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lady who had accompanied him from England. The hall 

 was ornamented with canoes, ^^addles, spears, and other 

 implements of war and commerce. A terrace built in the 

 rear of the house was furnished with carronades and 

 flagstaffs, after the manner of Commodore Trunnion ; 

 gods and goddesses of all sizes, the larger composed 

 of hardened rice, in imitation of alabaster, richly orna- 

 mented, were pedestalled in every room in the house. 

 The smaller and more valuable ones, some of silver and 

 one of gold, did duty as Penates on the mantelpiece 

 of his reception-room. 



x\.t this house we were frequent and welcome visitors, 

 and tliough the lady did now and then ride the high 

 horse, which was not to be wondered at, considering that 

 she herself, as she told us, had ridden upon an elephant 

 in Calcutta, and had been received at the Marquis of 

 Hastings's table, we always enjoyed the visit. 



H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, introduced by a well- 

 kno'WTi Fellow of Trinity College,' who was always his 

 confidential friend and companion when at Cambridge, 

 honoured the house with his presence, and inspected the 

 museum ; and on the following evening her ladyship — a 

 little elated, I suppose, by the honour conferred on her 

 husband — assumed an air of patronage she probably con- 

 sidered adapted to her company. Such, hoAvever, not 

 being in accordance Avith the tastes of this genuine son of 

 Neptune, he denounced in no very measured terms. 



" I am ashamed of you, Captain Coe," said the lady, in 

 retort, with an air of studied importance ; " you would 



^ The late Eev. George Adam Brown. 



