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fouth fide of the f'ark, IrrtittedSately beyond the New Road, 
Of the iize of Ruffel-fquare, (the larged in London;) with 
li ftreet at each end, of the fame breadth as Portland Place, 
leading to it. The houfes on the north fide of this fquare 
and ftreet will enjoy the feenery of the Park, as will alio 
the two great Itreets which furround the middle park. 
“ The houfes before deferibed, and the park which they 
Cnclofe, are fituated in the middle of Marybone Park, and 
occupy 250 acres, leaving a6o acres round them, which 
it is propofed to appropriate in the following manner. A 
circular road to be made round the boundary, leaving a 
breadth of 120 feet next the boundary-line for building; 
the road to be 50 feet wide, and the remaining ground in 
front of the road to be laid out and planted as lawns or 
parks ; the road to be feparatfed from the feenery only by 
a funk fence, as before deferibed, affording to the houfes 
that may be built on the ground between the road and 
the boundary-line views over thofe lawns or parks ; and 
it is prefumed, that thofe who are tempted to build or 
purchafe houfes by the fides of the dully roads at the out¬ 
lets of the town, for the fake of looking over fields or 
gardens, often naked and without trees, with the conti¬ 
nual apprehenlion of thofe fields and gardens being alfo 
covered with buildings, and their profpects dellroyed, will 
prefer to eflablifii themfelves by the fide of a road faced 
with fuch drefl'ed feenery as it is propofed to make round 
Marybone Park, and which will be continually improving 
rrs the plantations flourifb, and of the view of which their 
houfes cannot be deprived. At the wefternmoft part of 
the circular road, the ground to be planted is fo broad a» 
to admit of two crefcents of houfes, each fronting the 
moft beautiful part of the feenery, each crefcent having 
a fort of park of its own in front, and the water which 
adorns it full of variety ; befides the beauties of fuch a 
road and feenery, it will form a ride or drive, three miles 
in length, (befides the circular road in the interior of the 
Park before deferibed,) a circumftance which none of the 
old Parks pollefs ; and, when all thofe attractions and ad¬ 
vantages are confidered, a reafonable hope may be enter¬ 
tained that the great and opulent will fettle here in pre¬ 
ference to the prefent favoured fipots in the vicinity of the 
old Parks, particularly if the grand approach from the 
lioufes of parliament, courts of law, and ftate-offices in 
Weftminller, to Portland Place, herein-after recommended, 
fiiould ever be accomplifi'.ed ; for then Marybone Park 
will be brought as near by ditlance, and nearer by time, 
to thofe places of conftant refort, as either Hyde Park or 
Grofvenor Place ; and the grandeur of the accefs, and the 
vicinity of the great, will all be additional inducements 
to the wealthy who feek for refidences where there is coun¬ 
try feenery, to eftablifh themfelves on the Tides of the cir¬ 
cular road. 
“ The interior and exterior Parks are propofed to be let 
in parcels, of from four to twenty acres, for the purpsfe 
of building villas ; and fo planted that no villa fhould fee 
any other, but each fhould appear to pofl'efs the whole of 
the Park; and that the ftreets of houfes which overlook 
the Park fhould not fee the villas, nor one ftreet of houfes 
overlook thole of another ftreet. 
“After having thus transferred to Marybone Park the 
allurements which are the obvious caufes of the preference 
given to the favourite fpots of refidence in the neighbour- 
bourhood of the Parks, and to other favourite ftuations 
on the fkirts of the town, it remains to confider and take 
advantage of the local circunaftances favourable to im¬ 
provement prefented by the place itfelf. The firft of thefe 
is the intended navigation between the Grand Junction 
Canal at Paddington, and the River Thames below Lon¬ 
don bridge; by the extension of that canal eaftward behind 
Camden Town, by Iflington, Hoxton, and Bethnal Green ; 
and, thence bending fouthward by Stepney, to unite, juft 
above Poplar cut, with the Thames at Limehoufe; (thus 
the metropolis will be nearly infulated.) The line of 
that canal will be acrofs the ground of Marybone Park, 
in a north-eafterly direction; and it is propofed to tak? 
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advantage of that cabal in the formation and fupply of the 
ornamental water which is to embellifh the Parks, and to 
carry a lateral cut, juft before it leaves Marybone, in the 
direction and nearly as far as the New Road, a few yards 
to the eaft of the point where Portland Road enters the 
New Road, at which place the propofed lateral cut will 
terminate in a large bnfin.” This is already done. 
“The advantages of this cut are obvious. It.will bring 
the produce of the country, and the articles which the Tea 
and Thames fupply, at a cheaper rate to the moft central 
f tuation of that populous neighbourhood. And round this 
bafin it is propofed to eftablilh a market, as large as Co¬ 
vent-Garden market, for the fupply of vegetables; alfo a 
hay-and-ftraw market, as large as that at"the end of Pic¬ 
cadilly; a corn-market, and corn-exchange, as in the city; 
coal-wharfs and coal-exchange; a meat-and-poultry mar¬ 
ket, and butter-and-eggs market, on extenfive feales; all of 
which will be fupplied by the eafy and cheap means of wa¬ 
ter-carriage. On the fides of this branch of the canal will 
be eftablifhed wharfs for timber, lime, ftene, manure, &c. 
and on each fide a row of houfes for thofe employed in 
the commerce of the canal. By this cut all the conveni¬ 
ences of,life will be brought home to the doors of thofe 
who eftablilh themfelves on the lands of Marybone Park ; 
and the revenue arifing to the crown from property fo cir- 
cumftanced will not only be great but permanent, the 
f'ources from which it arifes being identified with the com¬ 
forts and neceflities of the public. 
“The NEW STREET direft from Charing-Crofs to Mary¬ 
bone Park, would be of fuch advantage to the crown-lands 
of Marybone Park, by the additional value it would give 
to that property, as alone to jultify the crown in carrying 
it into execution ; and of fuch advantage to the nobility 
and gentry occupying the principal houfes in the weft and 
north-weft quarters of the town, in their communication 
with the houfes of parliament, the courts of law, the trea- 
fury, admiralty, and other public offices in the lower parts 
of Weftminller, that I have confidered it under three dif- 
tinft heads: its utility to the public; beauty to the me¬ 
tropolis; and the practicability of the meafure. 
“ Inconlideringthe arrangement of the ftreetsand fquare*- 
of the weft and north-weft quarters of the town, it will be 
feen, that, northwardsof Oxford-ftreet, the principal ftreet* 
and fquares are fituated weft of Portland Place; and that, 
between Oxford-ftreet and Piccadilly, the line of reparation" 
between the habitations of the firft chiles of fociety and 
thofe of the inferior chiles, is Swallow-ftreet; and that, if 
St.Alban’s ftreet fhould be continued northward into Picca¬ 
dilly, fuchaftreet would make a likefeparation of thehoufe* 
of the different daffies of fociety lying between Piccadilly 
and Pall Mall, excepting only thofe on the weft fide of 
St. James’s market. The ftreet, therefore, which is here 
recommended, begins at Charing Crofs, and terminates in 
Portland Place; and Portland Place, being the wideft ftreet 
in London, is taken as a model for the breadth of fuch new 
ftreet. Pall Mall mult be always one of the inlets to the 
weft end of the town, on account of Carlton-houfe, and 
other magnificent houfes which it contains, and the Pa¬ 
lace and Cleveland-row at the extremity of it; and the. 
club-houfes in St. James’s ftreet, and thefuperb refidences 
on the eaft fide ot the Green Park. It is propofed, there¬ 
fore, that Pall Mall ffiali be continued eaftward, of the full 
width of its broadeft part, until it interfefts the Haymar- 
ket on one fide, and Cockfpur-ftreet on the other, at which 
place the ftreet will be then of that ample breadth it Ihould 
be, for the paffiage of the concourfe of people coming 
from every part of the metropolis, all of whom muft meet 
at that place in their way to and from the public offices, 
courts of law, and houfes of parliament. 
“From Carlton-houfe it is propofed to carry the new 
ftreet at right angles with Pall Mall into Piccadilly, the 
weft fide of St. Alban’s ftreet forming one fide of it, out 
ot which Charles-ftreet will run as it now does, into St. 
James’s fquare ; and it is propofed to continue Charles- 
ftreet eaftward, until it, intsrfe&s the Haymarket. By 
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