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choice furniture, the tapestries, and the interesting collection of pictures by old 

 and modern masters hanging on the walls. A pastel of a girl wearing a hat, by 

 John Eussell, one of the great pastellists of the 18th century, was much 

 admired ; and among the many pictures observed with special interest were a 

 portrait of George IV. while Prince of Wales, by Sir Joshua Eeynolds ; a piece 

 cherubs with flowers and fruit, by Paul Eubens, similar to pictures of the same 

 genre at Kingston Lacy and Wilton House ; a reputed Cuyp, portraits of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Taylor by Gainsborough, a head of Colonel Darner by Gambadella, and one 

 of the Duke of Richmond, who was bitten by a mad fox and died of hydrophobia. 

 A pretty picture of a girl and a spinet, Mr. Cornish Browne said, was given by 

 George IV. to Mrs. Fitzherbert, the girl being Miss Seymour, her ward. But 

 the most notable pictures in the house, to Dorset people, were the series of eleven 

 portraits of the officers of the Dorset Rangers, painted soon after the enrolment 

 of the regiment, the artist being Thomas Beach, a native of Milton Abbas, pupil 

 of Sir Joshua, and a fashionable portrait painter much sought after in his day. 

 The portraits, which are all sound work and spirited likenesses, are of Lord 

 Milton, the first colonel, R. E. D. Grosvenor (Charborough), James Frampton 

 (Moreton) brother of Mary Frainpton, who wrote the charming Journal ; John 

 W. Smith (Sydling), Richard Travers (Uploders), William Churchill (Henbury), 

 William Clavell (Smedmore), Thomas Weld (Lulworth Castle), T. Bowyer 

 Bower (Iwerne), Francis John Brown (Frampton), and T. Meggs (Piddlehinton) . 

 Mr. Cornish Browne mentioned the fact that Thomas Weld never had his 

 commission signed, because he was a Roman Catholic, and for a Catholic the 

 King at that time could not sign a commission. Thomas Weld later became a 

 priest in the Roman Church and then cardinal, and he was afterwards a 

 candidate for the Papal throne. Captain Bowyer Bower was the grandfather of 

 Mr. Syndercombe Bower, and the Rev. J. C. M. Mansel-Pleydell claimed an 

 ancestor in Captain Clavell, of Smedmore. In the library, too, the club 

 examined with interest the Communion plate of Came Church a silver chalice 

 with cover, used as a paten, of the Commonwealth period, and plain, as one 

 would expect. The fine tapestries in the drawiug-room, representing memorable 

 scenes in the life of Diogenes the Cynic, are probably from the looms of 

 Mortlake, and most likely early 18th century. Mr. Cornish Browne informed 

 the party that for years these tapestries had been covered with brocaded satin, 

 and that they were brought to light by accident. 



CAME CHURCH. 



From the house the party proceeded to the church, pausing on 

 the way by the grave of William Barnes, marked by a handsome 

 Celtic cross erected to the poet's memory by his children and 

 grandchildren. The members having seated themselves inside 

 the church, 



