column was brought hither from amidst the ruins of old Rome! On its lower fillet are five letters, which, having the proper vowel supplied, make ASTARTE, the name by which Venus was worshipped among the eastern nations.

The drawing-room contains a painting by Rubens, of four children representing our Saviour, an angel, St. John, and a little girl. The angel is lifting a lamb to St. John, who has his left hand upon it, and appears discoursing with our Saviour as they are all sitting close together. Behind our Saviour is a tree, and a vine growing upon it with grapes. The girl has hold of the vine with one hand, and in the other has a bunch of grapes, which she is offering to our Saviour.

In the great hall is a queen of the Amazons, by Cleomenes, being on one knee as under a horse, defending herself in battle, yet beautiful, though in a warlike action! It is gratifying to contemplate one of these extraordinary and robust females of antiquity.

The white marble table room presents a fine picture of John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea; the figures, about twenty, being as large as life, are full of expression.

In the lobby may be seen a piece of ancient painting, being a representation of Richard the Second, in his youth, at his devotions. At the bottom of the picture these words-Invention of painting in oil, 1410, are inscribed.

The King's bed-chamber contains a painting, by Albert Durer, of Christ taken down from the

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cross, exhibiting ten other figures with indications of solemnity. The Virgin has her right hand under our Saviour's head, as in the act of lifting up the body, while Joseph of Arimathea, richly dressed, is wrapping the linen cloth round him. Behind Joseph are two men, one of whom has the superscription in his hand, and the crown of thorns upon his arms: the other appears talking to him, pointing with one hand to the Virgin, and with the other towards Joseph. On the other side is St. John, with his hands folded together, shewing great concern. Mary Magdalen is wiping off the blood, and wrapping the linen round our Saviour's feet. The Virgin's sister is speaking to Nicode mus, who gives order about the spices. Behind are two men, one holds the nails taken from the cross, the other the hammer and pincers. Here the tomb is seen the stone rolling from the entrance of it-Mount Calvary, with bones and skulls scattered about, where the crosses stand; and lastly, the multitude returning to Jerusalem!

The geometrical stair-case in this noble mansion is well worth inspection. It is an admirable piece of workmanship, and the first of the kind executed in this country.

In the gardens, elegantly laid out, there is a canal, over which the Palladian bridge has been thrown, the most beautiful structure of this description in England. After crossing the bridge you ascend an eminence, whence you enjoy a view of Salisbury cathedral, and a prospect over the adjacent country. Throughout the whole of this

princely seat, nature and art have conspired to produce the finest adjustments. We are impressed by the union of taste and judgment:

Something there is more needful than expense,
And something previous e'en to taste—'tis sense;
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heav'n,
And though no science, fairly worth the SEVEN!

POPE

The celebrated Fonthill also, late the seat of Mr. Beckford, (the son of the patriotic Lord Mayor, whose monument may be seen in Guildhall,) lies at no great distance from Salisbury.

It was my wish to have visited the ancient city of Winchester, were it only to have contemplated the spot in the cathedral, where lie interred the remains of the venerable ISAAC WALTON, whose Complete Angler has amused my vacant hours. His Biography, likewise, of Dr. Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Bishop Sanderson, is valuable on account of the simplicity with which it is written. Dr. Zouch deserves the thanks of the public for having published a handsome edition in quarto, of these lives, accompanied with notes. WALTON died in 1683, upwards of ninety years of age, coming to his grave like a shock of corn in its full season. SERVE GOD AND BE CHEERFUL, was the principle on which this good man acted. His memory I revere, and his virtues are deserving of imitation. No difference of opinion shall ever induce me to think less favourably of that moral worth by which he was

distinguished, and which predominates in a less or greater degree throughout all the denominations of the Christian world.

Winchester was the birth-place of the celebrated Bishop LowтH, who was born there in 1710. His father, the Rev. William Lowth, was Prebend of Winchester, and made a figure in the republic of letters. His son Robert, like the Hebrew poet when his father winged his flight to heaven, caught his mantle, and a double portion of his spirit rested upon him. He was educated at Winchester college, and completed his studies at New College, Oxford. Though he applied himself vigorously to classical pursuits, yet he frequently unbent his mind by letting his imagination rove through the flowery regions of Poetry. But he soon occupied his attention with nobler and sublimer objectselucidating the Sacred Scriptures, and thus promoting their efficacy over the consciences and lives of mankind.

Having been made successively Bishop of Limerick, St. David's, Oxford, and London, he was offered the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury, which he declined. Indeed having been much addicted to study throughout the whole of his life, he began to experience those disorders incident to sedentary persons. These, with several strokes of domestic calamity, served to accelerate his dissolution. He died 1787, aged seventy-seven-meeting the last foe with fortitude and resignation.

This worthy prelate lost a daughter in the thirteenth year of her age, of whom he was passion

ately fond; on her mausoleum he placed this beautiful epitaph:

Cara, vale ingenio præstans pietate, pudore,
Et plusquam natæ nomine cara, vale!
Carą Maria, vale! ac veniet felicius ævum
Quando iterum tecum, sim modo dignus, ero.
Cara redi, læta tum dicam voce, paternos
Eja age in amplexus, cara Maria, redi!

Which Mr. Duncombe has thus happily translated:

Dearer than daughter, parallel'd by few
In genius, goodness, modesty-adieu !
Adieu! Maria-till that day more blest,
When, if deserving, I with thee shall rest.
Come, then thy sire will cry in joyful strain,
O! come to my paternal arms again!

DR. LOWTH, besides his well-known English Grammar, published in 1758, the Life of William of Wykeham, the founder of the colleges in which he had received his education; and in 1778 appeared his Translation of Isaiah: this elegant version of the evangelical prophet, on which learned men in every part of Europe have been unanimous in their eulogiums, is alone sufficient to transmit his name to posterity.

Since writing the above respecting Winchester, I have visited this ancient city :-it is of no great extent, but its appearance is venerable. The castle where the assizes are held has a curious relic, Arthur's round table, fixed over the seat of judg ment, whilst behind this structure is seen a large pile of building, originally designed as a palace