se, No. 2, Sydney Street, was
for some years occupied by the Rev. Dr. Biber, author of the 'Life of
Pestalozzi,' and editor and proprietor of the 'John Bull' newspaper. On
his selling the 'John Bull,' it became incorporated with the 'Britannia.'

No. 24 was for some time the residence of Mr. Thomas Wright, the
well-known antiquary and historical writer, who now lives at No. 14.

ROBERT STREET, which connects the main Fulham Road with the King's Road,
passes directly before the west side of the spacious burial-ground, and
immediately opposite to the tower of St. Luke's Church; at No. 17
formerly resided Mr. Henry Warren, the President of the New Society of
Water-Colour Painters.

Returning to the main Fulham Road, and passing the Cancer Hospital, now
in course of erection, we come to YORK PLACE, a row of twenty-two
well-built and respectable houses on the south, or, according to our
course, left-hand side of the road.

No. 15, York Place, was, between the years 1813 and 1821, the retirement
of Francis Hargrave, a laborious literary barrister, and the editor of 'A
Collection of State Trials,' {84} and many other esteemed legal works.
Here he died on the 16th of August, 1821, at the age of eighty-one.

In 1813, when obliged to abandon his arduous profession, in consequence
of over-mental excitement, the sum of 8,000 pounds was voted by
Parliament, upon the motion of Mr. Whitbread, for the purchase of Mr.
Hargrave's law books, which were enriched with valuable notes, and for
300 MSS., to be deposited in the library of Lincoln's Inn, for public
use. As documents of national historical importance may be
particularised, Mr. Hargrave's first publication, in 1772, entitled '_The
Case of James Somerset_, _a Negro_, _lately determined by the Court of
King's Bench_, _wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present
unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England_;' his '_Three Arguments in
the two causes in Chancery on the last Will of Peter Thellusson_, _Esq._,
_with Mr. Morgan's __Calculation of the Accumulation under the Trusts of
the Will_, _1799_;' and his '_Opinion in the Case of the Duke of Athol in
respect to the Isle of Man_.'

Opposite to York Place was a fine, open, airy piece of ground to which
Mr. Curtis, the eminent naturalist, removed his botanical garden from
Lambeth Marsh, as a more desirable locality. Upon the south-east portion
of this nursery-ground the first stone was laid by H.R.H. Prince Albert,
on the