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doublet in whichLord Brook was killed at Lichfield. Several antique vases and Roman bronzes, also, are in this collection. The passage that leads to it con- tains some good paintings ; amongst the rest are,

A fine Landscape by Salvator Rosa; rock, cata- ract, and trees. Charles L and the Duke D'Esper- -non. The original of this picture is in the royal collection at Kensington. Queen Elizabeth. An old Head, of great spirit and expression, by Rubens. Two portraits, by Vandyck. Oliver Cromzuell, half-length; fine.

Mary Queen of Scots, and her son James I. an infant. A duplicate of this picture is in Draper's- Hall, London; but the two are in some degree to be considered imaginary, as it is notorious that the unfortunate Queen never saw her son after he was a year old. Sir Philip Sydney, half-length, orig'nal.

Returning through the long range of apartments

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which we had already visited, we were conducted to the dining and breakfast rooms; the hitter of which forms the other termination of the suite. In the dining-room are the following portraits:

Princess of Wales, and her infant son George III. Stiff and bad, by Philips. Frederick Prince of Kales; by ditto. Sir Fulke Grtville Lord P>r coke, ambitious of no other title than what he desired to have engraven on, his tomb " The friend of Sir

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