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conduct of thofe who are charged with the care of it ; and tho’ 
you was not born in Hampshire, as a friend to virtue and man- 
kind, you will join with me in fentiment : if the cafe is as re- 
prefented, that the matter being a tory, and the head ufher a 
whig, neither party choofe to fend their children thither ; we 
mutt laugh at whigs and tories, who carry their notions fo far. 
Whatever the oeconomy of this fchool may be, their chapel 
is elegant and commodious, tho’ their library is of no great note. 
The fhell of the palace which was begun by Charles ii. in 
1683, is by far the mott linking objedt : the dettgn is very 
grand, and the lituation equally noble and delightful : the 
front to the weft is faid to be above three hundred and twenty 
feet : the plan was laid for building a fpacious ftreet from it, 
down to the weft end of the cathedral. Had the king lived to 
execute his delign, he would have inclofed a large tradl of 
ground, towards stockbridge, and converted it into a park. 
One cannot but lament that fo much expence fhould be render- 
ed ufelefs, and that no fucceeding prince has finifhed this edifice. 
The adjacent country affords many delicious profpedts, and is 
very proper for hunting, a diverlion however which this prince 
did not delight in : he ufed to fay, c< it was riding poll out of 
the road.” It might have been happier for the morals of this 
nation, if his diverlions had been all attended with as little 
guilt as hunting. Farewell. Yours, &*c. 
LETTER LXI. 
To Mrs. D * * *. 
Madam, 
A FTER hearing divine fervice at the cathedral, we took 
our leave of the agreeable dr. l******, who is one of 
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