lots with the most prosperous man in his country. His end, indeed, is most pitiable, enough to bring tears into the eyes of the gallantest fellow-soldier. It is said, that before he was taken to the hospital, a faithful servant used actually to go out and beg for him. It requires all the good and all the pleasure given to the world by such men's productions, to enable us to think of their sufferings with patience. But it does enable The ways of Providence are vindicated. The fine heart is broken; but the earth, to all time, is filled with its fragrance.

us.

There are several curious manuscripts in the library, particularly three autograph letters of Petrarch, three autograph plays of Lope de Vega, the original copy of a play of the younger Moratin, and the music of Metastasio's "Olimpiade" beautifully written out by Jean Jacques Rousseau, at the

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time when that "shaker of the thrones of got his livelihood by work of that

Europe"

kind.

It is by no means the least interesting circumstance connected with this library, that Lord Holland, its collector, really enjoyed his books. The reader might guess as much from the nature of them; and we shall have reasons for being assured of it as we go. At present, we have more to do with the house than with its possessors.

The collection of pictures is not remarkable, except as containing a greater number of portraits of men of letters, Italians in particular, than is to be found perhaps in any other private abode. Among them is Addison, when he was young (a handsome face); Alfieri (in miniature), the Italian tragic poet, who was some time in England; his wife (another miniature), the Countess of

Albany, widow of the Pretender (a princess of the house of Stolberg); Sir Philip Francis; Robespierre (miniature), with his pert, insignificant look, on which nobody would have guessed that so much tragedy was hanging; Jerome Bonaparte (a narrowminded, repulsive countenance); two portraits, large and small, if we mistake not, of the Duchess of Portsmouth (Louise de Querouaille, Charles the Second's mistress), quite making out, in one of them, the "baby face" of which Evelyn accuses her, nobody would have taken her for an ancestress of the manly-visaged Foxes; many portraits of the rest of the family; a fine one of Talleyrand, by Schetter; and one, by Gerard, of Napoleon at Fontainebleau.

There are also busts of Napoleon, of Machiavel, and of Henry the Fourth, the last " looking like a goat;" a curious paint

ing by Sir Joshua (of which more by-andbye), consisting of whole-length portraits of Charles Fox, when a youth, with his fair relatives, Lady Sarah Lenox and Lady Susan Strangeways; and another, by Hogarth, representing Dryden's play of the "Indian Emperor," performed by children, one of whom is a grand-niece of Sir Isaac Newton, whose bust is on the chimney-piece. The play was performed for the amusement of the Duke of Cumberland, who is seated accordingly; and the governess playing with one of the children is Lady Deloraine, whom the reader will find acting a more curious part, when we come, in these Kensington memorabilia, to the Palace.

CHAPTER XIV.

HOLLAND HOUSE CONTINUED-FAMILY OF DE VERE, EARLS OF OXFORD-ORIGIN OF THEIR NAME-ANDREW MARVEL'S VERSES ON FOUNDERS OF DUTCH STATES -THE

BEAUCLERKS-SIR WALTER COPE-THE RICH FAMILY

EARLS OF HOLLAND-PERFORMANCE OF PLAYS-EARL

OF ANGLESEA-SIR JOHN CHARDIN-DUCHESS OF BUCK

-THE RICHES, JOINT EARLS OF WARWICK AND HOLLAND-WILLIAM EDWARDES, FIRST BARON KENSING

TON.

WE now come, not only to the possessors of the present house, but to those of the one that preceded it; and therefore must go