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«‘— have never been attached to 
the world, or its temporary splendor. 
T have sought for the ultimate desti-_ 
nation of life in something more 
elevated and important. Germany, 
Stephensiana, No. XV. 
[Jan- I, 
by my means, has experienced great 
advantages: they have been repaid 
by ingratitude. Such has been the 
will of God.” 
STEPHENSIANA. 
No. XV. 
The late ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Esq. of Park House, Chelsea, devoted an active and 
well-spent life in the collection of Anecdotes of his contemporaries, and generally entered in a 
book the collections of the passing day ;—these collections we have purchased, and propose to 
present a selection from them to our readers. 
As Editor of the Annual Obituary, and many 
other biographical works, the Author may probably kave incorporated some of these scraps ; 
but the greater part are unpublished, and all stand alone as cubinet pictures of men-and 
manners, worthy of a place in a literary miscellany, 
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ORIGIN OF THE POLITICAL TERMS 
WHIG AND TORY. 
HE names of Whig and Tory were 
first adopted as mutual reproaches 
between two rival parties of contend- 
ing politicians, in the reign of Charles 
IJ.; the nation having been previously 
distinguished by the denomination of 
petitioners and abhorrers, from the one 
party standing up for the right of petiti- 
on, and the other expressiag the “deep- 
est abhorrence” against all those who 
aimed at disturbing the public peace. 
he Long Parliament was then about 
closing its session of seventeen years! 
—The Whigs were so denominated 
from a cant name given to the sour 
Scotch conventiclers ; whig being milk 
turned sour. The Tories were deno- 
minated from the Lrish banditti so 
called, whose usual manner of bid- 
ding people deliver was by the Irish 
word toree, give me. 
KEW GARDENS. 
Soon after his accession, the late 
King employed Sir William Cham- 
bers, knight of the Polar Star, to lay 
out and improve Kew Gardens, for 
the residence of his mother. The 
ground, in its natural style, was flat 
and uninteresting: to treat such a 
subject in an ornamental manner was 
a task of difficulty. Sir Wilham C. 
undertook it; and, as the Chinese 
taste in horticulture deservedly ranks 
high, he proposed to adopt that man- 
ner. In 1763 the ingenious Swede 
published an account of these, in a 
superb work, including plans, eleva- 
tions, sections, and perspective views. 
He therein assigns his reasons, inter- 
weaving some incidental circum- 
stances, why a taste so peculiar had 
been preferred. The garden he de- 
scribes as not very large, and the 
Situation as by no means advantage- 
ous ; the ground is low, and loses halfits 
interest from its commanding no pros- 
pect. Originally, the whole was one 
continued dead flat; the soil was in 
general barren, and without either 
underwood or water. These and other 
obstacles did not escape the perspi- 
cacious eye of this artist. To do any 
thing even tolerable was not easy ; but 
princely munificence and able direc- 
tion, the force of genius combined with 
the scientific part of art, triumphed 
over natural impediments; and, after 
much drudgery, converted a desert 
into an Eden. If the comparison may 
be allowed, the soul and body of Chi- 
nese and English horticulture seem 
amicably joined together, and harmo- 
nizing. The King frequently super- 
intended here, as well as at Windsor, 
and at the New Palace in the vicinity 
of Kew. 
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. 
Scenes rather tranquil than gay 
please the taste of some, and raise more 
grateful sensations than what the 
whole list of courtly curiosities can 
excite. This nobleman, from the best 
of motives, lived in habits of retire- 
ment, removed from the bustle of 
public affairs, as much doubting whe- 
ther his engaging in them would be 
conducive to the quiet of his life, or 
to the public weal. His conduct was 
that of one who acts from principle ; 
a thoughtless restlessness, the vague 
desire of something new, was with 
him a vain curiosity, not deserving the ° 
name of a useful impulse. He seems 
to have considered himself as one 
“fallen into evil times ;” and, from his 
own personal observations on the na- 
ture 
