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 the money, unless you are quite capable of reimbursing me." In 1774, Mr. Bacon took possession of these premises, No 17, Newman-street, and exhibited a bust of King George III. in marble. In 1775, he produced a model for a marble statue of Minerva in artificial stone; and in 1778, he was chosen an Academician, and presented to the Royal Academy a bust representing Sickness as his reception-piece.

The principal of his other public works are, a bronze statue of King George III. in the court-yard of Somerset-place, and also the attic decorations on the street, and back fronts of the same edifice; the cenotaph in Guildhall; and the monument in Westminster Abbey,