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it has been long fafhionable to call him, riles with ele¬ 
gance and majelty that of his fon the Right Honourable 
William Pitt, prime minifter of this country for a long 
laple of years; and whole fyltem of politics, much blamed 
in his life-time, (eems yet, by having been perfevered in, 
to have ultimately brought about the extraordinary and 
fortunate changes which we have lately witnefied, and at 
which the whole continent feems to revive and rejoice. 
Mr. Pitt is reprefented in the coftume of Chancellor of 
the Exchequer, and in the attitude of fpeaking. He Hands 
upon a rock apparently emerging from the ocean, and in¬ 
tended to reprefent, allufively, theifiand of Great Britain. 
On his right we perceive a handfome figure of Apollo, 
the god who in mythological lore prefides over the high 
fciences, and Ihine* upon uncommon minds with all the 
genuine warmth of his tranfcendant rays. The anatomi¬ 
cal part of the figure is, we think, faultlefs; and, by 
throwing a mantle upon the inferior parts of the god, the 
artilt has happily alluded to that purity of manners and 
chaftity of condud, which, befides his other good quali¬ 
ties, difiinguilhed Mr. Pitt during the whole courfe of his 
life, a praile fully bellowed upon him by all his moft ftre- 
nuous political opponents, for enemies he had none. The 
god of eloquence is moft appropriately placed on the other 
lide, with his diftinguilhing attributes. Mercury, accord¬ 
ing to the fable, united to the faculty of elocution the 
profound knowledge of traffic ; and, in both points of view, 
he is properly placed on the monument of one of the moft 
profound financiers England ever produced. Though rather 
heavy, the figure has fome of the gufio of the antique, 
and Hands well there; were it not for its reminding us 
how much, whilft trade was flourilhing, the private purfes 
of individuals were prefied and fqueezed by this favourite 
of the fon of Maia.—Thus far, we have a good pyra¬ 
midal group: but our Phidias wanted height: and he had 
nearly fulfilled his fcheme, when, by a hidden but not 
very original ftroke of genius, he eked out Britannia on 
a fea-horle, and placed them forward, nearly in the lame 
•way as Neptune is on the monument of Nelfon. This 
figure is however well fet, full of animation, and ready to 
hurl the thunderbolt againft the enemies of Great Britain; 
and, indeed, the naval victories which have entwined the 
laurel with the civic oak of Pitt’s adminiftration will never 
be recollected without being connected with the remem¬ 
brance of the name which his admirers have beftowed on 
him, “the Pilot who weathered the dorm.” Riding the 
fubmiffive waves which (he rules, Britannia feems to bear 
in her features the grand character of the whole nation : 
Parcere f ubjeEiis tt debt liar efuperhs ; “ To fpare the vanquifli’d, 
and fubdue the proud.”—This monument (like Nelfon’s) is 
fpoiled by the long Cornelius-Nepos-like hiftory of the 
man above, in a fort of would-be epitaph, which is as far 
from the concife nicety of the lapidary-ftyle as Pamela is 
from a fong of Anacreon Moore, or a page of biography 
from Piron’s epitaph. Mr. Canning is the writer ; and it 
would do him great honour any-where elfe.—The bare 
name of the man would have been enough for thofe who 
knew the liiftory of thefe times; and the infeription is not 
the hundredth part of what thofe who did not know him 
ou°ht to be told.—The fculptor’s name is written on one 
fide of the monument; and we think he will be gratified 
by our remarks, which, though fomewhat exhilarated with 
the wholelome acid of well-motived feverity, will (till 
(how that we have not been without feelings of approba¬ 
tion, and even of admiration, when we Hood for the firft 
time before his performance. 
A place remains vacant, facing the monument of lord 
Nelfon. Now that peace has (tilled the din of war, that 
the fword is (heathed, and the prow of the navy is lafely 
anchored at the (hore; we may expert fome great civic cha¬ 
racter to fill up the vacuum—l'ome mighty lord-mayor, who 
may (tern the torrent of incroachment on the ancient rights 
of the city ; or fome devoted patriot, who will, by galling 
fpeeches, teazingaddrefies, and other city-rockets, force the 
yelurtant minifter to put an end to the fiend called the in¬ 
come tax.—We have noticed, however, that a ftatue was 
placed in the Royal Exchange to a living worthy, fir John 
Barnard; now, (hould iuch an idea again enter the minds 
of our patriotic citizens, it would not long be a quef- 
tion to wliofe honour a ftatue (hould be placed oppofite 
to Nelson —we doubt not but every voice would cry out 
Wellington ! 
We now face about, and afeend the Heps. We pre- 
fently come to the chamberlain’s office, which lies to the 
right. In this place apprentices are bound, enrolled, 
and made free of the city. Here complaints between 
mailers and their apprentices are heard and determined 
by the chamberlain in perlon ; and in an inner room are 
preferved the duplicates of the diplomas prefented by 
the city to thofe who have deferved the freedom of the 
firft city in the world. They are moft of them beauti¬ 
fully written by the famous calligrapher of our age, Mr. 
Tomkins, of Sermon-lane; and decorated by the in¬ 
genious fancy and elegant pencil of the late Mr. Sharpe, 
and of his ion Mr. T. Sharpe, of Bennet’s hill, herald- 
painters. They are the beft fpecimen of this fort of en- 
luminures ; and, for beauty of colouring, nicety of touch, 
and verlatility of invention, cannot be exceeded. The 
chamberlain's office is alfo decorated with proof prints of 
Hogarth’s Idle and Induftrious Apprentices, and fome 
other engravings. 
Fronting the fteps is the lord-mayor’s court, in which 
the petty feffions for the city, and the fittings of the 
court of King’s Bench, are held. This room is adorned 
with paintings of the four cardinal virtues. On the left 
hand is the court of Common Pleas, over the entrance 
into which is a painting of the Relief of Gibraltar by Lord 
Howe. The court of Exchequer fits up Hairs. The dif¬ 
ferent apartments in this part of the hall are ufed occa- 
fionally by the commiffioners of bankrupts. At the back 
of the hall is a very elegant room for the lord-mayor, al¬ 
dermen, and common-council, to hold their courts in. 
In this chamber is a capital collertion of paintings, pre¬ 
fented to the city of London by the late alderman Boydell, 
among which are Mr. Copley’s celebrated pirture of the 
Siege of Gibraltar, the Death of Lord Chatham, and leve- 
ral allegorical paintings by the late academician Mr. _Ri- 
gaud and others. 
When we think of lord-mayor’s day and the great do¬ 
ings going on there on the 9th of November, we naturally 
feek tor the kitchen, the moft elfential requifite of fefti- 
vity. We find it adjoining to the north-weft part of the 
hall. It was erefted by fir John Shaw, who, for the firft 
time, gave the mayor’s fealt here in the year 1500; thefe 
had been formerly given at Grocers’ Hall. But certainly 
not (ince that time, nor perhaps fince the days of Edward 
III. of chivalrous and glorious memory, has this hall ever 
witnefied fuch an entertainment as was given by the cor¬ 
poration to the imperial and royal vifitors who graced the 
city with their prefence on the 18th of laft month, (June 
1814.) Since thofe victorious times, whether wc coniider 
the dignity of the guefts, or the extraordinary circum- 
ftances which caufed and attended their prefence in this 
metropolis, the hall never refounded with more welcome 
(houts of heart-felt rejoicing, or blazed with a greater and 
more merited glory.—Long will the city boaft of the honour 
(he received from, as well as of the fplendid teltimonies 
of refpertful admiration (he has (hown to, the monarchs 
and other princes, entertained at the lord-mayor’s board. 
The hands of thefe illuftrious foreigners were not reeking 
with human blood ; neither came they, like the kings of 
Scotland and France, as prifonersin this country; but, af¬ 
ter having wiped with the olive-branch at Paris the una¬ 
voidable I'pbts which the general foe had forced upon 
them, they of their own choice alighted here, like angels 
of peace after having performed the orders of the Almighty. 
They were met by the firft magiltrate of the firft city in the 
world, as the Father of the Faithful was received by the 
monarch of Peace, the king of Salem—but, inftead of the 
(polls of conquered nations carried in triumph before them 9 
