is drawn with a red bushy beard, and is dressed in white satin from top to toe, which makes his appearance altogether very stricking.

In one of the gardens of this seat is an Aviary almost as large as Salisbury Market-place, and supposed to contain upwards of eight thousand birds, of all denominations, from the most scarce and valuable, to the most insignificant.

Longleat Park, is one of the finest in the kingdom, and reckoned to be twelve miles round.

Savernake Forest and Tottenham Park..

SAVERNAKE FOREST,

Situated between Marlborough and Newbury,

is about twelve miles in circumference, well stocked with deer, and rendered delightful by the many vistas cut through the woods and coppices with which it abounds. Eight of these vistas meet like so many rays of a star in a point near the middle of the forest, where the late Earl of Ailesbury, to whom it belonged, erected an octagon tower, whose sides cor-responds with the vistas, through one of which your have a view of

TOTTENHAM PARK,.

THE SEAT OF THE MARQUIS OF AILESBURY..

This is a stately Edifice, erected after the model and under the direction of our modern Vitruvius, the Earl of Burlington, who, to the strength and convenience of the English architecture, has added the elegance of the Italian. The house has four towers and four fronts, each differently beautified; to which are now added four wings, containing rooms of state, a noble and capacious Library, and a fine collection of valuable Pictures. The beauty and delightfulness of the buildings are much aug mented by the large canals, and the spacious and i well-planted walks, with which it is surrounded..

Longford Castle, Clarendon Palace, and
Ivy Church.

LONGFORD CASTLE,

THE SEAT OF THE EARL OF RADNOR,

Three miles south-east of Salisbury,

was formerly a place of some strength, the only approach to it having been by a draw-bridge over a deep mote supplied by an inlet from the river Avon.

It was built by the Marchioness Dowager of Northampton, who having been Maid of Honor to Queen Elizabeth, and, as appears by the old plan of the house, having called a principal room in it, The Queen's Chamber, is supposed to have invited her Majesty to reside at Longford, in case she should again take the diversion of hunting at Clarendon, as she had done in the year 1574. This has probably given rise to a report of the Queen's having resided here, whereas it is not known that she was in the neighbourhood of Salisbury after the year above mentioned, or ever at Longford.

In the civil war it was a garrison for the King, and surrendered upon articles to Oliver Cromwell, as appears by his letter on that occasion to Speaker Lenthall, published by order of the House of Commons. It has since undergone so many alterations, that nothing remains but its form, which is very singular, being a triangle flanked with large circular towers, inclosing a court of similar shape, angled by three turrets, containing stone stair-cases. The apartments are commodious, though not large, elegantly fitted up and furnished.

The Pictures are numerous, and show the judgment of the collectors, for some of the first and most admired productions of the celebrated schools of painting are to be here seen; among which are the Morning and Evening of Claude Lorain; the Passage of the Red Sea, and the Adoration of the Golden Calf, by Nicholas Poussin; St. Sebastian, the joint performance of Michael Angelo and Sebastiano del Piombo; and the Holy Family, by Ludovico Carracci.

Here is an ancient and most perfect piece of workmanship in steel; a Chair, executed at the city of Augsburgh in the year 1572, by Thomas Mikins, and presented to the Emperor Redolphus II.; it contains the History of the Roman Empire from its Rise, after the destruction of Troy, through a long. succeession of ages, in a great number of compartments in miniature, of wonderful accuracy and execution, the greater part of which are easily distinguished by the classical spectator. This Chair was placed by the Emperor at Prague, where it remained till the siege and sacking of that city by the famous Gustavus Adolphus, who carried it with him into Sweden, from whence it was brought to England by Gustavus Brander, Esq., from whom his Lordship purchased it. It is in high preservation, and a very striking instance of the perfection, in so early times, of an art, for which the inhabitants of Augsburgh are noticed by historians as still remarkable.

One of the rooms of this seat is hung with Tapestry, which for excellence of workmanship, and beauty of the various colors it displays, is judged to be unrivalled.

The gardens and park are laid out in a modern taste, and afford many pleasing scenes, being well wooded and watered.

ROYAL PALACE OF CLARENDON.

Two miles east of Salisbury

stand the Ruins of this ancient Palace, famous for the Constitutions enacted there in the reign of King Henry II. A. D. 1164. It is now vulgarly called "King's Manor." Dr. Stukely informs us that this Palace was built by King John; but he is greatly mistaken; the Constitutions of Clarendon are of an older date than his reign by thirty-five years; for in the pipe-rolls of King Richard I., John's immediate predecessor, we find,

"For the carriage of the King's wine from Clarendon to Woodstock 34s. 4d."

In Madox's History of the Exchequer, there is a record that in the twenty-third of King Henry II. anno 1177, the sum of 2681. 17s. 9d. was allowed. for buildings at the King's Palace at Clarendon.

There is still extant in the records of the Tower, the following letter of King John's, dated from Clarendon, to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, to feed three hundred poor:

"The King, &c. to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London.

"We command you, that by the oversight of the priory of the Holy Trinity, and my liegemen of the city of London, ye cause certain corn to be bought by our free terme, and thereof to make bread, so that four loaves be worth a penny; and that ye cause also certain meal to be made to make porrege thereof; and from the day of receiving these our letters, ye feed at London three hundred poor people, to the day of the Assumption of our Lady, so that every one of them have daily one loaf, and so