The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . that it is scarcely possible forthose who never saw it, to con-ceive the elegance and grandeur ofthe apartments, the boldness of thepaintings, or the effect producedby the disposition of the lights,which were reflected from gilt the dome were a number ofstatues, repi*esenting most of thelieathen .gods and goddesses, sup- posed to be in the ancient Pantheonat Rome, from which it derived itsname. To these were added threebeautiful statues of white porphy-ry, representing the King andQueen, and Britann
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . that it is scarcely possible forthose who never saw it, to con-ceive the elegance and grandeur ofthe apartments, the boldness of thepaintings, or the effect producedby the disposition of the lights,which were reflected from gilt the dome were a number ofstatues, repi*esenting most of thelieathen .gods and goddesses, sup- posed to be in the ancient Pantheonat Rome, from which it derived itsname. To these were added threebeautiful statues of white porphy-ry, representing the King andQueen, and Britannia. The wholebuilding formed a suite of fourteenrooms, each affording a strikingspecimen of tuste and the destruction of the; Kings Theatre in the Haymar-j1 ket, by fire, in June 1789, the Pan-j theon was used for the exhibitionII of Italian operas, and was frequent-ly honoured with the presence oftheir Majesties; till, on the 14thJanuary, 1792, this beautiful struc-ture also fell a prey to the same de-vouring element. The fire brokeout in the new buildings which. RETROSPECT OF POLITICS. 43 had hern added for the more con-venient performance of operas;and before any engine readied thespot, the tlamos had gained such aheight, that all attempts to savethe building wore in vain. Owingto the scenery, oil, paint, andother combustible materials in thehouse, the conflagration was sorapid, that not a single articlecould be saved. Persons who wit-nessed the progress of this tremen-dous fire, declare, that the appear-ances exhibited through the win-dow s, the loft vseagliola pillars enve-loped in flames and smoke, the costlydamask curtains waving from therarefaction of the air, and the sn-perb chandeliers turning roundfrom the same circumstance, toge-ther with the successive crashingand felling in of different por-tions of the building, furnished totheir minds a more lively represen-tation of Pandemonium than theimagination alone can possibly sup-ply. The effects, too, of
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