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when visiting the Kitchen Gardens. The walls of the interior 
were decorated with five large bronze relievi, which had apparently 
long been lost sight of. The attention of Sir John E the 
Surveyor r of the Pictures to Her Majesty, was drawn to them, and 
as the result of his report, the Office of Works dochded upon 
their removal. 
Sir John Robinson gave the following account of them in the 
T'imes for June 4th. e, however, fell into an error in stating 
that they were nawed 1 in Kew Palace. 
“TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 
* SIR, 
* PENDING the discovery of the original locality and reason 
of being of the historical monument of which these relievi doubt- 
less formed an integral part, it will perhaps be not uninteresting 
to give a brief account of the subjects which they represent 
“This, as I expected, has required very little research. 
“ The identification of the bronzes has shown, in the first place, 
that they illustrate several distinct events and not a single occur- 
rence, and, in the next, that the date of their production must 
put somewhat later than I had thought to be the case—namely, 
shortly after 1687 rather than 1680. 
“ The earliest — in point of date, which we may call No. 1, 
doubtless refers to the quarrel of Louis XIV. with the Pope 
Alexander VII., on apaes of the affray at the French Embassy 
in Rome w ith the Pope’s Corsican guard, which served as a 
pretext for t the seizure of Avignon (166 
“This is the subject in which the erection of a pyramid is seen 
in the backgrou nd. 
^ E 2isthe relievo in which are the arms of Sweden on a 
r, and in which one of the personages has the Danish Order 
of the depka ant. 
- “This illustrates the overruling by Louis of the Elector of 
Brandenburg and the King of Denmark, in 1679) of his ally, the 
King of Sweden, at the een of Msn (1679 
* No. 3 apparently represents the submission Wi the Republic s 
Genoa, when the Doge and four of the leading Senators were se 
as suppliants to Versailles (1685 
s : ave no doubt have reference es esi further 
ia he 
and I have, in fact, an impression that the bronze is still extant. 
As the date of pae Siamese Embassy was 1684, it seems not im- 
bends sers may be a missing relievo from the present series. 
3 Su Sido of all these t tran sactions will be found in 
Voltaire’ ip “Sidele de Louis Quatorze 
ae | Pin 
* Your obedient servant, 
. “107, Harley Street, June Ist. “J, C. ROBINSON.” 
