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the houfe Is a very handfibme garden, extending to St. 
James’s Park, in the wall of which there was a gate, with 
a fummer-houfe over it; but, though elegant, it has been 
lately taken down. 
The interior of the houfe is extremely magnificent, and 
the alterations that have been going on at various times 
for thefe ten years palt have amounted to a valt expenfe. 
On a debate in the houfe of commons, on Friday, July 15, 
1.814, ^ vvas obferved by Mr. Tierney, that there was 
“ a fqrn for Carlton-houfe of 2,2,000!. for upholders and 
or mqulu, for clocks and watches, and all the reft ; laft 
year it was faid that 6i,oool. were fpent for the infide of 
Carlton-houfe ; yet this year Carlton-houfe cofts 76,0001. 
■what with wardrobe, and board of works, and new rooms, 
and fo forth ; all this on the back of 6i,oool. fo that 
Carlton-houfe alone in fifteen months colt 137,0001.”— 
Mr. Tierney alfo mentioned “an outfit of 100,cool, ex¬ 
pended not long ago.” If this ftatement be correct, de¬ 
luding even the iwelling of furnifhers’ bills, and ofher 
modes of pilfering the public money or of diftorting it 
from its oftenfible objeft, no wonder if the interior of 
this princely refidence furpafies all manfions of that de- 
fcription in Europe. The furniture is every-where mod 
elegant and talteful ; the ornamental part has, perhaps, 
no rival in the world for neatnefs and coitlinefs; and the 
fmall collection of paintings which enrich the walls, cer¬ 
tainly contains, although in a limited number, the belt 
fpecimens of fome of the molt famous artilts. 
Adjoining nearly to Carlton-houfe, we find, at the end 
of Warwick-ftreet, that creeps obfcu.re.ly behind that limb 
of Cockfpur-ftreet which extends from the filverfmith’s to 
the entrance of Pall Mall, Warwick-houfe, the manfion 
aftigned for the refidence of her royal highnefs the princefs 
Charlotte of Wales, upon her attaining the age of eigh¬ 
teen ; but from which (lie was fnddenly withdrawn, for 
reafons which have not been explained to the public, to 
be kept under the more immediate infpeftion of the prince- 
regent her father, and of the queen her grandmother. 
Upon this occafion, an extraordinary circumftance oc¬ 
curred : the young princefs, who had retired as was fup- 
pofed to prepare for obeying her father’s orders, fuddcnly 
quitted the houfe and ran into the ftreet, where (he jumped 
into a hackney-coach, and haftened to throw herfelf into 
the arms of her mother : (he was, however, obliged to 
return. 
Pall Mall has long been a favourite fpot for tafteful and 
fafhionable exhibitions. We have already noticed the 
Britifh Gallery ; and might have mentioned a very charm¬ 
ing exhibition of the works of Hogarth, but that it has 
lately been removed.—Mr. Weft’s latt great work, “Chrift 
rejeCfed by the Jews,” is now (Sept. 1814.) open to the 
public in a large room, one of the appendages to the eftate 
of Carlton-houfe, and formerly the Royal Academy. 
One caufe of aftonifhraent at viewing this great perform¬ 
ance, is that the artift Mr. Weft, prefident for many years 
of the Royal Academy of Painting, and in his 75th year, 
achieved it in lefs than two years; and he declares it to be 
his fiftieth annual exhibition tothepublic without an omif- 
fi on .—It has been a eonftant practice with thofie who have 
attempted to treat any tragical iubject of high import, ei¬ 
ther in poetry, fculpture, or painting, to combine terror 
and pity together, in order that, working at the fame time 
upon the heart and the mind, thefe two powerful agents 
ill on Id have their full effcCl in exciting the greateft fil¬ 
tered: in the beholder. It is owing to this tort of magic, 
that performances, in which thefe two powers are properly 
employed, have fecured to themfelves and their authors 
theadmiration of the world for ages, from Homer to Milton, 
from Sophocles to Shakefpeare, from the painters and 
fculptors of Athens and Corinth, down to our contem¬ 
porary artifts. Upon this general and unfailing principle 
the venerable prefident of the royal academy has con¬ 
ceived and defigned this great picture. The defign may 
' be divided into five principal groups. On the right of 
the jperfortnance, before one of the porticos which adorn 
the Gabbatha, or paved court belongingto the PretonutrfV 
(a majeftic building, fuppofed to have been erected under 
the direction of Herod the Great,) ftands the firft group, 
compofed of our Saviour, the guards attending him, the 
grateful centurion, and others. The noble and elegant 
figure of Pilate conntfts the firft group with the fecond, 
which contains the high prieft Caiaphas, followed by the 
rulers of the people, and fome of the molt inveterate ene¬ 
mies of Chrift, mixed in the crowd with Peter, Jofeph of 
Arimathea, and a few other difciples. The third group, 
contraliing that of Chrift by the chara.fter of its perfon- 
ages, yet bearing a piftorial analogy to it by its palfive- 
nefs and repofe, comprehends the murderer Barabbas, the 
thieves condemned to be crucified, and fome Roman fol- 
diers. In oppofition to this, and in perfect fympathy 
with that of Chrift, the group of the holy women appears 
on the foreground; it contains the mother of Jefus'fup- 
ported by St. John, and furrounded by feveral women at¬ 
tached by affection, refpeft, or gratitude, to our Saviour ; 
before them, Magdalen throws herfelf upon the crofs ; 
and, contralting the figure of the high prieft, unites this 
group with the fifth, which, made up of the Roman 
guards, the executioners and liftors preparing the inftru- 
ments for the crucifixion, and oppofed molt ingeniouflv 
to the figures above, clofes an uninterrupted chain of molt 
intereftmg objects. The area upon which this grand epic 
drama is dilplayed, rneafures 16 feet by 23, and con¬ 
tains about a hundred figures, among which not one can 
be pointed out that does not take evidently fome (hare in 
the affiion. Every one is alive and at his poft, aifts in his 
own character, and appears to be an indifpenfable part of 
the whole; which exemplifies mod completely the prin¬ 
ciple laid down by De Marfy, in his elegant Latin poem 
upon Painting : 
- Elingui quoniam natura negavit 
PiElura eloquiuvi, gejius fimulacra dijertos 
Saltern habeant, ct muta licet Piclura loquatur , 
By nature dumb, yet eloquent by art, 
The Graphic Mule mult, what (lie feels, exprefs 
In fpeaking geffures—and, by figr.s, addrefs, 
Through wond’ring eyes, the paflions of the heart. 
As to correftnefs of drawing, harmony of colouring, and 
truth or expreflion, qualiti.es which are fo confpicuous 
from one fide of the canvas to the other, we may leave 
them to the fpectator’s judgment; and conclude by ob- 
ferving, that, were the different groups feparately pre¬ 
ferred to the eye, each of them would work imprefiively 
upon the feelings of the beholder; no wonder, therefore, 
if united together, and mutually fupporting each other 
by analogies and oppofitions, by contralts and fympathies, 
they fo irrefiftibly call forth warm exprefiions of unre- 
ltrained applaufe. 
To the weft' of Carlton-houfe, and behind the houfes in 
Pall Mall, ftands Marlborough-houfe, built in the reign 
of queen Anne, at tire public expenfe. This is a very 
large brick edifice, ornamented with ftone, and built in a 
peculiar ta/le. The front is extenlive ; and the wings are 
decorated at the corners with a ftone rufiic. The top was 
originally finithed with a baluftrade; but that has’been 
finite altered, and the firft ftory is crowned with an attic 
raifed above the cornice. A fmall colonade extends on 
the fide of the area next the wings ; and the oppofite fide 
of the area is occupied by offices. When this ftrudlure 
was finifhed, the late dnehefs of Mariborough intended 
to have opened a way to it from Pall Mall, directly in the 
front, as appears from the manner in which' the court¬ 
yard is formed ; but, fir Robert Walpole having pur- 
chafed the houfe before it, and not being upon good terms 
with the duchefs, (he was prevented from executing her 
defign. The front, next the park, refembles the other ; 
only, inftead of the two middle windows in the wings, 
there are niches for ftatues ; and, inftead of the area in 
front, there is a defeent by fteps into the garden. The 
apartments within are noble and well difpofed; and the 
furniture 
