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furniture is extremely magnificent. In the veftibule, at 
the entrance, is painted the Battle of Hochftet, in which 
the molt remarkable fcene is the taking the French gene¬ 
ral, marlhal Tallard, and feveral other officers of great 
diftinCtion, prifoners. The figures of the great duke of 
Marlborough, prince Eugene of Savoy, and general Ca- 
dogan, are finely executed. The expenfe of this building 
exceeded forty thoufand pounds. 
Having pretty accurately furveyed this neighbourhood, 
•we now take our route through Piccadilly. The name of 
this long and famous ftreet feems to have originated from 
a garning-houfe ereCted there, and much frequented at one 
time by the nobility. The French word peccadillc , “ ve¬ 
nial fin, (light deviation from reftitude,” may have given 
fome reafons for the name of Piccadilly. Lord Clarendon, 
in his Hiftory of the Rebellion, defcribes it as “a place 
called Pickadilly, which was a fair houfe for entertain¬ 
ment, and gaming, with handfome gravel-walks, with 
(hade, and where were an upper and lower bowling-green, 
whither very many of the nobility, and gentry of the bed 
quality, reforted, both for exercife and converfation.” 
This was in the year 1640 : the ftreet was completed in 
the year 164a, as far as the prefent Berkeley-ftreet. The 
firft good houfe built in it was Burlington-houfe ; the fite 
of which was chofen by its noble founder, “ becaufe he 
was certain no one would build beyond him.” It is on 
the north fide of the ftreet, and fenced in with a brick 
wall, about two hundred and twenty feet in length, in 
which are three gates for theadmiffion of carriages. The 
front of the houfe is of (lone, and is remarkable for the 
beauty of the defign and workmanfliip. It has two wings, 
joined by a circular colonnade of the Doric order. The 
front was built by the father of the late earl of Burlington, 
and is more modern than the houfe. The apartments are 
fn a fine tafte 5 and the ftaircafe painted with great fpirit, 
by Ricci. This houfe at this moment contains the greateft 
curiofity in England, the Elgin-marbles, the works of 
Phidias, the finett fculptor in the world, who died 432 years 
before Chrift. They were taken from the Acropolis of 
Athens.—On the 21ft of June laft, this houfe and its 
beautiful fpacious gardens were the fcene of a molt ele¬ 
gant fete, given by the members of White’s Club to the 
royal and illuftrious perfonages who were in London at 
that time. A ball was of courfe a part of the entertain¬ 
ment, which was graced by a vaft number of the mod 
beautiful and elegant women in the world ; and we are 
told that the emperor of Ruffia danced till five in the 
morning. At p. 367, we noticed how poffible it was to 
get rid of an iinpoflibility ; in plain Engliffi, how futile 
it was to fay that the prince-regent, as l'overeign, could 
«iot attend at a fubfcription-entertainment: he attended 
at this, a contrivance having been hit upon to prevent the 
princefs of Wales from being prefent. 
Devonlhire-houfe, built upon the fite of the ancient 
manfion of the Berkeley family, is farther weft, and pre- 
fents a noble appearance.—On the north fide of Burling- 
ton-gardens, is Paget-houfe, the town-refidence of the 
earl of Uxbridge.—But, leaving thefe (tately manfions, 
the tenants of which are but fleeting guefts, we turn to 
an object which generally attracts, and in many points 
deferves, the attention of the perambulator : we mean 
St. James’s church, on the fouth fide of Piccadilly. It is 
one of the churches that owes its rife to the rapid increafe 
of buildings in this part of the town ; for, the church of 
St. Martin in the Fields being too fmall for the inhabi¬ 
tants, and too remote from thofe in this quarter, Henry 
Jermyn, earl of St. Alban’s, with other perfons of dis¬ 
tinction in that neighbourhood, ereCted this edifice at the 
expenfe of about (even thoufand pounds. It was built 
in the reign of Charles II. and, though a large fabric, 
was confidered as a chapel of eafe to St. Martin’s. It 
was confecrated in 1684, and dedicated to St. James, in 
compliment to the duke of York ; and the next year, 
when that prince had afcended the throne, the diftriCt for 
which it was built was by act of parliament feparated from 
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St. Martin’s, and made a diftindt parifh. The Walls are 
brick, fupported by ruftic quoins of (tone ; and the win¬ 
dows, which are large, are alfo cafed'with (tone. The 
tower at the weft end rifes regularly from the ground to 
a confiderable height, and is crowned with a neat well- 
conftrudted fpire; and furniihed with a clock more ufeful 
than elegant. In this church is a moll beautiful baptifma! 
font, of white marble, by Grinlyn Gibbons. It is fup¬ 
ported by a column, reprefenting the Tree of the Know¬ 
ledge of Good and Evil, on which is the ferpent offering 
the fruit to our firft parents, who are (landing beneath. 
On the font are three pieces of fculpture : John baptizing 
Chrift ; Philip baptizing the Eunuch ; and Noah’s Ark, 
with the dove bearing the olive-branch. We muft refer 
our readers to what we have faid on the fubjedl of adorn¬ 
ing baptifmal fonts when we furveyed the church of St. 
Margaret, Lothbury. We find here nearly the fame in¬ 
tention in defign ; and the execution is even fuperior.— 
Over the altar are fome exquifite carvings in wood by the 
fame artift, w’nofe elegant and Heady chifel feems to have 
had the privilege of beltowing life on whatever it touched. 
The principal objeCt is a pelican feeding her young, an 
ancient emblem of Chrift who (lied his blood to redeem 
mankind. The allegory is unfortunately without ground ; 
for it is not true that the female of this folitary inhabi¬ 
tant of the cliffs, and great tyrant of the marftiy (hores, 
(where (lie catches the ft rayed tribes of young fiffies, and 
carries them in the bag of her beak to her craving neftlings,) 
ever draws blood from her bread to feed her offspring. 
The attitude of fcratching her feathers and baring her 
peCtoral bone to perform the duty of incubation, has led 
ntoft innocently to the miftake. However, tendernefs, 
maternal love, and charity, are equally fymbolized by ei¬ 
ther of thefe allufions.—The organ was prefented to this 
church by queen Mary, the confort of William III. in 
1691; three years after the revolution.—The parilh is a 
reCtory, in the gift of the bifliop of London ; and the 
church is generally well attended on Sundays, and on 
Wednefdays and Fridays in Lent, on account of the ex¬ 
cellent fermons that are preached there by feveral very 
popular orators. 
We find nothing worthy of notice on this fide the (treef, 
till we reach that curious Egyptian Temple, called Bullock’s 
Mufeum, containing one of the mod complete cohesions 
of natural fubjeCts and works of art now exifting. This 
building was ereCted in 1811-12, by Mr. William Bullock, 
as an eftablifliment for the advancement of the fcience of 
natural hiftory. In magnitude and expenfe, it is pre¬ 
fumed to be unparalleled as the work of an individual. 
The fpecimens it contains are arranged according to the 
Linnsean fyftem; and confift of upwards of fifteen thoufand 
fpecies of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fiffies, infeCts, (hells, 
corals, &c. which have been collected at an expenfe exceed¬ 
ing thirty thoufand pounds. The building was defigned 
and executed under the direction of Mr. P. F. Robinfon. 
In choofing the Egyptian llyle, the architect has endea*. 
voured to afford a correct fpecimen of that mode of build¬ 
ing, of which we have not another in this country. The 
artift has fucceeded in his attempt; for the architecture is 
claffically Egyptian, the forms and ornaments having been 
fcrupuloufiy copied from the prints which accompany the 
“ Voyage en Egypte,” publiffied by Denon. The interior 
furpafles much the expectation of the vifitor, who, inltead of 
a few farcophagi and mummies, embalmed ibifes, and dried 
alligators, finds fpecimens of nearly all the works of nature. 
The Temple is divided in two parts. The large room, 
with galleries round it, contains the birds, fifties, amphibia, 
infeCts, &c. belides many works of art, particularly various 
fpecimens of ancient and modern armour, and curiofities 
from America, Africa, and Afia; and is called the London.' 
Mufeum. This may be feen feparately, the price only one 
(hilling j and indeed here are curiofities enough to oc¬ 
cupy the attention as long as it can be kept on the ftretch 
at one time without fatigue.—The other part contains 
the quadrupeds j and (according to the modern tafte for 
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