27G THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



huntsman of the H. H., or Hampshire Hounds. — It was 

 said by a Spaniard of Seville, 



*' Qui no ha vista Sevillia 

 No ha vista maravillia," 



that he who had not seen that famous city, had not 

 seen a wonder. Some such idea was that which oc- 

 curred to us, in contemplation of all that surrounded us 

 on our arrival at Tedworth. House, garden," stud, sta- 

 ble, and — though last, not least — the kennel ; all afford- 

 ing an admirable specimen of what wealth may effect, 

 when regulated by the taste of an English gentleman. 

 There was but one drawback to the pleasures of the 

 day — the absence of the owner, who was then at his 

 seat in Wales ; — but we were, on this account, perhaps, 

 the better able to appreciate the regularity of his sys- 

 tem, by the notice of a circumstance which would other- 

 wise have been the less remarkable. I allude to the 

 perfect order which prevailed around, and the extreme 

 attention and civility on the part of all, by whom we, 

 a party of unknown and unexpected visitors, were 

 received. In the time of George the Fourth, " the first 

 gentleman of the age," it was observable, that no domes- 

 tics were so obsequiously attentive, or correct in their de- 

 portment, as those of the court. Bespectful demeanour 

 to all comers is ever the attribute of gentlemen's ser- 



* I cannot travel so far beyond the limits of my purpose, as to notice 

 those matters which might well serve for a separate work. The garden 

 alone might afford a treatise on horticulture. There is an extent of glass 

 rarely to be seen in private forcing-houses, providing an abundant suc- 

 cession of grapes for every day throughout the year. 



