to
blush unseen. However, I could easily strangle or stab him, set fire
to his castle, and run away by the light of it, accompanied by some
handsome pirate, with whom I might henceforward live at my ease in a
cavern on the sea-shore, dressing his dinners one moment, and my own
sweet person the next in pearls and rubies, stolen by him, during
some of his plundering expeditions, from the fair throat and arms of
a shrieking Circassian beauty, whose lord he had knocked on the head.
Till these genteel adventures of mine begin, I beg you to believe me,
dear Miss ---,

"Yours most truly,
"S. H. BURNEY."

Theodore Hook notes, in one of his manuscript journals, "5th July, 1826.
W. Hamilton's party. Stanley Grove."

About 1828, Stanley Grove was occupied by the Marquess of Queensberry;
and, in 1830-31, by Colonel Grant, at the rent, it was said, of 1000
pounds per annum.

On the west side of the house the National Society added a quadrangle,
built in the Italian style after the design of Mr. Blore; and, in the
grounds near the chapel, an octagonal building as a Practising School,
for teaching the poor children of the neighbourhood.

[Picture: Practising School]

Crossing the Kensington Canal over Sandford Bridge, [Picture: Sandford
Bridge] sometimes written "Stanford" and "Stamford," we enter the parish
of Fulham. The road turning off on the west side of the canal is called
"Bull Lane;" and a little further on a footway existed not long since,
known as Bull Alley; both of which passages led into the King's Road, and
took their names from the Bull public-house, which stood between them in
that road. [Picture: Bull Alley] Bull Alley is now converted into a
good-sized street, called Stamford Road, which has a public-house (the
Rising Sun) on one side, and a bookseller's shop on the other. Here, for
a few years, was a turnpike, which has been recently removed and placed
lower down the road, adjoining the Swan Tavern and Brewery, Walham Green,
established 1765. [Picture: No. 4, No. 3 Stamford Villas] Houses are
being built in all directions opposite several "single and married
houses," with small gardens in front and the rear, known as STAMFORD
VILLAS, where, at No. 2, resided, in 1836 and 1837, Mr. H. K. Browne,
better known, perhaps, by his _sobrique