l his estates in
1620 to trustees for charitable purposes, reserving out of the produce
500 pounds a-year for himself. He died in 1627-8, and the intent of his
will appears to have been to divide his estate equally between the
poorest of his kindred, and in case of any surplus it was to be applied
to the relief and ransom of poor captives. Mr. Smith is said, but we
know little of the history of this benevolent and extraordinary man, to
have himself suffered a long captivity in Algiers. No application having
been made for many years to redeem captives, in 1772 an act of parliament
was passed "to enable the trustees of Henry Smith, Esq., deceased, to
apply certain sums of money to the relief of his poor kindred, and to
enable the said trustees to grant building leases of an estate in the
parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, and St. Margaret's, Westminster."

No. 1, North Terrace, leading into Alexander Square, was for some time
the residence of the celebrated "O." Smith, who, though a great ruffian
upon the stage, was in private life remarkable for his quiet manners and
his varied attainments. At the end of this terrace is the Western
Grammar School.

ALEXANDER SQUARE, on the north or right-hand side of the main Fulham
Road, between the Bell and Horns public-house and Pelham Crescent,
consists of twenty-four houses built in the years 1827 and 1830, and
divided by Alfred Place: before each portion there is a respectable
enclosure, and behind numerous new streets, squares, and houses have been
built, extending to the Old Brompton Road.

No. 19, Alexander Square, was the residence of Captain Glascock, who
commanded H.M.S. Tyne, and whose pen has enriched the nautical novel
literature of England {73} with the same racy humour which has
distinguished his professional career. When commanding in the Douro,
some communications which Glascock had occasion to make to the Governor
of Oporto not having received that attention which the English captain
considered was due to them, and the governor having apologised for his
deafness, Glascock replied that in future he would write to his
excellency. He did so, but the proceeding did not produce the required
reply. Glascock was then told that the governor's memory was defective;
so he wrote again, and two letters remained unanswered. In this state of
things it was intimated to Captain Glascock by a distinguished
diplomatist, that, as his letters might not have been delivered, he oug