after his arrival
at the Euston Hotel, Euston Square, from whence it was considered, when
he reached London, imprudent to remove him to Brompton. He was in the
forty-fifth year of his age, and made his first appearance in London at
Covent Garden on the 7th November, 1818. On the 30th November, 1823, Mr.
Yates married Miss Brunton, an exemplary woman and an accomplished
actress, who had retired from the profession for some years previous to
her death, aged 61, on 30th August, 1860. Before Mr. Yates' tenancy, No.
21 was the residence of Mr. Liston, whose comic humour will long be
remembered on the stage.

Mrs. Davenport, a clever actress and an admirable representative of old
women, died at No. 22, on 8th May, 1843, aged eighty-four. On the 25th
of May, 1830, she retired from the stage, after an uninterrupted service
of thirty-six years at Covent Garden Theatre, where she took her "first,
last, and only benefit," performing the Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

No. 25, Michael's Place, may be pointed out as the house in which Miss
Pope, "the other delicious old woman," dwelt previous to her removal to
No. 17; and No. 26, as the lodgings of Mrs. Mathews, when occupied in the
composition of the 'Memoirs' of her husband, {72} the eminent comedian,--

"A man so various, that he seemed to be,
Not one, but all mankind's epitome."

At No. 33 died Madame Delille, in 1857, at an advanced age. This lady
was the mother of the late Mr. C. J. Delille, professor of the French
language in Christ's Hospital and in the City of London School, and
French examiner in the University of London. Mr. Delille's French
Grammar is universally adopted by schools, in addition to his 'Repertoire
Litteraire,' and his 'Lecons et Modeles de Poesie Francaise.'

The ground upon which Michael's Place and Brompton Crescent are built was
known by the name of "Flounder Field," from its usual moist and muddy
state. This field contained fourteen acres, and is said to have been
part of the estate of Alderman Henry Smith, which in this neighbourhood
was upwards of eighty-four acres. He was a native of Wandsworth, where
he is buried. It has been asserted that, from very humble circumstances,
he rose to be an alderman of London--from circumstances so humble,
indeed, that Salmon, in his 'Antiquities of Surrey,' mentions that he had
been in early life whipped out of Mitcham parish for begging there.
Being a widower, and without children, he made over al