diadem, fymbols of difpatch and expedition. Two heads of old men, one with fhort curled hair, and long rounded beard; the other with a long square beard, and long flowing hair. Both have a fillet round the head. Neither of thefe are determined. One is conjectured to have been Heficd; the other Hippocrates. THIS room is in length thirty-five feet three inches; in breadth twenty feet, from the hollow of the bow-window to the fire-place. IN paffing out of this apartment to the great ftairs is the entrance into a fall and darkfome room, mentioned only for the fake of a picture of a hound bitch, moft enormously fat, doing great credit to the house: as another, I am in poffeffion of, did to that of Bychton. THE dining-room is above the parlor. The dimenfions are very fingular, exceeding in breadth thofe of the room below about nine inches. On an antient table, made out of one plank (of fome unknown wood) feven feet ten inches in length, and four feet ten in breadth, stands a moft exquifite buft of the elder Brutus, which feems as if formed in the inftant that the love of his country got the better of paternal affection; when with a fteady voice he was delivering to the lictors his Titus and Tiberius, to receive the reward of their treasons. DINING-ROOM. BUST OF THE ELDER BRUTUS; OF TWO FAUNS OF WAR. ON a glafs cafe are two busts in brown alabafter, of a male and female Faun, with the flammeum on their heads. Both are of hideous deformity, but well executed. In the cafe beneath is a very fine model of a man of war of fixty-four guns: and beneath MODEL OF A MAN that a moft fplendid barge. I fhould have mentioned, that, between the Fauns, is also a model of the Edystone light-house, which was burnt down in the year 1755, and fucceeded by the prefent, the work of our able engineer the late Mr. Smeaton. EDYSTONE. PAINTING OF ST. On the left hand of this cafe is a moft charming painting by CATHERINE. Leonardo da Vinci, of St. Catherine. The wheel is placed by her, and in her hand is a palm-branch, the fymbol of martyrdom. Moreri, and the moderate catholic writers, feem to be incredulous, equally with myself, as to her hiftory. The Golden Legend, that flower of martyrologies, is fuperior to all doubts. She was daughter to king Coftus, married to our Saviour, and martyred by a wheel ftuck with razors, under the tyrant Maxentius. The wheel burst to pieces, and at once killed four thousand Paynims who attended the execution. Both thefe fubjects have furnished moft delightful pictures for the best mafters. (See more of THE SUPPER AT Two CAVERNS. DANIEL, EARL OF her in my Outlines of the Globe-Arabia, vol. x. p. 23.) OVER the chimney-piece is a good picture by one of the Baffans, of the fupper at Emaus, filled with pots and kettles, and all the characteristic culinary furniture of those famous artists. Two very good pieces, I imagine of the interior of fome great quarries, vaft caverns, with pillars of ftone left to fupport the roof. Similar to thofe are the caves of Caufie, in the county of Banff, in North Britain, drawn by my much-lamented protège, the late Mr. Cordiner, (fee Introduction to the Arctic Zoology, tab. i.) and fuch as thofe engraven by Le Bruyn (ii. p. 189. tab. 250, 251, of the English edition) which he faw on the Wologda, in the province of the fame name. THE family portraits fhall be mentioned as they are placed. At the upper end of the room is Daniel, fecond earl of Nottingkam, fitting in his robes, with a moft enormous black wig, flowing on each fide, almoft to his waift; his complexion fuitably fwarthy. THIS noble peer was painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and was one of the few pictures which that unprincipled painter, as Mr. Walpole fays, would not gladly have difowned the moment it was paid for. The earl of Nottingham was, as Dalrymple reprefents him to have been, moft vehement in his political principles, both in church and state, so that he could hereby not live in charity with those who differed from him. He undertook the defence of the former against the attack made upon it by the famous Whiston, in a letter in 1719, addreffed to his lordship, which the earl anfwered; for which his lordfhip received from the univer fity of Oxford, in full convocation, its folemn thanks, for his noble defence of the Chriftian faith. He died January 1, 1729-30. His zeal (as Mr. Walpole obferves) caufed him during life to fuffer many afperfions. In all probability the following may have been one: a ftanza in the tranflation of the 4th Epistle, lib. ii. of Horace, Ne fit ancillæ tibi amor pudori, by the Earl of to the Earl of S. Did not base Greber's Pegg inflame The fober Earl of Nottingham, Of fober fire defcended: That, carelefs of his foul and fame, To play-houses he nightly came, And left church undefended! His fecond lady, Anne, only daughter of William, the last HIS COUNTESS. viscount Hatton, is the next portrait, fitting, and dreffed in white. According to Collins, fhe was a moft profitable veffel, for fhe had five fons and eight daughters, befides ten other children who died young, and feven who were still-born. LADY ESSEX SIR ROGER LATE SIR THO- LADY Effex, her eldest daughter, in blue, fitting without a cap. One lock graces her neck. She was married to Sir Roger Moftyn, the third baronet. There is a good mezzotinto print of her, by John Smith, from a different portrait, by Kneller. The painter has placed her on a bank, in a rural fcene, with flowers in her hands. THE fecond daughter, lady Charlotte, married to Charles Seymour, duke of Somerfet, in yellow, fitting. Mary, countefs of Thanet, in white, fitting, married to Sackville Tufton, earl of Thanet. Dorothy, countefs of Burlington, wife to the late Richard Boyle, earl of Burlington. She is in the character of Diana, in white, walking, with a fpear in her hand. THOSE two ladies were fifters, daughters to William Saville, marquis of Halifax, by his fecond wife, Mary, only daughter of the pious earl above mentioned, by his first wife, lady Effex Rich, one of the daughters and coheirs of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick. SIR Roger Moftyn, grandfather to the prefent baronet. He was pay-master of the marines, in the reign of Queen Anne, and one of the tellers of the exchequer in that of George I. He died on May 5th, 1739. THE late Sir Thomas Moftyn, and the general John Moftyn, painted when they were children of feven or eight years of age, in one piece. Sir Thomas is dreffed in a blue filver-laced fuit. His younger brother habited exactly like a girl, in stays, a frock, and an apron, with his neck naked: too ridiculous to be attempted by the artist, or permitted by the parents. ་་ Savage Moftyn, afterward admiral Mostyn. His is a very good and fpirited portrait. It was painted when he was a lieutenant: his hand rests on a cannon, the fea and fhipping in view. His dress a red fhort aiftcoat, a colored handkerchief round his neck, and a colored worsted night-cap, fitting lightly on his well-fhaven head. There is a neat etching of this portrait, by Worlidge. It is faid that he first introduced the uniform into the navy. He died in 1757 Algernon Percy, earl of Northumberland. That nobleman was not bred to the fea, yet in 1636 was employed by his majesty, with a fleet of fixty fail, to drive away the Dutch (Kennet, iii. 78.) who would perfift in fishing on our coafts. When his lordship found them indifpofed to comply, he took fome, funk others, and drove the left away. Soon after which the States were glad to fubmit to pay the fum of thirty thousand pounds for permiffion to continue their fisheries. In the next year the earl was conftituted lord high admiral of England. Lord Clarendon fpeaks of him when he was appointed privy counfel, as if it was done for ornament! He took, in the confequent troubles, a part adverse to the king. But in 1648, he voted that his majesty's conceffions were fufficient grounds for fettling the peace of the kingdom. The army foon fettled that affair. His lordship retired from the tyranny of the times, became one of the inftruments of the Reftoration, and died in 1668. He is painted as lord high admiral, fitting (a half-length) with one hand on an anchor, with the view of the deftroying the buffes at a diftance. A BEAU ADMIRAL Mos TYN. EARL OF NORTH- |