[Illustration: Two buildings side by side Building on left: _Erected in or before the reign of Queen Eliz._ _In Goswell street_ _Antient inconvenience contrasted with modern convenience_ Building on right: _Erected about 1800_] [Illustration: _The old Magazine Hyde Park_] [Illustration: _The entrance of great Portland-street_] [Illustration: _Part of the Priory of the Holy Trinity Aldgate_] [Illustration: _West end of Upper Grosvenor-street_] [Illustration: _Meux's Brewhouse built about 1796_] [Illustration: _Devonshire House_] [Illustration: _The west end of Upper Brook street_] [Illustration: _View in Privy garden_] [Illustration: _In Hanover Square_] [Illustration: _Mansion at Twickenham_] [Illustration: _The East side of Fitzroy Square_] [Illustration: _The late Lord Barrymores house Piccadilly_] [Illustration: _Langley House_] [Illustration: _The west side of Cavendish square_] [Illustration: _The south side of Fitzroy Square_] [Illustration: _Entrance to Hyde Park from Park Lane_] [Illustration: _The Duke of Manchester's_] [Illustration: _The Minced Pie house_] "You of this noble City are yet to become more noble by your candour to the plea between me a _Bourgeois_ of Paris, and my opponent of London; being concerned in honour to lend your attention as favourably to a stranger as to your native orator, since it is the greatest sign of narrow education to permit the borders of rivers, or strands of seas, to separate the general consanguinity of Mankind, though the unquiet nature of Man (still hoping to shake off distant power), and the incapacity of any one to sway universal empire, hath made them the bounds to divide government. But already I think it necessary to cease persuading you, who will ever deserve to be my judges; and, therefore, mean to apply myself in admonishing him who is pleased to be awhile my adversary. "My most opinionated antagonist (for a Londoner's opinion of himself is no less noted than his opinion of his Beef before the Veal of Italy), you should know that the merit of Cities consists not in their fair and fruitful situation, but in the manners of the Inhabitants; for, where the situation excels, it but upbraids their minds if they be not proportionable to it. And, because we should more except against the constancy of minds than their mutability, when they incline to error, I will first take a survey of yours in the long-continued deformity of the _shape_ of your City, which is of your buildings.