red, containing about fourteen acres of uninterrupted space, without any road or way across it for carriages or horses, and part thereof, for a great many years past, has been covered with pens, &c. for the reception of cattle intended for the market, and is constantly used for that purpose three days in every week, viz. Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

"The field belonging to lord Northampton [vulgarly called the Spa Field, and forming a sort of lozenge, from Coppice Row to the path above the Merlin's Cave, north and south, and from Rosomon's Street to Black Mary's Hole, east and west] is coloured blue; the powers for erecting a market on this field are to be struck out of the bill.

"The roads along which most of the cattle for the supply of the London market are driven, unite at the Angel Inn, at Islington, which is the point where the new market is proposed to be situated, and two sides of its site are open to large spacious roads, affording ample room for avenues into and out of the market place, which is intended to be enclosed with a high wall, or otherwise, so as to screen it from the view of persons passing along the roads."

Other plans and suggestions besides the above were submitted to parliament, one of which proposed to have the market in the vicinity of Gray's Inn Lane; but they all proved abortive, and it was decided that the present site of Smithfield should be enlarged for the purposes of convenience; several obstructions have occurred to impede the improvement, and among others the proprietors of the adjoining estates have evinced a spirit of opposition. Thus, from selfish motives, one of the first and most eligible designs to induce a portion of health, as well as convenience, into this vast metropolis, is illiberally protracted.

We conclude this article by observing, that during the twelvemonths from July, 1809, to July, 1810, there have been killed in London:

P. 599, l. 16, instead of " the earl of Warwick and Holland," insert, "lord Kensington."

NEWGATE.

P. 614, l. 12, after "door," add,

"We have already given some account of the riots in London, and the destruction of this prison, in 1780. Another unhappy and melancholy event occurred on Monday, the 23d of February, 1807. The murder of Mr. Steele on Hounslow Heath, some years before, had such circumstances of peculiar atrocity and cruelty attached to it, that the public curiosity seemed particularly excited to behold the perpetrators expiate their crimes on the gallows; and the populace began to assemble in vast crouds from five till eight o'clock in the morning, so that when the criminals. made their appearance on their last stage, all the avenues to the different streets were completely blocked up. The extreme heat occasioned by the pressure of such a multitude in a confined atmosphere, induced faintings; those who fell, rose no more, but involved in the same misery others who were so unfortunate as to be near them. The effects of death and terror exhibited a dreadful scene, and as soon as the confusion had, in some degree, subsided, forty-two persons were conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, of whom twenty-seven were dead, and though every method was used for their restoration, they all failed.

"A horrid scene of affliction took place on Tuesday, by the sensations of persons who came in search of their relatives. In some cases they even claimed and took away bodies which did not belong to them, being deprived, as it were, of the powers of discrimination. The coroners inquest sat from Tuesday till Friday, and the result of their verdict was:

"That on Monday morning the several persons deceased had assembled in the Old Bailey, at the north-west end, near the west side thereof, and opposite Great Green Arbour Court. That many carts and carriages were placed across that part of the Old Bailey, by some persons unknown,

which considerably narrowed that entrance to the said street or place. That a vast number of people had also collected there, for the purpose of seeing the execution of criminals. which was to take place that morning. That the passage being narrowed in manner aforesaid, caused a considerable degree of confusion among those who were in the croud, and pressing to get forward to see the execution; in consequence of which several persons were compressed, trampled upon, and suffocated. That the deceased persons were among the number of those, who, thus suffering, died through compression, being trampled upon, and suffo

cation."

Then follows a list of thirty-two persons, men, women, and boys, who were victims on this occasion.

VOL. IV.

P. 21, last line, after "pretensions," add,

"It has been said that Salisbury Square, and its vicinity, form part of the liberty of Westminster, we know not on what authority; for Bridewell, and its precinct, were given by Henry VIII. and Edward VI. to the City; and it is still to be proved how far the above neighbourhood has any claim to peculiar rights and exemptions."

TEMPLE CHURCH.

P. 35, l. 12, from botiom, after "Winchester," add,

"This beautiful structure is now under thorough repair, at the joint expence of the two societies."

FALCON COURT.

P. 41, 'last line, add,

"This tavern or inn was afterwards converted into a printing office by Mr. Archibald Hamilton, in which were printed the Critical Review, the works of Dr. Smollet, Dr. Goldsmith, and many others of equal celebrity. The whole fabric, and all its materials, were destroyed by fire on the 3d of February, 1803. The property consumed was esti4 G 2 mated

mated at 11,000l. of which only 30001, was insured. The conflagration took place in consequence of the carelessness of an errand boy.

MR. GILLET'S PRINTING OFFICE.

P. 47, after note, add,

"On Sunday morning, July 29, 1810, about three o'clock, the premises of Mr. Gillet, the printer, in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, were again entirely destroyed, together with the dwelling house of Mr. Swan, a printer adjoining. Some houses at the back of these buildings were also much damaged, as was likewise the house of the Vaccine Institution. It is considered to have been wilfully set on fire, as there had not been either a fire or candle in the building since last March; and that Mr. Gillet, accompanied by his son, saw that every thing was safe before he retired to bed on Saturday night; a reward of 5001. has been recently offered by advertisement for the discovery of the offenders."

P. 56, 1.4, from bottom, add,

"New Bridge Street, also contains the Rock LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE; the EQUITABLE ASSURANCE OFFICE ON LIVES AND SURVIVORSHIPS; and the ALBION Fire and LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE. Just above which, on Ludgate Hill, is the HOPE INSURANCE OFFICE.

P. 72, 8, after "circumstance," add,

"At Holborn Bars, have been recently erected two pyramidal pillars of stone, on each of which is cut the city arms, to mark the boundary on this side of the city.

ST. ANDREW, HOLBORN.

P.92, l. 15, from bottom, after "1806,” add,

"Dr. Luxmore was promoted to the see of Bristol in 1807, and the same year translated to the bishopric of Hereford, on which he resigned his deanery."

P. 103,

P. 105, add the following note:

The

"On the night of Monday the 8th of February, the printing office and extensive warehouses of Messrs. John Nichols and Son, printers, with an immense stock of books, the accumulation of nearly fifty years, were overwhelmed in one calamitous ruin, by a most aweful fire, which commenced about a quarter before ten, in the ground floor of a large warehouse situated near the centre of the building. "Amongst the books destroyed there are several consumed, which cannot now be obtained at any price. unsold copies of the Introduction to the second volume of Gough's Sepulchral Monuments; Hutchina's Dorsetshire; Bigland's Gloucestershire; Hutchinson's Durham; Thorpe's Registrum & Custumale Roffense; the few numbers which remained of the Bibliotheca Topographica; the third volume of Elizabethan Progresses; the Illustrations of Antient Manners'; Mr. Gough's History of Pleshy, and his valuable account of the Coins of the Seleucidæ, engraved by Bartolozzi; colonel de la Motte's Allusive Arms; bishop Atterbury's Epistolary Correspondence; and last, not least, the whole of six portions of Mr. Nichols's Leicestershire, and the entire stock of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1782 to 1807. These were works that had been completed. Of those in the press, the most important were, the concluding volume of Hutchins's Dorsetshire (nearly finished); a second volume of Manning's and Bray's Surrey (about half printed); Mr. Bawdwen's Translation of Domesday for Yorkshire (nearly finished); a new edition of Dr. Whitaker's History of Craven; Mr. Gough's British Topography (nearly one volume); the sixth volume of Biographia Britannica (ready for publishing); Dr. Kelly's Dictionary of the Manks Language; Mr. Neild's History of Prisons; a genuine unpublished comedy by Sir Richard Steele; Mr. Joseph Reid's unpublished tragedy of Dido; four volumes of the British Essayists; Mr. Taylor Combe's Appendix to Dr. Hunter's Coins; part of Dr. Hawes's Annual Report for 1805; a part of the Biographical Anecdotes of Hogarth; two entire volumes, and the half of two other volumes, of a new

edition