The original Picture of London (1826) (14777498422)

Identifier: originalpictureo00felt (find matches)
Title: The original Picture of London
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: (Feltham, John) (from old catalog) Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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y be much more frequented than it is atpresent. In the spacious court, and directly fronting the entrance,is a bronze statue of the late King, with a figure of theRiver Thames at his feet, pouring wealth and plenty froma large cornucopia. It is by Bacon, possesses his charac-teristic cast of expression, and is finely executed. The major part of this grand national structure is occu-pied by the various offices and by the abodes of differentofficers of the government. The former are at once com-modious, elegant, and worthy of the wealth of the nationto which they belong: business is transacted in them withmost admirable order. The hall of the Navy Office is afine room, having two fronts, one facing the terrace andthe other open to the court. On the east is the StampOffice, which consists of numerous apartments: theroom in which the stamping is executed will interest thecurious. On the west is the Pay Office of the Navy. Hereare also the offices of the Auditor of the Exchequer ; of the i
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The Bank. TOWER OF LONDON. 175 Oiancellors of the Duchies of Cormuatl and Lancaster ; theHawkers* and Pedlars^ Office; Lottery Office; StagecoachOffice; Legacy-duty Ojfice; and the revenue establish-n)ent of* the Tax-Offices. From a late debate in theHouse of Commons, it appears that the government pro-pose shortly, to complete this building. The Tower of London. — The Tower of London was an-ciently a royal palace, occasionally inhabited by the varioussovereigns of England, from the Norman Conquest tillthe reign of Queen Elizabeth. Fitz-Stephen says, it wasoriginally built by Julius Ca&sar; but there is no evidence ofthe truth of this assertion, beyond the circumstances, thatone of the towers is called Caesars Tower, and that coins ofthe Emperors Honorius and Arcadius were discovered ona part of the site, when digging for the foundations of thenew Ordnance Office, in 1777. It is, however, certain that William the Conqiferorerected a fortress where the Tower now stands, to overaw