1807.] 
os the Long+ficlds, have beén erected. 
Ruffell-fquare is cdnfiderably largér than 
any other in London, Lincoln’s Inn-felds 
excepted. Its dimentions nearly (for it 
is not perfecily at right angles, in. confe- 
quence of the alteration of the plan al- 
ready mentioned,) are 678 feet on each 
ide. Bolton-houfe, occupied in 1803 
by the late Earl Rofslyn, has recently 
been divided imto two, and its court- 
yard covered by three excellent houfes, 
which completes the eaftern lide of the 
{quare. 
Much pains have been ufed, and ex- 
penfe incurred, in laying out and plant+ 
ing the area of this fquare ; which, when 
the trees and plants fhall have arrived at 
a greater degree of maturity, will render 
it one of the moft agreeable in London. 
On the fouth fide, immediately oppofite 
Bedtord-place, a pedefirian fiatue in 
bronze of the late excellent Duke Fran- 
cis, is to be fet up by Mr. Weltmacot, by 
public fubfcription, and will much add 
to the beauty of thts place. 
‘To the northward,’ 'Taviftock-fquare 35 
commenced, aud by an early attention 
to the incleling and plantmg its area be- 
fore the ercétion of the habitations, it 
has become at once pleafant, healthy, 
and defirable. ; 
To the caftward of the Foundling-hof 
pital a {quare is begun, of the fame di- 
menfions as Brunfwick-fquare. North- 
ward of the hoipital garden is the eftate 
of Mr. Harrifon, where a_refpedtable 
neighbourhood is rapidly forming; and 
nearly adjoiming, is a large field belong- 
ing to the Skinners’ Company, for which 
extenfive building-plans have been pro- 
jected, but through fome extraordinary 
inadvcftence, no agreement has been 
effecied, to infure refpectable accefles 
either -by the’ fouth, eaft, or wettern 
fides. 
The eftate formerly belonging to Mr. 
Mortimer, at the north end of Gower- 
ftreet, after many. years’ litigation, has 
now become the property of Sir William 
Paxton, who propofes tq put up exten- 
five and refpe¢table buildings on it, aud 
to continue Gower-ftreet to the road. 
To the northward of Taviftock-fquare, 
an area of abeut twenty acres is propofed 
to be furrounded with buildings; the 
centre to be occupied and drefied as 
nurfery-grounds; the Paddington road 
running between them. Directly north- 
ward, from the centre of this large area, 
a wide grand road is to lead to the 
Hampftead road at Camden Town,; the 
fdes.to he planted with double rows of 
Monxtury Mac, No. 163, 
Recent Inprovements in the Metropoirs, as 
trees, did the houfes to be coupled or. 
detached, alléwing abundant fpace to 
each for refpectable inhabitants. 
Tt is worthy of remark, that a line 
drawn from the obelifk in St. George’s- 
fields to the Hampftead road, will dire¢t- 
ly pafs to the eaftward of Sometfet-place 
in the Strand, by Bloomfbury; through 
Ruffell and Taviftock-{quares; and the 
above grand avenue; and, at 3 compa- 
ratively fimall expenfe, form a noble ftreet 
of communication of more than three 
miles in extent ; dividing the metropolis 
north andfouth, almoft centrally. 
The new bridge (fo injudicioufly ins 
tended to be built acrofs the Thames 
oppotite Beaufort-buildings), without the 
poiiibility of any confiderable northern 
outlet, fhould undoubtedly be placed in 
this line; the eaftern wing of Somerfete 
place completed, and a, correfpondent 
range of buildings at the back of Surry 
fireet erected, with a fpacious fireet bes 
tween, at leait eighty feet wide, forming 
‘the accels from the Strand, and leading 
direct to the propofed grand ftreet; 
The road from the bridge to the obe« 
_ditk would be through property that mug 
be moft materially increafed in value by 
the operation; and if the prices which 
building-cround has produced to. the cor- 
poration -of London, at their improves 
ments by Snow-hil. and Temple-bar, be 
a criterion, the making fo grand a ftreet 
as is here projected, would prove an 
undertaking of very confiderable profit to 
-any indiyiduals who, fanétioned by. the 
legiflature, might undertake it ; the great. 
er proportion of the fpace between that 
part of Holborn and the Strand being at 
prefent chiefly occupied as sheds or tene= 
ments of the moft. miferable quality. 
Lhe new ftreet would allow of houfes of 
the molt refpeétable clafs, public or pri- 
vate, and confequently the ground mutt 
-he proportionably valuable. It fhould 
alfo be at leaft eighty feet wide ; ninety 
or one hundred would be better; and 
its arrangement of houfes, elevation, 
charaéter, &c. ought all to be new and 
ftiriking. The dwellings. fhould afford 
fullicient fpace for trade, but not to over- 
whelm the tradefmen with rent; and pri-, 
vate individuals, or profeffional men, 
dhould therein find accommodations. | . 
To return to the new buildings by 
Bloomfbury.—The corporation of the 
city of London, on its eftate between 
Gower-itreet and Tottenham Court=road, 
is caufing a fireet, with a crefcent at 
each end, to be erected, and a long 
range of thong next the road; the whole 
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