fquare after the downfal of the 
duke; which Mr. Pennant, upon the authority of Samuel 
Pegge, efq. fays was changed to Soho by the admirers of. 
that unfortunate man, that being the word of the day at 
the battle of Sedgemoor.—On the eaft fide of Soho-fquare,. 
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