from distant excursion by a deep skreen of wood, that admits only a few meadows and a plain old bridge into the canvas, and then shuts up the scene. Emerging from this groupe of trees, we were again indulged with a partial view of the castle to the right, and a beautiful slender tower, embattled and machicolated, springing as before from the shade; over the corner of which, a Scotch fir of gigantic size and unusual irregularity throws its arms. The uninterrupted rushing of the cascade opened another avenue of pleasure to the mind, and of course heightened the intellectual effect. Passing through a tower called the Hill-House, we wound up a wooded mount by a zig-zag path, on whose broad summit is the north tower, the occasional resort of the family on summer evenings; and, indeed, it would be difficult to find a spot, where so much beautiful scenery displays itself as from this place. The crystal Avon, the noble one-arch bridge, bestriding its stream, and the nearer grounds are seen on one side; and on the other, the stupendous eastern tower, castle-yard, and mansion, through the iron gate before-mentioned. From this pleasing elevation, we descended again into the court-yard, and having looked at the large bell-metal porringer, holding one hundred and sixty-two gallons, said to be Guy's pot, his sword, shield, helmet, and breast-plate, all of gigantic size, we left a place of uncommon magnificence and equal beauty. Most of the alterations in the castle, and of the improvement, in the ground, are the works of the present Earl of Warwick within the course of the last twenty-five years; and it must be confessed, that they have rendered his residence superlatively fine. Nature and ancient art, indeed, had done much for him in furnishing this spot with a beautiful river, august woods, and a magnificent old castle; but that nice perception of the beautiful, that delicate discriminating taste, which constitutes the picturesque feeling; which sees when to conceal, and when to display; which knows how to associate, and how to detach; could alone produce the striking effect that now arises from their admirable and judicious combinations. Yours, &c. R. W. FROM military I must lead you to ecclesiastical antiquity-from the castle to the church; which for beauty of ornament is no unworthy associate of the residence of the Earl of Warwick. It consists of two parts, the eastern division or body of modern, the western or choir and lady's chapel of ancient, architecture. Of these, the latter were built by Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, in the year 1394; the former in the year 1694; the older body having been burned down in a dreadful fire; the particulars are commemorated in the following inscription on the north, west, and south sides of the tower: TEMPLUM B. MARIÆ COLLEGIATUM PRIMITUS The body of the church and its adjoining members have many handsome tablets scattered upon their walls, amongst the rest we were particularly pleased with one, bearing the following Latin inscription, which, at the same time that it preserves to posterity the remembrance of an exemplary character, does credit to the feeling and liberality of an ancestor of the present Earl of Warwick; who, by the erection of this monument, gratefully endeavoured to perpetuate the recollection of his virtues: |