jects and destroyed the Power that threatened to opprefs the Liberties of Europe; took off the Yoke of Ecclefiaftical Tyranny; reftored Religion from the Corruption of Popery; and by a wife, a moderate, and a popular Government, gave Wealth, Security, and Refpect to England.

KING WILLIAM III. who, by his Virtue and Conftancy, having faved his Country, from a foreign Mafter, by a bold and generous Enterprize, preserved the Liberty and Religion of Great Britain.

Sir WALTER RALEIGH, a valiant Soldier, and an able Statesman; who endeavouring to roufe the Spirit of his Mafter, for the Honour of his Country, against the Ambition of Spain, fell a Sacrifice to the Influence of that Court, whofe Arms he had vanquished, and whose Defigns he oppofed.

Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, who, through many Perils, was the first of Britons that adventured to fail round the Globe; and carried into unknown Seas and Nations the Knowlege and Glory of the English Name.

JOHN HAMPDEN, who with great Spirit and confummate Abilities, begun a noble Oppofition to an arbitrary Court, in Defence of the Liberties of his Country; fupported them in Parliament, and died for them in the Field.

Sir JOHN BARNARD, without any Infcription. Behind this Building is a Monument with this Infcription:

To the Memory of
SIGNIOR FIDO,
An Italian of good Extraction;

Who came into England,

Not to bite us, like moft of his Countrymen,
But to gain an honest Livelihood;

He hunted not after Fame,

Yet acquired it;

Regardless of the Praife of his Friends,

But

But moft fenfible of their Love.
Tho' he lived amongst the Great,
He neither learnt nor flatter'd any Vice.
He was no Bigot,

Tho' he doubted of none of the XXXIX Articles,
And, if to follow Nature

And to refpect the Laws of Society,
Be Philofophy,

He was a perfect Philofopher;
A faithful Friend,
An agreeable Companion,
A loving Hufband,..

Diftinguish'd by a numerous Offspring,
All which he lived to fee take good Courses.
In his old Age he retir'd

To the House of a Clergyman in the Country,
Where he finished his earthly Race,

And died an Honour and an Example to the whole

Species.
READER,

This Stone is guiltless of Flattery, v
For he to whom it is infcribed

Was not a Man,

But a..
GREY-HOUND.

The SHELL-BRIDGE..

The CHINESE HOUSE ftands on a large Piece of Water. The Outfide is painted by Mr. Scleter, after the Chinese Manner. Within is a Chinese Figure of a Lady afleep.

The TEMPLE of CONTEMPLATION.

The GROTTO at the Head of the Serpentine River, is furnished with a Number of Looking-Glaffes, both on the Walls and Cieling, in Frames of PlaisterWork, ftuck with Shells and Flint. In it is a Marble Statue of Venus. lit 10 sibi ga je bitna

The

The LADIES TEMPLE, fupported by Arches, with Venetian Windows. On one Side is a Painting of Ladies employing themselves at Needle and Shell Work; on the other, Ladies at Music and Painting, both by Scleter.

The GRECIAN TEMPLE is a large Building of the lonic Order, faid to be in Imitation of the Temple of Minerva at Athens.

Captain GRENVILLE's Monument, on which is the following Inscription:

Sororis fuæ Filio,

THOME GRENVILLE,
Qui navis Præfectus regiæ,

Ducente claffem Britannicam Georgio Anfon
Dum contra Gallos fortiffimè pugnaret,
Dilaceratæ navis ingenti fragmine
Femore graviter percuffo,

Perire, dixit moribundus, omnino fatius effe,
Quam inertiæ reum in judicio fisti;
Columnam hanc roftratam
Laudans & mærens pofuit
COBHAM.

Infigne virtutis, eheu! rariffimæ
Exemplum habes;
Ex quo difcas

Quid virum præfectura militari ornatum
Deceat.

M. DCC. XLVII.

As a Monument

To teftify his Applaufe and Grief,
RICHARD Lord Viscount COBHAM

Erected this Naval Pillar to the Memory of his Nephew
CAPTAIN GRENVILLE;

Who, commanding a Ship of War in the Britife Fleet Under ADMIRAL ANSON,

In an Engagement with the French,

Was

Was mortally wounded in the Thigh-
By a Fragment of his fhatter'd Ship.
Dying, he cried out, i

"How much more defirable is it thus to meet Death, "Than, fufpected of Cowardice, to fear Juftice!" May this noble Inftance of Virtue Prove inftructive to an abandoned Age, And teach Britons how to act

In their Country's Cause ?

A Spacious BASON of WATER, defigned for the Triumphal Arch.

A FLUTED COLUMN, erected to the Memory of the late Lord СОВНАМ.

On one side.

To preferve the Memory of her Husband,
ANNE, Vicountefs COBHAM, :.
Caufed this Pillar to be erected

In the Year 1747 1.9?
(On the oppofite Side.
Quatenus nobis denegatur diu vivere,
relinquamus aliquid,

quo nos vixiffe teftemur.
As we cannot live long
Let us leave fomething behind us,
to fhew we have lived.

The GOTHIC TEMPLE, with this Infcription: Je rends graces aux dieux de n'eftre pas Romain. That is, I return Thanks to the Gods for not be❝ing a Roman.

The Infide of the Dome is decorated with the Arms of his Lordship's Family, from their Rife to the prefent Time.

The PALLADIAN: BRIDGE, on which are several Antique Marble Bufto's. It is fupported: by Ionic PilJars on the Side facing the Water. The Black-Wall is adorned with a Piece of Alto-Relievo, by Mr. Schee

maker,

maker, reprefenting the Four Quarters of the World bringing their various Products to Britannia..

The IMPERIAL CLOSET is a fquare Room, in which are painted in Frefco by Scleter, the three Humane Roman Emperors, each of which is distinguished by a memorable faying of his own.! IMP. TITUS CÆS. VESPASIAN. Diem perdidi.

I have loft a Day.

IMP. N. TRAJAN CÆS. AU.
Pro me: fi merear, in me.

For me: -if I deferve it, against me.

IMP. MARCUS AURELIUS CÆSAR ANTO. NINUS.

Ita regnes imperatur, ut privatus, regi te velis.

So govern if a King, as you would be governed if a Subject.

The Grand TERRAS-WALK, 300 Feet long, where is a STATUE of a GLADIATOR, brings us to

The TEMPLE of FRIENDSHIP. A Structure of the Doric Order, with this Motto on the Outfide, Amicitia S. Sacred to Friendship.

On the Roof are emblematical Paintings alluding to Friendship and Liberty. Britannia is reprefented fitting in State with Labels on one Side inscribed Edward and Queen Elizabeth; on the other he is prefented with the Reign of which the covers with her Mantle, unwilling to look at it. The Infider nifhed with the Bufts of the late Lord and his illufious Friends, viz. Frederick Prince of Wales, the Earls of Chesterfield, Westmorland, and Marchmont; the Lords Cobham, Gower, and Bathurst; the prefent Earl, Lord Littleton, and William Pitt, Efq;

The PEBBLE ALCOVE is a little Grot, on which are his Lordship's Arms on the Back Wall.

CONGREVE's MONUMENT, with Embellish ments defigned to exprefs the Poet's Comic Genius.

On