and most munificent founder
Of this hospital,,

Was erected at the expense
Of CHARLES JOYCE, Esquire,

in the year MDCCXXXVII.

On the opposite side of the pedestal is the same inscription in Latin.

In the centre of the east side of this court is a spacious passage into the next, the structure above being supported by two rows of columns. The buildings in the third court are older than the others, and are entirely surrounded with a colonnade of the Tuscan order, above which they are adorned with long slender Ionic pilasters, with very small capitals. In the centre is a stone statue of sir Robert Clayton, dressed in his robes as lord mayor, surrounded with iron rails; upon the west side of the pedestal is his arms, in relievo; and on the south side the following inscription :

To sir Robert Clayton, knt. born in Northamptonshire, citizen and lord mayor of London, president of this hospital, and vice-president of the new workhouse, and a bountiful benefactor to it; a just magistrate, and brave defender of the liberty and religion of his country. Who (besides many other instances of his charity to the poor) built the girls' ward in Christ's Hospital, gave first towards the rebuilding of this house. six hundred pounds, and left by his last will two thousand three hundred pounds to the poor of it. This statue was erected in his life-time by the governors, An. Dom. MDCCI. as a monument of their esteem of so much worth, and to preserve his memory, after death, was by them beautified An. Dom. MDCCXIV.'

In a small court further east are two wards for salivation, and another called the cutting ward. In this court is the surgery, baths, theatre, and dead house.

In the second quadrangle is the court-room, a neat apartment, with several fine paintings: over the president's seat a portrait of the founder of this charity; on his right hand king William III., on his left, queen Mary. At the north-west corner, by Richardson, sir Robert Clayton, knight, alderman, and president, who was a generous benefactor, and died July 16th, 1707. He is painted in the robes of the chief magistrate of London; the sides of a large wig fall down his breast. At the north end of the east wall is a portrait of sir Gilbert Heathcote, knight, alderman, and president, aged 79, 1729. He is in the civic scarlet furred gown, with a brown long flapped coat, square-toed shoes, and large wig; his right hand directs the attention to a book on a marble table, behind which are the city sword and mace. On the left of the chimney, sir Gerard Conyers, knight, alderman, and president, aged 84, 1735, in the lord mayor's dress, a large wig, laced band, brown stockings, and square-toed shoes; at the back ground two flying urchins are amusing themselves with the sword and mace. On the right side of the chimney is a whole length of sir John Eyles, bart. lord mayor at the coronation of king George II. president, 1737, painted by Vanloo; a moderate wig, powdered; the coat purple, stockings brown, the

robe lined with satin; the sword and mace on a table. This is said to be an excellent picture. All these are whole lengths.

At the south end of the room is a large chimney, over which hangs a half length of sir James Campbell, knt. and president, also a great patron of the foundation.' His square beard, hair, and whiskers are light coloured, a ruff on the neck, close sleeves of yellow, and the lord mayor's gown.

The ceiling is neat and slightly coved; eleven pannels are filled with the names of benefactors, which are continued down a spacious staircase. One pannel, between two composite pilasters, is decorated with the royal arms, crown, fruit, and foliage.

The number of governors is not limited, but the management is in a committee of thirty of them, of whom ten are changed every year at the annual general court. There are twelve almoners elected quarterly, who every week attend the receiving patients, or discharging such as are cured, or are incurable. The officers are, a president, treasurer, three physicians, three surgeons, apothecary, clerk, receiver, steward, chaplain, matron, brewer, butler, cook, with an assistant and servant, an assistant clerk in the countinghouse, two porters, four beadles, nineteen sisters, nineteen nurses, nineteen watchmen, chapel clerk, sexton, and watchman.

The beds are 474. Iron bedsteads have been introduced by a subscription for that purpose. In 1613, there were in this hospital 780 persons, and then under cure 205. In 1629 there were cured 843, buried out of the hospital 209. At Easter, 1630, there remained under cure 277.* In the report of 1802, it is stated, that in the last year there had been cured and discharged of wounded, sick, and diseased persons, 2,910 of in-patients, many of whom have been relieved with money and necessaries at their departure, to accommodate them in their journies to their own habitations. Out-patients, 4,414. Buried after much charge in sickness, 214; remaining under cure, in-patients 402, out-patients 176. So that there are, and have been, in the last year under cure in the hospital, destitute of other proper cure, 8,116.'

The report read at Christ-church on Easter Monday, 1828, stated that there had been cured and discharged in the preceding year, in-patients 2,733, out-patients 6,288.

Since the foundation of this extensive charity, an incredible number of distressed objects have received relief from it; and though the estates originally belonging to the hospital were ruined, yet, by the liberality and benevolence of the citizens and others, its revenues have not only been restored, but augmented, and its annual disbursements now amount to a very considerable sum.

Guy's Hospital.

On the north side of St. Thomas-street, stands this truly excellent foundation, little inferior to the last, but more remarkable, from * Syme's MSS.

the circumstance of its having been built and endowed by a single individual; it is indeed a monument of private munificence, to which it would be difficult to produce a parallel. It is named after its founder, Thomas Guy. He was the son of a lighterman and coal-dealer in Horsleydown, was born in 1644, and was put apprentice to a bookseller and binder, on Sept. 3, 1664. He began business with a stock of the value of about 2007. in the house which still forms the angle between Cornhill and Lombard-street. English bibles being at that time very indifferently printed, he engaged in a scheme for printing them in Holland, and importing them into this country; but this practice proving detrimental to the university and the king's printer, they employed all possible means to suppress it, and so far succeeded, that Mr. Guy found it his interest to enter into a contract with them, and in consequence enjoyed a very extensive and lucrative trade. Being a single man, he spent a very small portion of his profits. He dined on his counter, with no other tablecloth than a newspaper, and was not more nice about his apparel. But a still more profitable concern than his trade was opened to his active mind during queen Anne's wars, when he is said to have acquired the bulk of his fortune by the purchase of seamen's tickets. For the application of this fortune to charitable uses, the public,' says Highmore, in his History of the Public Charities of London, are indebted to a trifling circumstance. He employed a female servant whom he had agreed to marry. Some days previous to the intended ceremony, he had or dered the pavement before his door to be mended up to a particular stone which he had marked, and then left his house on business. The servant in his absence, looking at the workmen, saw a broken stone beyond this mark which they had not repaired, and on pointing to it with that design, they acquainted her that Mr. Guy had not ordered them to go so far. She, however, directed it to be done, adding, with the security incidental to her expectation of soon be coming his wife: Tell him I bade you, and he will not be angry.' But she too soon learnt how fatal it is for any one in a dependent situation to exceed the limits of their authority; for her master, on his return, was enraged at finding that they had gone beyond his orders, renounced his engagement to his servant, and devoted his ample fortune to public charity.'

Mr. Guy served in several parliaments for Tamworth, in Staffordshire, where his mother was born, and where he founded alms. houses for fourteen men and women, besides bestowing considerable benefactions. The burgesses, however, forgetful of his services, gave their suffrages to an opposing candidate. They soon repented of their ingratitude, and when too late to repair it, sent a deputation to implore his pardon and to intreat his permission to re-elect him for the next parliament; but he rejected the offer on account of his advanced age, and never represented any other place.