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ibis arrangement the Opera-houfe will be infulated, and 
itand in the middle of a large area formed by Pall Mall on 
the fouth, Charles-ftreet (continued) on the north, St. 
Alban’s ftreet on the welt, and the Haymarket on the 
call fide. King-ftreet, leading to St. James’s fquare, is 
now on the fame line, and of the fame breadth as Charles- 
ftreet on the oppofite fide of the fquare ; and, if King- 
ftreet be continued and opened into St. James’s ftreet, 
King-ftreet and Charles-ftreet will form a vilta, and 
bandfome communication between St. James’s ftreet and 
the Haymarket, parallel with Pall Mall, and improve the 
outlet from St. James’s fquare ; and, if it lliould bethought 
advifable to take down one fide of Jermyn-ltreet, and 
widen it, another good communication would be formed 
from the propofed new ftreet, into St. James’s ftreet, Ar- 
iington-ftreet, and the upper part of Piccadilly. 
“The point where the propofed ftreet would enter Pic¬ 
cadilly, is half-way between Air-llreet and the end of 
Titchborne-ftreet, from which point it is propofed that 
the new ftreet fhall be continued into Oxford-ftreet, en¬ 
tering Oxford-ftreet at the point where King-ftreet and 
Swallow-ftreet unite; this line of the ftreet will Hand in 
an oblique pofition to that of Piccadilly to Pall Mall ; 
and, to difguife the deviation from a Itraight line, it is 
propofed to form a fmall circus where the oblique lines 
meet in Piccadilly, and to place a column, or other pub¬ 
lic monument, in the centre ; at the fame time that the 
obliquity of the lines of ftreet is concealed, the fituation 
will be molt eligible for a public monument, as it will 
interrupt the view, and arreft the attention of all who 
pals along thofe ftreets of general iatercourfe ; it will alfo 
contribute to the beauty of that part of the new com¬ 
munication from Carlton-houfe ; it will be a central ob¬ 
ject terminating that vifta, at the fame time that Carl- 
ton-houfe will terminate the fame vifta from the oppofite 
end. 
“ From the weft fide of this length of new ftreet will 
diverge New Burlington-ftreet, leading to the refpedtable 
houfes in Saville-row, Old Burlington and Clifford Itreets ; 
next, Conduit-ftreet, leading through Bruton-ftreet into 
Berkeley-fquare ; next Madox-ftreet, leading towards 
Grofvenor-l'quare; then, Hanover-ftreet,and Princes-ftreet, 
leading into Hanover-fquare ; and it is propofed that none 
of the fmaller ftreets on the Welt fide fhall open into the 
Jiew ftreet, except Vigo-lane, all the reft having accefs to 
them from that part of Swallow-ftreet which remains, and 
through Swallow-ftreet into Piccadilly. On the ealt fide, 
the only ftreets which will necefiarily enter this ftreet will 
be Brewer-ltreet, as a continuation of Vigo-lane, Silver- 
ftreet, Marlborough-ltreet, and Argyle-ftreet; thus in the 
•whole extent from Piccadilly to Oxford-ftreet there will 
be but four erodings on either fide of the ftreet, and carts 
and drays can carry on their traffic by means of the back 
ftreets, without interfering with the principal ftreet. It 
■will alfo be feen by the plan, that the whole communica¬ 
tion from Charing Crofs to Oxford-ftreet will be a boun¬ 
dary and complete feparation between the ftreets and 
fquares occupied by the nobility and gentry, and the nar¬ 
row ftreets and meaner honfes occupied by mechanics and 
the trading part of the community. . 
“A ftreet fo formed, of luch ample breadth, and fo 
circumftanced, being the nearelt and mod commodious ap¬ 
proach from every part of the beft'•inhabited quarters of 
the weft and north-welt ends of the town to Charing Crofs, 
will be ufed by every one who has any thing to do with 
Weftminfter-hall, the houfes of parliament, treafury, ad¬ 
miralty, or any other of the public oftices in their vici¬ 
nity ; and (hops appropriated to articles oftafte and fafbion 
will, when this new ltreet (hall become the great thorough¬ 
fare, range themfelves along it, and the ltream of faftiion 
be diverted to a new ftreet, where the footpath will be 
fifteen feet wide, inftead of feven feet, and the carriage¬ 
way double the width of that in Bond-ftreet, and where 
there will be room for all the falhionable (hops to be af- 
fembled in one ftreet ; and, if the foot-pavements were to 
hi covered by a light colonnade, furraounted by a baluf- 
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trade, thofe who have daily intercourfe with the ptiblie 
eftabliftiments in Weftminfter may go two-thirds of the 
way on foot under cover, and thofe who have nothing to 
do but walk about and amufe themfelves, may do fo every 
day in the week, inftead of being frequently confined 
many days together to their houfes by rain ; and luch a 
covered colonnade would be of peculiar convenience to 
thofe who require daily exercife. The baluftradea over 
the colonnades will form balconies to the lodging-rooms 
over the (hops, from which the occupiers of the lodgings 
can fee and converfe with thofe pafting in the carriages 
underneath, and which will add to the gaiety of the feene, 
and induce fingle men, and others who only vifit town oc- 
cafionally, to give a preference to luch lodgings. Thofe 
who may fear that the (hops under colonnades would bo 
dark and gloomy, are requelled to' confider the great width 
(120 feet) of the ftreet, and that the mezzanines between 
the (hops and lodging-rooms, necefiary ’for the (leeping 
apartments of the proprietors of the loops, will make the 
colonnades very lofty; and that, if fmall areas are. made 
in the flats over the colonnade, immediately above the 
(hop windows, and the projedting part of the windows 
roofed with glafs, the articles in thofe windows having a 
light immediately over them, fuch (hops will be better 
lighted, and have a more brilliant effedt, than by light re¬ 
ceived in the ordinary way. And thofe who may fuppofe 
that the pillars tofupport the colonnade may become nui- 
fances, are requelled to confider that they are not pro- 
pofed to be fquare pillars, or piers, but round columns, 
the receding form of which will preclude any (belter to 
thofe who may be difpofed to commit nuifances again# 
them; and that they will be fo far apart, and fo fmall in 
diameter, that they will be no impediment to the return 
of any one prefled from the foot pavement to the carriage¬ 
way ; and that even fuch accidents, from a pavement fif¬ 
teen feet wide, are 1 ’carcely ever liable to happen. 
“ The propofed flreet is deferibed as entering Oxford- 
ftreet at the point of jundtion of Swallow-ftreet with Kinp-- 
ftreet; and, if Portland Place were elongated until it (houId 
interfefl Oxford-ftreet, it would be exadlly oppofite that 
point of junction. Foley-houfe is immediately to be 
pulled down, and Portland Place continued, through Fo¬ 
ley-houfe gardens, to their fouthern extremity ; and this 
furvey propofes to extend that continuation until it (hall 
enter Oxford-ftreet. 
“The magnificent fquares and ftreets north of Oxford- 
ftreet are fo,numerous and extenfive, that they form the 
larged portion of the falhionable part of the town ; but, 
for want of direct and fuitable approaches, it has been al¬ 
ways confidered as a diltant quarter; it is not yet forgot¬ 
ten that Oxford-ftreet was once one of the turnpike-roads 
forming the boundary of the town ; and the buildings even 
now retain fometbing of the appearance o( houfts leen by 
the (ides of roads immediately round the metropolis. 
Crofting Oxford-ftreet has always been a falhionable ob¬ 
jection to the refidences north of Oxford-ftreet; to do 
away that impreflion, it is propofed, that, where the con¬ 
tinuation of Portland Place with Oxford-ltreet unites with 
the new ftreet intended from Oxford-ftreet to Piccadilly, 
namely, at the end of Swallow-ftreet, a circus ihould be 
formed, Oxford-ftreet crofting it from eaft to weft, and 
the new ftreet from fouth to north ; in the centre of which 
circus, if a public monument were placed, as before de¬ 
feribed for the crofting of Piccadilly, and the fame co¬ 
lonnade and (hops be continued round fuch circus, as re¬ 
commended for the Tides of the new ftreet, the fenfation 
of having palled Oxford-ftreet will be entirely done away, 
and the two divifions of the town infenfibly united in the 
beft manner poftible. 
“There is no dfreCl way from the end of Bond-ftreet 
to the principal ftreets north of Oxford-road, which 
llrengthens the imprtftion of thofe two divifions of the 
town being diftincl and'feparate ; but Portland Place will 
form one continued ftreet from Charing. Crofs, interfedt- 
ing many of the principal ftreets north of Oxford-ltreet 
at right .angles, .and a (ford the nearelt and belt communi¬ 
cation 
