The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-22


as rebuilt in a most magnificent man
ner" by the duke and, referring to the
curtously minute letter which his grace
sent TO the Duke of Shrewsbury detailing
MS mode of NVing, says, rather quaint
~. He has omitted his constant visits
to the noted gaming house at Marybone,
the place Of assemblage of all the infa-
nous sharpers of the time. His grace al
ways gave them a dinner at the conciu-
sion OF the season, and his parting toast
was May as many of us as remain I'M
hanged next spring meet here again.. "
William ~ spent his whole reign in fur
nishins the palace and making other alter
atlons, although he did not appear al all
anxious to occupy II, spending most of his
time at Windsor. with season at Brigh-
ton. 1t was not until just after the ac-
cession of Queen Victoria, in July, 1887,
that it became again a royal residence,
which occasioned the wits TO say that ut
was built for one sovereign and furnish
ed for another" Although it is comput
ed that a sum approaching a million ster-
ling has been spent on the palace. ex-
elusive of furnishing. Satire of all kinds
has been freely bestowed on the design,
Which DR.. Waagen. the German critic, de-
scribed as the transformation by some
wicked magician of some capricious stage
scenery into real life
The site of Buckingham Palace was for
merly the once famous Mulberry Gar
dens which Defoe mentions as one of the
great beauties of London In an old
print OF about the time of James I, of
the Palace of Whitehall Arlington
House can be seen in the distance. and
at this date no buildings extended be-
yond st. James to the left the north
was open to Hampstead and the view of
the Thames was almost uninterrupted.
Arlington House was the mansion of
Henry. Bennett, Earl of Arlington, one of
the famous "cabaP ministry. against
whom articles of Impeachment we're pre-
ferred in 1874 One OF the charges was
that he was wanting in fidelity to his
trust as a privy councillor, as a sworn
defender of the Protestant faith, being,
IN fact a Catholic; but he had met the
case so dexterously" that the impeach-
ment was dropped 1t is probable, from
the autobiography OF Sir John Bramston,
published by the Camden Society, that
this charge, among others. was well found
ed. since ii is there asserted that the
j. Lord Chamberlain" died Roman Cath
DICK, though he had taken the Test sew
erall tymes as Peere in the Lords
house. and as the Kings servant. both
IN the last Kings TYNE and in this pres
ent Kings, too 1t was at Arlington
Rouse that the first cup of tea was made
in England, the earl having brought
pound from Holland for which he paid
sixty shillings. Arlington House was pur-
chased by the Duke Of Buckingham. who
pulled down the old house, and in 1908
erected the large red mansion. with IT'S
duli heavy facade, afterwards known as
buckingham House. The wall of the gar
dens, the Duke obtaining an extra grant
OF land from the crown formed one side
or the main street of Pimlico; but the
GROUNDS were very much neglected. In
size and splendor Buckingham House. de-
spite Pennant's eulogy was eclipsed bv
TART Hall, long the depository of the
Arundehan marbles and which faced the
PARK on the present site of James street
george III, who lived here a great DEAL
nearly all his fourteen children being
born in the palace, affected a severity OF
interior embellishments, in strict keeping
with the heavy >style OF the exterior. Mr.
Pyne, in his History of the ROYAL Res
ldence, describing the interior as re-
markable for its plainness. The old King.
however, collected a great many pictures.
including large number Of his pet paint
er, Benjamin West, also huge library.
I "hlch at his death, was lodged
|, in the British Museum. After
the death of Queen Charlotte, the King
lived in unhappy seclusion at Windsor,
and there was nothing in the solidity Of
the queens House to attract the garish
taste of the prince regent For several
years the palace continued solitude
of dust and decay, until, in 1925. George
~, tired of Carlton House, induced mis-
government to alter" the palace on the
plans of Nash, which alterations, com.
pleted' in 1923, still required large sum
to be spent in raising the wings a COM
mittee of the House of Commons ex-
pressing its dissatisfaction with the new
alterations FOR rectifying a defect which
scarcely could have occurred If a model
or the entire edifice had previously been
made and duly examined" If this seems
a hard structure on Nash, it has to be
remembered that his royal master had his
own IDEAS on architectural matters and
was not SLOW to interpose them in the
working out of the design. The only por-
tion of the old Queens House left stand
ing under this rich scheme of remodeIing
was the ground floor, the low ceilings Of
the rooms of which induced a critic TO
remark that George ~ had predilec-
tiop for low ceilings, so all the future in
habftants of the Pimlico Palace must
endure suffocation." 1t was under the
orders of the King that Nash designed
that sumptuous entrance arch, probably
the greatest work Of mere ornament ever
attempted in England, known to us as the
marble Arcn, out Whlch, In the unfinished
state In which 1t was allowed to be left
has excited unlimited ridicule. In size
. and general design il was intended to be
a copy of the arch of Constantine; and
had 1t been completed as originally pro-
jected, would have cost f70, 900, including
the handsome gates (the finest in Europe,
not excluding those at the Ducal Palace
at Venice), and the equestrian statue of
the King by Chantrey. intended to crown
the edifice. AS 1t is, the arch has been
almost universally condemned as a piece
of tasteless expenditure and wantou folly
Goblet, in his odd, sarcastic way, said
he had often looked at the structure.
without, however, being able ITO make
anything of it." The arch was removed
to its present position by order of our
late Queen. The costly triumpha struc-
ture facing Hyde Park Corner, built by
Mr.. Burton in 1928, which has been con-
demned for its insipidity, but which, II
should be said, in justice to the archi-
tect, was also left unfinished, was orig
nally intended for the royal entrance
into the palace gardens. Sir John Stone
also proposed to erect an entrance into
Piccadily OF architectural stupendous-
ness, consisting of two large side arches
and a vast arch spanning the PiccadS1y
roadway at a hight emitting TO the epI-
thet triumphal The flagstaff on the Mar
bic Arch was first used on the occasion
OF the Queens Coronation June 1898.
When. In 1871 Il was proposed TO ex-
pend another large sum on the palace, to
make Il more commodious for the Queen
and her family. great objection was rails
ed. and a new royal residence was freely
h.