List of Rangers--A horse jumping the wall--Highwaymen--Horace Walpole robbed--Other robberies--Assaults, offences, etc., in the present reign--A very recent case 235 CHAPTER XXII. The Gates--That into Kensington Gardens--Improvements in the Park--Encroachments--The case of Ann Hicks and the other fruit-sellers--Seats in the Park--New house in ditto 253 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. PAGE 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 [Illustration: decorative bar] HYDE PARK. CHAPTER I.