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than it,ooo perfons have been affembled in thefe gardens 
at once; and of thefe, not lefs than 7000 were accommo¬ 
dated with provifions and refrefhments. 
Befides the covered walks, all paved w r ith compolition, 
almoft all the pavilions have colonnades in front, feven 
feet broad, which effectually flielter them from rain; and 
there is a handfome waiting-room, thirty feet by twenty, 
near the coach-entrance into the gardens. 
About the end of the feventeenth century, a manufac¬ 
ture of plate-glafs was eftablilhed at Vauxhall, under the 
patronage of the duke of Buckingham; the principal ar- 
tilt was Rofletti. It was parried on with great fuccefs, 
and the glafs was thought to excel that made at Venice. 
The importation of foreign timber, which for many years 
has formed a contiderable and important branch of our 
commerce, has been a fource of wealth to this parifli, 
where are feveral wharfs for that trade, fupplied with 
ftores which are almolt incredible. At Vauxhall are fome 
very large diltilleries, and feveral potteries; the manufac¬ 
ture of ltone and earthenware pots is laid to have been lirlt 
introduced here from Holland. 
Cuper’s Gardens were, in 1636, the gardens of the man- 
lion of Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel. The premifes 
were afterwards rented by one Cuper, who had been the 
earl’s gardener, and from him they obtained their name. 
About the middle of the halt century, they were much re- 
forted to as a place of public entertainment, where mulic, 
fireworks, See. were exhibited. Here were feveral ftatues, 
and other remains of Greek and Roman antiquities, part 
of the famous collection of the earl of Arundel, which, 
being mutilated and defaced, were not thought good 
enough to be prefented to the univerlityof Oxford, and 
put among the Marmora Arundeliana. Part of thefe were 
afterwards removed to Chifwick-houfe, by the earl of Bur¬ 
lington. On the (iteof thefe gardens were ereCted Melfrs. 
Beaufoy's extenfive vinegar-works. Mr. Pennant, who 
went over the premifes, mentions a veffel full of fweet 
■wine, containing 58,109 gallons, and another full of vi¬ 
negar containing 56,799 gallons; belides thefe enormous 
veffels, there are feveral others which contain from 32,500 
to 16,974 gallons each. At this place a bridge is building, 
vfhich will terminate near Somerfet-houle in the Strand: 
the firft Hone was laid Oct. 11, 1811. 
In the year 1769, Mrs. Coade eftablifiied in this parifli, 
near Weftmitifter-bridge, a manufacture of artificial ftone, 
•which is call in moulds and burnt. It is intended to an- 
fwer the purpofe of ftone, for every fpecies of ornamental 
architecture, at a much cheaper rate than carved ftone. 
Where it has been placed in expofed lituations, it has 
been found to endure the froft. 
Melfrs. Watts have lately eftablilhed a manufacture of 
patent-fhot in this parifh. Th.e principle of making this 
Ihot is, to let it fall from a great height into the water, 
that it may cool and harden in its paffage through the air, 
and thereby better retain its fpherical lhape. The height 
erf the tower at this manufactory is about 140 feet; the 
ihot falls 123 feet 6 inches. About the fame time Melfrs. 
Bolton, Morgans, and Co. eftablilhed a manufactory here 
.under the title of the Woollen-yarn Company; every 
.branch of the clothing-manufaCture, from forting the 
wool to making the cloth, was carried on entirely by ma¬ 
chinery; but the undertaking was foon given up. 
About a century ago, there was a place of entertain¬ 
ment called Lambeth Wells, fituated in what is now 
called Lambeth Walk. A riding-fehool, for the exhibi¬ 
tion of feats of horfemanfhip, was opened in this parilh 
about the year 1768, by Mr. Philip Aftley. At firft it 
was an open area5 in 1780 it was converted into a cover¬ 
ed amphitheatre, and divided into boxes, pit, and gallery. 
It lias been twice burnt down. 
South Lambeth, between Vauxhall and Stockwell, is a 
pleafant and populous village, extending three quarters of 
a mile fouthward from Vauxhall turnpike into the Clap- 
ham road; and fo long ago as the year 1600 was thought 
Co agreeable a fituation, by fir Noel Caron, (who was for 
jshirty-three years ambaflador to this country from the 
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United Provinces,) that heereCted herea handfome manlion 
with two wings. On the front was written, Omne/olum 
forti patria. What remains of it is an academy, called Ca¬ 
ron Houfe; and on a fpot, which was part of his park, is 
the handfome villa of fir Charles Blicke. Oppofite to this 
is a new chapel of eale, built by a fubfeription of the in¬ 
habitants. 
Stockwell is alfo a village in the parilh of Lambeth. 
Here is a neat chapel of eale, to which arcbbilhop Seeker 
contributed five hundred pounds. On the fite of the an¬ 
cient manor-houfe, a handlome villa was ereCted by the 
late Bryant Barret, efq. one of the proprietors of Vaux¬ 
hall Gardens, and is now occupied by his widow. Part 
of the ancient offices are ftill Handing; but Mr. Lyfons 
fays, that the tradition of its having been the property of 
Thomas Cromwell, earl of Efl'ex, is without foundation, 
as, in bis time, it belonged to fir John Leigh, the younger. 
The manor anciently bore the name of South Lambeth, 
when it probably comprehended Stockwell, South Lam¬ 
beth, and Vauxhall. Between thirty and forty years ago, 
Stockwell was famous for a Angular impofition upon the 
human underftanding, praCtifsd in the houfe of a Mrs. 
Golding, which was reported to be haunted. Multitudes 
of people of all ranks went to witnefs the tricks of “the 
ghoft," who caufed the furniture to dance about the room 
in a furprifing manner. The author of this impofture was 
never detected; but fome years ago, after the death of 
Mrs. Golding and her daughter, there was an auction on 
the premifes, when the dancing furniture was fold at very 
extravagant prices. 
In this parifli is alfo the manor of Khnnington, which 
fee, vol. xi. p. 669. 
As a concluding remark upon Lambeth, it may be ob- 
ferved, that Cuper’s Gardens, the Apollo Gardens, the 
Dog and Duck, the Temple of Flora, the Perpetual Oven, 
the Thatched Houfe, as well as the Bear-Gardens, and 
other places in this neighbourhood, formerly the refort of 
the gay and the vicious, are now fcarcely remembered j 
and the Philanthropic Reform, the Free-Mafon’s Charity- 
School, the Magdalen, the School for the Indigent Blind, 
the Surrey Inftitution, the intended Hofpital for Lunatics, 
the Afylum for Female Orphans, the School for the Deaf 
and Dumb, and the Widows’ Alms-houfes, near Hang¬ 
man’s Acre, may now be reckoned among the more ule- 
ful and recent erections. The alms-houfes have been, 
within thefe few weeks, opened for the ufe of twenty- 
four aged widows; aiid a difcourfe delivered on the occa- 
fion to near three thouland perfons,by the Rev. Rowland 
Hill, in the open air. Monthly Mag. Britijh Directory. Am r 
bulator. Lambert's Hiji. of London. 
LAM'BIN (Dennis), an eminent critic, was born in 
1516 at Montreuil-fur-mer. He applied with great affi- 
duitytothe ftudy of the belles-lettres, of which he became 
a profeffor at Amiens. He refided long in Italy with the 
cardinal de Tournon, and upon his return to Paris ob¬ 
tained the Greek profeflorfhip in the royal college. This 
poft he occupied till his death, in 1572, which was owing 
to the fliock he received from the news of the murder of 
his friend Ramus in the mafiacre of St.Bartholomew. Lam- 
bin acquired a great name among the learned by his com¬ 
mentaries on Lucretius, Cicero, Plautus, and Horace; of 
which the latter have obtained moft applaufe. Mr. Wake¬ 
field, in the preface to his edition of Lucretius, fpeaks of 
Lambinus as having merited well of this author; but, at 
the fame time, he affirms that he knows no critic who has 
with fo much temerity vitiated the text of a writer by in¬ 
ferring his own conjectural readings, in defiance of the au¬ 
thority of all the manuferipts. A fimilar character has been 
given of his corrections of Cicero. He was, however, a 
man of profound erudition, and great induftry. He tranf- 
lated from Greek into Latin the Ethics and Politics of 
Ariftotle, and various orations of Demofthenes and Ait- 
chines. By his wife, of the family of the Urfini, he had a 
fon, who was alfo a man of learning, and preceptor to 
Arnauld d’Andilly. Moreri. 
LAM'BING,y.' The act of bringing forth lambs. 
E e LAMBI'TIOM, 
