John Luther, Efq. now of Mr. Fane; and Kelvedore Hatch, the feat of John Wright, Efq.

CHIPSTEAD PLACE, two miles from Sevenoaks, the ancient feat of Mr. Polhill.

CHISLEHURST, a village near Bromley, in Kent, where the celebrated Camden compofed the principal part of his Annals of Queen Elizabeth. This was the birthplace of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper in that reign, and father of the great Francis Viscount St. Alban's; and here alfo was born the famous Sir Francis Walfingham. In this place is Frognal, the feat of Viscount Sydney. See Bertie Place, and Camden Place.

CHISWICK, a village on the Thames, five M. F. L. near the road to Hounslow. In the church-yard is a monument to the memory of William Hogarth. On this monument, which is ornamented with a mafk, a laurel wreath, a palette, pencils, and a book infcribed "Analyfis of Beauty," are the following lines, by his friend and cotemporary in a different flight of fame, the late David Garrick :

Farewell, great painter of mankind,
Who reach'd the noblest point of art;
Whofe pictur'd morals charm the mind,
And through the eye correct the heart!
If genius fire thee, reader, ftay;
If nature move thee, drop a tear;
If neither touch thee, turn away;
For Hogarth's honour'd duft lics here.

Near this is the tomb of a gentleman, many years diftinguished as a critic in a refpectable periodical publication. On this is infcribed the following epitaph:

WILLIAM ROSE, L L. D.

Died JULY 4, 1786, Ætat. 67.

Whoe'er thou art, with filent footsteps tread

The hollow'd mould where Rofe reclines his head.
Ah! let not Folly one kind tear deny,
But penfive paufe where truth and honour lie.

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His the gay wit that fond attention drew,
Oft heard, and oft admir'd, yet ever new;
The heart that melted at another's grief,
The hand in fecret that bestowed relief;
Science untinctur'd by the pride of schools,
And native goodness free from formal rules.
With zeal through life he toil'd in learning's cause,
But more, fair virtue! to promote thy laws.
His ev'ry action fought the nobleft end;
The tender hufband, father, brother, friend."
Perhaps e'en now, from yonder realms of day,
To his lov'd relatives he fends a ray;
Pleas'd to behold affections, like his own,
With filial duty raise this votive stone.

In the church, in the Earl of Burlington's vault, is interred the illuftrious Kent, a painter, architect, and the father of modern gardening. "In the firft character," fays Mr. Walpole," he was below mediocrity; in the fe cond, he was reftorer of the fcience; in the laft, an ori ginal, and the inventor of an art that realizes painting, and improves nature. Mahomet imagined an Elyfium, but Kent created many." He frequently declared, it is faid, that he caught his tafte in gardening, from reading the picturefque defcriptions of Spencer*. Mafon, alluding at the fame time to his mediocrity as a painter, pays this fine tribute to his excellence in the decoration of rural fcenery:

He felt

The pencil's power: but, fir'd by higher forms
Of beauty, than that pencil knew to paint,
Work'd with the living hues that Nature lent,
And realized his landscapes. Generous he,
Who gave to painting, what the wayward Nymph
Refus'd her votary, thofe Elyfian fcenes,
Which, would the emulate, her niceft hand
Muft all its force of light and fhade employ.

ENG. GARD. Book 1. Line 510

*However this may be, the defigns which he made for the works of that poet, are an incontestable proof, that these picturesque defcriptions had no effect upon his executive power as a painter.

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On the outside of the wall of the church-yard, on a stone tablet, is the following infcription:

"This Wall was made at ye charges of ye Right Honourable & Truelie pious Lorde Francis Ruffel Duke of Bedford out of true Żeale and Care for ye keeping of this Church Yard and ye Wardrobe of Gods Saints whofe Bodies lay therein buried from violating by Swine and other prophanation fo witneffeth William Walker, V. A. D. 1623."

Befide Chiswick Houfe, here is the handsome seat of the late Lord Grantham, now Mrs. Luther's.

CHISWICK HOUSE, a celebrated feat of the Duke of Devonshire, built by the great Earl of Burlington. The afcent to the house is by a noble double flight of steps, on one fide of which is a ftatue of Palladio, and, on the other, that of Inigo Jones. The portico is fupported by fix fluted Corinthian pillars, with a pediment; and a dome, at the top enlightens a beautiful octagonal faloon.

"This houfe," fays Mr. Walpole, "the idea of which is borrowed from a well known villa of Palladio, is a model of taste, though not without faults, fome of which are occafioned by too ftrict adherence to rules and fymmetry. Such are too many correfponding doors in fpaces fo contracted; chimneys between windows, and, which is worfe windows between chimneys; and veftibules, however beautiful, yet little fecured from the damps of this climate. The truffes that fupport the ceiling of the corner drawingroom are beyond measure maffive, and the ground apartment is rather a diminutive catacomb than a library in a northern latitude. Yet thefe blemishes, and Lord Hervey's wit, who faid "the house was too fmall to inhabit, and too large to hang to one's watch," cannot depreciate the taste that reigns throughout the whole. The larger court, dignified by picturefque cedars, and the claffic fcenery of the small court that unites the old and new house, are more worth feeing than many fragments of ancient grandeur, which our travellers vifit under all the dangers attendant on long voyages. The garden is in the Italian tafte, but divefted of conceits, and far preferable to every ftyle that reigned till our late improvements. The buildings are heavy, and not equal to the purity of the house.

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The lavish quantity of urns and fculpture behind the garden front fhould be retrenched."*

Such were the fentiments of Mr. Walpole on this celebrated villa, before the noble proprietor attempted the ca pital improvements in which he is now proceeding. Two wings have been added to the house, from the defigns of Mr. Wyatt. These will remove the objections that have been made to the house as more fanciful and beautiful than convenient and habitable; but they seem to be too clofe to the centre, too large in proportion to it, and perhaps, too elegantly fimple to appear as correfponding parts. The Italian garden is to difplay the beauties of modern planting; and fome of the fombre yews, with the termini, and other pieces of fculpture, have already been removed. The moft valuable pictures in the Duke's magnificent collection are taken down, and put up in packing-cafes, till the improvements are finifhed, when, in all probability, the arrangement of them will be intirely new.

CLANDON, Eaft and Weft, are two contigueus villages in Surry. Weft Clandon, 26 M. F. L. is the manor of Lord Onflow, whose noble seat, near the church, is after an Italian model, and is confidered as the best family houfe in the county. At Eaft Clandon is the feat of Mr. Sum

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See Hatchlands. CLAPHAM, in Surry, three м. F. L. furrounds an extenfive common, from many parts of which are beautiful views of the Thames, with London, and the country be yond it. In the old parish church, a mean edifice, without a fteeple, divine fervice is now performed only at funerals; an elegant new church having been built, about 13 years ago, on one fide of the common.

CLAREMONT, at Efher, in Surry, 16 M. F. L. was the feat of the late Duke of Newcastle, by whom, when Earl of Clare, its prefent name was given; on which occafion Garth wrote his poem of "Claremont," in imitation of "Cooper's Hill." It was purchafed by the late Lord Clive, who pulled it down, and erected a very ele gant villa, in a much better fituation. The park is diftinguished by its noble woods, lawns, mounts, &c. The ummer houfe, called the Belvedere, on a mount, on that

* Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. IV. 232, 3d. Edit. 1786.

fide of the park near Efher, affords an extenfive view of the country. This beautiful place was afterward fold to Lord Galway: but it is now the property of the Earl of Tyrconnel.

CLIEFDEN HOUSE, at Taploe, in Bucks, near Maiden head Bridge, a beautiful feat belonging to the Earl of Inchiquin, and now occupied by John Symmonds, Efq. was the fummer refidence of the late Frederick, Prince of Wales. It was built by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of Charles II, and came, by marriage of the heirefs of that family, to the Earl of Orkney, who greatly improved it. It is a regular, ftately manfion, having a noble terrace in front, fupported by arches. Its fituation is lofty and confpicuous, and it is furrounded by extenfive woods. The pleafure grounds are fpacious; finely formed by nature into floping lawns, hills, and vallies; and affifted with great tafte by art. The upper grounds, near the house, command beautiful prospects; and as these are often feen through the viftas of the gardens, partially screened by groups of majestic trees, and other rural objects, they contribute to the variety and beauty of this delightful fpot.

The fouthern declivity toward the Thames is finely hung with natural woods, forming a different, but not lefs pleafing kind of fcenery, which forms a fine contrast to the higher and more polifhed grounds.

From the fides of precipices, formed by the falling of the mouldering chalk (of which these hills are compofed) and from lofty banks, overhung by venerable trees, we see the Thames purfuing its meandering courfe, through beautiful meadows, enlivened by herds of cattle; the neighbourhood adorned by chuffers of villges, or fequeftered retreats, forming together the moft pleafing kind of landscape.

The infide of this manfion is ornamented by tapestry hangings, reprefenting the victories of the great Duke of Marlborough, in which the Earl of Orkney himself had a principal fhare.

Pope has commemorated this place, in the celebrated lines, in which he records the wretched end of its profligate founder:

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