been constantly annexed to the manor, which belongs to General Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, Bart. The church was rebuilt in 1747, and its spire rising through the trees forms a picturesque object from whatever parts it is seen in the adjacent country.

On a tomb in the church-yard, to the memory of the Hon. Miss Elizabeth Booth, and of her two brothers, (by whose death, in 1757, the title of Lord Delamere became extinct) are the following lines, written by Mr. Cooper, Author of the Life of Socrates, and of other ingenious pieces:

Heav'nward directed all her days,

Her life one act of prayer and praise,
With every milder grace inspir'd,
To make her lov'd, esteem'd, admir'd:
Crown'd with a cheerfulness that show'd,
How pure the source from whence it flow'd;
Such was the maid-when in her bloom,
Finding the appointed time was come,
To sleep she sunk, without one sigh-
The saint may sleep, but cannot die.

Rest undisturb'd, ye much-lamented pair,
The smiling infant and the rising heir.
Ah! what avails it that the blossoms shoot,
In early promise of maturer fruit,

If death's chill hand shall nip their infant bloom,
And wither all their honours in the tomb?

Yet weep not, if in life's allotted share,

Swift fled their youth-They knew not age's care.

Near Hampstead, in 1774, were dug up several Roman sepulchral urns, vases, earthern lamps, and other venerable. remains of antiquity.

HAMPTON, a village of Middlesex, situate on the Thames opposite the mouth of the river Mole. It is 14. miles from London; and here is a ferry over the Thames to West Moulsey, and a bridge to East Moulsey. Adjoining to this village is

HAMPTON-COURT, a royal palace, situate on the north bank of the Thames, two miles from Kingston. It was magnificently built with brick by Cardinal Wolsey, who set up 280 silk beds for strangers only, and richly stored it with gold and silver plate; but it raised so much

envy against him, that, to screen himself from its effects, he gave it to Henry VIII, who, in return, suffered him to live in his palace at Richmond! Henry greatly enlarged it, and it had then five spacious courts adorned with buildings, which, in that age, were greatly admired.

Of the splendour of this palace we have few remains. The ancient apartments still standing, having been originally used merely as domestic offices, can convey no idea of the times in which they were built. The principal part of the old palace was taken down in 1690; and the present structure was raised by King William, under the direction of Sir Christopher Wren.

The grand facade towards the garden extends 330 feet, and that toward the Thames 228. The portico and colonnade, of duplicated pillars of the Ionic order, at the grand entrance, and indeed the general design of these elevations, are in a superior style of magnificence.

The park and gardens, with the ground on which the palace now stands, are three miles in circumference. On a pediment in the front of the palace on this side, is a bas relief of the triumphs of Hercules over Envy; and facing it is a large oval basin, answering to the form of this part of the garden, which is a large oval divided into gravel walks and parterres.

At the entrance of the grand walk are two marble vases of exquisite workmanship; one said to be performed by Cibber, the father of the poet laureat, and the other by a foreigner: these pieces are reported to have been done as a trial of skill; but it is difficult to determine which is the finest performance. They are adorned with bas-reliefs; one representing the Triumphs of Bacchus, and the other Amphitrite and the Nereids. At the bottom of this walk, facing a large canal which extends into the park, are two other large vases, the bas-relief on one representing the Judgment of Paris, and that of the other Meleager hunting the Wild Boar.

In four of the parterres are four fine brass statues. The first is a gladiator. The original was performed by Agasias Dositheus of Ephesus, and is in the Borghesian palace at Rome. The second, is a young Apollo; the third, a Diana; and the fourth, Saturn going to devour one of his children; all after fine originals.

On the south side of the palace is the privy garden,

which was sunk ten feet, to open a view from the apartments to the Thames. In this garden is a fountain, with two grand terrace walks.

On the north side is a tennis court; and beyond that, a gate which leads into the wilderness. Farther on is the great gate of the gardens. Some of the genteel inhabitants of Hampton and its vicinity are indulged with a key, which enables them to visit the palace and gardens by this gate.

The usual way of entering the Palace is from the town, through four large brick piers, adorned with the lion and unicorn, &c. well carved 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 DruryLane, the summer when it was raised, and one afterward for the entertainment of the Duke of Lorrain, afterward Emperor of Germany.

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

At the top, on the left, are Apollo and the Muses, at whose feet sits Pan, and below them Ceres, holding a wheat sheaf; at her feet is Flora, surrounded by her attendants, and holding a chaplet of flowers; near her are the two river gods, Thame and Isis, with their urns; and a table in the middle, on which is a quantity of rich plate, decorated with flowers.

On the ceiling are Jupiter and Juno, with Ganymede riding on Jupiter's eagle, and offering the cup; Juno's

peacock is in the front; one of the Parcæ, with her scissars, waiting for Jove's orders to cut the thread of life.

Beneath is Venus on a swan, Mars addressing her as a lover, and Cupid on another swan. On the right hand are Pluto and Proserpine, Calus and Terra, Cybele crowned with a tower, &c. Neptune and Amphitrite are in the front, and two attendants are serving them with nectar and fruit. Bacchus is leaning on a rich ewer, and, accompanied by his attendants, places his left hand on the head of Silenus, who sits on an ass that has fallen down, and seems to catch at a table on which Diana above is pointing. The table is supported by eagles: on one side of it sits Romulus, the founder of Rome, with a wolf; and, on the other side, is Hercules leaning on his club. Peace holds a laurel in her right hand, and in her left a palm over the head of Æneas, who seems inviting the twelve Cæsars, among whom is Spurina the soothsayer, to a celestial banquet. Over their heads the genius of Rome hovers with a flaming sword, the emblem of destruction, and a bridle, the emblem of government. The next is the Emperor Julian writing at a table, while Mercury dictates to him. Over the door, at the head of the stairs, is a funeral pile.

The paintings in the various apartments of this palace are numerous, but it is useless here to give a list of them, because the person visiting Hampton Court has them pointed out to him by the guide who attends on those oc

casions.

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. The 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 Duke of Gloucester, 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.

HAMPTON HOUSE, the elegant villa of Mrs. Garrick, at Hampton. When the late David Garrick purchased the house, he gave it a new front, by Adam, the celebrated architect; and the extensive grounds were laid out with taste, under his own direction. Near the Thames he erected an elegant temple to Shakspeare. On a pedestal in this temple is the statue, by Roubiliac, of our immortal bard. The Four Periods of an Election," by Hogarth, are the most remarkable among a few good pictures by which this house is decorated.

HAMPTON WICK, a village in Middlesex, at the foot of Kingston Bridge. A patriot of this place has his memory recorded in a fine print of him, which the neighbours, who are fond of a walk in Bushy Park, must regard with veneration. It has under it this inscription: "Timothy Bennet, of Hampton Wick, in Middlesex, Shoemaker, aged 75, 1752. This true Briton (unwilling to leave the world worse than he found it) by a vigorous application of the laws of his country in the cause of liberty, obtained a free passage through Bushy Park, which had many years been withheld from the people."

HANWELL, a village, eight miles from London, in the road to Uxbridge. Its little church, a neat structure of brick, was rebuilt in 1782. See Brentford.

HANWELL HOUSE, in the parish of Hanwell, the seat and park of William Harwood, Esq.

HANWORTH PARK, in Middlesex, to the west of Twickenham, lately the seat of the Duke of St. Alban's, was a favourite palace of Henry VIII. and here, in 1600, Queen Elizabeth dined and hunted. After having been