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confecrated to the tranquil manes of our worthies in the 
milder efforts of literature and of the fine arts. 
We ought not to quit the infide of the cathedral, with¬ 
out mentioning the manner in which the ftalls are difpofed 
in the choir, for the dignitaries and prebendaries.— On 
the fouth fide of the choir, the firff Hall at the weft end is 
that of the Dean. This dignified title is now in the pof- 
feffion of the bifhop of Lincoln, whofe hoofe or deanery 
is in Dean’s court, on the fouth fide of St. Paul’s church¬ 
yard. The entrance to the court is under an archway, 
the front of which is ornamented in an elegant ftyle with 
entablatures and feftoons, and a noble balcony fupported 
by well-adorned corbels. The dean is waited upon, and 
conduced, by a verger from his houfe to the church at a 
quarter before ten, and a quarter after three.—Oppofite 
the ftall of the dean on the north fide is that of the Arch¬ 
deacon of London.—The fecond ftall on the fouth fide is 
that of the Archdeacon of Effex; and oppofite is that of 
the Piaecentor.—The next on each fide are without fuper- 
fcription.—The third belongs to the Treafurer, that on 
the other fide to the Chancellor of the church.—The names 
of the following Halls on each fide are very fingular, and 
were obtained upon particular occafions, which it would 
be too long to enumerate. The fifth is called Finjbury, 
oppofite to Tottenhall ; the feventh Holbourn, oppofing 
S. Pancratius ; the fourteenth Oxgate, oppofed to Confumpta 
per mare .—The nineteenth ftall on the fouth fide is the 
feat of the Biftiop ; and, oppofite, that of the Lord-mayor. 
—The twenty-third ftall belongs to the Archdeacon of 
Colchefter ; and oppofite is that of the Archdeacon of 
Middlefex.—The number of flails is thirty-one on each 
fide; and moft of them have a fubfcription, that is, the 
firft words of a Pfalm in Latin ; as, BenediElus Dominus 
Deus~Bcatus virqui non abiit —which the prebendary “ is in 
duty bound to repeat daily in private, to the glory of God, 
and for more fully anfwering the intent of the founders 
and benefactors hereunto.” New View of London, 1708. 
■—The biftiop’s throne is adorned with two columns, finely 
carved, of the Corinthian order, and various other em- 
bellifhments: his feat is furmounted by a niche; and 
above, among doves.and palm-branches, two cherubs fup- 
port a mitre. The lord-mayor’s ftall has alfo its orna¬ 
ments : they confift of flowers and bunches of leaves; 
and in the centre two boys fuftain the city-mace.—The 
happy intertexture of lime-tree with vvainfcot, give to 
the whole of the work a rich and elegant appearance. 
Having now furveyed the infide of St. Paul’s, and re¬ 
ferred the reader to our general defcription of the build¬ 
ing in the article Architecture, we make our exit at 
the weft door, and defcend a majellic flight of lleps into 
a large area, well-paved, and furrounded by a railing of 
iron more f'olid than elegant; becaufe, being by contrad 
repainted at certain periods, it is done fo lavifhly with 
three thick coats of colour, that the natural fize of the 
fpindles goes on increafing at fuch a rate that they bid 
fair to touch each other in the courfe of half a century. 
From this place the eye is naturally directed towards Lud- 
gate-ftreet and hill ; but unfortunately the view is dif- 
torted by a twift which all the ingenuity of fir Chrifto- 
pher Wren could never avoid. He was bound to place 
the fabric according to the cardinal points of the compafs, 
and to lay the altar-part of the church towards the eaft, 
in conformity with all, or nearly all, Chriftian edifices. 
Indeed an attempt had been made to open a ftreet direHly 
in a line to the weft front through the buildings direftly 
oppofite; and Crefcent-place, in Bridge-ftreet, was begun 
as a fort of invitation to the perfefting of that plan ; for 
it is exactly in the dire&ion ; and, were it not for the 
great quantity of ufeful ground which muft be facrificed 
in that cafe to the alteration, and the difficulty, nay the 
impoffibility, of carrying the intended ftreet much farther 
in a ftraight line without meeting the river, it certainly 
would be a moft defirable improvement, fince it would 
difplay the unrivalled beauty of the majeftic portal of the 
Sritilh metropolitan church. 
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The part which is on the north and fouth fide of the 
edifice eaftwards from the north and fouth porticos is 
ufed as a cemetery for the pariffies of St. Gregory and 
Sr. Faith ; and an old tree on the north-eaft corner, that 
has long flood the feverity of the ftormy winds, which Gene¬ 
rally rage around the lofty heights of the noble pile, waves 
Hill as an ornament to the place, and brings to the think¬ 
ing mind the melancholy recollection of the numbers of 
mortals who now deep in cold clay under its annually, 
verdant boughs. Single and alone, it Hands as an unde¬ 
ceiving mark for the neighbours to come fooner or later 
to reft from their toils under its (hade ; and, by its nod¬ 
ding in the air as they pafs by, feems to beckon their 
bodies to the place of repofe, while its head, towering in 
the ikies, points out where their better part will fpeed its 
flight after death.—Fond of immortality, and cheriihing 
the idea of furviving himfelf, man has always been ready 
to furround his fepulclire with perennial plants and ever¬ 
green trees, as if, when the body has crumbled into duff, 
the foul might iteal itfelf away from the unutterable joys 
of heaven, to vifit the lonely place where its remains, its 
inanes txuviee, lie neglected or unknown, and feel an in-, 
creafe of liappinefs at finding them fituated in what, dur¬ 
ing its fublunary life, was called an agreeable and pleafing 
fpot. Thus, and confequentJy to this opinion, let it be 
ever fo erroneous or atlealt doubtful, the boxand yew trees, 
with the cyprefs, have obtained the honour of (hading 
with their never-fading foliage, the mansions of the dead 
—and thus many of our fellow-creatures did, and now- 
a-days Hill do, feleft, while alive, a pretty place to lay their 
cold and unfeeling bones. 
But let us ceaie this mournful ftrain, and confider at¬ 
tentively, if worth our while, the monument which has 
been ereded there to queen Anne, under whofe reign St. 
Paul’s was perfected; and which to the paflengers apl 
pears to ltand moft aukwardly, as it does not leem, at 
firft fight, to be in a central direction with the portico 
of the church.—We (hall not ftain our pages with the 
infertion of a trivial epigram alluding to the fituation 
of the ftatue; but ffiall rather moft ferioufly notice the 
apparent want of refped and attention in thofe to whom 
the care of fuch a monument properly belongs, in per¬ 
mitting that the fooliffi frolic of a drunken failor (as it is 
reported) fhould have doomed the poor image to be nofe- 
lej's for ever. A nofe, or even the whole of the head, nay, 
all that is there, might be eafily made better, and more 
creditable to the guardians and truftees of the church, with 
half the money bellowed upon civic dinners or fetes.— 
This monument of national gratitude to the queen has 
little more than national gratitude to recommend it; for, 
although it has been praifed by many writers, it cannot 
bear the near infpedion of an eye well exercifed in 
the furvey of works of art.—-We read in leveral authors,- 
who have idly copied each other, that this piece of Itatu- 
ary is executed in white marble. We write with the ob- 
jed nearly under our eyes ; we have examined it minutely, 
and we find that the whole is of ltone, without any pre- 
tenfion to appear like marble. The ftatue of the queen 
is aukward, bending ungracefully forward ; and the body 
appears as if cafed moft uncomfortably in a ltone Iheath. 
The pedeftal has no bas-reliefs nor ornaments; and is of an 
indefcribable form, unlefs we may be underltood in call¬ 
ing it a fort of parallelogram with fwelling tides. Bri¬ 
tannia, holding a. fpear in her right hand, is fitting diredjy 
below the right foot of the ftatue; and her left fupports 
a fliield with the arms of England, impaling Scotland, and 
q uartering Franee and Ireland. On file other fide fits France 
in a robe embroidered with lleurs-de-lys, holding a mural 
crown in her left hand ; the other, which is now no more, 
was, if we judge from the fituation of the arm, in the atti¬ 
tude of holding a flag or Half, the greater part of which has 
dilappeared. Ireland, who retains the wrecks of her broken 
harp; and America, with a mutilated lizard at her feet, 
one of which treads upon a fculptured head, (the meaning 
cf which we have not been able to unravel ,) are placed 
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