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ee CIty AS IT Js 275 tion in English; in both there were references to the ‘treachery and malice of the Popish faction.’ Naturally this inscription disappeared in the reign of James II, but it was renewed at the coming of William and Mary, and served Pope for a simile in one of his poems— Where London’s column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. This inscription was only finally erased in 1831. The Monument 1s unquestionably a fine work of art. The railing at the top was by Wrens direction ‘‘made of substantiall, well forged worke, there being noe need at that distance of filed work.” Some five or six people threw themselves from the gallery. In 1842, as Cunningham drily observes, "this kind of death becoming popular, it was deemed advisable to encage and disfigure the Monument as we now see it.” a MT sisdg én — ——— dls— 4 = gh dl we SALEROOM IN THE BALTIC
