OF 1. View of St. LEONARD's Hill, THE SEAT op Earl HARCOURT : i 125 2. View of IvER-GROVE, THE SEAT or LORD GAMBIER 3. LADIES' MORNING DRESS : , i , len .. .',. 5. A FRENCH BED AND DECORATION OF THE CHAMBER . . 185 Views OF COUNTRY Seats.--St. Leonard's Hill, the Seat of Earl HARCOCKT . 125- RIMBAULT'S Arrangement of Rossini's an Eventful Life; by a Soldier!? '. 120 RIMBAULT's Adaptation of Mozart's Grand History of a Coquette (concluded) .. Character of Cardinal DE RICHELIEU . . -- Select Italian Airs .. . 175 Remarkable Dream . . . . . . . Lisbon and the Portuguese, extracted -- Spanish Bolero and Walz . ib. from Letters written in 1821 and 1822 Arthur's Serenada : ·: ;.:,: · 16. (concluded) . . . . . . . . . 143 Horkinson's Introduction and Rondo : id. Madalena, or the Consequefices of Elope- ment ........ . 145 Cum Sancto Spiritu, Grand Chorus from GhosT STORIES. No. V.-The Drilled Parisian Gambling-House Dinner . • 152 The Complaints of a Half-Pay Officer; Vocal Anthology, Part IX. . . . 176 or, Was it so Twenty Years ago?.. 156 BANISTER'S “ Love wakes and weeps . ib. Gaelic Relics. No. X.-The Stranger Voigt's ® County Guy" iii. 1772 FINE ARTS. Exhibition of the British Institution . ib. Noble Exercise of the Power of Beauty 161 Timber-Rafts on the Rhine .... 162 ANECDOTES, &c. HISTORICAL, LITERARY, Londos FASHIONS. - Ladies' Morning and Personal. Fontenelle-Oracular Dress .: ....... .. 181 Saying of Thomas de Rymer-F!..sti Ladies' Evening Dress . . . . ib. city of the Flea-Human Stature General Observations on Fashion and British Cedars-Statue of Peter the Great-Etiquette of the Court of Flo- French Female Fashions . . .. . 18:3 rence-The late Rev. Dr. Fordyce- FASHIONABLE Furniture.- A French Bed White Mourning - Taliesin - Tudor and Decoration of the Chamber . 185 Vaughan ap Grono-Ancient Welch 62 || LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC . . ib. 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LEONARD'S HILL, THE SEAT OF EARL HARCOURT. The very fine situation of this ele- || ent importance to be fit for the occagant abode must be seen to be ap- sional residence of Wm. Pitt, Earl preciated. It stands on the brow of of Chatham, who took great delight a commanding and finely wooded hill, in retiring for a short time to this in the immediate vicinity of Windsor beautiful spot, when he was secretary Forest, and surrounded by an im- at war. It came into the possession mense extent of the richest country. | of the Countess-Dowager of Walde Our View of the House is from grave, afterwards Duchess of Glouthe Lawn, shewing in the distance cester, who added so considerably to Windsor Castle, which is seen to the old building as to render it truly most advantage from this spot, and comfortable. A colonnade extends forms, with Eton College, a principal from the conservatory in front of the feature in this noble scene, which breakfast-room and hall to the main extends across the rich uplands of building, forming a pleasing connecBuckinghamshire, and embraces tion, enriched with columns and de. Middlesex and Surrey. The house | corations in the Roman Doric order, is very irregular in its construction, which, with its treillage, the variety which is generally the result of fre- || of plants and flowering shrubs that quent additions. The site was for- grace the entrance, and its irregumerly occupied by a gamekeeper's || larity of surface, produce an effect lodge only, but it became of suffici- | in the highest degree elegant, please Vol. III. No. XV. S |