The gallery is a noble room, one hundred and sixty feet long, thirty wide, and twenty-four high. A small division is formed at each end, by two columns of grey marble, with gilt capitals, and as many statues in white marble (casts from antiques) between them. At the one end Apollo Vaticanus, and an Egyptian priestess; at the other, Antinöus, and Ceres. Here we find the following noble collection of pictures:

Seven pieces, representing the Duke of Marlborough's Battles.-Consolation of the Virgin; by C. Maratti. Gipsies telling fortunes; by Espagnoletto: of uncommon merit; the professional countenance of the fortune-teller, in which cunning and roguery are strongly expressed, particularly good.-Holy Family; by Carlo Maratti.—Apollo crowning merit; a copy from Guido.-Holy Family; a copy from Raphael.-View of Venice; by Carmoletti.-Two Battle-pieces; by Berghem.-A Miracle of St. Paul; by Carlo Maratti.-A Female; by ditto.Carlo Maratti; by himself.-A Man and his two Wives; by ditto.-Gamesters; by Espagnoletto. Three fine figures; the simplicity of the pigeon, and the professional sagacity of the gamester, well managed.-Christ in the Garden; by C. Maratti. -John in the Wilderness; by Espagnoletto.Charles I. on horseback; by Vandyck.-Queen Anne;

Lady Strafford; and Thomas, second Earl of Strafford; all by Kneller;-Charles I. and the Duke of Hamilton; a most superb picture, whole length, by Vandyck.

James Duke of Monmouth. His connection with Lady Henrietta Wentworth, is subject of notoriety; and whilst we are obliged to condemn the vices of the man, we cannot avoid admiring the magnanimity of the lover, who on the scaffold refused to confess any thing against the honour of his mistress. It is a singular fact, that when about to atone for all his worldly crimes, he felt the edge of the axe, feared it was not sharp enough, and desired that he might not experience Lord Russel's lingering treatment from an unskilful executioner; which, however, was his fate, his head only being severed from his body by the fifth stroke.

William III. whole length.-Thomas first Earl of Strafford, and his Dog; whole length, by Vandyck.

Charles XIIth of Sweden, in the dress he wore at Albranstadt in Saxony 1704; blue uniform, and large military gloves; high large forehead, aquiline , nose, penetrating eye, and light brown hair turned back. He was one of those monarchs chiefly famed for the wars in which they have embroiled their subjects. This sovereign (who is described as bold, intrepid, and magnanimous) is rather to be

held up as an object of wonder than imitation. He was killed by a random shot, at the siege of Fredericshall, 1718. Æt. 37.

Lady Margaret Lovelace, and Richard Lord Lovelace; ob. 1634. So says the catalogue; but I imagine them to be the portraits of John Lord Lovelace of Hurley, so created by Charles I. in 1627, and his wife Anne Baroness Wentworth of Nettlested. Independent of this family connection with John, I am encouraged to favour this opinion, because the title never was enjoyed by a Richard Lovelace.-Thomas Lord Wentworth of Nettlested, chamberlain of the houshold to Edward VI. Ob. 1557-Miss Wentworth, one of the seventeen children of Thomas Lord Wentworth.-Edward VI. a coarse original.

In Lady Strafford's dressing-room:

John Campbell Duke of Argyle; father of Anne Countess of Strafford. Obiit 1743.

In Lord Strafford's dressing-room:

First Earl of Strafford.-Piercy Earl of Thomond, brother to Charles first Earl of Egremont; he succeeded to the estate of Henry O'Brien Earl of Thomond, who had married his mother's eldest sister; created Earl of Thomond 1754, ob. 1774. -Lady Betty Mackenzie, sister to Anne Countess of Strafford; married James Stewart Mackenzie,

brother to John Earl of Bute.-Lady Charlotte Boyle, Marchioness of Hartington; she was sole heiress to Richard Earl of Burlington and wife of -William Marquis of Hartington; who succeeded his father as Duke of Devonshire, 1755.-Lady Henrietta Vernon, daughter of Earl Strafford, the ambassador, and wife of James Vernon, esq; ob.. 1786. John Duke of Marlborough.-John Marquis of Lorn.-Lord Cathcart.-Voltaire.-John Campbell.-Marquis of Rockingham.—Countess of Strafford.-Francis Earl of Dalkeith; married Caroline, eldest sister of Anne Countess of Strafford. Ob. 1750.-William second Earl of Strafford.Dorothea late Duchess of Portland; sister to the present Duke of Devonshire, and wife to the present Duke of Portland; ob. 1794.-Lady Mary Coke, youngest sister to Anne Countess of Strafford, and wife of Edw. Viscount Coke.-Second Countess of Strafford.-Mary Duchess of Norfolk.

In the library:

Duke of Devonshire. It is rather a singular circumstance, that since the year 1618, when this title was conferred on the Cavendishes, it has uniformly been held by a William.-Lady Lucy Howard, wife of Sir G. Howard; Lady Henrietta Vernon; Lady Ann Connolly; three daughters of Thomas Earl ofStrafford, the ambassador.-William

Earl of Strafford; married Henrietta, 2d daughter of James Earl of Derby.-Sir George Wentworth, brother of Thomas first Earl of Strafford.

In the little library :

The third Countess of Strafford.

In the supper-room:

Sir Thomas Wentworth.-Thomas Earl of Strafford; ob. 1739; married Anne, sole heiress of Sir Henry Johnson, of Bradenham, Bucks.

The quadrangular building called the Castle, built by Thomas Earl of Strafford in 1730, placed upon the scite of an ancient fortress, is heavy and tasteless. A good marble statue of this nobleman, by Ruysbrack, stands in the centre of its area, but is much injured by time and neglect. The obelisk erected to the memory of Lady Mary Wortley. Montague has also to complain of the same enemies; and were her ladyship's memory to rest only. upon the inscription in Wentworth park, she would add one to the many examples of the evanescence of human fame, by speedily sinking into oblivion. We were soon relieved, however, from the melancholy contemplation of the temporary duration and instability of that which mortals take such unceasing pains to procure, "the vain breath of a mis"judging world," by the bustle of trade, and the noise of manufactories, as we approached and entered