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You have a distinct recollection, however, that you purchased a ticket at the solicitation of some charitable friend: and you deposit yourself in a hackney-coach, the driver of which—no doubt that you may do the thing in style—turns a deaf ear to your earnest entreaties to be set down at the corner of Great Queen-street, and persists in carrying you to the very door of the Freemasons’, round which a crowd of people are assembled to witness the entrance of the indigent orphans’ friends.
A Baptist chapel was built in the quarter we are now describing it was erected in Leeming-street, at the corner of Queen-street in 1783.
In the summer of 1774, he retired with his wife and mother from Great Queen-street, where they had hitherto resided, to his paternal estate at Eartham in Sussex; but in the ensuing winter his mother went back to London for medical advice and there died. He had endeavoured, but in vain, to bring several of his tragedies on the stage.
When we visit a friend of ours in Queen-street we are disturbed from our labours or conversation by a sound which resembles the well-timed marching of a file of infantry or a troop of dismounted dragoons. Is a man tall? Let him never wear a surtout. It is the most unnatural, and therefore the most awkward dress that ever was invented.
The first attempt to form an academy for the encouragement of the fine arts in this country was made in Great Queen-street, in the year 1697.
Sheridan thought it necessary to address, in his own defence, to Lord Holland, and of which a rough and a fair copy have been found carefully preserved among his papers: Queen-Street, January 15, 1811.
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