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LEWIS RESTORED, 



This Tablet 

 was placed 

 by 



Richard Marouess of Buckingham, 

 . A.S. 1816. 



Near Lord Cobham's Pillar is 



THE QUEEN'S BUILDING, 



Dedicated by George Marquess of Buckingham to Her 

 present Majesty, originally designed by Kent. It has been 

 altered, by the addition of a Corinthian Portico standing on 

 an elevated basement story, with a flight of steps in front, 

 which lead to the interior apartment, decorated in 1790. 

 The room is ornamented with Scaiola columns and pilas- 

 ters, supporting a trunk ceiling, taken from the design of 

 the Temple of the Sun and Moon at Rome : at the West 

 end is a Medallion of Britannia dejected, and with her spear 

 reversed, and on the tablet the following inscription : 



Desideriis icta fidelibus 

 Quaeret Patria Caesarem. 



For Caesar's life, with anxious hopes and fears, 

 Britannia lifts to Heav'n a nation's tears. 



On the East end is a Medallion of Britannia with a palm, 

 and sacrificing to Esculapius, on the recovery of the King 

 from his illness in 1789 ; and on the tablet the following 

 inscription : 



