OF 
THE SITUATION, CHARACTER, 
AND 
CIRCUMSTANCES. 
T-HE Pavillon, originally erected on a small scale, with very little 
adjoining territory, is now become surrounded by houses on every side; 
and what was only a small fishing town, is now become equal to some 
cities in extent and population. Such must ever be the influence of a 
Royal Residence, which cannot long exist in solitude. The situation 
of the Pavilion is therefore that of a Palace surrounded by other houses, 
to which great extent of garden is neither possible nor desirable: yet 
the ground on which the Pavilion is built (including its offices and 
gardens) occupies more space than generally belongs to houses built in 
towns, and includes as much ground as is necessary for a garden so 
situated. This supposes the proper distinction to be made between 
Garden and Park Scenery, which have of late been confounded : the 
Park may imitate nature in its wilder forms, but the Garden must still 
be an artificial object. The Park, by its formal clumps, its sweeping 
plantations, and meandring gravel roads, has of late become an over- 
grown and slovenly garden; while the Garden, by its naked lawn, and 
its invisible boundary, has become a mere grass field, without interest 
or animation. The magnificent terraces of former times have been 
sloped to unite with the adjoining pasture; while shrubs and flowers, 
and all the gay accompaniments of a garden, are banished from the 
windows of the Palace, that it may appear to stand in the middle of a 
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