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by Roubillac was willed by David Garrick to the British Museum, at the death of Mr. Garrick. The four celebrated Election Pictures by Hogarth were bought by John Soane, Esq. for the sum of 17327. 10s.;

the Del Sarto for 2677. 15s. by Prince Leopold; as well as the Loutherbourg Landscape and Cattle with Figures, which was knocked down for 1037. 19s.: the whole being sold by Mr. Christie.

RICHINGS LODGE,

SEAT OF THE RIGHT HON. JOHN SULIVAN.

gentleman completely repaired the old house, which, by some accident, took fire, and was entirely destroyed. It was succeeded by the present elegant mansion.

The annexed View is from the Lawn of the Entrance-Front. The portico is in good taste; and the offices form, with the wings, a semicircle that has a pleasing effect. The garden-front is circular, which adds considerably to the effect of the principal apartments. The green-house, with the flower-beds attached to and on each side of this front, has a pleasing effect. The grounds are completely in keeping with the modern taste of ornamental landscape, enlivened by water winding through the richest verdure, and falling into the Colne, to the west of Colnbrook.

Tus delightful residence is situated by the present proprietor. This ed in the parish of Iver, and but a short distance from Colnbrook, on the Bath road. An old but convenient house formerly stood on the lower part of the ground, which must have been of some consequence, from the number of noble proprietors who have held it. Among others we find, in 1739, it was purchased of Lord Bathurst by the Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset: on the death of the duke, the duchess made it her constant residence. Among other poets of the day who dwelt on its beauties, may be reckoned Shenstone. His poem of Rural Elegance, dedicated to the duchess, is supposed to owe its origin to this place. After the death of the duchess, which happened here in July 1754, it became the property of the Lady Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset; who, after the death of her brother, conveyed it by marriage (which took place at this house 1740,) to Sir Hugh Smithson, Bart. who, in 1749, assumed the name and arms of Percy, and was created Baron Warkworth, of Warkworth Castle, and Earl of Northumberland; and in 1766, Earl Percy and Duke of Northumberland. was next sold to the Countess of Charleville, of whom it was purchas

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The mention made by Lady Hertford of a chapel dedicated to St. Leonard, which stood about one hundred yards from the site of the present dairy, the abbey-walk which she describes, and the yet existing denomination of Pilgrim given to the lane and to a spring on the verge of the grounds, with that of Holy Hill assigned to fields adjoining, would seem to indicate that this was formerly a consecrated spot.

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THE HONEST CHEESEMONGER.

short intervals, that he determined to obey the summons.

He hastened to his notary, a worthy old man, who had been the friend as well as the lawyer of his family for more than forty years. My good Mr. Bertin," said he, shewing him the letter that he had just re

In the year 1792, the young MarIN quis d'Orgland quitted his native province, in which he had till then resided, for Paris. His parents were dead, and his friends and relations had one by one emigrated: he could not, however, resolve to follow their example; the land of his birth, torn as it was by the horrors of revolu-ceived, "I can bear this no longer. tionary fury, was still too dear to him to be resigned, while a possibility of staying in it remained. His faith was besides plighted to a young and lovely relation of his own, whom he only waited for a favourable moment to espouse. She, like himself, preferred remaining at the risk of life, to flying, with the chance of being for ever an exile. The marquis accordingly conveyed her to Paris, where he placed her in the house of a respectable woman, and hiring a small lodging for himself in the neighbourhood, determined to regulate his conduct according to events,

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Our cause is desperate, I know; but I would rather sacrifice myself at once, than be thus continually reproached with cowardice. Give me then bills on Germany for half of the forty thousand francs I have placed in your hands; keep the rest of the sum for my cousin; and tomorrow I shall go to convince these scoffers that I dread danger no more than they do."

"Very well," said Bertin coldly; "so in order to lend yourself to a project, the success of which appears to you more than doubtful, you become an exile, and what is worse, leave unprotected the woman you are engaged to marry."-" Ah! my God, what can I do?"-" Why, in the first place, listen to me.""I can listen to nobody."-" Not even to the friend whose advice your fa

you always to follow?" These words sensibly touched Augustus. "Speak, my friend," said he in a softened tone; and the notary continued!

A week had hardly passed when D'Orgland received an anonymous letter: the contents were only a little drawing, representing a distaff. There was not a word of explanation; but D'Orgland did not need it: the let-ther in his last moments engaged ter bore the post-mark of Coblentz, and that was sufficient to shew that it came from some old companion, who thus indirectly reproached him for not joining the emigrant army. The blood burned on the cheek of D'Orgland as he looked at this symbol of feminine occupation; but as he had no hope that the emigrants would succeed, he repressed his feelings; and it was not till he had received six drawings of a similar kind, which followed each other at

"My advice is, that you remain in Paris: but lay aside your title, and call yourself only by your family name. Marry your cousin; and as you cannot in these times be sure of retaining your estates in Bretagne, settle yourself with your wife in a small apartment, and resolve to live on the interest of your forty thousand francs,

you properly. Do not answer me now: go and consult with your cousin; and if, after talking to her, you still remain bent on going to Coblentz, come to-morrow, and in a couple of hours I will arrange your business."

which I will take care to place for | lished, which authorized all persons who had borrowed money to pay their creditors in assignats. The upዘfortunate marquis thought that he thus saw his ruin completed, for the value of paper-money was so low at that moment, that his forty thousand francs would scarcely have brought him one thousand; and to add to his distress, his wife was pregnant.

An hour's conversation with his Sophia decided D'Orgland to follow the advice of the good notary. The young couple were married; they ate their wedding-dinner with their old and now only friend, the worthy Bertin, who, in the evening, called D'Orgland into his closet, and said to him:

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He carefully concealed what had happened from her, though he started at every knock at the door, supposing it was a summons from his debtor. Time passed on, however, and none arrived. On the morning when the interest became due, Augustus rose with the dawn, and hastened to the rue de la Tixéranderie, which feelings that the reader will easily understand had before kept him from visiting. He inquired for the house of the citizen Gorju, and was directed to a cheesemonger's shop. The shopman told him to

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"It is not now that you can judge whether I have given you good advice, but reckon in ten years hence with those who have sent you the anonymous letters, and you will see then who was in the right. To-morrow I shall go with you to the section, to take a card of safety. You have some skill in painting: call your-into a court on one side of the house, self an artist, and pursue the profes- and that at the bottom of it he would sion; it will enlarge your present find citizen Gorju employed in rescanty income, and may be of use in ceiving cheeses from Marolles. He case any thing should happen. I have found the entrance of the court stopfound a good opportunity of dis-ped by a waggon loaded with cheeses, posing of your money on a mortgage of a house in the rue de la Tixéranderie: it will bring you a thousand crowns a year. I could get you a good deal more, for the interest of money is now very high; but I advise you to be content with this sum, because your money will be safe."

Augustus agreed very readily: all was arranged as the good notary desired; but a month had hardly passed after their marriage when the death of this worthy man deprived them of their only friend; and a very few weeks afterwards a decrce was pub

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and on asking the waggoner to let him pass, the man gruffly told him he might pass under the cart if he liked; at the same time he roared out, " Holla! citizen Gorju, here's one wants you!" A stentorian voice from the bottom of a cellar replied slowly," Let him wait;" and our poor marquis, who had a strong an tipathy to the smell of cheese, was obliged to remain in this state of suffocation for nearly three quarters of an hour.

At last a short fat man, covered with dust and perspiration, came out of the cellar, and said roughly to

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may well believe, that at their frugal dinner the health of the honest Gorju was not forgotten. When the times became more settled, and D'Orgland could without danger return to his paternal mansion, he hastened to Bretagne. He found on his arrival that the estate of one of his neigh

the marquis," Well, what do you want with me?"-" Citizen Gorju," replied D'Orgland timidly, "I am come to receive the half-year's interest.”—“Ah! it is you: truly you got up early enough to receive it; but it will be soon settled. Come this way;" and taking him into a small room at the side of the court, open-bours, which had been seized as naed a drawer. "Let's see, the inter- tional property, in consequence of est of your money is just sixty-two his emigration, was going to be sold. louis and twelve francs: here take it, The marquis bought it for a mere and write me a receipt." trifle. He had discovered that it was the owner of this property to whom he was indebted for the draw

At the sight of the money the astonished marquis could hardly believe his eyes; he snatched the hardings of the distaffs; and when sehand of the honest cheesemonger, covered as it was with dirt and perspiration, and pressed it fervently between his own, while tears of gratitude sprang to his eyes. With all his roughness Gorju had feeling: he returned the pressure, saying, in a softened tone," Suppose now you had the law on your side, and that the assignats were worth more than the money you had lent me, would you force me to pay you in assignats?" -"God knows I would not."-" Very well then, we are quits, unless you think you owe me a bottle of wine. But, hark ye, another time don't get up so early: we dine at twelve, and you are always sure to find me then; so come and take pot-luck with us." D'Orgland hastened to relate what had passed to his Sophia; and we

veral years afterwards the same gentleman returned to France, D'Org|| land, in restoring the property which he had preserved for him, said, with a smile, "My friend, I don't blame you for having gone to Coblentz, or even farther; but confess also on your side, that it was lucky I staid at home."

Gorju has quitted his shop, and with the earnings of his honest industry returned to his native province, which happens to be that of the marquis, whose neighbour he now is; and no guest is more warmly received at the château D'Orgland, where he has a general invitation to take potluck, and is often reminded by the marquis of the occasion of their first meeting in the rue de la Tixéranderie.

GAELIC RELICS.

No. XIV.

ALLAN THE LION, LEADER OF CLAN NA GEALLANA AND CHIEFTAIN OF

DOWART.

(Concluded from p. 22.)

In a wood, which formed some of || noured by Christian piety, than enthe striking decorations of the castle of Marr, some religious, more ho

dowed with worldly wealth, had formed an establishment, to which

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