1810.] 
Getting as auickly as I could move 
over a vile. cross country, I arrived in 
Stamford, abounding in churches and 
antiquities, in time to run out to Bur- 
Jeigh, and inspect the collection before 
the close of day. Lord Exeter’s collec- 
tion bas been highly extolled; and it is 
always with distrusc and reluctance thas 
an individual should oppose the public 
voice, yet 1 cannot avoid expressing my 
opinion that this celebrated assortment 
is more numerous than select. With 
the exception of the wonderful Saviour’s 
Head, by Carlo Dolce; a Holy Family, 
by Raphael; and one or two other pieces; 
the rest are either uninteresting as to 
their subjects, or the works of second- 
rate masters. Rubens’s coarse figures, 
dancing with their heads all on a level, 
and having a broad hbght cast full in 
front, orCarlo Maratte’s cold insipid per- 
formances, meet the eye in every apart- 
ment. Ilere are some ceilings finely 
painted with mythological subjects, re- 
presenting Heaven and Tartarus. Among 
the: curiosities, | observed a magnificent 
state hed, and casts of the oxen of dif- 
ferent counties. 
[ slept at Wantford, where the inn is 
govd, and so it ought, for the charges 
are enormous. 
My next day’s journey commenced 
with an excursion to Peterborough; 
where I got a good and cheap breakfast. 
The ancient monastery of this place was 
founded inthe seventn century. It was de- 
stroyed by the Danes; and being rebuilt 
by King Edgar, continued a mitred abbey 
until 1541, when Henry VILL. converted 
it into a cathedral and bishop’s see: the 
cathedral has the finest front perhaps in 
England, next to the elevation of York 
Minster. Near the gate is the portrait 
of an old sexton, who buried two queens, 
The tomb of Queen Catherine, Henry 
VIIIL.’s first wife, is marked by a brass 
iate. ‘ There are many figures of ab- 
Bats: and a carious tatle, containing the 
names of all the abbots and bishops in 
chronological order. But the chief cu- 
riosity is a tomb-stone lateiy dug up, 
bearing date of the year 870: it is in 
the form of a small house. 
{ had now nearly completed my plan 
of seeing every thing interesting on the 
road. I rode through Yaxley, -where 
there are extensive barracks; Stilton, 
eclebrated for its cheese; Huntingdon, 
which had formerly fifteen churches ; 
and stopt for the night at Godmanches- 
ter, amile beyond this place. ‘The next 
morning my way lay through Caxton and 
Royston to Wade’s Mill, near Ware: 
Account of the Fejee Islands. 
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and the day afterwards being Sunday, I 
pot carly in the morning to- Waltham 
Abbey, where I attended the morning 
service. Waltham Abbey stands a mile 
from Walthsm Cross, and to the east of 
the great road. Waltham Cross is one 
of the memorials of Edward I. to his 
queen; a beauuful Gothic structure in 
high preservation, he church at Wal- 
tham Abbey is raised on the site of the 
old monastery. It was founded in 1062 
by Harold, afterwards king of England ; 
nothing now remains of it put a gale and 
bridge. Here Cranmer proposed the 
measure of consulting the Universities on 
the prupriety of Henry VJIL’s di- 
vorce, 
The way from hence to the metropolis 
extends through a line of delightful vil- 
lages ; and is one of the best approaches 
to London. Enfield Highway, Scotland 
Green, Edmonton, Tottenham, Stam- 
ford Hill, Stoke Newington, Dalston, 
Aingsland, Islington, aiford a noble 
proof of the opulence and taste of the 
inhabitants of London, in presenting a 
succession of elegant villas, terraces, and 
ornamental cottages. 
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_ For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT Of the FEJEE ISLANDS, 
[From the Sydney Gazette and New South 
Wales Advertiser. 
N the 7th of October last, which 
was shortly after the arrival at the 
Fejees of the Favourite, Capt. Camps 
bell, Mr. Thomas Smith, his second ofti- 
cer, was unexpectedly made prisoner by 
the natives, with seven others of the - 
ship’s company, and remained nine days 
In captivity; daring which interval ine 
experienced and witnessed horrors, from 
his narrative of which the following 
account 1s accurately deduced. 
it begins with stating, that on the 7th 
of October he went from Sandal-wood 
Bay round to the Bay of Highlea, with 
tiree boats, in quest of Sandal-wood, one 
of which, the ship’s long-boat, he coms 
manded; another, a whale-boat, was 
under the command of a Mr. Lockerby, 
formerly chicf officer of the American 
ship, Jenuy; and the third, onder 
Mr. Graham, who fortunately returned 
laden to the vessel in time to escape the 
calamities that fell upon the former 
two. At Flighiea he heard that Bullan- 
dam, the chief of the district of Buya, 
was expected with a force to make war 
upon thé island of Taffere or Tatfe:a, and 
that it was the intention of the Highleans 
_ to 
