nufacture, for the figures on horseback
have turbans. A large cabinet by Franks, the panels most highly
finished, different passages in the history of Adam and Eve form small
pictural subjects. In the larger room is the cabinet by Bernini, inlaid
with mosaic work in the most finished manner, surrounded by three brass
figures; Bellini's two pictures of the Doges of Venice. Over Bernini's
cabinet a large piece of looking glass is most judiciously introduced. In
this and the lower room are two lovely crimson Wilton carpets; the
ceilings of both are painted purple and red. Holbein's candlesticks are
really gold! the chasing is elegance itself; an inscription states that
they were made in 1800 for the Abbey at Fonthill. A fine picture of the
infant St. John by Murillo; a curious one of St. Anthony by Civoli; an
exquisite interior, by Steynwich, very small, and being a night effect,
the shadows are amazingly rich. In the passage leading to the garden are
the two ivory cups by Frainingo. One is much better carved than the
other; it is copied from an antique vase. The figures are Bacchanalian.

The effect of this lower room from the vestibule, illumined by the rays
of the glorious sun, was more beautiful than anything of the sort I had
ever witnessed. Nothing can be more happy than the way the colour of
this apartment is managed. The walls are covered with scarlet cloth; the
curtains on each side of the window being a deep purple produce a
striking contrast, the colouring of the ceiling, crimson, purple and
gold, is admirable. In one window is a large table formed of a block of
Egyptian porphyry, on which were flowers in a large vase of ivory; in the
other recess, or rather tribune, is the small round Himalaya block. Over
the fireplace is a charming little Dietrich, and on either hand a
Polemberg. On this side of the room the two De Vos, two singularly
shaped cabinets of oak finely carved; on one is a gold teapot. On the
right hand of the door is a Simonini: sky and distance admirable, the
colouring of two large trees very rich and mellow, one a dark green, the
other pale yellow. A picture on the other side of the door by Canaletti.
On the opposite side of the room a large Pastel, ruins of foliage fine
but figures lanky. I had not before to-day seen the Tower from the road
entrance. The effect of the whole building is grand, and improved by the
arches which support the terrace. On the left the ground is admirab