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reoms, and was defigned by the ate Sir 
William Chambers, as was allo the 
dwelling-houfe. The entrance to the li- 
brary is through a long corrider, in 
which are feveral niches, containing an- 
tique buftos, ftatues, and other orna- 
ments, together with fome pannells, 
painted by “Cipriani; and, upon a plat- 
form, to which you attend by ftone fteps, - 
in the centre of this corridor, is a beau- 
tiful antique ftatue, of Verouap executed 
in copper, three feet high, reprefented as 
Randing upon one of the winds and pre- 
paring te take flight. 
The anti-chamber is a room about 
thirty feet fquare, well turnifhed with 
valuable books. There-are in this room 
four antique buftos, in copper, viz. 
Julius Cefar, Junius Brutus, M. Aure- 
Jius, and another, fuppofed to be executed 
about the time thofe perfons flourithed. 
Ina large niche, fupported by columns, 
in this room, and immediately oppeiite 
the great room, is a Parian marble ftatue 
arge as life, of the Venus De Medicis, 
elofely and finely copied from the -origi- 
nal, by Wilton, at Florence, 1 in the year 
31753. This ftatue is:elevated upon a 
mot curioufly {culptured pedeftal, three 
feet high, and. can only be equalled by 
the original. There are m this room alfo, 
two marble buftes by the fame artift, 
one, of the great William Pitt, late 
‘Earl of Chat hewne the ether, of Philip, 
Earl of Chefterfield. From this, you 
enter into the great room, which is fixty, 
feet long and thirty feet sie: At the 
eppotite “end ¢s an amazing large marble 
_chimney- piece, which is more hike a mo- 
nument than a chimney-piece. It is a 
building of white marble, having nothing 
to recommend it but a very fine by utto of 
Homer, which 13 placed upon the top. 
‘At a fide of this room, are pilafters 
of the Cori inthian order, about 20 inches 
diameter, from the capitals ef which 
fprings a coved cieling; through which 
the room 1s gee and betwee n thefe 
ilatters are a ales of faelves, 
all 
filled with a coe valuable colleStion of 
precious books. The cielmg has forne 
ornamented ftucco, and there are fome 
pannels over the doors, &c. of Cipriani’s 
painting. _ Beyond this are two! {malier 
rooms, theentrance to which is at each. 
fide of the chimney-picce, the one for an- 
tique medals, curiofities, &c. the other 
called the medal-room,. for the purpofe of 
keeping medals, gems, &c. of which 
Lord Charlemont has a great and precious 
slletion. All thefe rooms are floored 
ce’. h Irifh oak, laid in geometrical figures, 
Four in Iveiand.—Charlemont Houfe. 
and highly polifhed. Returning through 
the corridor which 1 have before men- 
tioned, there is upon the right hand 
cogr, over which is a painting in imita- 
tion of baffo-relievo, finely executed by 
the late De Gree, reprefenting Fauftulus, 
the king’s herdfman,, difcovering Romu- 
lus and aque fucking the wolf. This 
door leads into a room, built about the 
year 1788, in addition to the library 
TY have jutt defcribed, and extremely 
beaut, It is built domeiuar in the 
ftyle of the large room I have before men- 
tioned, but oe fmaller feale. The 
Columns and pilafters in this room ‘are 
of an irregular, or rather, a fancied or- 
der, fomething too frippery, and depart- 
ing a little from: the nai richnefs of the 
antient, into the- degeneracy of modern 
tafte. The cieling and the fioor in. this, 
are mucn fuperior to any ef the other 
rooms. “he fize is about fifty feet long - 
and twenty feet wide, of an oval form. 
At one extremity is an handfome chim- 
ney- -piece,richly carved and well executed, 
in white marble, upon the top’ of which 
is placed an uncommonly fine marble 
bufto of the late General Wolfe; and 
upon the front of the pedeftal is the fol- 
lowing infcriptiyn, compoled by Lord 
Char len ont: 
Sacred to military glory, 
And to the memory 
Of. Major General James Wolfe, 
Wha, i in the midft of a difficult and decided 
victory, 
Where fortune had no fhare, 
Died 
Conqueror of Canada, 
On the thirteenth of September, 
1759- 
At the oppofite extremity of this reom 
is a monument executed in white marble, 
correiponding as to the general form with 
that of the chimney-piece. It isa defign 
of well feulptured emblematic ornaments, 
pourtraying the different offices which 
the late Marquis of Rockingham (to 
whofe memory it has been erected) held 
under the crown of Great Britain; as 
well as other devices emblematic of his 
private virtues, and of the arts and {ci- 
ences he -was known to have patronized. 
Upon the top of this monument, like- 
wife, flands a bufto of the Marquis of 
Rockingham finely executed in white 
marble; and in the front of its pedeftal 
is engraved the following infcription : 
This fsiking refemblance of her departed lords 
Perpetual fource of her grief and pride, 
Was the precious gift 
Of Mery, Marchionefs of Reckingham 
Unde 
