which a "modern front" is represented to have been added; the original structure of Sir Hugh Clopton being encafsed within it, just as the monaftic Zion House is enclosed within that ponderous ducal pile on the banks of the Thames, which looks like a "Union " outfide, and is decorated as an Italian Villa infide. Thousands of persons have mourned Mr. Gaftrell's deftructiveness, caring nothing for the "modern front," but grieving over the antique interior, where Shakefpere was supposed to have lived and died. It is defirable that the public should be fet right concerning this mistake, and understand, that, about the year 1720, one Sir Hugh Clopton utterly demolished the fabric which another Sir Hugh Clopton, about the year 1490, had erected. It was not a "modern front," but an entirely new house, which was erected about 1720; and it was this structure (of the Dutch NEW PLACE: as it appeared when rebuilt, circa 1720. This is the house in which Garrick was entertained, and which was deftroyed by Gafrell. (AN EXACT COPY FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAWING.) Dutch William or Queen Anne's style of building) which, devoid of all historical affociation, the ruthless Gaftrell razed to the ground.* Representations of this house are extant. They only need to be examined, and the eye learns inftantly that a complete rebuilding, and not a "modern fronting," must have occurred in or 66 about 1720. Upon the ground-floor the hall door occupied the centre, flanked right and left with three windows. On the first-floor a row of seven windows were difplayed, the central one opening into a fmall balcony. The three centre windows and the doorway, flightly projecting, were furmounted by a pediment, containing the creft and motto of the Cloptons, "Loyavte Mon. Honneur," in the tympanum. The * Appendix K. The middle of the roof was occupied with a square platform, furrounded by a wooden balustrade, as frequently seen in houses of the period. Rufticated ftonework, in long and short blocks, ornamented the corners of the house, and a projecting Claffic cornice, with dentile decoration, gave a finish to the roof. On the opposite page this house is reprefented. In it Mr. Garrick and his friends were entertained at the time of the Jubilee, in 1769. It was what auctioneers call a fubftantial family manfion, very square, very flat, very red, and in its flat-topped roof, with wooden baluftrades, closely related to the style of structures delighted in by the King of pious and immortal memory. About Kenfington, Chifwick, and Hammersmith, any number of "fuitable "refidences," built at the fame date, may be seen, generally confpicuous as Colle |