which French and
Italians preponderate, but Swiss, Germans, and specimens of various
other nationalities, are frequently to be met with in the streets.

The parish church of St. Anne's was so named "after the mother of the
Virgin Mary and in compliment to Princess Anne." The site was a piece of
ground known as Kemp's Field, and the architect selected was Sir
Christopher Wren. The building is in all respects like others of its
period, but has a curious spire added later. This has been described as
"two hogsheads placed crosswise, in the ends of which are the dials of
the clock," and above is a kind of pyramid, ending in a vane.

The old churchyard lies above the level of the street, and has been
turned into a public garden. Facing the principal entrance in Wardour
Street is a stone monument to King Theodore of Corsica, and a small
crown on the stone marks his rank. King Theodore died in this parish
December 11, 1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, by
the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in consequence of which he
registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors.

His epitaph was written by Horace Walpole:

"The grave, great teacher, to a level brings
Heroes and beggars, galley slaves and kings.
But Theodore this moral learned ere dead:
Fate poured its lessons on his living head,
Bestowed a kingdom, but denied him bread."

Close by is a monument to the essayist Hazlitt, born 1778, died 1830.
The inscription says that he lived to see his deepest wishes gratified
as he expressed them in his essay on the "Fear of Death," and proceeds
to set forth at considerable length the tenor of those wishes.

During the dinner-hour, when the weather is fine, the graveyard seats
are filled by the very poorest of the poor, many of them aliens, far
from their own country, and sad beneath the gray skies of the land that
gives them bread, but denies them sun.

In the registers are recorded the baptisms of two of the children of
George II., and five of the children of Frederick, Prince of Wales, born
at Leicester House, in this parish.

Wardour Street has long been celebrated for its shops of old china,
bric-a-brac, and furniture. It can claim Flaxman among its bygone
residents.

Dean Street is a long and narrow thoroughfare, a favourite residence
with artists at the end of the eighteenth century; the names of Hayman,
Baily, Ward, and Belines are all to be found here in associat