Great Queen Street.

were finished from , it is said , the designs of Inigo Jones and his pupil Webbe . According to an authority quoted by the author of " Haunted London , " we are told , " Inigo Jones built Queen Street , at the cost of the Jesuits , designing it for a Square , and leaving in the middle , a niche for

the Statue of Queen Henrietta . ' The stately and magnificent houses' begun on the north side , near Little Queen Street , were not continued . There were flenrs-de-lnce placed on the walls in honour of the Queen . " In the time of the Stuarts it was , according to Leigh Hunt , " one of the

grandest and most fashionable parts of the town . The famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury died there . Lord Bristol had a house in it , as also did Lord Chancellor Finch , and the Conway and Paulet families . " Mr . Parton tells us in his " History of St . Giles , " " the appropriation of each

house to its respective inhabitant is , however , a matter of uncertainty , no cine whatever being to be found among our parish records , nor , indeed , any mention made of them to guide our inquiries . " Evelyn speaks of George Digby , second Earl of Bristol , as having lived in the Street ,

and among other occupants are included the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Lauderdale—two of tbe five members of the celebrated "Cabal" ministry—Waller the poet , Colonel Titus , author of "Killing no Murder " which so disturbed the stout heart of Cromwell .

The Earl of Rochford lived in it in 1733 , and about the same time Lady Dinely Goodyer and Mrs . Kitty Clive , the actress . Sir Martin Ffolkes , the first President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries , was born in it in 1690 . The Gordon riots in 1780 may be said to have had their rise

here , the first meeting in support of Lord George Gordon ' s petition to Parliament having been held in Coachmakers ' Hall on 29 th May of that year . On 6 th June the house of Mr . Justice Cox in Great Queen-street was burnt by the mob . No . 51 is now the office of Messrs . Kelly and Co .

the well-known printers and publishers of the London Directory . At No . 52 lived Sir Robert Strange , the eminent historical engraver and adherent of the young pretender , and here he died in 1792 . John Opie , the Academician , also resided here , as did James Hoole , the

translator of Tasso , at No . 56 , where he died 1813 ; Sheridan , and Worlidge , an artist of ability . On 1 st May 1775 , the foundation stone of Freemasons' Hall—the first money expended on which was raised by a Tontine—was laid by

the Grand Master , Lord Petre , the Architect being Thomas Sandby , one of the original members of the Royal Academy . On a plate deposited within the foundation stone is the following inscription . — -See Smith ' s Use and Abuse of Freemasonry , or Preston ' s Illustrations of Masonry .

ANNO REGNI GEOKGII TEETH QUINDECDIO , SATJUTIS HUMAN . * : MDCCLXXV . MENSIS MAII DIE PRIMO . HUNC PRIMUM LAPIDEM AUL . U LATOMORUM ( ANGLICE , FKEE AND ACCEPTED MASONS ) POSUIT HoNOKAttssna-s Eon . EDV . DOM . PETRE , BAUD PETRE DE WHITTLE ,

SUMMUS LATOMORUM ANGLI . I : MAGISTER ; ASSIDENTIBUS VIRO ORNATISSIMO , ROWLANDO HOLT , ARMIGERO , SUMMI MAGISTRI DEPUTATO ; VIRIS O RNATISSIMIS JOII . HATCH ET HEN . DAGGB

SUnilS GUBERNATORlBUS J PLENOQUE CORAM FRATRUM CONCURSV . QUO ETIAM TEMPORE EEGUM , PRINCTPUMQUE FAVORE STUDIOQUE SUSTENTATUM MAXIJIOS PER EUKOPAM IIONORES OCCUPAVEHAT

NOMEN LATOMORUM . Cur INSUPEK NOMINI SUMMUM ANGLLE CONVENTUM PR . EESSE FECERAT UN 1 VEUSA FRATRUM PER 0 R 1 SEM MULTITUDO . E C ( ELO DESCENDIT

Gnothi Seauton . THO . SANDBY , ARM . ARCIUTECTUR . E PROF . E . A . A . ARCHITECTUS . On the 23 rd May of the following year , this Hall was dedicated by the same Grand Master , Lord Petre , in the

presence of a vast concourse of brethren . Freemasons Tavern , known for the number and importance of the public meetings held within it , was built in 1786 , by William Ty ler . Considerable alterations and enlargements have been made since this period , but into these we need

hardly enter . On or near the spot now occupied by the Wesleyan Chapel , east of the Tavern , David Garrick was married , by his friend the celebrated Dr . Franklin , to " Eva

Maria Violette , ot ot . James s , Westminster , a celebrated dancer . " Among theatrical celebrities living in this street , may be mentioned Miss Pope and Lewis the comedian , while at No , 74 , now part of Messrs . Wyman and Sops

Great Queen Street.

Printing Office , died , in 1826 , Edward Prescott Holdway Knight , the comedian , commonly called " Little Knight . " About this time , at Messrs . Wyman ' s establishment ( then Messrs . Cox and Co . ' s ) , Leman Blanchard was a printer ' s reader , working side by side with Douglas Jerrold , tbe

Editor of La Belle Assemblee . The press at which Franklin worked , as a journeyman pressman , in London , in the years 1723-6 , formerly stood in Messrs . Wyman ' s office for many

years . It is now in America , having first passed into the hands of Messrs . Harrild and Sons , who parted with it to a Mr . J . V . Murray of New York , on condition that he would secure for them in return a donation to the Printers '

Pension Society of London . The condition was so liberally fulfilled that the Committee of the Printers ' Pension Society were able to initiate the " Franklin Pension , " worth ten guineas per annum . At Messrs . Wyman ' s was done all the printing relating to our possessions in the East , for the East India Company .

Thus much as regards the past history of this thoroughfare , in which are situated the Hall of the Grand Lodge of England , and the Head Quarters of our various Masonic Charities .

Cagliostro.

CAGLIOSTRO .

APROPOS of a recent article of ours , a frequent correspondent has forwarded the following translation of part of a correspondence between the rank impostor Cagliostro , as Grand Master of the Egyptian Rite , and the Lodge of Triumpbant Wisdom , at Lyons , constituted by

him , of the one part , and the Fraternal Convention , summoned at Paris 15 th February 1785 by the Philaletheans , of the other . The whole correspondence is , as we are aware , far too long to be reproduced in these columns . We give ,

therefore , only the letters written by Cagliostro himself and the Lodge of Triumphant Wisdom . Those of our readers who are curious as to the history of this man will find the original in Acta Latomorum , Vol . II ., pp . 92-127 .

MANIFESTO or CAGLIOSTRO , 1 st oi ? THE YEAR 5555 . ( 1 st MARCH 1785 ) . The unknown Grand Master of the true Freemasonry hath turned his regards on the Philaletheans , and the two invitations they have

issued amongst the body of their Craft . Touched with their piety , profoundly moved by the sincere avowal of their wishes , he deigns to extend the hand of fellowship towards them , and is prepared to shed a ray of light on the darkness of their Temple . The existence of an

only God , who forms tho groundwork of their faith , tho native dignity of man , his power and his destiny , —in a word , everything which they believe , the unknown Grand Master is willing to make manifest to them . It will be by acts and deeds , and the evidence of

their senses , that they will know God , man , and the spiritual intermediaries created between the one and the other—a knowledge , of which the true Masonry offers the symbols , and to the attainment of which it indicates the path . Let , then , tho Philaletheans embrace

the dogmas of this true Masonry ; let them submit themselves to the guidance of its supreme chief , and adopt its constitutions . But first , the sanctuary must be purified , and the Philaletheans must learn that

light can descend only into the Temple of Faith , not into the Temple of Doubt . Let them devote to the flames that useless mass of archives they have accumulated . It is only on the ruins of the tower of shame that the Temple of Truth will arise .

LETTER FROM THE LODGE or TRIUMPHANT WISDOM , DATED 6 rn APRIL 1785 . To the glory of the Great God . In the name and by the power of the Grand Master of the Order . The Lodge of Triumphant Wisdom ,

Mother-Lodge of the Egyptian ltite , Orient of Lyons , to the Lodge of United Friends , Orient of Paris , greeting , strength , and happiness . Very dear Brethren , —There arc Masons , on whom you have never cast your eyes , whose fraternal voice dares to say to you , " Search no

more . " Wo have seen unchangeable truth seated amidst the rnins of doubt and of systems . You will see it , very dear Brethren , descend iuto your Lodge the instant you abandon to the fool who builds on the sand those numerous materials which possess no value , except

iu the motive which induced yon to collect them . Ah ! happy Philaletheans , bless the day yon attracted the kindly notice of our Master , when he addressed to you tho words of joy and comfort contained in tho writing herewith we send yon in his behalf . Ilia

goodness opens to yon the road that leads to knowledge . To-day men full of hopes and desires ; to-morrow you will have become men of knowledge , and satisfied . Do you , dear Brethren , conform to the ruly . s . which the unknown chief of tho true Masonry has ordaiued for