mansion, was pulled down about the year 1773, and the site is now occupied by a malt distillery, and an horizontal windmill, which is a very conspicuous object on the bank of the river. The form of this mill is that of a truncated cone, an hundred and forty-three feet in height, fifty-two in diameter at the base, and forty-five feet at the top. The external and internal parts of the machine are nearly similar. The out-frame, or case, is composed of ninety-six planks, placed perpendicularly on moveable pivots, so that the apertures may be encreased or diminished according to the force of the wind. The inner part, which nearly fills the diameter of the outer one, is, in like manner, formed of ninety-six perpendicular moveable planks, fixed to an upright shaft. When these are properly adjusted, which can be done by pulling a rope, the wind rushing through the openings of the outer frame, acts upon the flat surfaces of the inner planks or sails, and turns the shaft round with the degree of velocity required by the person who regulates it. This shaft acts upon the other parts of the machinery in the same way as the water-wheel of a common mill. This curious building was first erected for the purpose of grinding linseed, but is now applied to the uses of the adjoining distillery.

The church was rebuilt in the year 1777, and is a neat structure of brick, with the addition of stone coins and ornaments. It has a square tower at the west end, with a clumsy spire, in which the architect seems to have borrowed the form of an extinguisher. It is without either aisles or chancel, and the communion-table stands in a recess. Above it is an ancient window of painted glass which belonged to the old church, and was carefully preserved to decorate the new one. It contains the portraits of Henry the Seventh; his grandmother, Margaret Beauchamp; and Queen Elizabeth. Over the portraits are the royal arms in a central compartment; and, on each side, the arms and quarterings of the St. Johns. The portraits are likewise surrounded with the arms of the families united to them by

marriage. Against the south wall is a monument to the memory of Sir Edward Wynter, a captain in the East India service, in the reign of Charles the Second, whose exploits, as recorded on his tomb, are of such an extraordinary nature, as required a far more credulous age to allow of its admission into a place of Christian worship. His bust, which is of a large size, and ornamented with whiskers, is at the top, and his adventures are represented, in basso-relievo, beneath the inscription which records them. One of these is the total defeat of forty Moorish horsemen by the sole prowess of his single arm; and the other, the overthrow of a tyger, by the following stratagem. Being pursued by that fierce animal in the woods, he took his station by the side of a pond; and when the tyger flew at him, he caught the beast in his arms, fell back into the water with him, got upon him, and held him down till he was completely drowned. The truth of these deeds, however, which rival the renowned feats of Baron Munchausen, are vouched for in the epitaph.

The bridge, which stretches across the river from Chelsea to this place, and bears its name, is a wooden structure, and unworthy of its vicinity to the metropolis. It is also most injudiciously placed, as it does not stand in a right angle with the stream, so that its piers are continually receiving injury from the vessels and barges striking against

them.

By the custom of the manor of Battersea, lands descend to the younger sons; but, in default of sons, they are divided equally among the daughters.

CHELSEA HOSPITAL.

THE Royal Hospital of Chelsea is situated on the banks of the Thames, at the distance of a mile and an half from Buckingham Gate. It was begun in the reign of Charles the Second, and compleated in that of William and Mary. Its scite is that of the edifice known by the name of "King James's College;" of which, as a very curious and connected subject, some account will be naturally expected.

This collegiate establishment was originally projected by Doctor Matthew Sutcliffe, a very zealous and learned divine, and Dean of Exeter, in the seventh year of the reign of James the First, and under the immediate patronage of that monarch. It was designed for the sole study of polemical divinity, under the government of a provost and fellows, who were to employ their whole time and talents. in the advancement of the reformed religion, and the defence of it against the attacks of the church of Rome. At this period, the press teemed with publications on topics of controversial divinity; and the public attention was proportionably engrossed by theological disquisitions. The court set the example, as the monarch himself was attached to that branch of study; and to be considered as a powerful controversalist in religious polemics, was no small gratification to his pride. This college, therefore, found a zealous patron in the king, who supported it by various grants and benefactions. His majesty laid the first stone of the new edifice on the eighth day of May, 1609, granted a sufficient quantity of timber for its construction from his royal Forest of Windsor, and was pleased to command, as recited in the original charter of incorporation, dated the ninth of May in the same year, that it should bear the name of "King James's College at Chelsea." By this instrument it was also directed that the provost and fellows were to be nineteen