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King; a Secretary for the Librarian; a Private Chaplain, and 105 Chaplains in Ordinary,* two Grooms of the Stole; Wardrobe Keeper; two Pages of the Backstairs; five Pages of the Presence; a Gentleman-Porter, with his Deputy; Messenger to the Treasurer, Inspector of the Household Delivery; Tapassier; Housekeeper at Carlton House; Sempstress; Body Linen Laundress; Household Laundress, &c.

The medical department consists of four physicians in ordinary; ten physicians extraordinary; physician to the household; and two surgeons; also ten surgeous extraordinary; surgeon dentist; a dentist; two occulists, and an occulist extraordinary ; a cupper, and two apothecaries.

Besides these there are numerous artists, tradesmen, &c. alJuded to in the preceding Note, and not necessary to be specified in this place.

His Royal Highness, as Duke of Cornwall, has a separate establishment, consisting of what are called Officers of the Duchy of Cornwall: + they are principally the Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal; Vice Admiral; Lord Warden of the Stainiers, and Steward of the Duchy in Devonshire and Cornwall; Secretary, Vice Warden in Cornwall; Vice Warden in Devon; Surveyor General; Auditor and Secretary; two Deputy Auditors; Ingrosser to the Privy-Seal; Receiver General; Deputy Receiver General; Havenor of the Duchy-Ports, in Cornwall and Devon, Attorney General; Solicitor General; AssayMaster of Tin; Comptroller of the Coinages; Stewards of the Stannary Courts of Devon and Cornwall; Constable of Launceston Castle;

The reader need not be informed that these Chaplains, though said to belong to the Household, do not reside in the House, nor many of them seldom or ever perform divine service before His Royal Highness. The same remarks will, of course, apply generally, to what are called the Prince's tradespeople, though it is customary to rank some of these among the officers of the household.

The office of Surveyor General and Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and of his Royal Highness's Council, is at Somerset House.

Castle; Deputy Steward of the Coinages; four Supervisors of Tin; a Supervisor of Timber and Repairs in Cornwall and Devon; five Stewards of Estates and Revenues in divers Counties; eight Deputy Stewards of Cornwall and Devon, appointed by the Lord Warden; three Clerks in the Office of the Surveyor General and Auditor; Clerk Extraordinary; the Honourable Council consists of 17 noblemen and gentlemen; and of this Council there are two Clerks, an Assistant, and Messenger.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as Great Steward of Scotland, has, moreover, an establishment, consisting of a Secretary, Chamberlain, and the Keeper of the Signet; Keeper of the Great Seal; four Barons of the Exchequer and Commissioners; an Advocate; and Solicitor General; Solicitor and Agent; an Auditor; four Chaplains; two Physicians Extraordinary; a Limner; a Land Surveyor, and 19 State Councillors.

It is perhaps unnecessary to remind the reader that, as in many other cases of our Royal Establishments, the same person holds several offices; that few of the many mentioned are actually about the person of the Prince. The Royal Household, therefore, is not by any means so numerous as would at first sight appear.

There are, of course, some other inferior officers whom I have not alluded to, as lower servants, porters, butlers, &c. but these are merely the common appendages of nobility without any distinct connection with the Household as a Royal Establishment.

The present Prince Regent certainly maintains much greater state and dignity than some of his predecessors; and it is right he should do so; for after all the pressure and inconvenience to which a long and expensive struggle in defence of whatever is worth defending in civil and social life, this country was perhaps never at so great a pitch of riches and honour as at the present moment. *

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A glance at the present Waterloo Subscription, which in the course

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The new street which is now making in Pall Mall will extend from opposite Carlton House to Portland Place. It will be one hundred feet wide, and in a right line from the entrance to the Grand Hall of this palace to Piccadilly, where there is to be a small circus; from thence it is to go northward into a square on the site of Brewer Street, &c. it is then to lead on north-eastward, to the top of King Street and Swallow Street, and then, in a right line to Portland Place.

The improvement likewise embraces the opening a street from the east end of Pall Mall to St. Martin's Church, a square in the King's Mews; the opening of Jermyn Street at the east end, and that of Charles Street into the Haymarket, and King Street, into St. James's Street. Such, at least, is the original plan; but whether it will be carried into effect, in its fullest extent, or not, it is impossible to determine.

The houses opposite Carlton House are now removing; but nothing, I believe, has yet been done at the east end of Pall Mall, except, indeed, the erection of several very large and com modious buildings on the site of some adjoining the north end of the Opera House. These houses are now all covered in; their exterior ornaments are commenced; and they bid fair to become very soon a great ornament to this part of the Metropolis.

A little beyond the Opera House, in Pall Mall, on the left, is an Exhibition of Pictures which it would be unpardonable to omit the mention and description of: for who, in what age of this or any other polished and civilized country in the world will not feel an interest in the works of the venerable PRESIDENT WEST? In describing the British Institution, it might naturally have been expected that some notice should be taken of that almost miraculous effort of the pencil, Mr. West's Picture of Christ

of a few weeks has amounted to nearly half a million of money-a sum which perhaps not any two states together in Europe could have raised in the same time-will be sufficient to illustrate, if not verify the truth of this observation.

Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple; but I have reserved my observations to the present place. *

But first I must notice the Pictures in the place now under consideration. They consist of a Picture of Christ Rejected, or as it is sometimes called, The Judgment of Christ; the new Picture of Christ Healing in the Temple, a Design of Our Saviour's Crucifixion, and other sketches from Scriptural subjects.

The first of these pictures has been, not unaptly, called the chef d'ouvre of modern art. I do not know the exact size of this Picture; but conjecture it cannot be less than twenty feet long by at least fifteen broad. It is enriched with a most beautifully gilt frame, carved after the model of the gate of the Temple of Theseus at Athens.

According to the description which the inimitable artist has himself given of it, the subject is " Christ rejected by the Jewish High Priest, the Elders, and the People, when brought to them by Pilate from the Judgment Hall."

The wonderful events, of which this incident forms so striking a portion, took place when empire had reached its zenith under the Romans, and universal peace prevailed. They had been distinctly foretold by the inspired writers, and no meaner agents than angels from heaven had announced the advent of the Messiah, "Glorifying God in the Highest, and proclaiming on Earth Peace and Good will towards men;" thus awfully preparing the minds of men for the approach of an epoch, in which a new and mighty influence would overturn all the established moral and religious systems of the civilized world, making darkness and destruction vanish before, and give place to light and immortality.

For such a subject an Epic composition was demanded; for

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The Directors of the British Institution purchased this picture for three thousand guineas, and it is at this time in the hands of that celebrated en graver, Charles Heath, Esq. to be engraved in the line manner, of the dimensions of twenty-eight inches and a half, by eighteen inches and a half.

it seemed every way proper, that the principal characters in the history, as well as the Divine Chief Himself, should be brought. together on the canvas, and represented by the pencil, as they had been described by the hallowed Prophets and holy Evangelists.

This, indeed, is truly, not only employing history as the handmaid to the Arts, but is making the Arts the noble and powerful auxiliaries of virtue and religion.

The psuedo-philosophers who despise, and the modern witlings who reject the Divine History, may well enough employ the pencil in pourtraying some important portion of profane history, or the extravagancies of the Heathen Mythology and other fictions; these, it is true, are subjects which require the exerciseof the inventive powers, the vigour of genius, and the right use of the imagination; but to depicture, as West has bere done, the amiable form of the Son of God, the genuine piety of his faithful' disciples; the repentant countenance of the good, but weak Peter; the suppliant eye of the relenting sinner about to be crucified with the Saviour of men, requires not only the invention, the genius, the imagination, and the soul peculiar to the philosophic artist, and the enraptured poet; but the piety, the faith, and sweet emotion of soul peculiar to the genuine Christian,* whose heart is in unison with his talents, and whose soul is absorbed in his subject. Such an artist, on such a subject generally speaking, dare invent nothing, fearful of misdirecting

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This amiable and pious artist speaking of himself, informs us that he should be deficient in his gratitude to THE SUPREME BEING, who gave him and continued to him life and health, and to the King who graciously bestowed on him the requisite means of persevering exertions in the exalted department of Historical Painting," were he not " to acknowledge these invaluable favours. They have enabled him to present these pictures (in 1815) as his Fifty-first Annual Exhibition to the public, without an omission-his Forty-seventh under his Majesty's benign patronage, and the Fourth under His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who has been graciously pleased to honour these Pictures and the Arts with his protection."

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