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 104 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. AUO. 7, 1020. Horn Tavern Horn Tavern (after- wards " Andertons " Horse and Groom . . -Horse Shoe and Magpie Horse and Sacks .. Horns Tavern Jamaica House Tavern .Jerusalem i King's Arms r King's Arms Inn . . ] King's Arms Tavern King's Head King's Head Inn . . King's Head Tavern " King's Head Tavern King's Head Tavern King's Head King of Prussia . . Carter Lane, Commons Fleet Street Portugal Street. Lincoln's Inn Fields Clare Market, Harrow Road Kenningbon Rotherhithe Fleet Street New Palace Yard Wands worth Blackfriars Street, Southwark Hewitts Court, Strand . . Pall Mall ...... Poultry Tower 'Street Upper Street, Islington . . Doctors' 1776 Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' Islington 1721 Prideaux * Memorials of the Goldsmiths Co.,' vol. ii., p. 201. Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.* 1723 Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.' Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' Thornbury, vi., 339, 342. 1790 Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' Chancellor's ' Fleet Street.' 1771 Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.' 1757 Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' 1732 Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' 1754 Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.' 1725 Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.' 1767 Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' 1767 Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' 1766 Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' 1700 Larwood, p. 433. 1793 Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' J. PAUI DE CASTRO. (Tc be continued.} PROPOSED MUSEUM OF ARTS, 1787 ' THE following letter by George Cumberland from Rome, Dec. 2, 1787, was, I infer, addressed to the Marquis of Lansdowne. ' There is no suggested identification of the addressee except an endorsement " Mr. Cumberlancl('s) project for a Museum of Arts," in a hand that I have failed to identify, but the subject and some allusions permit of the inference. ROME, 2 Dec, 1787. SIR, Being absent from England when you did me the honour of writing me your opinion of my scheme for unfolding the manuscripts, and having besn indeed travelling almost, ever since, it was only very lately that your Letter came to my hands. The anecdote relative to the present state of these curious Rolls renders m.3 unhappily less interested in the attempt, yet like most people I am still partial enough to my own plans to have very little doubt of success if properly tried, unless indeed you shall yourself have been the operator in which case I shall have but little to hope from the zeal of others or even my own industry. Should th.3 plan however have turns;! out e^ecbual I mast b3g of you whoa you can find a leisure mom3ab thab yoj. will hxvs ths goodness to inform m* of its sacc3ss an 1 which wo ild be a real satisfaction to m.3 among others and now Sir you will excuse ni3 a Sbraugsr if h-3 fills this sheet with anothsr sch3m3 of his, which as it is so intimitely coai3ctel with t!i3 refm3;~n3nt of the art? in England, if it should ever take place is pretty sure o! fialing your application and perhaps as3Ubxac3. The slow progress of th3 tasba in England at this poriol wasn W3 ar3 bsginnin? to have good arbisbs 333015 to m3 e/idaatly to call for some Stimulus in order (that) at so critical a moment to establish a general Idea of what is great and simple as well as what belongs to correct and elegant forms, lest the same errors should check j the progress of the arts Avith us as have ruined i them in France. Your fine museums ; your vases ; Mr. Townley's j collection, Mr. Lock's and Even the Pastes of Tassie have all a good effect, but as they can never be the objects of general examination I have long thought that a very extensive collection of Casts from the best Basso Relievos, always open to the Public, would bo of service to the arts in general, while they excited the love of them in the people and purified their taste. My proposal therefore is to form a Society of Intendenti in London as guardians to a Fund to be raised by general subscription, vested in the Banks, and the Interest annually laid out in the purchase of Casts of the best Bas Relievos to be found in Europe which should be deposited in the wall of a low Gallery conveniently lighted, with a high seat in the front of them for the use of artists, and a passage for the spectators beneath. Leave might perhaps be obtained to construct so public a work in St. James's Park, as it would require but little height, and would be attended with no great expence being a kind of building that might be occasionally extended as the collection increased, for those who know how many interesting things of this sort there are in existence will see it must continue for many years to come. Such a building would require only one keeper, and as I should wish that Molds (sic) be sent home instead of Casts, to secure us against accidents, the person who had the Trust of it might by selling other casts to those who requirep them, at a moderate price, find the profit a safficent reward for his care.