The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-09 00:00:00

BUCKING/I/Mr 110 USE.

As we inserted an account of ;hp present state of
this magc,ificent mansion, our Readers may be
gratified with the 'description of it, as originally
given by the Duke of BucKi!tiaHAr,t, by whom, it
wits erected, in a letter addressed by his Grace to
the Duke of CHistiVos. The following Wier, it
also interesting, as it she,ws the alterations which
have taken place in the neighbourhood of Bucking-
ham House since the foundation ,of that noble
edified.
" 1. rise now in Summer about seven o'clock, from,
s very large bcd4liamber, intirely quiet, high, and
free fiom the early son, to walk in the garden or,
if rainy, in a Saloon filled with Pidures, sonic goon,
but none disagreeable there also, .11 a row above
them, I have so many Portraits of famous persons in
several kinds; as titre enough to excite ambition,,in
any man less lazy, or less at ease, "than myself. a 1
" Instead of a little dozing closet, accordingto
die unwholesome custom of most peOple, I Chuse this,
spacious room, fur all my small affairs, 'reading,:
books or writing letters ;' where I am never in the
least tired, by the help of stretching my legs some-

times in so long a room, and ot lookinginto the
pleasantest Parkin, the world just underneath it.
" Visits, after a certain hour, are nor to be avo.id-
et] ; some of which I own a little fatiguing (tho'
thanki to the town's laziness, they come pretty
lite) if the garden was not 69 near, as to give a
seasonable ref.eshment between; those ceremonious
interruptions. And I am more
.sorry, than my
enueliman himself if I am forced to go abroad any
part of the mot ning. For though my garden is
such, as by not pretending to rarities or curiosi.
ties, has nothing in, it to inveigle one's thoughts,
yet by the advantage of situation and prospea,
it is able to suggest the noblest that can be ; in re-
presenting at once to view a vast Town, a Palace,
and a magnificent Cathedral. I confess the last
with all its splendour, has less share in exci:ieg my
devotior, • than the must COMIIIOn. shrub in my
garden.: for though lam apt to be sincerely de-
vout in any sort of religious assemblies, from the
very best (that of our own Church) 'even to tboie
of
.7issur, Turks, and Indians : Yet the Works of
Nature appeiir • to me the better sort of Serino., ;
and every flawcr contains in it the most e:lifying-
rhetoriek, to fill .tis with admiration of its ortito.
potent Creator. ,
" After I have dinned (either agreeably with
friends, or worst with better company than your
emmtry vighhours) I. drive away to Maeybone, a
plac, of air and exercise ; which some constitutions
is absolute need of :, agitation of. the body, and.
d version of the mind, being a composition for
health above all the skill of Ilinr4rafeb
" The small distance of this place from rondo",
is just enough for recovering my weariness,and re
cruiting 'lnv spirits, so as to make me fitter than
before I set cur, for either business or pleasure. At
the mentioning the last of these, methinks I see
you smile but I confess myself so changed (which,
you maliciously, I know, win cali•deeyed) as to
my forrner enchanting ;delights, that the company
I commonly find at harm is agreeable enough tu.
make me conclude the evening on a delightful ter.
race, or in any place from late visits, except of
familiar acquaintance.
By this account you will see,, that most of, my
time is conjugally spent at hone; and consequently
you will blame my laziness, more than ever, for
not employing it in a new way, which your par-
tiality is wont to think me capable of. Therefore
lan) obliged to go on with this triEing description,
as some excuse for my idleness. ,Pat how such a
description itself is excusable,. is what I should be
very much in pain about,' if I 'thought any body
cohid see it besides yourself, who. are too good a
judge of all things tOmistake. a friend's compliance
in a private letter, for the least' touch of Vanity,
" The avenues 'to. this nnuse are along Sr.
7aavet'r Park, through rows of goodly elms on one,
hand, and .say flotirithing ihue on the other ; that
for coaches, this for walking; with the Mall lying
between theinf This readies to my Iron Pallisade
Oat ineOrap4ises a square Court, which has in the
midst a great Bow) with Statues and Water.. Works;
and from its entrance rises all thi way imper.
ceptibly, till we mount to a Terrace in the front al
a large Ball, 'paved with square white stones,
wiix'd with a dark coloured marble ; the walls of
it covered with a set of piftures done in the school
of RaphaeL Out of this, on the right hand, we go
into a parlour thirty,three foot by thirty-nine,
with a nick fifteen foot 'broad for a bufette, paved
with white marble, and placed within an arch, with
pilasters of divers colours,- the upper part of which
is as high as the cieling, which is painted by Ricci.
"From hence we pass through a suit of large rooms
into a bad chamber, of thirty-four foot by twenty.
seven ; within it alarge clasit that opens into 3
green-house.
pn the left hand of the hall are threeitone
arches supported by Coiildbitne pillars,'under one
of which we go up eight and forty steps ten foot
broad, each step of one entire Peril and stone
these stairs, by the help of two resting ,places, are
so very easy, there is no need of leaning on :the
iron baluster. The walls are painted with the. story
of Dish, whom tho' the Poet was obliged to
patch away mournfully, in order. to make. room. for • 1
2411;40, the better natued Painter has brought no
farther than to that fatal Cave, where the Lovers
appear, jost entering, and languishipg, with. desire.
" The roof of this stair.ease, which is
.fifty.efive
foot from the ground, is of forty foot by thirty-six,
filled with the figures of Gods and Goddesses the
midst is jstae, condescending to ,beg assistance from
rearit, to bring about- a marriage which. the Pahl
intended should be the ruin of her own. darling.
iii eeti and People. By which that sublime Poet
.wisely intimates, that we should never be over
e.iger•for any .thing, either in out, pursuits 'Or our
prayers, lest what we endeavour to ask too violent.

ly for our interest, should be granted us by Provi.
dence, only in order to our ruin.
" The bass-reliefs and little squares above, are
all episodical Paintings of the same story : and the
largenesss of the whole has admitted of a sure re.

medy against any 'decay oly , the colours from salt.;
pet re in the wall, by making another:of oak laths four
inches within it, and so pritned,overlike a pktore.
From a wide anding.place op the stairs bead,
a great double door opens into an apartment of. the
same dimensions with that below, ,onlv three foot
higher : notwithstanding which it would appear too
lowr, if the higher snlan had not been divided froM
it. The first 'rooin of this floor has within it a
Closet of original' Piaures, which yetfare not so
entertaining as the delightful•prosped from the win.
doWs. Out of -the second room a pair of great
doers giVe entrance into the Won', which is thirty
five foot high, thirty_; ix broad, and forty-five limg.
In the midst of its roof a round piCture of "intr-
.: /er:hi, eighteen foot in diameter, represents the
• k Mk es playing in consort to. Apollo, lying along on
I a cloud to hear them. The rest of the room' is
adorned .t with paintings relating to Arts and
Sciences'; -and underneath divers original 'Pictures
hang all in good lights, by the help of an upper
row of wiodows 'which drown tl.e glariog.
" Much of this seems appertaining to parade,
and therefore I am glad to leave- it to describe the
rest, which is all for conveniency, .:As first, a
covered passage front the kitch7n without doors,
and another down to the cellars, and all theoftices
within. Near this a large and lightsome back-
stairs leads up to such an entry above,. as secures
our private bed chambers -both from noise anti cold,
Here we haVe necessary dressiog.rooms, servants
rooms, and closets, from Which. are the pleasantest
views fdr all the house, with a little door of Comuni-
nication betwixt this private apartment and the
gear one.
I 4d These stairs, and those of the same kind at the
other end of the house, carry us up to the highest
story, fitted for the women and children, with the
fl" ors so cOntris 'd, as to prevent all noise,over my.
►ice's head during, the mysteries of Lucina.
" In Mentioning the Court at' first,'l forgot the
two Wings .11 it, built on stone arches which join the
House c.irriootes, supported on lonic pillars. In
'one oltheSe wings is a large kitchen. thirty, foot
high, wi h an open cupola on the top : near it a
larder, brewhouse arid Landry,' with. rooms Over them
for servants. The upper sort of servants' ate lodg.
ed in the other Wing,' which has'alsoisco wardrobes
and a store.ronin for fruit. On the top of all a leaden
cistern, holding fifty tuns of water, driven up by an
engine from the names, supplies all the water-works
in the courts and-gardens, which lie quite round the
house ; through one of which a grass walk conducts
to the stables„built round a court, with six coacit.
houses and forty stalls. •
11 I'll add but One thing before I carry' you into
the garden, and that is about walking:too, but 'tis
on .the top of all.the house ; which being covered
with atnootli mill'd lead, and defended by a parapet
of .ballosters from apprehension as well as danger,
entertains the eye with ,a far distant prospett of
hills And dales, and a near one of parks and gardens.
these gardens we go down from the house by
seven steps, into •a gravel walk that reaches cross
the-whole garden, with a covered arbour at each end
of it. Another of thirty foot broad leads from the
front of the House, and lies betweeri two graves of
tall lime trees, planted in several equal ranks uponit
'carpet of grass :the outsides of these groves are
bordered: with tubs of baryand orange trees.,
" At the end of this broad walk you go up to a
terrace fOur'liundred paces long, with a large semi.
circle in the middle, from whence' is beheld the.
QUeert's two parks, and a great part of/Starry ;. the*
going down a few steps you walk on the Bank of a
canal:sitehutuired yards long, and seventeen broad,
;with two rows of limes on each side of it.
: 41 .On one side of this terrass,.a wall cover'd with
roses and jessamines is made low 'to admit the view
of a meadow full of cattle just under it; (no dis.
nreeahleobjeCtin the midst of a great city) and at
each end a descent into parterres, with fountains and
waterworks.

' From the biggest • of- these parterres we pass
into a little square garden, that has a fountain in
'the middleiand two greenhouses on the sides, With
a convenient bathing apartment in one of them ; and
near another part of it lies' a flower garden.—Below
all this a kitchen garden full of the best sorts of fruit,
has several walks in it fit for the coldest weather.
" Thus I have done, with a tedious description.
Only one thing I forgot, though of more satisfac.
Lion t()-111t than all the rest, which I fancy you
guess already;. and 'OS a little closet' of books- at
the end of that green ,house which joins the best
apartment ; which, besides their heijig so very near,
are ranked in such a method, that by its mark a
very' frith footman-may fetch any book I want.
64 Under the windows of this closet and green
home, is a little wilderness of blackbirds and night..
ingales. The trees, tho' planted by myself, require
lopping already, to prevent their hindering the view
of Ow fine canal in the Park."

To THOMAS TAYLOR, Esq.
No. 9, Now Bridge-Strtet, London.

Honoured Sir, ,' . , . , ~Editiburgh, March LS" ;Sot- ,
IBEG leave to inf Orin you, that ever since the
year 1790, ' 1 - have been Whiled with the Lues Vette-
rea; which, nom its obstinately, resisting every course of
Nledicifie prescribed by Vie Most erriiiiit ot• the Faculty
rare, and undergoing several tic:VCIC WU! SC,`,i of. salivation,
and twice discharged from the lioliital, with tittle rzli'et,
i. would appear to.ne.of the„mast .invetctiate nature. .Iti the
' spring.ot last year my disorder had. got to such a heath as
nearly to put a period to toy existence- ..1 had a large-Ulcer
on the crown of my head, one oft each arm, and my legs
were broke out in a frightful manner; my right.WaS.drcad-
fullY Painful, and hail .been in a state 6t" ulcaatioil for the
last seven years; my left had ° also two large nodes on it,
was very much .diseolo4recl, and .ga,ve. me such exerutiat-
ing pain, particularly, when warm in: bed, as nearly to de,,,
prive me of rest; in 'this lamentable 'state, 1 was 'recant.;
intended by b 1 r. J. Thompson, (.who received.so great a
cure by them here), to take your. Leake's Patent Nils,
which .I h ..egan to do On tint #itli of Slay On tho course
of a fortni,:lit, I begat) to receive henefit-ln little more,
than a mouth, the ulcers, on my lit?zd and arms were
soundly healed--soon after, thtt,,sores on my legs . healed
also; leaVing, hoWever, considerable discolouration in the
skin, and pain in the bone of the left, which, b the Nes-
lin of God, and is little longer perseverance in yodriltva-
sttit le,edicinc, subsided; . d
the nodes disperng, the skin
11
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rep ping its natural hue, "and the nourrsal.pAins gr.idually
going oft: I thins became, by' your liberal-iitivlce and Me-
dicine,: perfect:), free: from all my termer vomplaitits—
*have recovered my former spirits and strenph,anci am be-
come' jolly and tat, in which state having Continued Many
.months to the astunishtnent of all wha knew me, I ant at
a loss in what terms to express
,my gratitude,,butbeg you,
for the good of„other, :.uttering mortals, to snake this my
, case as public as possible, es I shall on every- occasion ;
in so doing, .you: will greatly, oblige, Sir,_, your grateful,
obedient,. very lisiusOlo sorYinit, . 41--E X. %MU-It K!:it ,
SWIM'S, Close, I ligh:street,,Edinburgh.
' Witnesses ny the aboVe Cure; •
ICIHN THOMI.i ON, NO. 3, New Poultry ;Nlatket ; -!and
fonti hl'IN TOS It, it)lClrA,;,,Ml!)iy-c;19:;C, 'ciinburgh.
Prepared and Sold by the sole Proprietor,
THOMAS T.: Y Lox, Memlier of the hoyal .o:Mtge of Sur-
'geniis, at his House, No., 9„Ne,.v Britig9,-:,triter,-- London ;
where, after a constant re...;(lence ;of more th.,m. thirty-six
. . years, in a pfacticc particularly dire(!fe,l ro, thecure of
Venereal Complaints and those-incidental to the. Parts of
i . Generation,, with that inviviable secrecy which. ri;en of
his profession slimild always observe in such cases', he
flatters himself, the advice antr:4SSi3tartee He grattiitously
: • administers to . persons takingoilis Medicine, will be
esrtePrned, by, a ,clksquiing..l3,ublic, as an advantage set-'
dom attainable and Void'of all ambiguity.
Also sold, by .his appoinrrnent for the convenience 4)1
those living at a distance,. at the Perfumer's, No. 35, :St.
Alhati's-stteet, Pail-Mall ;„ the Toyslinp, No. 103, Ox..
ford-street; Mr. Dishorough's No. 7, l'i,.h -street; hill •
• Mr. Steelrl,- lirsekseller, Nii.,i4, ttlinon-row„ Little Tower`.
hill ; Mr. Baxter's, tiouth,ihriiistp, . Edinburgh ; Mr.. Nlae,„
donald,. C lasgow ; NI r. Callwell's, Dublin ; and by ozie
person at every considerable viwnin Great Britain and I re-
land, in. Bekes. ol'only 2s. otlC:,each, sealed. up with full
and Plain three:lions, whereny,persons of either RA may
cure themselves with ease, speed, secrecy, and safety. •
• N. W. livery Box sold in Great Britain is sealed up witX
a.. Stamp,, on which, hy..:l44uur of the Compti3sionere is ;
printedt at the. Stamp-011ice,-.4.‘ T. Taylor; ,No. , Nev,
Bridge-street,"--to imitate which is Felony, acid all others
are counterteitis.