Engrard by J. Burnet. From a drawing by F Nash for the Beauties of England & Walar. E.WB. det

Chapter, and hang in the Chapter-Room; and that others on paper, in bistre, are preserved in the Dean's Vestry.

In the area before the west front, within a circular railing, is a Statue of QUEEN ANNE, in her regal robes, standing upon a sculptured pedestal, at the lower angles of which are four figures, representing Britannia, Hibernia, America, and France.* This is a very indifferent performance of Bird's, (who received 3501. for the Queen's statue, and 11801. for the whole) and its sooty aspect, and mutilated figures, make it appear yet worse; it having

*This ill-contrived group, furnished a subject for some strong irony to Sir Samuel Garth; as may be seen in the following satirical lines, written by him :

Near the vast bulk of that stupendous frame,
Known by the Gentile's great Apostle's name,
With grace divine, great Anna's seen to rise,
An awful form, that glads a nation's eyes;
Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear,
And with due reverence pay their homage there.
Britain and Ireland seem to own her grace,
And ev'n wild India wears a smiling face;
But France alone with downcast eyes is seen,
The sad attendant of so good a Queen:
Ungrateful country! to forget so soon
All that great Anna for thy sake has done :
When sworn the kind defender of thy cause,
Spite of her dear religion, spite of laws;
For thee she sheath'd the terrors of her sword,
For thee she broke her Gen'ral---and her word;
For thee her mind in doubtful terms she told,
And learned to speak like oracles of old;
For thee, for thee alone--what could she more?
She lost the honour she had gained before;
Lost all the trophies which her arms had won,
(Such Cæsar never knew, nor Philip's son)
Resign'd the glories of a ten years reign,

And such as none but Marlborough's arm could gain:

For thee in annals she's content to shine,

Like other monarchs of the Stuart line.

been much damaged about thirty-eight years ago by a poor negro maniac.

The whole extent of the area upon which St. Paul's stands, is stated to contain two acres, sixteen perches, twenty-three yards, and one foot. The entire expense of erecting the Cathedral was 736,7521. 2s. 31d. exclusive of the charge for the iron Balustrade, which stands upon the dwarf wall surrounding the ChurchYard. This Balustrade, which is very strong and well-wrought, has seven iron gates, and altogether weighs 200 tons and eightyone pounds: it cost 11,2021. Os. 6d.

Though St. Paul's Cathedral was intended to be the grand ornament of the Metropolis, there is not, unfortunately, a single point of view from which it can be seen in its entire proportions; and it is from this cause that its effect is much less imposing than it would otherwise be, and that the comparison which travellers make between this edifice and St. Peter's at Rome, is so greatly to the advantage of the latter. The houses surrounding the Church are in general lofty dwellings, and so nearly contiguous to the Cathedral, that they completely prevent the spectator from viewing it as a whole. The most adjacent spot from which it may be beheld with any thing of its due grandeur, is from near the end of Wood Street, in Cheapside; but a still better view is obtained from about the centre of Blackfriars Bridge, whence it appears to rise in all its majestic elevation and diguity, yet even in this prospect all the lower part of the edifice is excluded from sight by intervening buildings. In the approach from Ludgate Street, the west front is seen under much disadvantage, as the avenue is not only too contracted for the extent of the front, but the lines in respect to each other have an oblique direction. A right line drawn east and west with St. Paul's, would cross Bridge Street, near Bridewell. The height of the ground, combined with the altitude of the building, is such, that this edifice, as the Parentalia has remarked, may "be discerned at Sea eastward, and at Windsor westward."

Among the various appendages to the Old Cathedral, which
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