Kingsborough, Lady, 28 L. Ladbroke, Mifs, 86 Lade, Sir John, 53 Leeds, Duke of, 155 Leycefter, Rev. Mr. 234 Ludby, Thomas, Efq. 53 M. Manners, Sir William, 175 Melbourne, Lord, 45 Mendip, Lord, 267, 212 Meyrick, James, Efq. 177, 236 Milles, Mr. 176 Millman, Dr. 85 Peters, Mr. 38 Peters, George, Efq. 116, 204 Phillimore, William, Efq. 124 Pitt, Right Hon. William, 119 Prefcott, Sir G. W. 58, 117, 208 The Queen, 84 R.. Raby, Alexander, Efq. 323 Robertfon, William, Efq. 182 Rockingham, Marchionefs of, 118 Roden, Earl of, 120 S. St. Quintin, W. T. Efq. 203. Shaw, Sir John, 58, 89 Smith, William, Efq. 69, 137 Smith, Samuel, Efq. 65. Smith, Thomas, Efq. 47 Smith, Robert, Efq. 71 Smyth, Sir William, 118, 208 Steele, Rt. Hon. Thomas, 177 Stratton, James, Efq. 20, 39 Walker, William, Efq. 102 Warren, Sir George, 135, 137 Weatherstone, Dalhousie, Efq. 149 Webber, William, Esq. 90 Webber, Col. 212, 252 Webster, John, Efq. 226 Wefton, Henry, Efq. 119, Wilson, General Sir T. S. 55, 106 Wilfon, William, Efq. 202 Wood, Thomas, Efq of Ealing, 77 Y. York, Duke of, 167 Young, Sir William, 124, 222 ERRATA. Page 27, line 5, dele Efq 7, for Tyron read Tryon. 54, 12, fur Molboy read Molloy. 103, 106, 117, 25 from bottom, for Pigow read Pigou. 3, for Pilgram read Pilgrim. 22, after Ball's Park read the feat of Lord John Townshend. 159, 23, for Beuclerk read Beauclerk. A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE METROPOLIS. ORIGIN AND EXTENT. LONDON was certainly a confiderable, opulent, and commercial city in the reign of the Emperor Nero. It is represented as fuch by Tacitus; and Ammianus Marcellinus, who wrote in the reign of Julian the Apoftate, calls it "vetuftum oppidum, an an"cient city." Its Roman names were Londinum, or Londinium, and Augufta*. The first is ftill retained in its modern appellation: the last is the favourite of the poets. Thus Congreve: Rife, fair Augufta, lift thy head; This metropolis of Great Britain, one of the largest and most opulent in the world, confifts of the cities of London and Weftminfter, and the borough of Southwark. The two former are situated on a gentle afcent on the north fide of the Thames; the latter is feated on the oppofite bank, in a level, and once very marshy ground. The extent of the whole, from Limehouse and Deptford to Milbank and Vauxhall, is above feven miles; but the greatest breadth is only three miles. The curious reader, who would contrast the ancient ftate of London with its prefent great extent, may find amufement, by confulting Fitz-Stephen's account of it, in the reign of Henry II.; the plan of London as it exifted in the time of Queen Elizabeth; and Mr. Pennant's "Account of London.” Of this wonderful contraft fome idea may be formed, from an anecdote of the Earl of Burlington: "When that Nobleman was asked, why he built his house in Piccadilly, so far out of town?” he answered, "because he was determined he would have no building beyond him." Little more than half a century has fo inclosed Burlington Houfe with new ftreets, that it is now in the heart of that part of the town. Augufta was a name given to feventy cities in the Roman provinces, in honour of Auguftus. Hence London, as the capital of the Trinobantes, in Britain, was called Augusta Trinobantina. GOVERN B |