ng's commands to convey to
the Board his Majesty's most gracious approbation of this proposal,
and his pleasure that the necessary steps should be taken, with as
little delay as possible, for carrying the measure into execution, so
far as it respects the South side of the park, and the alteration of
the ground comprised in it.

"My Lords perceive, that by this plan the whole of the space in St.
James's Park, now laid out in grass, and from which the public are
excluded, will be thrown open (with the exception of the parts to be
planted) for the use of persons on foot."

The magnificent range of buildings intended to occupy the site of
Carlton-house and gardens, and to extend from Spring Garden, Charing
Cross on the _east_, to the Ordnance office, in Pall Mall, on the
_west_, is already commenced in the last mentioned quarter. The
substructure is a terrace, (containing the domestic offices,) of about
53 feet wide--its architecture of the Paestum Doric order surmounted
by a balustrade. The order of the superstructure is Corinthian. In the
centre of the range will be a fountain formed of the eight columns of
the portico of Carlton-house, with eight additional columns on the
same model. The basement story of all the houses is to be supplied
with water by the overflow of this fountain and jets.

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Our _third_ Engraving represents the Grand Lodge Entrance to the New
Palace, and resembles the arch in the front of the palace. The frieze
of this gateway or arch, which is said to possess great merit, is
still in the course of execution. Altogether this structure may be
expected to form an approach of suitable splendour to the royal
domain, whilst it bids fair to rank among the most interesting of the
modern architectural embellishments of the metropolis.

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Such is an outline of the improvements now in progress in St. James's
Park and its vicinity. The palace may have fallen short of some
expectations, but with all its imperfections, it will, when completed,
be a pile of immense magnitude, with much of the grandeur and
magnificence appertaining to regal splendour. His majesty will reside
there when in his capital, and it is not an indifferent trait to
observe, that it will not be altogether strange to his eyes; for every
mantle and movable piece of Carlton palace, which can be used in the
palace in St. Ja