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24 TALLIs's ILLUSTRATED LONDON ;
centre. Spacious playgrounds and gardens are attached
to it. Male and female children are here nursed, edu-
cated, and supplied with all requisites, until they are
apprenticed out. The music at the Foundling Chapel
has always been fine. Admission may be gained by a
trifling contribution in aid of the hospital.
Again in High Holborn, we proceed for a considerable
distance till we reach King-street, on the north side facing
Little Queen-street, an outlet from Great Queen-street.
Bv King-street we enter into Southampton-row, a hand-
some range of private residences and shops, and joining
Russell -square. The last house on the east side of the
row adjoining the square is remarkable as having been the
residence of the unfortunate Dr. Dodd, and whence he
was taken on a charge of forgery, never to return, expiat-
ing his offence by an ignominious death. With Dr. Dodd
were executed some fellow-convicts, and it is remarkable,
as illustrating the resignation with which he awaited his
fate, that he himself preached the condemned sermon in
Newgate on the Sunday anterior to the fulfilment of their
doom. We are now in Russell-square, the largest square
in London, except Lincoln's Inn-fields, and erected in
1804. It is thus called from the family name of the Duke
of Bedford, the owner of this and the adjacent property.
On the south side of the tastefully-arranged plantation in
the centre of the square is a fine bronze statue of Francis,
Duke of Bedford, erected by Westmacott in 1809. In
1818 Sir Samuel Romilly, a resident in this square, com-
mitted self-destruction, and Sir Thomas Lawrence, the
great portrait-painter, died here in 1830. Lord Denman,
and several of the judges, have been inhabitants of Russell-
square. From this square several fine streets branch, and
Tavistock-street, Torrington-square, and Wobum-square, are
in close proximity to it. The district into which we have
now entered is bounded on the north by the New-road, on
the east by the Gray's-inn-road, on the south by Holborn
and New Oxford-street, and on the west by Tottenham-court-
road. The houses are of an elegant and costly character,
centre. Spacious playgrounds and gardens are attached
to it. Male and female children are here nursed, edu-
cated, and supplied with all requisites, until they are
apprenticed out. The music at the Foundling Chapel
has always been fine. Admission may be gained by a
trifling contribution in aid of the hospital.
Again in High Holborn, we proceed for a considerable
distance till we reach King-street, on the north side facing
Little Queen-street, an outlet from Great Queen-street.
Bv King-street we enter into Southampton-row, a hand-
some range of private residences and shops, and joining
Russell -square. The last house on the east side of the
row adjoining the square is remarkable as having been the
residence of the unfortunate Dr. Dodd, and whence he
was taken on a charge of forgery, never to return, expiat-
ing his offence by an ignominious death. With Dr. Dodd
were executed some fellow-convicts, and it is remarkable,
as illustrating the resignation with which he awaited his
fate, that he himself preached the condemned sermon in
Newgate on the Sunday anterior to the fulfilment of their
doom. We are now in Russell-square, the largest square
in London, except Lincoln's Inn-fields, and erected in
1804. It is thus called from the family name of the Duke
of Bedford, the owner of this and the adjacent property.
On the south side of the tastefully-arranged plantation in
the centre of the square is a fine bronze statue of Francis,
Duke of Bedford, erected by Westmacott in 1809. In
1818 Sir Samuel Romilly, a resident in this square, com-
mitted self-destruction, and Sir Thomas Lawrence, the
great portrait-painter, died here in 1830. Lord Denman,
and several of the judges, have been inhabitants of Russell-
square. From this square several fine streets branch, and
Tavistock-street, Torrington-square, and Wobum-square, are
in close proximity to it. The district into which we have
now entered is bounded on the north by the New-road, on
the east by the Gray's-inn-road, on the south by Holborn
and New Oxford-street, and on the west by Tottenham-court-
road. The houses are of an elegant and costly character,