At No. 2 lived Peter Woulfe, a famous alchemist, who gave his breakfast-parties at four o'clock in the morning. Woulfe had eccentric ideas with regard to illness, and used, if he were at all unwell, to take a seat outside the Edinburgh Mail Coach, in order to restore himself to health. In one of these journeys he took cold, from which he died. When his rooms were opened, after his decease, it was with the greatest difficulty they could be entered, because they were so crowded with apparatus of all sorts.

St. Andrew's Church is one of the finest of Sir C. Wren's building-rich in gilding and stained windows, it has been not inaptly called the poet's church; and indeed it contains much that is poetical in its history. John Webster, the dramatist, author of "The Duchess of Malfi," was once clerk to St. Andrew's. Richard Savage, a natural son of the Countess of Macclesfield, was connected with St. Andrew's. Poor Savage, whose misfortunes commenced, one might say, in his shameless mother's womb-for it is a misfortune to have a mother who, before a child is born,