en. The present promenades in Hyde-Park lose the effect
produced by rank and distinguished character, owing to those classes
being shut up in their carriages." Another writer, speaking of the
park in Charles's time, with its Dorimants, Millamours, and
Millamants, says, "every thing around breathes of beauty and gaiety,
the air is courtly, silks are rustling, and feathers fluttering in the
mall; fair forms are hovering, and bright eyes glancing round; at
every turn you encounter lords and beauties." In the "neglected state"
we have long concurred; and we sympathize with our tourist in his
other lament; for the former we have a remedy at last, and it affords
us pleasure to know that the first of these tourists possesses health
and vigour to watch the progress of the _improvements in the parks_;
and we hope that he may live many years to enjoy their completion. But
for the second evil, we fear there is no remedy, since the disease is
mortal to social happiness; unless that the proffered improvements may
once more reinstate the Montpellier promenades of the park in
fashion's favour. Editors are, however, very subordinate personages,
when

----Fashion so directs, and moderns raise
On fashion's mould'ring base their transient praise.

Be this as it may, _we_, who are so _un_fashionable as to be
occasional promenaders in the parks, rejoice to present our readers
with the annexed plan of the improvements now in progress in St.
James's Park, and in conjunction with the palace works they denote the
simultaneous study of the happiness of the sovereign and the subject.
Our country readers, surrounded by all the blooming attributes of
health, will doubtless congratulate such important improvements of
what has been termed "the lungs of the metropolis."

The annexed plan is reduced from the engraving which accompanied the
Treasury Minute, January 19, 1827; from which the following are
extracts:--

"The Earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer lay before
the Board a plan for building on the North and South sides of St.
James's Park, (in addition to the buildings already sanctioned upon
the site of Carlton Gardens;) and also for making some considerable
alterations in the distribution of the intermediate ground, whereby
the appearance of the park would be much improved, while a very
material accommodation would be afforded to the public.

"They state, that they have received the Ki