This figure of a naked warrior is eighteen feet in height, and is placed on a massy pedestal of granite, on which is the following inscription:

To Arthur, duke of Wellington, and his brave companions in arms, this statue of Achilles, cast from cannon taken in the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse and Waterloo, is inscribed by their country women.

On the base,

Placed on this spot the

18th day of June

.

1822

, by command of his majesty, George IV.

This statue was executed by Mr. Westmacott, and is a copy of an ancient bronze figure placed on the Quirinal hill at Rome, where it was grouped with a horse which was discovered near it. Antiquaries have conjectured that the hero intended to be represented was Castor, the patron of the art of horsemanship. Others conceive the horse to have made no part of the original group, and suppose the statue to be that of an ancient , or of Achilles. This last idea has been adopted by Mr. Westmacott, who has placed a

The appropriation of such a statue to an English military hero of the present age is extremely absurd, and will be a lasting reproach to the persons who chose it; for it has no analogy to England, to Wellington, to the army, or to the arts or customs of our times.

Immense alterations have been made within the few last years between and ; an elegant square, the houses of the character has been formed from the designs of George Basevi esq. It is called , in compliment to the heir of the noble house of Grosvenor. The principal part was commenced by Mr. Cubilt in . At the south west corner is an elegant villa, erected from the designs of H. E. Kendall, esq. for T. R. Kemp, esq. M. P. Here is an elegant church, entitled

[] Picture of London, 1827, p. 195.