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through it. It is a splendid, large hall, containing an ancient 
marble table, and three large portraits of the Prince of Wales, 
grandfather of the present king, his consort a princess of Gotha, 
holding George III. in baby-clothes on her lap; a Lord Brook, a 
copy by Patoun, who, as preceptor to Lord Warwick, was more 
of an amateur than a painter. These paintings are devoid of taste, 
and the best things about them are their heavy gilt and orna¬ 
mented frames. Over the portrait of the princess are the arms 
of Saxony. 
Adjoining the large hall is likewise the breakfast-room. In 
this room are the following most excellently executed paintings: 
Charles lst’s children, v by Vandyk, and a portrait of a female, 
by the same artist; two lions, by Rubens; and a full-length por¬ 
trait of Admiral Tromp, by Rembrandt. Three paintings by an 
unknown master; the unfortunate Mary Stuart, with her son as 
a child; a Lord Brooke, and Sir Philip Sydney. 
After I had inspected the castle, I passed out through a private 
gate in the lofty wall of the castle-yard, and proceeded to the park 
over a stone bridge that crosses the dry castle moat. Groves are 
beautifully interspersed with bowling greens in this park; a solid 
pebbled path takes you round the park in about half an hour. 
Ther^ are several fine prospects, and the place is well stocked 
with evergreens, which during the last winter, I had many op¬ 
portunities of admiring in a state of nature. Three years ago, 
while journeying for the first time through Great Britain, 1 
could not help admiring in the English parks, the luxurious abun¬ 
dance of evergreens and their lovely growth; but after beholding 
these plants in their native land, growing in their full vigour, 
the most splendid English gardens dwindled into insignificance, 
when compared with the beauties of nature in America. I ob¬ 
served a number of fine lofty cedars of Lebanon, which are to 
be found in most of the extensive English gardens. In this park 
there is also a very large hot-house, the plants raised in which 
are now elegantly distributed throughout the garden. In this 
hot-house I perceived the celebrated antique vase, the copjr of 
which, in bronze, I had seen at Mr. Thomason’s in Birmingham. 
This remarkable antique was found not far from Hadrian’s Villa 
in the vicinity of Tivoli. It was first purchased by Sir William 
Hamilton, then English ambassador at Naples, who sold it to 
the late Lord Warwick. It is of white marble, round in form, 
and will hold one hundred and sixty-three gallons. It has two 
handles of entwined vine branches, which with their elegant 
leaves and heavy clusters of grapes, wind themselves round the 
upper part of the vase. On the under part is seen the panther’s 
skin, and on it several well finished heads of satyrs, as well as 
several thyrsus and augur staves. The vase is in a state of high 
