CHAPTER XXIII.

Works of art in the Park--Drinking fountain--Marble Arch--Hyde Park Corner--Achilles statue--Walk round the park--Cemetery of St. George’s, Hanover Square--Sterne’s tomb and burial--Tyburn tree--The Tybourne--People executed--Henrietta Maria’s penance--Locality of the gallows--Princess Charlotte--Gloucester House--Dorchester House--Londonderry House--Apsley House--Allen’s apple stall--The Wellington Arch--Statues of the Duke--St. George’s Hospital, Knightsbridge--A fight on the bridge--Albert Gate and George Hudson--Knightsbridge Barracks 265

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Exhibition of 1851: Osier’s Glass Fountain and the Transept _Frontispiece_

Boscobel Oaks, 1804 27

Cheesecake House, 1826 30

Duel between Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton 37

Duel between George Garrick and Mr. Baddeley, 1770 42

Winter Amusement, 1787 50

The Row, 1793 62

“ “ 1814. The Allied Sovereigns 62

“ “ 1834 62

The Duke of Wellington 64

A Spring in the Park, 1794 65

Houses in the Park, 1794 66

A Man of War, 1814 73

“Albert, spare those trees!” 103

Tailpiece: Col. Sibthorpe and Exhibition of 1851 119

Map of Hyde Park from “Roque’s Survey,” 1741-1745 120

Volunteer Review by George III., 1799 143

The Soldiers’ Toilet, 1780 145

Returning from the Review, 1800 150

Popularity of Blücher, 1814 157

The Broken Windows at Apsley House, 1831 280

HYDE PARK.