instances the _details_, of the most important improvements which have
been made in the metropolis in our day." Was this copied into the
_Literary Gazette_?

Mr. Sydney Smirke speaks favourably of Gwyn's favourite project, "the
formation of a permanent Board or Commission for superintending and
controlling the architectural embellishments of London." (_Suggestions_,
&c., 8vo. 1834, p. 23.)

J.H.M.
Bath.


_Gwyn's London and Westminster_ (Vol. ii., p. 297.).--Under this head §
N. inquires, "Will you permit me, through your useful publication, to
solicit information of the number and date of the _Literary Gazette_
which recalled public attention to this very remarkable fact:" namely,
that stated by Mr. Thomas Hunt, in his _Exemplars of Tudor Architecture_
(Longmans, 1830), to the effect that the _Literary Gazette_ had referred
to the work entitled _London and Westminster Improved, by John Gwynn_.
London, 1766, 4to., as having "pointed out almost all the designs for
the improvement of London which have been _devised_ by the civil and
military architects of the present day."

In answer to the above, your correspondent will find two articles in the
_Literary Gazette_ on this interesting subject; the first in No. 473.,
Feb. 11. 1826, in which it is mentioned that _Mr. Gwynn_, founding
himself in some degree upon the plan of _Sir C. Wren_, proposed

"To carry a street from Piccadilly through Coventry Street,