Burning of the Pope -- St. Bride's Steeple -- Milton -- Illuminated Clock -- Melancholy End of Lovelace the Cavalier -- Chatterton -- Generosity of Hardham, of Snuff Celebrity -- Theatre in Dorset Garden -- Richardson, his Habits and Character -- Whitefriars, or Alsatia -- The Temple -- Its Monuments, Garden, &c. -- Eminent names connected with it -- Goldsmith dies there -- Boswell's first Visit there to Johnson -- Johnson and Madame de Boufflers -- Bernard Lintot -- Ben Jonson's Devil Tavern -- Other Coffee-houses and Shops -- Goldsmith and Temple-bar -- Shire Lane, Bickerstaff, and the Deputation from the Country -- The Kit-Kat Club -- Mrs. Salmon -- Isaac Walton -- Cowley -- Chancery Lane, Lord Strafford, and Ben Jonson -- Serjeant's Inn -- Clifford's Inn -- The Rolls -- Sir Joseph Jekyll -- Church of St. Dunstan in the West -- Dryden's House in Fetter Lane -- Johnson, the Genius Loci of Fleet Street -- His Way of Life -- His Residence in Gough Square, Johnson's Court, and Bolt Court -- Various Anecdotes of him connected with Fleet Street, and with his favourite Tavern, the Mitre. We are now in Fleet Street, and pleasant memories thicken upon us. To the left is the renowned realm of Alsatia, the Temple, the Mitre, and the abode of Richardson; to the right divers abodes of Johnson; Chancery Lane, with Cowley's birth-place at the corner; Fetter Lane, where Dryden once lived; and Shire or Sheer Lane, immortal for the _Tatler_. Fleet Street was, for a good period, perhaps for a longer one than can now be ascertained, the great place for shows and spectacles. Wild beasts, monsters, and other marvels, used to be exhibited there, as the wax-work was lately; and here took place the famous ceremony of burning the Pope, with its long procession, and bigoted anti-bigotries. However, the lesser bigotry was useful, at that time, in keeping out the greater. Roger North has left us a lively account of one of these processions, in his _Examen_. It took place towards the close of the reign of Charles the Second, when just fears were entertained of his successor's design to bring in Popery. The day of the ceremony was the birth-day of Queen Elizabeth, the 17th March.