When, therefore, I was commanded to deliver my opinion concerning the style of architecture best adapted to the additions and garden front for the Pavillon, I could not hesitate in agreeing that neither the Grecian nor the Gothic style could be made to assimilate with what had so much the character of an eastern building. I considered all the different styles of different countries, from a conviction of the danger of attempting to invent anything entirely new. The Turkish was objectionable, as being a corruption of the Grecian; the Moorish, as a bad model of the Gothic; the Egyptian was too cumbrous for the character of a villa; the Chinese too light and trifling for the outside, however it may be applied to the interior; and the specimens from Ava were still more trifling and extravagant. Thus, if any known style were to be adopted, no alternative remained but to combine, from the architecture of Hindustan, such forms as might be rendered applicable to the purpose. After various experiments, the original MS. and drawings of this present work had the honour to receive his Royal Highness's most flattering appro- bation, with gracious permission to lay this fac simile before the public.
