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in Johnfon, foreign philology in Jones, and the pleating 
and bewitching art of painting in Reynolds—thefe daugh¬ 
ters of heaven, thefe comforters of inan, have obtained, 
by due right of precedence, the firft, the central, the moft 
auguft, place in this national edifice ; a difcernment in 
choice which ought to be properly felt by all, and which 
reflefts unprecedented honour upon the feelings of thofe 
who preconceived this admirable difpofition. This happy 
thought had not been yet made obvious to the public 
mind ; and we are proud to think that our readers will 
find it clearly explained and juftly praifed, for the firft time, 
in our work. Every one will be delighted to know that 
a regular fyftem has been adopted for the placing of the 
monuments ; and that they are not to be jumbled toge¬ 
ther, but difpofed according to the directions of fenfible 
minds. 
Another fquare is laid out, to the north of Ruflel- 
fquare, which is called Tavil'cock-fquare. The area is 
inclofed and planted, and the ealt fide of it is formed by 
the continuation of Southampton-row; but the other 
three tides are fcarcely begun.—Taviftock Place enters 
the fquare at the top of Southampton-row. Here is an 
elegant chapel lately built on ground belonging to the 
Foundling Hofpital, and within the precincts of the parifli 
of St. Pancras; whence it is properly one of the chapels- 
of-eafe to that extenfive and now very-populous parifh. 
The rapid and extraordinary increafe in the population of 
this parochial diltrict, may be adduced as one of the An¬ 
gular features of modern London. All the lioufes and 
ltreets which are now' the ornament of that part of the 
metropolis have been built within thefe fifteen years, but 
are not all inhabited ; indeed, fpeculations have ruined 
many of the builders in this as in feveral other parts of 
this immenle town. 
Yet (till they go on.—To the north of Taviftock-fquare, 
an area of about twenty acres is propofed to be furrounded 
with buildings; the centre to he occupied and drelfed as 
nurfery-grounds; the Paddington-road running between 
them. This is to be called Eufton-fquare, of which the 
north fide is nearly completed in a very elegant ftyle ; and 
it is faid that direftly northward, from the centre of this 
large area, a wide grand road is to lead to the Hantpftead- 
road at Camden Town ; the tides to be planted with dou¬ 
ble rows of trees, and the lioufes to be coupled or de¬ 
tached, allowing abundant ipace to each for refpeCtable 
inhabitants. 
Coming back to Bloomfbury, we find, in Hart-ftreet, the 
church of St. George. It is one of the fifty churches ap¬ 
pointed to be built by ait of parliament within the bills 
of mortality. The name of St. George was given to it in 
honour of his late majefty ; and it received the additional 
epithet of Bloomfbury, from its fituation in the ancient 
village of Lomefbury, corruptly called Bloomfbury, to 
diftinguifh it from others of the fame name. It is like- 
wife farther diftinguilhed by Handing north and fouth. 
Mr. Walpole calls this building a malter-piece of abfur- 
dity. The portico on the fouth fide is of the Corinthian 
order, and makes a very good figure in the ftreet, but has 
no affinity with the church, which is plain and heavy, 
and might have correfponded with a Tufcan portico. 
The tower and fteeple on the weft fide is a very extraor¬ 
dinary ftructure : on the top, Handing on a round pedef- 
tal or altar, is a coloffal Hatue of George I. fupported by 
a fquare pyramid; at the corners of which, near the bafe, 
are a lion and unicorn, alternately, thefirH with his heels 
in the air; and between them are feHoons: thefe animals, 
being very large, are injudicioufly placed over very fmall 
columns, which appear hardly lirong enough to fupport 
them. The under part of the toweris notlefs heavy than the 
church. This church was erected atthe public expenfe, and 
confecrated in January 1731. A diftrict, for its parifli was, 
by authority of parliament, taken out of that of St. Giles ; 
and the Cum of three thoufand pounds was given towards 
the fupport of its reffor, to which one thoufand two hun¬ 
dred and fifty pounds being added, by the inhabitants of 
St. Gilts’s parifli, both Anns were ordered to be laid out 
D O N. 
in the purchafe of lands, tenements, &c. In fee Ample, as 
a perpetual fund for the maintenance of the redtor and 
his fucceflors; but the poor of this parifli and that of St. 
Giles in the Fields are to be maintained by the joint af- 
feflment of both pariflies, in the fame manner as before 
their being divided. This church is a rectory, in the 
gift of the crown, but cannot be held in commendam ; and 
all licenfes to that effedtare made void by the adt of par¬ 
liament for feparating this parifh from St. Giles’s. 
Coming down Southampton-Areet, from which, turning 
round, the perambulatorhas an excellent view, at adiflance, 
of the duke of Bedford’s flatue, we follow Holborn, that 
noble ftreet, which unfortunately has hardly any thing be¬ 
tide* its length and its breadth to recommend it.—Between 
Bloomfbury-fquare and Red-lion-ftreet, we find Red-lion- 
iquare, a fmall area, particularly inhabited by families of 
middling income and limbs of the law. Although the 
buildings are moftly uniform and neat, with a fhrubbery 
furrounded with railing in the middle ; although there is 
no lack of bufy paflengers pacing the tides of the fquare; 
yet we find, without knowing well why, that this place 
has an indelible melancholy look ; and North-ftreet, par¬ 
ticularly, feerns fo filently dull, fo quietly difmal, that the 
idea of becoming an inhabitant of it would bs enough to 
create the moft incurable vapours. 
North of this is Queen-fquare ; it is of an oblong form, 
and contains about four acres. It is built only on three 
tides, the north fide having been formerly open, which 
not only rendered the fquare very airy and pleafant, but 
alfo admitted a beautiful landfcape, terminated by tha 
hills of Highgate and Hampftead. Of late years, how¬ 
ever, this view has been intercepted by the houfes in 
Guildford-ftreet, which is built acrofs the north end of 
the 'fquare. The houfes on the eaft and weft tides are 
very handfome ; the area is laid out in grafs-plats, fhrub- 
beries, and gravel-walks, and is enclofed with iron rails; 
and at the north end is a flatue of her prefent majefty. 
The origin of the parifh of St. George, Queen-fquare, 
like that'of many others round the metropolis, is to be at¬ 
tributed to the increafe of buildings. Several gentlemen 
at the extremity of the parifh of St. Andrew, Holborn, 
having propofed the erecting of a chapel for religious 
worfliip, fir Streynfham Mafters, and fourteen others, were 
appointed truflees for the management of this affair. 
Thefe gentlemen, in the year 1705, agreed with Mr. Too- 
ley to give him three thoufand five hundred pounds for 
erecting a chapel and two houfes, on the fouth fide of 
Queen-fquare, intending to reiinburfe themfelves by the 
the fale of the pews; and, this edifice being finifhed the 
next year, they fettled annual ftipends for the maintenance 
of a chaplain, an afternoon-preacher, who was alfo reader, 
and a clerk. But the commiflioners for erecting the fifty 
new churches, refolving to make this one of the number, 
purchafed it of the proprietors, caufed a certain diftridt 
to be appointed for its parifli, and had it confecrated in the 
year 1113, when it was dedicated to St. George, in com¬ 
pliment to fir Streynfham Mafters, who had been governor 
of Fort St. George, in the Eaft Indies. This church is a 
very plain brick building, void of all elegance both within 
and without; it is however convenient and well lighted. 
The redlory, like that of St. Andrew’s, is in the gift of the 
Montague family. 
The improvements which have been made of late years 
in this northern diftridt of the town are fo confiderable, 
that a man who has been abfent fince the commence¬ 
ment of the war in 1793, vainly looks out for fields, 
cricket-grounds, and nurleries, where however nothing 
but handlome ftreets interledting each.others at right an¬ 
gles can now be found.—Indeed Greenland-place, and 
the Bowling-green adjoining to it, which could not be 
reached from town but by crofting extended and graft/ 
meadows, and where, a book in one hand and a glaf's of 
fparking beer in the other, we have enjoyed many even¬ 
ing hours of reft and pleafure, are now furrounded by ele¬ 
gant houfes and rows of edifices which would grace any 
metropolis in Europe. 
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