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Anthony, with his own hands, set fire to the ill-starred brig, his wife, the Peggy for whom the boat was named, watching from her chamber window the sacrificial flames mounting from the water's edge. We keep a Peggy Stewart Day, now, in Maryland, and some of us like to remember that Peggy, too, was once the mistress of a breakfast-room which was ideal.
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THE PEGGY STEWART HOUSE.
At the foot of Duke-of-Gloucester Street, in 1760, John Ridout built for himself and his chil-
