Pope, who removed into it with his father and mother about the year 1715, was, after his deceafe, purchased by Sir William Stanhope, K. B. brother to the Earl of Chefterfield, who made great alterations, added to it two wings with offices, and greatly enlarged the gardens behind the houfe, which communicate with each other by a fubterraneous paffage or additional grotto. On Sir William's death, this villa became the property of the Right Hon. Welbore Ellis, who marFied his daughter, and was, Aug. 13, 1794, created Lord Mendip, and died Feb. 2, 1802, leaving it to his heir and fucceffor, lienry Welbore Agar Vitcount Clifden (now Lord Mendip), who directed it to be fold by auction by Mr. Chriftie, May 17. The houfe confifts of a bodywith a small hall paved with ftone, and two finall parlours on each fide, and two bow rooins of handfome dimentions at the fides. The upper fory is difpofed in nearly the fame plan. A correct view of it, with the two willows in front, may be feen in Mr. Watts's Views, 1782, No. 48; and in Mr. Ironfide's Hiftory of Twickenham. The following valuable antique butts, marbles, &c. were difperfed about it. In the entrance hall: bufts of Trajan (fine); one marked Brutus; two, anonymous, of emperors; two of young men, one of them refembling Marcellus (tine); a female bust named Plotina, another Marciana; the firit of thefe has the hair drawn up to a point and divided in rows in front, the other is dreffed in the fame manner, but the front hair parted in the middle, turning two ways. Over the chimney was a marble tablet reprefenting two Tritons blowing long flutes, and bearing each a Seanymphaccompanied by a Nereid, winged Genii, and dolphins, in alto relievo. In the dining-parlour. Two medallions of Nero and Titus; and head of a philofopher, large inedallion in bas-relief. Buft of a child. Another, draped. Buft of Fauftina, the hair flat to the head, but in front dressed. Baft of Agrippina, the hair tied behind in a fhort thick club. Bult of another emprets. out in his right hand a cup, in his left a bunch of grapes, which he prefles: on a fhelf under the arch, a recumbent figure of the Nile, holding a cornus copiæ in left hand, reclined on a sphinx. The bafon is fquare at top, within a fquare diminishing downwards, fupported on lions' feet with faces on the knees. This came from the baths of Titus at Rome. Two noble flabs of antient Mofaic, from the fame baths, 5 feet 1 inch by 2 feet 8 inches. A pair of columns of the beautiful verd antique, with giallo antico plinths and ftatuary marble capitals, 5 feet 1 inch high. In the marble hall.-Vafes. cover. An upright one with handles. An oval one with cover, ornamented with dolphins, wreath, and faint infeription. A fimilar one, adorned with fculls of beafts, and feftoons in relief, with handles. A ditto, larger, with wreath of olive, and handles. An oval one, with handles, enriched with a relief of Neptune in a car drawn by fea-horfes; the foot curiously formed of eight dolphins. Another in form of a cifta, fpirally fluted, with tablet and infeription in the centre, fupported by fphinxes, on each fide of which are figures of the Diofcuri with their torches, one erect, the other reverfed. L. IVLIO. VITALI GLVCERA FECIT CONIVGI B. M. VIX. ANN. XLII. M. II. In pediment, a lion tearing a bull. Another, very perfect, and exceedingly fine. Another, its companion. These two laft have a spread eagle on the breaft. A ftatue, feet 8 inches, of young Bacchus crowned with ivy, preffing to his breaft the pfyche, or butterfly, and holding in his lap heads of wheat and apples. The head of faline marble, and the expreffion very fweet. At the upper end of the left-hand parlour, a moft capital Egyptian figure of the fcarce yellowish granite, 5 feet high, The forehead high in the Ethiopian style, no hair, and the ears large and diftinct the arms pendent clofe to the body, the hands clofed, the left leg advanced forward, the right adhering to a stump of a tree, The habit clofe, fo fine as to fhew the breaft and navel, up to the throat, where it divides, one fold over from left to right, confined by a plain and oblique belt at the waift, and a flap. pendent from the front. Plate I. fig. 1. A coloffal torfo in this habit, of white marble, from the infide of one of the gates of the great temple of Carnac, is engraved in Denon's plate CXVIII. ha ing in the belt a dagger with a hawk's head, in a fheath, and on the belt in front an oval with hieroglyphics. Fig. 2. is a fketch of the antique fount from the baths of Titus, in the fame collection, furmounted by a clothed Bacchant with a cup in his righthand, over the centre fhelf, the Nile recumbent on a sphinx, and holding a cornucopia. A but of L. Antonius, in fringed robe, with infeription on the breaft in antient Roman characters. Another of Severus, A fine one of Marcus Aurelius. A fingularly fine bas-relief of a car loaded with a wild boar and a dog on lim, drawn by a pair of bulls yoked led by two men on foot, and guarded by a horfeman with a large round fhield on his left arm; another dog running under the car. This is engraved in Bartoli's Admiranda. A fepulchral ftone with the figures of a man and woman, their right hands joined; lighted candelabra at the corners, and on the top two dogs tearing a tiger; fprigs of laurel at tre fides. Fig. 3. is engraved for explanation. Fig. 4. a gold coin of the Lower Empire. Yours, &c. D. H. A MIDSUMMER TOUR. WE commenced our journey June 19, 1802. Stopped at Derby, to view the fcenes of my childish plea fures, and ruminate on tranfactions, none of which were of a fhorter date than 67 years, Here Memory had her full fcope in examining ten different places of my refidence, alfo thofe of my ancestors for 200 years. Here I was a stranger at home; I knew no foul, not a foul knew me the genera tion to which I was united were gone. After two days ftay, we drove to Keddleton, the place of civility and delight; were admitted, after entering my name, into that place of wonder, the hall, Every thing was grand and expensive, and every thing new except the books. and and the plate. The park is beautiful, and its oaks of a magnitude feldom feen. Lord Scarfdale, I was told, had been offered 2001. for two trees, and 701. each for 30. I well remember the old hofpitable hall, and its owner an infant. Arrived at Matlock, which, though I had before vifited, I had not feen. The man of taste will be delighted with the variegated walks and scenes, which will well bear reviewing. Mr. Arkwright's improvement of the rocks is molt charming, and is only excelled by his kinduefs in exhibiting them to the public eye. Rifing a hill, called The Heights of Abraham, is a favourite ferpentine walk, about half a mile, where the profpect varies at every turn, and is always pleafing. A fpacious alcove accommodates the wanderer, in which I paid the following tribute: The fools write on, the fools blot out, Some amufement may be drawn from the various characters affembled at a public table. In one man we could obferve a filent hearer though not wanting in intellects; in another, an harmlet's head upon the thoulders of a lawyer; a third had retired with the gout and 10001. a year, arising from the fale of tobacco, yet had not forgotten the important value of a shilling; in another, a valiant captain just returned from killing the French, and now attempting to kill the ladies, but perhaps fucceeded in neither. In one lady, nothing charming but the outfide of the face; in another, the ineftimable treasures of good fenfe, prudence, and good temper, within; in a third, a Venus of Medicis tipfy. The clergy are fometimes charged with an unfocial behaviour, keep at a distance, preferve the ruft of the college, and will not fuffer us to approach near enough to rub it off. During a fort night's ftay at Matlock, we were fa voured with the company of fix fons of the Church, who reverfed this charge, for they were all open and friendly. In one, might be obferved the fupreme of modefty; in another, good judgment, with now and then an oath; in a third, a jolly foul, contented with his glafs and his poverty; a fourth, united civility, riches, and dignity; another, never uttered a fentence of his own, but followed his leader, yet poffeffed one of the beft hearts that ever filled a human breaft; the fixth, a buck of the firft magnitude, whether in perfon, fong, glafs, or joke; but all good-natured. One evil, however, attends a watering-place; we contract delightful friendships, which are fhipwrecked in a day. An inhabitant of Matlock has, by the labour of 17 years, added another wonder to the place, by penetrating a rock, chiefly fpar, in the hill called Proud Mafon; which, opening from cave to cave, leads the traveller through a dark and narrow paflage feveral hundred yards, with the fparry luftres fhining by his candle. He has chriftened it Cumberland Cave. Admittance 1 s. But the greatest wonder I faw was Mifs Phele Bown, in person five feet fix, about thirty, well proportioned, round faced and ruddy, a dark penetrating eye, which, the moment it fixes upon your face, ftamps your character, and that with precifion. Her step (pardon the Irifhifm) is more manly than a man's, and can eafily cover forty miles a day. Her common drefs is a man's hat, coat, with a fpencer over it, and men's fhoes: I believe he is a firanger to breeches. She can lift one hundred weight with each hand, and carry fourteen fcore. Can few, knit, cook, and fpin, but hates them all, and every accompany ment to the female character, except that of modefty. A gentleman at the New Bath recently treated her fo rudely, "that he had a good mind to have knocked him down." She pofitively affured me the did not know what fear was. She never gives an affront, but will offer to fight any man who gives her one. If the has not fought, perhaps it was owing to the infilter being a coward, for none elfe would give an affront. She has firong fenfe, an excellent judgement, fays fmart things, and fupports an eafy freedom in all companies. Her voice is more than mafculine, it is deep-toned; the wind in her favour, the can fend it a mile; has no beard, or prominence of breast; accepts any kind of manual labour, as holding the plough, driving the team, thatching the ricks, &c.; but her chief avocation is breaking horfes, at a guinea a week; always rides without a faddle, and is fupposed the best judge of of a horfe, cow, &c. in the country, and is frequently requested to purchase for others at the neighbouring fairs. She is fond of Milton, Pope, Shakfpeare, alfo of mufick; is felf-taught, performs on feveral inftruments, as the Aute, violin, harpsichord, and fupports the bafs viol in Matlock church. She is an excellent marks-woman, and, like her brother sportfien, carries her gun upon her fhoulder. She eats no beef or pork, and but little mutton; her chief food is milk, and also her drink, difcarding wine, ale, and fpirits. Curious to fee the tomb of the greateft fubject that ever lived in England, Cardinal Wolfey, nay, who even governed the moft abfolute king, Henry the Eighth, we drove to Leicefter. Great part of the front of the Abbey is ftanding, and difcovers the veliiges of former grandeur; but I fought in vain for the chapel. Could I have found this, I could have found the chancel, which was, no doubt, the place of his interment. Tradition pointed out the fpot; but on this I could not depend. Every man has a wish to gratify. This with may hang loug upon his mind, which he can neither accomplish nor difcharge. I had, during many years, an ardent defire to fee Fotheringay, a place celebrated in all our hiftories as the depository of two princes, the birth-place of a king, and the mur der of a queen *. Vifiting a friend in this tour, twelve miles from Leicefter, and being then only twenty-eight from the favourite fpot, I determined to ufe ny feet while my horfes grazed in peace, although every perfon I confulted affured me "there was nothing to be feen." Approaching the place, I thought the feeple one of the handfomeft I had remarked. In the chancel, at each end of the communion-table, are the fuperb monuments of the two princes, facing each other, exactly alike, of fione of a fine texture, painted white, and both erected in 1573. On the right is that of Edward, the fecond Duke of York, grandfon to Edward III. and great uncle to Henry V. He refided in the cafile, was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1414, and interred in a religious houfe, founded by his father here, and endowed by himfelf. Here he refted in peace till Hen *See Bib. Top. Brit. No. XL. 4 ry VIII. deftroyed the houfe, when his remains lay neglected forty years, till depofited under his monuinent at the above date. The left-hand monument is that of Richard, Duke of York, and Cicily his wife. He was nephew to the aabove, and father of Edward IV. was killed at the battle of Wakefield in 1460, in fighting for a crown which he ought to have enjoyed without fighting. This prefents a leflon to kings, never to violate the rules of juftice; for the quarrel between the Rofes totally deliroyed the family of Henry IV. who was the aggreffor. It prefents a leflon to fubjects, to let contending kings fight their own battle; for this cruel conteft ruined a hundred thoufand families. An old inhabitant affured me he had feen a written agreement between the Duke and an under-taker; the latter was to erect the church for 300l. the Duke finding materials; but he was killed before the work was compleated. In the pulpit are the royal arms carved in wood, which my guide told me were Richard the Third's. To this I can fay nothing, only that the pulpit is as old as the church, and that on each fide of the fupporters was a boar, Richard's creft. One of them is fill perfect. He was born in the Cafile in 1452. His character I have delineated in "The Battle of Bofworth Field." The place where the caftle flood is about eight acres, upon a flat, of an oblong form, remarkably ftrong; but "there is not one fione left upon another" yet I had all the fatisfaction I wifhed. The trenches are wide, deep, and nearly perfect. The river Nen wathes one fide, and feeds the other three. The whole area is in grafs, a few nettles excepted. With the foil thrown out from the trenches is compofed a conical hill, whofe bafe perhaps covers an acre, rifes twenty yards, and terminates in a flat thirty yards diameter. At the top of this mound, in the centre, has flood a tower, circular as the mound, which covered a diameter of fifteen yards; and this tower was furrounded by about 18 turrets, which flood upon the verge of the mound: fifteen of their foundations I counted. At the foot of the mound ftood the caftle. The people of the country had flocked up the ftones to the very foun dation for building and repairing the roads, roads, which left the trenches fo compleat that the various rooms might be difcovered. Exclutive of many apart ments for private ufe, I could particularize three ftate-rooms, in one of which, no doubt, Richard III. was born. The great hall, in which the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded in 1587, appeared confpicuous, is 30 yards by 24, had two entrances. I fought for the remains of the benches on which fat her 36 infulting judges, and the feaffold, raifed two feet high at the upper end of the hall, where the fuffered, but could find no traces of either. What will unprejudiced pofterity fay of Elizabeth, when they are told that Mary, in diftrefs, fled to her for protection under a promife of fafety; but, infiead of an hofpitable reception, or performance of promife, was, through a mean jealously, made a prifoner during eigteen years, and then defroyed. All the tham plots laid to her charge ended in a vapour, except that of plotting for her liberty, of which none had a right to deprive her. Perhaps no fcheme was ever carried on with more deceipt than her deftruction. If her fon, James I. was not an actor in this bife tragedy, he was pleafed with the piece and the performers, although willing the world should believe otherwife. He pulled down the harnlefs cattle of Fotheringay, out of revenge for his mother's death, but took the actors into favour! Perhaps he was as jealous of his mother as Elizabeth. He loved a crown as well as the, to which his mother was not only a rival, but had a prior right. The two Sovereigns understood each other well, while the fcape-goat was facrificing. Deeply impreffed with the former tranfactions, while ftanding upon the fpot where Mary fuffered, I left the place with regret, and with a figh. W. HUTTON, Birmingham. nature. Even our Modern Philofophers, as they have been facetiously called, who have propofed methods of improving the human fpecies, by leading it on to perfectibility (by which they probably mean perfection), and exempting it from the inactivity of fleep, and the interruption of death; even thefe wife men have been compelled to acknowledge that there are tome externals which their difcoveries cannot reach, and to which they muft fubmit with the fame dignified compofure they difplay in parting with the confolations of Religion, and the charms of Virtue. Among thefe circumftances which baffle the ingenuity of Projectors and Philofophers, the WEATHER may be coufidered as of the highest importance, not upon account of the hay or the corn expected to be annually produced, for thefe are confiderations beneath the attention of the parties principally concerned in this paper, but upon account of the dependence which it has, for fome years paft, been the fashion to place on it for a great proportion of the happinets of huuren life, and which has increafed the demand for funfhine to a prodigious degree. After all the enquiries that have been made by my predecellors into the means of promoting happiness, it feems at length to be agreed, that we might have arrived much fooner at a conclufion on the fubject, had we looked for happiness in the right place, and not confined our enquiries, and confequently our inftructions, to matters of a domeftic concern, without ever fufpecting that true happiness is an enjoyment to be found only without doors. Lamentable was the ignorance of that man, who, by way of punishment, divided the houfe with his wife, giving her the outfide, while he kept the infide for himself. But a new and more correct way of thinking now prevails; and the important difcovery having been made, that happinefs was only to be found in the open air, thoufands began to flock to the fields, and gardens, and highways around the metropolis, to enjoy life, when, fuch is the state of all human things, they at the fame time difcovered that happiness is doomed to imperfection, and that, without a command of the weather, they were fili expofed to mortificatious and difappointments. This unpleafant truth, at all times perhaps |