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lord Hawks his lordihip fat to the painter. The third re¬ 
prefents lord Clive receiving the homage of the nahob of 
Bengal. The fourth reprefents Britannia diftributing 
laurels to the principal officers who ferved in that war ; as 
the marquis of Granby, the earl of Albemarle, general 
Townffiend, colonels Monckton, Coote, See. The en¬ 
trance into this faloon, from the gardens, is through a 
Gothic portal, on each fide of which, on the infide, are 
the pictures of their majefties, in their coronation robes. 
A few years ago, a new room, one hundred feet by forty, 
was added to the rotunda. It is now opened as a l'upper- 
room. In a repefs, at the end of it, is the beautiful mar¬ 
ble ftatue of Handel, formerly in the open gardens. He 
is reprefented, like Orpheus, playing on the lyre. This 
was the firlt difplay of the wonderful abilities of Roubi¬ 
liac. Although not fo large as the life, it is very like the 
original, and the excellence of the fculpture exhibits a 
model of perfection, both in the defign and execution. 
The grove is bounded by gravel-walks, and a number 
of pavilions, ornamented with paintings defigned by Hay- 
man and Hogarth; and each pavilion has a table that will 
hold fix or eight perfons. To give a lift of the paintings 
in thel'e pavilions, we muff begin with our entrance into 
the garden. The firlt is on the left hand, under a Gothic 
piazza and colonnade, formed by a range of pillars, which 
Itretch along the front of the great room. It reprefents 
two Mahometans gazing in altoniffiment at the beauties 
of the place. 2. A Ihepherd playing on his pipe, and de¬ 
coying a fhepherdefs into a wood. 3. New River Head, 
at Iflington. 4. Quadrille, and the tea-equipage. 5. Mu- 
fic and Tinging. 6. Building houfes with cards. 7. A 
feene in the Mock Doctor. 8. An Archer. 9. Dances 
round the Maypole. 10. Thread my needle, xi. Flying 
the kite. 12. Pamela revealing to Mr. B.’s houfekeeper 
her willies to return home. 13. A feene in the Devil to 
Pay. 14. Shuttlecock. 15. Hunting the whiftle. 16. 
Pamela flying from Lady Davers. 17. A feene in the 
Merry Wives of Windfor. 18. A fea-engagement be¬ 
tween the Spaniards and Moors. 
The pavilions continue in a fweep which leads to a 
beautiful piazza and a colonnade five hundred feet in 
length, in the form of a femicircle, of Gothic architec¬ 
ture, embellilhed with rays. In this femicircle of pa¬ 
vilions are three large ones, called temples; one in the 
middle, and the other at each end, adorned with a dome; 
but the two latter are now converted into portals, (one as 
an entrance into the great room, and the other as a paf- 
fage to view the cafcade,) which are diredtly oppofite to 
each other; the middle temple, however, is itill a place for 
the reception of company, and is painted, in the Chinefe 
taile, by Rifquet, with the ftory of Vulcan catching Mars 
and Venus in a net. On each fide of this temple the ad¬ 
joining pavilion is decorated with a painting; that on the 
right reprefents the entrance into Vauxhall; and that on 
the left, Friendffiip on the grafs drinking. The paint¬ 
ings in the other pavilions of this lweep are landfcapes. 
Having traverfed this femicircle, we come to a fweep of 
pavilions that lead into the great walk; the lalt of thefe 
is a painting of Black-eyed Sufan returning to ffiore. 
Coming back to the grove, where we fliall find the re¬ 
mainder of the boxes and paintings better than thofe here¬ 
tofore feen, and beginning at the eaft end, which is be¬ 
hind the orcheftra, and oppofite the femicircle above-men¬ 
tioned, the pavilions are decorated with the following 
pieces: 1. Difficult to pleale. 2. Sliding on the ice. 3. 
Bagpipes and hautboys. 4. A bonfire at Charing Crofs, 
the Salifbury ftage overturned, See. 5. Blindman’s buff. 
6. Leap frog. 7. The Wapping landlady, and the Tars 
juft come affiore. 8. Skittles. Proceeding forward, we 
fee another range of pavilions, in a different ftyle, adorned 
with paintings, and forming another fide of the quadran¬ 
gle. Thefe are, 1. The taking of Porto Bello. 2. Made- 
moifelle Catherine, the dwarf. 3. Ladiesangling. 4. Bird- 
■Hefting. 5. The play at bob-cherry. 6. Falftaff’s cowardice 
fllete&ed. 7. The bad family. 8. The good family. 9. 
The taking of a Spanifh regifter-fliip, in 1742. Near is a 
femicircle of pavilions, with a temple and dome at each 
end. The remainder of the paintings in this range are, 
1. Bird-catching. 2. See-faw. 3. Fairies dancing by 
moonlight. 4. The milk-maid’s garland. 5. The kifs 
ftolen. Here ends the boundary of the grove on this fide ; 
but, turning on the left, we come to a walk that runs 
along the bottom of the gardens; on each fide of this walk 
are pavilions, and thofe on the left hand are decorated 
with the following paintings : 1. A prince and princefs in 
a traineau. 2. Hot cockles. 3. A gipfy telling fortunes 
by coffee-cups, 4. A Chriftmas gambol. 5. Cricket. 
On the oppofite fide is a row of pavilions; and at the 
extremity of this walk is another entrance into the gar¬ 
dens immediately from the great road. At the other end 
of the walk, adjoining to the prince’s pavilion, is a femi¬ 
circle of pavilions ornamented with three Gothic temples. 
From the upper end of this walk, where we concluded 
the lift of the paintings, in a narrow vifta that runs to 
the top of the gardens; this is called the Druid’s or Lo¬ 
ver's Walk : on both fides of it are rows of lofty trees, 
which, meeting at the top, and interchanging their boughs, 
form a fine verdant canopy. The anti-room runs acrofs 
one part of this walk. 
Returning to the fpot where once flood the ftatue of 
Handel, we may, by looking up the garden, behold a no¬ 
ble vifta, which is called the grand fouth walk, of the 
fame fize as that feen at our firft entrance, and parallel 
with it. It is terminated by a Gothic temple, which ex¬ 
hibits four illuminated vertical columns in motion, and, 
in the centre, an artificial fountain; all which is effected 
by very ingenious machinery. In the centre of the crofs 
gravel-walk is a temple, the largeft of the kind in Eng¬ 
land, built in 1786, by Mr. Smith of Knightffiridge, and 
brought here in three pieces only, though the diameter is 
44 feet, and the dome is fupported by eight lofty pillars. 
On the right this walk is terminated by a fine ftatue of 
Apollo; and, at the extremity on the left, is a painting 
of a ftone-quarry in the vicinity of Briftol. From our 
fituation to view this painting is another gravel-walk that 
leads up the gardens, formed on the right fide by a wil- 
dernefs, and on the left by rural downs, as they are termed, 
in the form of a long fquare, fenced by a net, with little 
eminences in it after the manner of a Roman camp. 
There are likewife feveral buffies, from under which, a 
few years ago, fubterraneous mufical founds were heard, 
called by fome the fairy muficj which put many people 
in mind of the vocal foreft, or that imaginary being called 
the genius of the wood; but, the damp of the earth being 
found prejudicial to the inftruments, this romantic enter¬ 
tainment ceafed. The downs are covered with turf, and 
interfperfed with cyprefs, fir, yew, cedar, and tulip-trees. 
On one of the eminences is a ftatue of Milton, caft in 
lead by Roubiliac, but painted of a ilone-colour. He is 
feated on a rock, liltening to the fubterraneous harmony. 
Molt of the walks form the boundaries of wilderneffes, 
compofed of trees which ffioot to a great height, and are 
all inclofed by a rude but fuitable fence, fomewhat in 
the Chinefe taile. A few years ago, a colonnade, which 
forms a fquare, was erefted in the walks round the or¬ 
cheftra. It coll 2000I. the expence of which was defrayed 
by a ridotto al frefco. The roof, &c. are richly illumi¬ 
nated. It has lately been much widened. 
In a dark night the illuminations are very beautiful, 
and cannot fail to pleafe every fufceptible fpectator; but 
in a moonlight night there is fomething which fo Itrongly 
affedts the imagination, that any one who has read the 
Arabian Nights’ Entertainment can hardly fail to recoi¬ 
led! the magic reprefentations in that book. When the 
concert is finilhed in the orcheftra, a grand difplay of 
fireworks is exhibited. The company afterwards retire to 
fupper in the pavilions; and, to induce them to fit the 
longer, a party of pandean minftrels, and the duke of 
York’s band, contribute alternately, by their mufical per¬ 
formances, to enliven and harmonize the feene. More 
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