The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 26 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 26 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

5.  New House now building.

6.  Carlton-street.

7.  Continuation of Waterloo-place, opening to the Park, with an ornamental Circus in the centre.

8.  United Service Club House and Garden.

9.  Athenaeum Club House, with Pleasure-Grounds behind.

10.  Travellers’ Club House.

11.  Heralds’ College.

12.  Cockspur-street.

13.  Pall Mall.

14.  New Stable Yard.

15.  Marlborough-house-street.

16.  St. James’s Palace.

17.  Present Stable Yards.

18.  Duke of York’s House.

19.  Late Carriage-road in the Park.

20.  New Carriage-road, recently the Northern Mall.

21.  The new Mall, now the Northern Mall.

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INTENDED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PARKS.

[Illustration:  Intended Improvements in the Parks.]

22.  A Splendid Triumphal Arch, in the front of the New Palace.

23.  The King’s Palace, on the site of Buckingham House.

24.  Terrace behind the Palace; there is also a grand Terrace fronting the gardens.

25.  Palace Garden, laid out in a picturesque style; including a line sheet of ornamental water, with a carriage-way from an entrance at Hyde Park Corner.

26.  The Green Park.

27.  The King’s Stables, including those recently built, and others which are in contemplation.

28.  James-street, leading from Buckingham Gate to Westminster, with thirteen new houses fronting the Park.

29.  Stafford-row, with ten new houses, extending to the Gun Tavern, and continuing to Ward’s-row, from whence Arabella-row runs, at the side of the King’s Stable.

A road extends from Great George-street, Westminster, through Bird-cage walk, to Grosvenor-place, for private carriages, on the side of which, marked 5 in the plan, (in front of the present barracks,) a row of new houses will be erected.

The present Guard house at Buckingham Gate will be removed, and a new Guard house erected close to the wall of the new stables in James-street.

There may, perhaps, be some alteration in the distribution of the interior of the Park, as to the form of the paths; but the water will assume, as nearly as possible, the present shape, and the public will have access to the whole of the Park.

Lamentations long and loud have been poured forth on the late neglected state of St. James’s Park.  An intelligent home tourist in 1813, says, “It concerned me to observe that this park presents at this time a neglected appearance, unworthy of a metropolitan royal park, adjoining to the constant residence of the court.”  He goes on to say, “My heart ached, and the tears started from my eyes as I brought to mind the crowds of beauty, rank, and fashion, which till within these few years used to be displayed in the centre mall on evenings during

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