respect; but scandal and envy suggested to some Mrs. Grundy, that the monarch's attentions were dictated by a warmer motive than civility or friendship inspired. On the lady's return from France, when the calumnious report reached her ear, she addressed a letter to the Hertford newspaper, asseverating its falsity; and she pleasantly observed, that the only King's arms she was ever in, were the King's Arms at Berkhampstead. In closing this account, it may be proper to state that, among other relics of the Bourbon residence preserved in Hartwell House, are the prie-Dieu chair of Louis the Eighteenth; the prieDieu of the Duchesse d'Angoulême, and her work-table; the altar in the chapel; Sir William Lee's chair converted into a confessional by the addition of a grating and kneeling-step; a fine missal which belonged to the Archbishop of Rheims; and a bronze reading-grade used in the chapel during divine service, the desk-plate of which is engraven with the sacred monogram over three nails in the centre of a radiated circle, with a cherubim at each angle of the plate. There are, moreover, various articles of furniture, and several portraits of members of the royal family, together with some books, manuscripts, and prints; and a clock, a barometer, and two or three thermometers which belonged to the King. It is now high time to take leave of the Bourbons; and as to the balance of power-rights of legitimacy-indemnity for the past-security for the future-and other halcyon visions of our political quidnuncs, were they not attempted on a soil where neither true authority nor rational liberty appear to be capable of taking root! were they not cast to a class imbued with that— INDEX. Abbott's Hill Paper Mills, 332 Abercorn Arms at Stanmore, 392 a Centauri, its distance, 284 the best known star, 300 Acknal-way near Hartwell, 4 Act for inclosing land, 31 Acts for inclosing, 7 Adams, Mr. J. C. undertakes y Virginis, 340 Adams goes back to 1718, 341 Admiralty, Lords of the, 79 Orders in 1690, 358 Advowson presented to Royal Astronomical Society, 11 Elurus or cat, mummied, 215 Aerolite from the Cape, 141 Agathodemon, the serpent, 166 Agriculture described, 29 Agrippa, Admiral, 149 Airy, Rev. W., on Cold Harbours, 4 Akehurst, Mr., aided in the merid. line, 250 Akerman, Mr. J. Y., 6 Albania, birth-place of Mehemet, 187 Alcaire, old name of Cairo, 200 Alexander Hampden, 58 Alignments by Bradley and Pound, 339 All nature is but art unknown, 355 Ammon or Amun, god, 160 its growth, 27 Ammonites biplex, 29 type of Hartwell, 142 Amset with human head, 168 Amulet with lion's head, 167 Amun Ra, the good god, 220 APPENDIX, 357 Arable land at Hartwell, 52 polarizing experiment, 347 Archbishop attending the Queen, 380 Architecture of Hartwell Church, 12 Army, Egyptian, amount of, 191 Arrow-heads like those at Marathon, 212 자 Astarte Hartwelliana, 28 Astronomer Royal for Scotland, his illustrations, iii. Astronomy connected with Religion, 185 "As You Like It " on adversity, 374 August has frequent gales, 17 Aulus Gellius, his Noctes Atticæ, 122 Autograph of the author, iv. Autumn described, 17 ancient British post, 6 Infirmary, vignette, 91 a point of the Survey, 250 Babylonian cylinders, 136 Baieux, Bishop of, had land at Stone, 46 Barclay, his telescope examined, 245 Barometer by Barrow, 353 Bas-relief from Athens, 138 Base of Pompey's pillar, 373 Beachampton, Rectory of, 87 Bear, muzzled, crest of the Lees, 98 Beatrice de Luton, 53 Beauchamp's Life of Louis XVIII., 375, 388 Beaufoy, Colonel, his Cycle, 223 Bedford, temperature compared, 18 Plesiosaurus, 143 revolving roof, 242 Cycle quoted, 286 Bedoweens become agriculturists, 188 Beechey admired Egyptian painting, 184 Belzoni accompanied Beechey, 184 quoted, 219 Benevolent Society of Stone, 8 Berri, unfortunate Duke of, 387 Billiard, now breakfast room, 106 Binbashee, a youth, 187 Biography of Mehemet Ali, 187 Birch, Mr., suggested hieroglyphics, 156 Bishop, Mr., his telescope, 244 derived from Bishop Odo, 14 wells not deep, 22 Bizitûn, interpreted by Rawlinson, 176 Black, Mr. W. H., arranging documents, 100 aided in meridian line, 250 Bledlow ridge, 6 end of meridian line, 249 Board of Direction, 33 Bodleian Library, its MSS., 11 Bonnets, small English, 388 Bonomi quoted on hieroglyphics, 156 on head-dresses, 179 his drawings, 212 Books given to scholars, 10 Bottom-rock, or Portland, 21 Bourbons at Hartwell, 374 their improved prospects, 391 Bowling green, 42 Bowling greens great favourites, 103 B. P. contraction of Buonaparte, 378 Bradley's noted observation of 1718, 330 omitted for y Virginis, 333 Braided tresses of the Egyptians, 181 Brass of Perkin a Legh, 94 Breakfast, muffin toasting, 84 Bréan, Abbé, favourite of the Queen, 381 Brereton guilty of excess of ardour, 99 Brick from Babylon, 140 Britain, its ancient type, 150 Britannia attired in trousers, 151 Brouchos of the Septuagint, 164 style of garden, 82 Bubastis, colossal figures, 215 Buckingham, Duke of, received Louis XVIII., 378 Buckinghamshire Infirmary, 91 Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise, 27 on the Plesiosaurus, 143 Bugle Inn, at Hartwell, 22 Bunsen, Chev. his work on Egypt, 213 Burnet, Bishop, prejudiced, 357 on Louis le Désiré, 377 Cabandonga, Anson's prize, 74 Children, twenty-four, 59 Chiltern Hille, site of Hampden, 57 Hills, 1, 31 Hundreds, 2 Chilterns affect the atmosphere, 15 Choristers of Pharoah's daughter, 182 Christ Church, Oxford, 27 built by Sir T. Lee, 82 Cleopatra's Baths attended to, 191 Needle valued, 195 Clifden, P. of Wales's letter, 67 Clothes given to scholars, 10 Coats of the Lees, 98 Cobb, Mr. J. an accurate engraver, 137 Cobham, Lord, his letter, 81 Coffin of Smantennofre, 218 Coins, series of ancient, 145 Cold Aston, near Stone, 4 Comfort, near Hartwell, 4 of y Virginis, 321 Coluber, origin of Cold Harbour, 5 Colworth library, duplicates from, 123 tails not suddenly formed, 350 how to estimate their magnitude, 348 Committee of Management of Infirmary, 91 Condé, Prince and Princess of, 380 Conic sections required in sidereal orbits, 329 Cook, Lady Mary, 68 Coptic Dictionary, by Tattam, 206 Coster, Mr. brings Thothmes, 213 Cotton cultivated in Egypt, 189 Sir A. toasting muffins, 84 "Crowne of Lawrell," 36 Crusade of Edward I., 10 Curley, the able Professor, Georgetown, 292 Cutting through Eythorpe mound, 5 Cycle quoted on disagreement of colours, 298 |