Star.
London, England, 1824-08-19 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S PARK.

" In the time of King Henry VIII." says a note to
Dr. King's Poems, in Chalmers' Collection, " the Park
was a wild wet field; but that Prince, on building St.
James's Palace, enclosed it, laid it out in walks, and
collecting the waters together, gave to the new-enclosed
ground and new-raised buildings the name of St.James's.
It was much enlarged by Chales H. who added to it
several fields, planted it with rows of lime•ttees, laid
out the Mall, formed the canal with a decoy, and other
ponds for water-fowl. The lime•trees or tilia, whose
blossoms are uncommonly fragrant, were probably
planted in consequence of a suggestion of Mr. Evelyn,
in his Fumitagium, published in 1661."
Charles H. was very fond of the Park. His habit of
walking there, attended by his dogs, both sad and
merry, has been noticed before. His ducks, which he
also amused himself with feeditig, inhabited a spot
called Duck Island, which was erected into a " govern-
ment," in order to furnish the French exile and wit, St.
Evremond, with a pebsion.—Bird-cage-walk must not
be forgotten, which was an aviary of Charles's raising,
and retains its appellation.
In books of fifty and a hundred years back, if you
met with a hungry Gentleman who did not know where
to get a dinner, you always find him sitting on a bench
in the Park. Others generally accompany him, most
of whom are politicians. Bickerstaff meets here' his
acquaintance the " Upholsterer," who lets his affairs run
ruin in his zeal for the King of Sweden.
It would appear from novels, that the Park enjoyed
some privileges from arrest. In Fielding's Amelia, the
hero often walks in the Mall, when he can go nowhere
else. During the existence of the old Cathedral of St.
Paul's, the inside of that Church was the re,oit of the
hungry ; who, in allusion to a tomb supposed to cont.iiii
the body of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, gave ri.e
to the saying of dining with the Duke Humphrey.
The Mall is so called from the game uf Mall, to which Waller
alludes. Charles 11. transferred it from 1'all•ntall.

In a house looking into Mr. 13entham's garden, in Bird-cage-walk,
lived Milton. The front of it is in Vork•street, and, without beiqg
the ancient one, is in a very squalid condition.
The Horse Guard, w•as in a poor condition in the time of Charle4.
The stables looked like the open corridors of an old inn ; and a toy
of a building, with a staircase outside, appears to have been t•:e
guard-house. These conclusions are drawn from the print in Pennant.

The parish of St. Giles' in die Fields is, with the as-
sistance of the Church Commissioners, about to elect
two new Chapel;, one in Store-street, on the rite of the
premises occupied by Mr. Combe's brewery, and the
other in Feather:sewn, Holborn, at the back ai Whet-
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