The dining-room; an Ascension, by two scholars of Raphael, whose portraits are said to be introduced into the piece. A copy from the wonderful original. The Death of Cleopatra, a fine picture by Alexander Veronese. The light and shade of this picture are incomparably contrasted.-Lot and his Daughters, less than life; Salvator Rosa.-Susannah and the Elders; Cavaliero Calibresi. The passage-room; a portrait of Mr. Pope, painted in 1716.-Tom. Southern, the poet and play-writer, 1734. The billiard-room; Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, and lord high admiral.-Charles Boyle, esq; of Orrery, 1707, the inventor of the orrery; a circumstance which suggested his title. The anti-room; Hippomenes and Atalanta, by Poussin.-The Discovery of Achilles, by Vandyke.-The Finding of Moses, by Polemberg. Acteon and Diana, by Francesco Schola. - Two Landscapes, by Zuccharelli.-A curious Head, by Holbein.-Turk's ditto, by Vandyke. Child brought to Christ, by Lanfranc. St. Mark x. 13.-The Marriage of St. Catherine, by Carlo Maratti.-Jacob and Rebecca, by Paul Veronese; and a Head, by Rembrandt. -A fine antique Mosaic, about thirty inches high, exhibiting a female figure, hangs up in the passage. The library, well stocked with valuable books, contains the portrait of the Honourable Robert Boyle, the philosopher; dear to the scientific world from his numerous discoveries and deep researches in natural philosophy, and equally dear to the Christian world, for his labours in behalf of true religion. In the same room is the second air-pump that was constructed, the invention of this great man. The first was presented by himself to the Royal Society; it works with one piston only, and was so compleat in its design and construction, that nearly a century has been able to add no other improvement to it than a second piston. The original orrery also is preserved, thirty inches in diameter; but sadly out of order. The breakfast-room displays much taste in its decorations, together with two curious specimens of delicate wax-work-landscapes, and figures. All the apartments above are fitted up with a neatness that pleases more than splendour, since it conveys the ideas of comfort and utility, with which the glitter of gold, and the rustling of damask, are ever at variance. A ride of four miles brigs us to MaidenBradley, the seat of the Duke of Somerset, which came into the fanily toward the conclusion of the sixteenth century; a plain substantial stone mansion, with two large wings projecting at right angle from the body of the structure. A bare unadorned country spreads itself before the house, and nothing around it affords any traces of that magnificence for which the family was once so remarkable. The church, a lowly antique edifice, adjoin's it on the left. I need not tell you, that I entered this pile with particular veneration, when you know that it holds the sacred dust of a patriot, to whose exertions my countrymen owe, in a great degree, that palladium of British freedom, the Habeas Corpus A&t; which precludes the rigours of arbitrary imprisonment, by obliging the judge, under severe penalties, to grant a writ at the request of every prisoner, directing the jailor to produce him in court, and to certify the causes for which he was committed. This character was Sir Edward Seymour, a senator who made a conspicuous figure in the reigns of Charles II. William, and Anne. It is true, indeed, that in other respects he inclined to Toryism; but the rigid integrity of his poli tical conduct entiles him to our respect, though we cannot admire his creed; and he at least claims a nerit that every statesman cannot boast, of having preserved an unvarying consistency during hs whole career in those sentiments which he avowed on his entrance into public life, and of never having sacrificed his principles for the sake of retaining his place, or extending his influence. The monument of Sir Edward Seymour is of marble, and contains the figure of the senator in a reclining attitude, and resting upon his arm. Above him are two cupids, the one holding an inverted torch, as an emblem of extinguished life; the other, the figure of a serpent, as the emblem of immortality. A long inscription commemorates his virtues, and the obligations which he conferred on posterity. He was born in 1663, and died in 1707. A little silk manufactory enlivens MaidenBradley, established by Mr. Ward, of Bruton, about nine miles from this village. Fiftythree children, great and small, are employed in spinning two of the fine filaments, as produced by the worm, together; this work is carried to Bruton, when, with the assistance of ingenious machinery, the silk thread for use is made, by uniting the requisite number of the threads manufactured at Maiden-Bradley. The children employed (who begin working before they are six years of age) earn wages proportioned to their expedition and ability; the youngest make about three halfpence or two-pence per day, and the most experienced half-a-crown or three shillings per week; but for this they are expected to work from five o'clock in the morning till six at night! The road from Maiden-Bradley to Stourton, for six or seven miles, is tame and unvaried; an uniformity, however, which is amply recompensed by the beauty and variety of Stourhead grounds, the seat of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, bart, A situation the most judicious has been chosen for this mansion, commanding in front a view that sweeps over a large cultivated tract of subjacent country, terminated by the distant plains of Wiltshire; and behind, the more confined, but more delicious, scenery of his own park. The road to the house follows the gentle descent of a hill, and pursues its darkling course through high hedges, rendered still more umbrageous by lofty trees; amongst which, the wide-spreading beech and tapering fir make a |