Tower Hill

Tower hill is perbaps both the roost important eminente aDd the most notable spot in all the metropolis. Few of ns. as we pass it ü:i a6teamer or cross it on our route to the Ankwerkes Package. at the eoinmencement of onr autumnal holidíiy, thiiik what great persons have quietly iived there, and what ethers, equally great, have wept and died upon it. To it, or rather to Great Tower street, came Rocbester to pnrsne his trade as an Italian fortune teller, while the bodizened Bnckiughain often waiked tbither in order to consult a conjurer. a shrewd. farseeing rogue, who, when FeJtou bought at the cutler's Bhop ou the sumruit of the bilí for a shilling the knife with wbich be killed tbe duko's faiher, may have known for what. purpose it was required. Wilham Penn was bom ou this hill in a house close to Loudon wall. Fortyfour years later - that is, in A. D. 1685 - a poet lay dead, choked by a crusfc which ftnrvation had urged hirn to devour too greedilv. in an upper room of tbe Boll taveru Tl:is was the ill fated Otway. At the time when the son of the muse lay dead, Betterton, thecelebrated founder of tbe eta;jre after the restoration, was wriuging tears f fom the eyes of the public, not i'or tbe famished dead, bnt at his own fictitious sorrows in "'Vemce Preserved. " It was in Great Tower etreet that Peter the Great used to pass his evenïngs drinkiug hot pepper and brandy with his boon companion, Lord Carmarthen In the neighborhood of Little Tower street, which can scarcely be supposed to have been inspiring, Thomson composed his "Summer " In Grub street, the supposed lurking place of mauy a mute, inglorious Miltou, much hack literary work was effected, none of which has survi ved the tonch of