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and I do not sce," says Swift, "how they can well want him, (that is, do with out him) at this juncture. I hope to find a way of settling this matter. I act an honest part that will bring me neither profit nor praise." It may seem invidious to call in question upon this occasion his title to that dignified elevation of mind which he thus challenges. But supposing him really reluctant to return to his willows, and secretly cherishing high and aspiring hopes, what other part could he act than this? If all things depended upon the union of the ministers, what praise was due to Swift for his earnest and frequent exhortations to concord individually or collectively?

In a few days after this he thus speaks of the Lord Treasurer: "The man is bewitched. He desires to see me, and I'll maul him, but he will not value it a rush. I am half weary of them all. I often burst out into these thoughts, and will certainly steal away as soon as I decently can. I have many friends and many enemies, and the last are more constaut in their nature. I have no shuddering at all to think of retiring to my old circumstances if you can be easy, but I will always live Ireland as I did the last time. I will not hunt for dinners there, nor converse with more than a very few." In this desponding humour, apprehending the ministry to be on the eve of dissolution, and his enemies to be once more coming into power, he felt perhaps even anxious to return to the remote and obscure shades of Laracor. But his prospects soon brightened up. Towards the close of this year he was assiduously employed in compiling his famous pamphlet, stylet, "The Conduct of the Allies." "The ministry," says he, (Oct. 30,)" reckon it will do abundance of good, and open the eyes of the nation, who are half-bewitched against a peace. Few of this generation can remember any thing but war and taxes, and they think it is as it should be; whereas 'tis certain we are the most undone people in Europe, as I am afraid I shall make appear beyond all contradiction." He complains however of their delays in furnishing him with the necessary materials, and styles the Lord Treasurer "the greatest procrastinator in the world." Though he looked up to Oxford as his patron, his admiration of St. John often breaks out. "I think Mr. St. John," says he, (Nov. 3,) "the greatest young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good MONTHLY MAG. No. 344.

learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the House of Commons, admira ble conversation, good nature, good manners, generous, and a despiser of inoney,” This was the man whom Oxford, in little more than a twelvemonth, had the art to convert from a zealous friend to an inve

terate adversary. The strong tie of in terest nevertheless compelled them to act together, and outward appearances werą tolerably preserved.

Swift's fits of elation and despondency followed each other in rapid succession. I a paroxysm of the former, (November 6) he says, concerning his friend, Dr. Sterne, Dean of St. Patrick, at whose hospitable mansion Stella and her companion passed much of their time, "I design to write to the dean one of these days, but I can never find time nor what to say. I will think of something, but if*** were not in Ireland I believe. seriously I should not think of the place twice a year. Nothing there ever makes the subject of talk in any company where I am." On the 10th of the same month hesays "If you must have it, something is to be published of great moment, and three or four great people are to see there are no mistakes in point of fact." (Nov. 24) "The pamphlet which has cost me so much time and trouble will be published in three or four days." (27th.) “The pamphlet is published; Lord Treasurer had one by him on the table." (28th.) "The pamphlet begins to make a noise I was asked by several, whether I had seen it; and they spoke of it as something very extraordinary." This tract is indeed by far the most valuable of all Swift's political productions; it contains a clear and able statement of facts, and possesses the incalculable advantage of be ing written on the side of truth, justice, and humanity. The Whigs had undoubt edly prolonged the war long after the necessity, and even the policy of it had ceased, and they were still engaged in very unjustifiable machinations against the peace; which, with ill directed ef forts, Oxford was too eagerly and anx iously courting. Very observable it is, that this wonder-working pamphlet did not extend to an hundred pages; a memorable proof how much sense and information may be contained in a narrow combass. In a few weeks, eleven thousand copies were sold, a thing at that time unprecedented in literary history, and rarely, if ever, equalled since. Swift was now at the summit of his fame.

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For the Monthly Magazine. E extensive plantations and preCrown Land, to the north of the New Road, Mary-le-bone, called MARY-LEBONE PARK, and the passing of an Act of Parliament for the GRAND NEW STREET - from the proposed Park to Charing Cross, having attracted the general attention of the public, we subinit to our readers so much of the accepted Plan of Mr. JOHN NASH, Architect, as will convey a clear idea of the intended improve

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PPROVED REPORT of MR. JOHN NASH relative to IMPROVEMENTS in MARYLE-BONE PARK, and to the GRAND NEW STREET from thence to CHARING CROSS. MARY-LE-BONE PAKK lies on the northwest boundary of the town, abutting south on the New Road from Paddington to Islington, and part of it advances southward of the New Road to the ends of Portland-place, Harley-street, and Port land Road, all which parts of the town have long since been built upon to the Southern boundary of Mary-le-bone Park. The northern boundary lies open to Hampstead and Highgate; and, great as the speculations in building are, the period must be very remote when Mary-lebone Park shall be enclosed on its northern side. The houses forming the streets abutting on the southern boundary of Mary-le-bone Park, such as Baker-street, Nottingham-street, Nottingham-place, High-street, Devonshire-place, Harley street, and Portland-place, are of the general class of houses occupied by the gentry of the metropolis. Portland-place is the most magnificent street in London; and, in point of breadth, Devonshireplace and Baker-street are next in rank. The artificial causes of the extension of London are the speculations of builders, encouraged and promoted by merchants dealing in the materials of building, and attornies with monied clients facilitating, and indeed putting in motion, the whole system, by disposing of their clients money in premature mortgages, the sale of improved ground-rents, and by nume rous other devices, by which their clients make an advantageous use of their money, and the attornies create to them selves a lucrative business from the agreements, assignments, Icases, mortgages, bonds, and other instruments of law, which become necessary throughout such complicated and intricate transactions. is not necessary for the present pur

pose to enumerate the bad consequences and pernicious effects which arise from of the town, further than to observe, that it is the interest of those concerned in such buildings that they should be of as little cost as possible, preserving an attractive exterior, which Parker's stucco, coloured bricks, and balconies, accom plish; and a fashionable arrangement of rooms on the principal floors, embellished by the paper-hanger, and a few flimsy marble chimney-pieces, are the attrac tions of the interior. These are sufficient allurements to the public, and ensure the sale of the houses, which is the ulti mate object of the builders, and to thi finery every thing out of sight is sacrificed, or is no further an object of attention, than that no defects in the constructive and substantial parts shall make their appearance while the houses are on sale.

The principles on which this Report, and the designs accompanying it, are formed, and the objects proposed to be obtained, are, that MARY-LE- BONE PARK shall be made to contribute to the healthfulness, beauty, and advantage, of that quarter of the metropolis; that the houses and buildings to be erected shall be of that useful description,and permanent construction, and possess such local advantages, as shall be likely to assure a great augmentation of revenue to the Crown at the expiration of the leases; that the at traction of open space, free air, and the scenery of nature, with the means and invitation of exercise on horseback, on foot, and in carriages, shall be preserved or created in Mary-le-bone Park, as allurements and motives for the wealthy part of the public to establish themselves there; and that the advantages which the circumstances of the situation itself present shall be improved and advanced; and that markets, and conveniences es sential to the comforts of life, shall be placed in situations, and under such cir cumstances, as may induce tradesmen to settle there.

It is proposed that the two principal entrances into Mary-le-bone Park shall be Portland-place and Baker street; that Portland-place shall be continued in the present direction, and of the same width, for the length of fifty yards northwards into Mary-le-bone Park; that Bakerstreet (widened to the same breadth as Portland-place) shall also be continued northward to the same distance, and that the extreme ends of those streets shall be united by a cross sweet. The

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whole area enclosed by those streets (which will contain a space considerably larger than St. James's and the Green Parks put together) is proposed to be laid out and planted as a Park, and appropriated to houses of the first magnificence, for which reason there will be no other access to them but Portlandplace, Baker-street, and a street opposite Devonshire-place; and to disguise the appearance, and to prevent the impression of having crossed the New Road, it is proposed that the field immediately adjoining the end of Portland-place, together with the like quantity of the field beyond the New Road, shall be converted into a LARGE CIRCUS, the intervention of the Plantation in the Area, within the railing of which Circus, and the continuation of the street all round, will effectually connect Portland-place with Mary-le-bone Park, without producing the least sensation of having crossed the New Road. This Circus will enclose an area equal to that of Lincoln's-iun-fields, and be in unison with the magnificent scale of Portland-place.

In the centre of the Park, on the summit of the rising ground from which it falls on every side, it is proposed to erect ANOTHER CIRCUS, with the fronts of the houses looking externally over the Park which surrounds it; and round the Circus so formed, to make a circular road, separated only from the Park by a haha, or sunk fence, such as divides Kensing ton Gardens from Hyde Park; the circumference of the road will be 3.4ths of a mile. Within the external curve of houses an inner Circus is proposed to be formed, of equal magnitude with that proposed at the end of Portland-place. The Park may be embellished with a lake of water in the form of a river, equal in magnitude to the Serpentine River in Hyde Park, the shape of which, by the declination of the varying surface of the ground, will assume the form shown in the plan.

At the upper part of the Park it is proposed to make a CANAL or Basin of Water, of the length and breadth of that in St. James's Park, and round the sides of the Canal to form THREE TERRACES of gravel, the upper terrace being the street, with easy slopes of turf between, and rows of trees regularly planted, forming avenues to the terraces. The canal or basin to be surrounded by a stone balus trade, and fed from the spring on Primrose-hill, through an ornamental founsain erected in the centre of the canal;

those promenades, and that style of decoration, will be novelties to the metropolis, and the houses which surround the terraces will also participate in the scenery of the parks behind them. A SQUARE is also proposed to be built on the south side of the Park, immediately beyond the New Road, of the size of Russell-square (the largest in London) with a street at each end, of the same breadth as Portland-place, leading to it. The houses on the north side of this square and street will enjoy the scenery of the Park, as will also the two great streets which surround the middle park.

The houses before described, and the park which they enclose, are situated in the middle of Mary-le-bone Park, and Occupy 250 acres, leaving 260 acres round them, which it is proposed 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 buildings; the road to be 50 feet wide, and the remaining ground in front of the road to bo laid out and planted as lawns or parks; the road to be separated from the scenery only by a sunk fence, as before described, affording to the houses that may be built on the ground between the road and the boundary line views over those lawns or parks; and it is presumed, that those who are tempted to build or purchase houses by the sides of the dusty roads at the outlets of the town, for the sake of looking over fields or gardens, often naked and without trees, with the continual apprehension of those fields and gardens being also covered with builds ings, and their prospects destroyed, will prefer to establish themselves by the side of a road faced with such dressed scenery as it is proposed to make round Mary-le-bone Park, and which will be continually improving as the plantations flourish, and of the view of which their houses cannot be deprived. At tha westernmost part of the circular road, the ground to be planted is so broad as to admit of two crescents of houses, each fronting the most beautiful part of the scenery, cach crescent having a sort of park of its own in front, and the water which adorns it full of variety; besides the beauties of such a road and scenery, it will form a ride or drive, three miles in length, (besides the circular road in the interior of the Park before described,) a circumstance which none of the old Parks possess; and when all those attractions and advantages are considered, a reason.

able hope may be entertained that the great and opulent will settle here in preference to the present favoured spots in the vicinity of the old Parks, particularly if the grand approach from the houses of parliament, courts of law, and state offices in Westminster, to Portland-place, herein-after recommended, should ever be accomplished; for then Mary-le- bone Park will be brought as near by distance, and nearer by time, to those places of Constant resort, as either Hyde Park or Grosvenor-place, and the grandeur of the access, and the vicinity of the great, will all be additional inducements to the wealthy who seek for residences where there is country scenery, to establish themselves on the sides of the circular road.

The interior and exterior Parks are proposed to be let in parcels, of from four to twenty acres, for the purpose of building VILLAS, and so planted that no villa should see any other, but each should appear to possess the whole of the Park; and that the streets of houses which overlook the Park should not see the Villas, nor one street of houses overlook those of another street.

After having thus transferred to MaryJe-bone Park the allurements which are the obvious causes of the preference given to the favourite spots of residence in the neighbourhood of the Parks, and to other favourite situations on the skirts of the town, it remains to consider and take advantage of the local circumstances favourable to improvement presented by the place itself. The first of these is the INTENDED NAVIGATION between the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington, and the River Thames below London Bridge, by the extension of that canal at the back of the town through Islington, to the Thames, below London Bridge, a subscription for which having been entered into, an Act has been obtain ed. The line of that canal will be across the ground of Mary-le bone Park, in a north-easterly direction; and it is proposed to take advantage of that canal in the formation and supply of the ornamental water which is to embellish the Parks, and to carry a lateral cut, just be fore it leaves Mary-le-boue, in the direction and nearly as far as the New Road, a few yards to the east of the point where Portland Road enters the New Road, at which place the proposed lateral cut will terminate in a large basin.

The advantages of this cut are obvis

ous; it will bring the produce of the country, and the articles which the sea and Thames supply, at a cheaper rate to the most central situation of that popu lous neighbourhood, and round which basin it is proposed to establish a market, as large as Covent Garden market, for the supply of vegetables; also a hay and straw market, as large as that at the end of Piccadilly; a corn market, and corn exchange, as in the city; coal wharfs and coal exchange; a meat and poultry market, and butter and eggs market, on extensive scales; all of which will be supplied by the easy and cheap means of water carriage. On the sides of this branch of the canal will be established wharfs for timber, lime, stone, manure, &c. and on each side a row of houses for those employed in the commerce of the canal. By this cut all the conve niences of life will be brought home to the doors of those who establish them. selves on the lands of Mary-le-bone Park, and the revenue arising to the crown from property so circumstanced, will not only be great but permanent, the sources from which it arises being identified with the comforts and necessities of the public.

The NEW STREET direct from Charingcross to Mary-le-bone Park, would be of such advantage to the crown lands of Mary-le-bone Park, by the additional value it would give to that property, as alone to justify the crown in carrying it into execution, and of such advantage to the nobility and gentry occupying the principal houses in the west and northwest quarters of the town, in their com munication with the houses of parlia ment, the courts of law, the treasury, admiralty, and other public offices in the lower parts of Westminster, that I have considered it under three distinct heads: its utility to the public; beauty to the metropolis; and the practicability of the measure; and have drawn a plan showing the course of the street proposed, and its connection with the adjoining streets.

In considering the arrangement of the streets and squares of the west and northwest quarters of the town, it will be seen, that northwards of Oxford-street, the principal streets and squares are situ ated west of Portland-place; and that between Oxford-street and Piccadilly, the line of separation between the habitations of the first classes of society, and those of the inferior classes, is Swallow-street; and that if St. Alban's-street should be

continued northward into Piccadilly, such

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a street would make the like separation of the houses of the different classes of society lying between Piccadilly and Pall. Mall, excepting only those on the west side of St. James's market.

The street, therefore, which is here recommended, begins at Charing-cross, and terminates in Portland-place; and Portland place, being the widest street in London, is taken as a model for the breadth of such new street. Pall-Mall must be always one of the inlets to the west end of the town, on account of Carlton House, and other magnificent houses which it contains, and the Palace and Cleveland-row at the extremity of it; and the club-houses in St. James's. street, and the superb residences on the east side of the Green Park. It is proposed therefore that Pail-Mall shall be continued eastward, of the full width of its broadest part, until it intersects the Hay-market on one side, and Cockspurstreet on the other, at which place the street will be then of that ample breadth it should be, for the passage of the concourse of people coming from every part of the metropolis, all of whom must meet at that place in their way to and from the public offices, courts of law, and houses of parliament.

From Carlton-house it is proposed to carry the new street at right angles with Pall Mall into Piccadilly, the west side of St. Alban's-street forming one side of it, out of which Charles-street will run as it now does, into St. James's-square; and it is proposed to continue Charles street eastward until it intersects the Hay-market. By this arrangement the Opera house will be insulated, and stand In the middle of a large area formed by Pall-Mail on the south, Charles-street (continued) on the north, St. Alban'sstreet on the west, and the Ilay-market on the east side. King-street, leading to St. James's-square, is now on the same line, and of the same breadth as Charlesstreet on the opposite side of the square; and if King street be continued and opened into St. James's-street, Kingstreet and Charles-street will form a vista, and handsome communication be tween St. James's-street and the Haymarket, parallel with Pall-Mall, and im prove the outlet from St. James's-square; and if it should be thought advisable to take down one side of Jermyn-street, and widen it, another good communication would be formed from the proposed new street, into St. James's-street, Ar

lington-street, and the upper part of Piccadilly.

It will be seen by the plan, that there would be no opening on the east side of the few street all the way from the Opera-house to Piccadilly, and that the footpath constantly would be uninter rupted by crossings; and the inferior houses, and the traffic of the Hay-market, would be cut off from any commu nication with the new street.

The point where the proposed street would enter Piccadilly, is half way be. tween Air street and the end of Titch. borne-street, from which point it is proposed that the new street shall be continued in a straight line into Oxford. street, entering Oxford-street at the point where King-street and Swallow-street unite; this line of the street will stand in an oblique position to that of Piccadilly to Pall-Mall; and to disguise the devi ation from a straight line, it is proposed to form a small circus where the oblique lines meet in Piccadilly, and to place a column, or other public monument, in the centre; at the same time that the obliquity of the lines of street is concealed, the situation will be most eligible for a public monument, as it will interrupt the view, and arrest the attention of all who pass along those streets of general intercourse; it will also contribute to the beauty of that part of the new communication from Carlton-house; it will be a central object terminating that vista, at the same time that Carlton-house will terminate the same vista from the opposite end.

Between Piccadilly and Oxford-street it will be necessary to forn a SMALL SQUARE, in order to avoid Golden square, the area of which small square will afford a site for a theatre, or any other public building, to which its central situation will be peculiarly applicable, and round which building the street is proposed to continue of its full breadth; this break in the straight line will make the remaining street less oblique, and avoid the necessity of purchasing any of the houses which form Golden-square.

From the west side of this length of new street will diverge New Burlingtonstreet, leading to the respectable houses in Saville-row, Old Burlington and Clifford-streets; next, Conduit-street, leading through Bruton-street into Berke ley-square; then, Hanover-street, and Princes-street, leading into Hanover square; and it is proposed that none of

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