the houses, particularly on the left from YorkBuildings, exhibit considerable architectural grandeur, in consequence of several dwellings being erected under one design. All is bustle and gaiety: numerous dashing equipages passing and repassing, others gracing the doors of the tradesmen; sprinkled here and there with the invalids in the comfortable sedans and easy twowheeled carriages, all anxious to participate in this active part of Bath, giving a sort of finish to the scene. The shops are tastefully laid out; capacious and elegant; and the addition of " from London," of course, is a complete passport to their excellence and superior articles. In short, Milsom and Bond Streets afford to the utmost extent every thing towards supplying the real or imaginary wants of the visitors: containing libraries to improve the mind-musical repositories to enrich their taste and science--confectioners to invite the most fastidious appetitetailors, milliners, &c. of the highest eminence in the fashionable world, to adorn the male, and decorate and beautify the female, to render the form almost of statuary excellence; and positively, as the grand climax of the rapidity of improvement towards perfection, in making out of an old-a complete new face. The denouement is also in point, in having two good banking-houses near at hand to support characters of the above description, who must need so many and frequent supplies to support the arbitrary dictates of fashion. The Octagon Chapel, in this street, is a neat elegant building, It was opened in 1767. The organ is good; and the altar-piece, painted by Mr. Hoare, representing the Pool of Bethesda, is not only a fine subject, but reflects great credit upon the talents of the artist. Divine service is performed here at eleven and five every Sunday. The news of the day is also to be acquired at the libraries of Messrs. Godwin and Duffield, whose reading-rooms render a lounge most agreeable and pleasant. On leaving Milsom-Street, you pass the bank of Messrs. Sir B. Hobhouse, Clutterbuck, Phillott, Lowder, and Phillott, (who draw on Jones, Lloyd, and Co. Lothbury, London,) and get into Bond-Street. It has no thoroughfare for carriages; is much narrower than Milsom-Street; and pavement extends all over it. It is similar to Cranbourne-Alley, in London. The shops are extremely elegant, and well furnished: the library and reading-rooms of Mr. Barrett is situated here; and also the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. This society, which is a branch of the ancient institution of the one held in Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, London, has not only furnished all the public charities and prisons in Bath with Prayer-books, religious tracts, &c. gratuitously; but the poor inhabitants of numerous parishes have been also supplied with books to explain the Scriptures, agreeably to the doctrines of the established church. Subscriptions are opened at the banks and libraries to extend the views of this Society. C. Lowder, Esq. is the treasurer, one of the firm of the Milsom-Street-Bank. At the end of this street, is Bladud-bank, under the firm of Messrs. Tuffnell, Collett, Payne, Hope, and Watts, who draw upon Jones and Co. Lothbury, in London. Through a small passage is Bond-Street-Build |