with the lion and unicorn, &c. well sculptured on stone.

Passing through a long court, on each side of which are stabling, we come next to the first portal, decorated with the heads of four of the Cæsars; namely, Tiberius, Vitellius, Trajan, and Adrian.

Through this portal we pass into a quadrangle, which leads to a second quadrangle, where, over the portal, is a beautiful clock, by Tompion, on which are the twelve signs of the zodiac, with the rising and setting of the sun, the phases of the moon, &c. In the front is a portal of brick, adorned also with four heads of the Cæsars, without names.

On the left hand of this quadrangle is the great old hall, in which queen Caroline erected a theatre, wherein it was intended that two plays should be acted every week, during the continuance of the court there; but only seven plays were performed in it, by the players from Drury Lane, the summer when it was raised, and one afterward for the entertainment of the duke of Lorrain, afterwards emperor of Germany.

On the opposite side of this quadrangle is a stone colonnade of the Ionic order, which leads to the great staircase, adorned with gilt iron balustrades, erected on porphyry. This staircase, with the ceiling, was painted by Verrio.

The paintings in the various apartments of this palace are numerous; but as they are pointed out by the guide who attends on those

occasions, the description would be superfluous.

The celebrated CARTOONS of RAPHAEL have been removed from Windsor Castle to this palace; and Mr. Holloway, and his industrious assistant, Mr. Thomas Webb, have, for several years, been employed in making drawings from them; and have lately published one curiously engraved plate, "Paul preaching at Athens." The other Cartoons will appear in regular succession, and, we doubt not, do equal credit to these eminent artists.

The

The palace consists of three quadrangles: the first and second are Gothic; but in the third are the royal apartments, magnificently built of brick and stone by king William III, gardens are not in the present style, but in that which prevailed some years ago, when mathematical figures were preferred to the forms of natural beauty.

The celebrated Brown had his present majesty's permission to make whatever improvements in these gardens his fine imagination might suggest; but he declared his opinion, that they appeared to the best advantage in their present state. Their regularity and grandeur are, indeed, more suitable to the magnificence of a royal palace, than the natural beauties of a private villa.

At the extremity of the gardens, opposite Thames Ditton, is the lodge belonging to the late duke of Gloucester, but now to the duke of

Kent, as ranger of Hampton Court Park. It is called the Pavilion, and is a neat little structure. To this palace Charles the First was brought by the army in 1647; and here" he lived for some time," says Hume," with an appearance of dignity and freedom." From this confinement, however, (for such in reality it was,) he soon escaped.

His late Serene Highness William V. prince of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces, having been driven from his country by the successful termination of the French invasion, at the commencement of the year 1795, resided in this palace with his illustrious consort. The apartments which were allotted to them are those called The Prince of Wales's.

Holland House.

It

HOLLAND HOUSE, Middlesex, the ancient mansion-house of the manor of Abbot's Kensington, in the parish of Kensington, two miles west from London, having from the public road a most venerable and interesting appearance. takes its name from Henry Rich, earl of Holland: was built by his father-in-law, Sir Walter Cope, in 1607, and affords a very good specimen of the architecture of that period.

The celebrated Addison became possessed of this venerable mansion, in 1716, by his intermarriage with Charlotte, countess-dowager of

Warwick and Holland. Here was the scene of his last moments, and of his affecting interview with his son-in-law, (communicated to the world by Dr. Edward Young,) the earl of Warwick, to whom he had been tutor, and whose licentiousness of manners he had anxiously, but in vain, endeavoured to repress. As a last effort, he sent for him into the room where he lay at the point of death, hoping that the solemnity of the scene might make some impression upon him. When that young nobleman came, he requested to know his commands, and received the memorable answer: "See in what peace a Christian can die!" to which Tickell thus alludes:

He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high A price for knowledge, taught us how to die. On the death of this young nobleman, in 1721, unmarried, his estates devolved to the father of the present lord Kensington (maternally descended from Robert Rich, earl of Warwick), who sold it, in 1762, to the right hon. Henry Fox. Here was born the late right hon. C. James Fox, uncle of the present proprietor, lord Holland.

A gallery, which occupies the whole length of the west wing, about 118 feet, is ornamented with portraits of the Lenox, Fox, and Digby families.

Primrose Hill.

PRIMROSE HILL, between Tottenham Court and Hampstead, has been also called Green-Berry

Hill, from the names of the three persons who were executed for the supposed assassination of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and who were said to have brought him hither after he had been murdered near Somerset House. But Mr. Hume, while he considers this tragical affair as not to be accounted for, chooses to suspect, however unreasonably, that Sir Edmundbury had murdered himself.-Hume, vol. viii. p. 77.

This verdant and gently sloping hill, (which commands an extensive view of the metropolis,) even in modern times has been contaminated with blood. At the south-east declivity several duels have been fought. That of most note was between Colonel Montgomery and Captain Macnamara, in the year 1803: the former fell, and expired at Chalk Farm, a house of public entertainment on the same spot.

Wanstead House,

THE magnificent seat and extensive park and gardens of Miss Long, daughter and heiress of the late Sir James Tilney Long; now married to Mr. Wellesley Pole. The ancient manor, granted by Edward VI. to Robert, lord Rich, was sold by him to the earl of Leicester, who, in 1578, entertained Elizabeth here. Reverting to queen the crown, king James gave it to Sir Henry Mildmay, who having been one of the judges of Charles I. it was forfeited. Charles II. gave it to the duke of York, who sold it to Sir Robert Brooke. Of the representatives of this gentle