CLAREMONT 15 



Kincrston, where rests the rude stone on which the 

 Saxon monarch sat at his coronation/ on the opposite 

 side of the river stands the stately edifice of Hampton 

 Court Palace, with its parterres, its labyrinths, and its 

 Avell-trained vines. Crossing a flat, called Ditton Marsh, 

 at Esher, on the left the fine Grecian structure of 

 Claremont meets the eye, then the property of jMr. Ellis, 

 afterwards Lord Seaford ; since the scene of the prema- 

 ture death of the lamented Princess Charlotte of Wales, 

 and now the residence of Amelie, late Queen of the 

 French. 



Proceeding through the post-town of Cobham, you sec 

 Paine's Hill, once the seat of Colonel Luttrel, often 

 mentioned by the celebrated Junius, but then the 

 property of a member of the same family — the Earl of 

 Carhampton. Onward, through Ripley, you pass the 

 parks of Lords King (now Earl Lovelace), and Onslow, 

 the one on the left, the other on the right, till you come 

 to the county town of Gruildford, from whence, right 

 and left, you have delightful views of the neighbouring 

 Surrey hills. 



Crossing the Wye, and passing through Godalming, 

 with the woody heights of Busbridge on the left — then 

 the seat of Mr. Hare Townsend, the friend and companion 

 of the great Charles Fox — the road opens on a wide, 

 extensive heath, with a continuous rise. Leaving Pepper 

 Harrow, the seat of Lord Middleton, on the right, it 



1 This remarkable relic has of late been surrounded by an iron 

 palisade, the better to preserve to remote posterity so singular a 

 memorial of the rude simplicity of our Saxon ancestors. It may be 

 said to represent the lasting solidity of a constitutional monarchy, 

 of which it is aptly the foundation-stone. 



