novelty, so dangerous to good taste in any system long established; 
because it is much safer to depart entirely from any given style, than 
to admit changes and modifications in its proportions, that tend to 
destroy its character. Thus, when we are told, that “ a Pediment is 
old fashioned, and a Doric Column too thick and clumsy,” the corrup- 
tion of Grecian Architecture may be anticipated. And since the rage for 
Gothic has lately prevailed, the sudden erection of spruce Gothic Villas, 
threatening to vitiate the pure style of those venerable remains of 
ancient English grandeur, which are more often badly imitated in new 
buildings, than preserved or restored in the old. It is not therefore 
with a view to supersede the known styles, that 1 am become an advo- 
cate for a new one, but to preserve their long established proportions 
pure and unmixed by fanciful innovations. 
Immediately after I had reconciled my mind to the adoption of this 
new style at Sesincot, I received the Prince’s commands to visit Brighton, 
and there saw in some degree realized the new forms which I had ad- 
mired in drawings. I found in the gardens of the Pavilion a stupendous 
and magnificent Building, which, by its lightness, its elegance, its bold- 
ness of construction, and the symmetry ot its proportions, does credit 
both to the genius of the Artist, and the good taste of his Royal Em- 
ployer. Although the outline of the Dome resembles rather a Turkish 
Mosque than the Buildings of Hindustan, yet its general character is 
distinct from either Grecian or Gothic, and must both please and sur- 
prise every one not bigotted to the forms of either. 
When therefore I was commanded to deliver my opinion concerning 
the style of Architecture best adapted to the Additions and Garden 
Front for the Pavilion, I could not hesitate in agreeing that neither the 
Grecian nor the Gothic style could be made to assimilate with what 
had so much the character of an Eastern building. I considered all the 
different styles of different countries, from a conviction of the danger of 
attempting to invent any thing entirely new. The Turkish was objec- 
tionable, as being a corruption of the Grecian; the Moorish, as a bad 
model of the Gothic; the Egyptian was too cumbrous for the character 
of a villa; the Chinese too light and trifling for the outside, however it 
may be applied to the interior; and the specimens from Ava were still 
more trifling and extravagant. Thus, if any known style were to be 
adopted, no alternative remained, but to combine from the Architecture 
of Hindustan such forms as might be rendered applicable to the purpose. 
