front, prevails. It is observable that there are no general pediments

to the main divisions, such decora tions being confined to the several windows.

Plate XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. Front next the Thames; extent same as the Park ditto. Nine divisions; which, with their several elevations, are similar to those next the Park, excepting the arcades, which are omitted, and the parts filled in with windows, having rustics on the grounds, &e. and rustics are given to the grounds in sixth and seventh divisions right and left of second story.

Plale XVIII. Specimen of first story: In the frize crowns and warlike trophies.

Plate XIX. Specimen of second story; heads and festoons of flowers between the capitals.

In this front the interest is increas ed, as the parts are more curiched than the preceding one. No general pediments as before.

Plate XX. XXI, XXII. XXIII. Front next Westminster, 1151 feet 10 inches; fifteen divisions; seven centrical ditto right and left, with the angle ditto right and left, three stories: eighth, ninth, tenth, ele venth, twelfth, and thirteenth ditto right and left, two stories. First story: the seven centrical divisions, with the angle ditto, Doric columns with cinctures, grounds to the windows. rusticated: ninth and twelfth divisions, right and left, an arcade with Doric columns; eighth, tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth divisions, right and left, arcade rusticated; in the angle ditto, Doric columns, &c. Se cond story: Corinthian columns and pilasters, windows with Janic columns and pilasters, pointed and circular pediments and reclining statues, niches with statues, statues on pedestals: this detail includes the whole line: ninth and twelfth divisions, right and left, pediments principal; in the tympanums, sculptures of prisoners and warlike trophies. Third story: Composite columns, windows with Ionic columns and pediments, pointed and circular, reclining sta tues to them: niches with statues; balusters to dado of windows: general balustrade to the elevations with statues cupolas on the second and third divisions right and left.

Plate XXIV. Specimen of first sto

ry: heads in the key-stones, warlike trophies between the triglyphs.

Plate XXV. Specimen of second story: heads, shields, and swaggs of fruit between the capitals. Frize plain.

Plate XXVI. Specimen of third story: escallop-shells and festoons of flowers between the columns: in the frize, lion's heads, consoles, and drops of laurel-leaves.

Plate XXVII. Specimen of the cu polas; plan octangular, Composite pilasters at each angle, windows with circular heads, circular windows, a dome, scrolls supporting an obelisk and vane.

The design of this front in its outline is correspondent with the two ditto already described; and from the addition of parts making out the vast extent of elevations, a still more unbounded scene of magnificence is manifested.

Plate XXVIII. XXIX. XXX. XXXI. Front within the great centre court, and sections of the buildings at each extremity of the line, taken from Charing Cross to Westminster, 919 feet, 3 inches, in thirteen divisions. Three stories. First story in the three centrical divisions Doric columns and pilasters; rustics between the columns; basement to the other divisions right and left rusticated. The divisions in section rather plain; piers and groins, niches with statues, &c. Second story: three centrical divisions, Corinthian columns and pilasters, arched recessest with reclining statues, lions and unicorns; windows with columns and open pediments containing busto's. Fifth and eighth divisions (Banqueting-room and a correspondent building) Ionic columns and pilasters, windows with pointed and circular pediments, grounds rusticated; sixth, fourth, seventh, and ninth divisions, plain windows. The divisions in section, the apartments plain. Third story; three centrical divisions, Composite columns and pilasters: the de corations, a repetition of second story. Fifth, eight divisions right and left (Banqueting-room, &c.) Composite columns and pilasters, squareheaded windows, grounds rusticated: divisions in section, plain apartments. In centre of the front, a pediment principal, Tritons and seahorses in the tyupanum; balusters to the dado of the windows, and general balustrade

with statues to the uprights. The extreme divisious right and left, a return of the architecture with the domes seen in the centre divisions of each of the preceding fronts.

Plate XXXII. XXXIII. Specimen of centre of the first story; crowns, roses, fleur-de-lis, and portcullises between the triglyphs. Plate XXXIV. XXXV Specimen of second story: plain frize!

PlateXXXVI.XXXVII. Specimen of third story; basso-relievo in the tympanum; the Triumph of Neptune. Plate XXXVIII. Specimen of basement and second story of Banqueting

room.

Plate XXXIX. Specimen of third story of ditto.

These elevations, excepting the Banqueting-room, are not directly of that exuberant turn which marks the preceding fronts.

Plate XL. XLI. XLII. XLIII. Fronts in the three courts, and sections of apartments next the Thames, bearing from Charing Cross to Westminster 874 feet; eleven divisions, Centre division, four stories. First story: the grand arcade, Doric columns and pilasters, arches rusticated, statues on pedestals. Section of apartments, second and third divisions right and left, Doric columns, niches with statues. Fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth divisions right and left, plain windows. Fifth, eighth divisions right and left; Doric columns and pilasters, grounds rusticated. Tenth, eleventh divisions right and left in section, plain piers, groins, niches with statues. Second story. Centre division: grand gallery over arcade, open arches, Corinthian columns and pilasters, parapet with trophies, statues, lions, unicorns, &c. Second and third divisions, right and left; apartments in section, Corinthian columns and pilasters, enriched recesses, and coved cielings. Fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth divisions right and left, plain windows. Fifth, eight divisions, right and left, Corinthian columns and pilasters, squareheaded windows, grounds rusticated. Tenth, eleventh divisions right and left, apartments in section; no decorations. Third and fourth stories over the three centre divisions, plain windows. Balusters to windows of second story, and general balustrade to the uprights with statues,

Plate XLIV. Specimen of first story: heads in the keystones of the door-way and windows.

Plate XLV. Specimen of second story: heads and festoons of oakleaves between the capitals.

Plate XLVI. XLVII. Persian Court, with the sections of the king's apartments attached. Diameter of the court 210 feet. Two stories. First story: Persian order; statues of Persian slaves standing on bases, and supporting Doric capitals and entablature, arches between them rusticated. Second story: female sta tues, called Caryatides, standing on bases, and supporting Corinthian capitals and entablature; windows between them with Corinthian columns, rusticated grounds: balusters to the dado of the windows: general balustrade with statues to the upright." Royal apartments in section right and left, Doric columns, uiches and compartments to first story; Corinthian columns, ornamented compartments to second story. Above the court appear two stories of plain windows of the back front of the great,

centre court.

Plate XLVIII. Specimen of the first story: the statues are gigantic,' twenty-five feet in height; heads, hel mets, and festoons of laurel leaves in the frize.

Plate XLIX. Specimen of the second story; statues gigantic, twentyone feet in height; reclining statues on pediments of the windows: lion, unicorn, shield, heads and foliage, between the capitals; roses and husks in the frize. To each story, thirty-two. statues as supporters to the two orders.

Hon. Horace Walpole is severe in his allusions to these designs of Jones; and when speaking of the Persian court, says, it 18 a picturesque thought, but without meaning or. utility Sir William Chambers, with more propriety, and certainly with more professional knowledge, thus delivers his sentiments: "There is not a nobler thought in all the remains of antiquity than Inigo Jones's Persian Court; the effect of which, if properly executed, would have been surprising and great in the highest degree t."

*Life of Jones. Treatise on Civil Architecture.

Mr

The real Epitaph, at Bristol, on Mrs. Mason, is that which begins, "Take, holy earth," &c.

"Whoe'er like me," &c. (originally printed in your vol.XLVII. page 240), is the production of Lord Viscount Palmerston; and was by him placed in memory of his Lady, in Romsay church, Hants.-I wish some Correspondent would supply the prose part of Lady Palmerston's Epitaph.

That on Mrs. Mason reads thus: "Mary the daughter of William Sharman, of Kingston-upon-Hull, esq. and wife of the Rev. William Mason, died March 27th, 1767, aged 28." Allow me also to request, from some of your Oxford Friends, the prose part of the Inscription at Cuddesdon, which precedes the six beautiful and well-known lines of Bishop Lowth (see vol. XLVII. p. 624.)

"Cara, vale," &c.

One more request; and I have done. There is an Epitaph, I am told, in Hertford Church, on Dr. Carr, the late worthy and learned Master of Hertford School, written by himself; with a copy of which it would be kind in some of his classical friends to indulge your Readers; many of whom are old enough to have admired two Epitaphs written by Dr. Carr in 1777; one of them on a Schoolmaster, the other on the Rev. Francis Fawkes; see vol. XLVII. pp. 87, 451.

As a small compensation, I send you another of the strait-forward Letters of Lord Foley, carefully preserved by the late Rev. George Ashby. Yours, &c. M. GREEN.

"Ja BAXTER, London, June 25, 1713. "I reed yis of the 22d instt and wonder Sam. Carwell should sell to the Cratemen at 20s. per Cord, when I am informed others sell to them at 30s. As

the contract with the Birmingham

Chapmen, if Iron is not abated in price, I hope they will continue, the agreement, if they should insist on an abatement, let me know it before you make a positive agreement with them, and any reasons you have for or against it. I would have you order some Gill to be put into the Ale. "I am your real friend,

FOLEY.

"If the Keeper hath any good Venison, bid him send hither a Buck every week till further order, by the Flying Coach."

Heads of John Baxter's Answer.

"Mr. Loyd, who is the greatest dealer at Birmingham, and the rest, speak of being abated, about 15s. per hundred, what they gave last year, but were not willing to make any agreement for any considerable quantity of iron till after Bristol fair, and till that is past, I think no reason can be given for or against making them such abatement, and think, if your Honour pleases to write to Mr. Wallis to inform you how the rates go at Bristol fair, it may not be amiss. Jo. BAXTER."

Mr. URBAN,

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