=206=: 16. =La Hogue.= See note on Sir Cloudesley Shovel, p. 251.
=206=: 29. =How thick the city was set with churches.= The "city" is that part of London originally enclosed by a wall, and extends from the Tower on the east to Temple Bar on the west. Temple Bar was the gateway over that great thoroughfare which is called Fleet Street on the east side of it, and the Strand on the west side. The Bar was demolished in 1878, and its site is marked by a rather ugly monument surmounted by the arms of the city of London.
=207=: 4. =The fifty new churches.= The Tories had been brought into power in 1710 very largely by the popular cry, "The Church is in danger." (See note, p. 249.) Accordingly, one of the first acts of the House of Commons, in 1711, was to vote the building of fifty new churches in London.
=208=: 4. =Mahometan paradise=, because the chief attraction of the Mahometan heaven is the houris, "the black-eyed," whose beauty never grows old.
=208=: 28. =Member of the quorum.= A justice of the peace.
The first number of _The Bee_, a weekly paper set up in 1733, by Addison's friend, Budgell, contains the following statement: "Mr. Addison was so fond of this character [Sir Roger de Coverley] that a little while before he laid down _The Spectator_ (foreseeing that some nimble gentleman would catch up his pen the moment he quitted it), he said to an intimate friend, with a certain warmth in his expression which he was not often guilty of, 'By G----, I'll kill Sir Roger, that nobody else may murder him.' Accordingly the whole _Spectator_, No. 517, consists of nothing else but an account of the old knight's death, and some moving circumstances which attended it."
It seems probable that about this time both Steele and Addison were thinking of bringing _The Spectator_ to a close, and this was the first of a series of papers which should dismiss all the members of the Spectator Club. In No. 544--the last of this volume--Captain Sentry succeeds to Sir Roger's estate, and passes from notice; in No. 549 the old clergyman is reported dead, and Sir Andrew Freeport gives up his business and retires into the country to make ready for the end; in No. 555 the Spectator makes his parting bow, and the volume closes.