After the death of Mr. Fordyce, the Office of Surveyor-General of the Land Revenue was amalgamated with the Commission for the management of his Majesty's Woods and Forests; and Messrs. Leverton and Chawner, architects and surveyors of buildings of the Land Revenue; and Mr. Nash, Architect and Surveyor of the Woods and Forests; were required to deliver in plans for the arrangement of the Marylebone Park Estate. The result of their labours was the delivery of several plans by Messrs. Leverton and Chawner, and of several others by Mr. Nash.

Mr. Fordyce, in April, 1809, had laid before the Commissioners of the Treasury, a memorandum respecting the extension of the town over Marylebone Park, leading the attention of Architects to the proper consideration of the sewer, supplies of water, markets, police, churches, and a public ride or drive. He had, antecedent to this period, in May, 1796, particularly brought into notice the forming a direct and commodious communication to Marylebone from Westminster, and recommended its execution.

On the expiration of the lease from the Crown to the Duke of Portland in January, 1811, the Crown obtained an Act of Parliament, and appointed a commission to form a park and to let the adjoining land on building leases. The whole was laid out by Mr. James Morgan in 1812, from the plans of Mr. John Nash, architect, who designed all the terraces except Cornwall Terrace, which was designed by Mr. Decimus Burton.

The Park derives its name name from the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV., who intended building a residence there at the north-east side of the Park. Part of Regent Street was actually designed as a communication from the Prince's projected residence to Carlton House, St. James's Palace, &c. The Crown property comprises, besides the Park, the upper part of Portland Place, from No. 8 (where there is now part of the iron railing which formerly separated Portland Place from Marylebone Fields), the Park Crescent and Square, Albany, Osnaburgh, and the adjoining cross streets, York and Cumberland Squares, Regent's Park Basin and Augustus Street, Park Villages east and west, and the outer road of the Park.

About the year 1820, there seems to have been a proposition set

on foot for the building of a gigantic Road from Portland Place to Regent's Collection, at the British Museum, drawings, by John Martin, showing the a large and richly ornamented column, extending over the whole of the conve Whatever there may be to urge in f an artistic point of view, the absence sufficient justification for the relinquishing

ST. DUNSTAN'S

This house was built by Decimus Hertford. There is an interesting story When the marquis was a child, and a him, would take him to see "the giants to say, that when he grew up to be a It happened when old St. Dunstan's wa were put up to auction, and the marquis sum of £200.

The giants used to strike the hours on
Church, in Fleet Street, and after they
Marquis of Hertford, they were again mad
Cowper, the poet, refers to the figures at
lines:-

"When Labour and when Dullne
Like the two figures of St. Duns
Beating alternately, in measured
The clock-work tintinabulum of r
Exact and regular the sounds will
But such mere quarter-strokes are

The buildings and offices are on a larger park. Simplicity and chastity of style, char interior is in the same style of beauty. The e front, is adorned with a portico of six colum order which embellishes the vestibule of the Athens. The roof is Venetian, with broad pro cantalivres and concealed gutters to prevent water from the eaves. On each side of the p