The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1815-09-08 00:00:00

WINDSOR, AuG. 7.

Yesterday morning Lacly BANKS arrived at the
Castle From her residence at Spring Grove, near
Hounslow, and returned in the afternoon to dinner.
It was understood to be a farewell' visit tii*the
Qut,EN, previa's to her Ladyship and Sir Jospekt.
leaving Spring Grove fur their seat in Linoolnshire.

This morning her MAJESTY lIHtl Priurc'ses
ELIZABETH and MARY toil trii airing in n coati'
and four throngh Maidenhead, ike. Pt:flirt:Mt'
AUGUSTA rode on borsehnek. Princess Srfinui.t
tool: an airing in her chair, at a slow pace, ill. the
Park. NH; Royal Highness's indisposition hits
Ix en in a great degree occa:iioned by violent sirasiUs
iu her chest.

RUINS NEAR TIIE STRAND BRIDGE.

The mined walls. which have .been laid open in
clearing; away, to make the commuoicution with the
Strand Bridge, are not, us has been •supposed, those
of the ancient palace of Protector Somerset, for
upon that site the present building of Somerset
House stands. There is a greater probability
of their being the remains of the unqpiticent and
extensi%;e patina! of which the Savoy formed p part,
and which antiquarians describe as stamling in the
form of a cross (the usual style of I•uildink in that
day), at the west side of the Duke of Somersere.
This palace, according to Pennant and otiler an-
tiquarians, was the residence of several sovereigns,
from whom it descended to their successive fa-
vourites. It was given by Queen' Eleanor Ito'lltd-
thouil Earl of Lancaster, and from lain it was inhe-
rited by John of Gaunt, iu .witzitte time it was burnt
by Wat Tyler. This building was afterwards
testoml,,aud occupied by the families and dtASeetict:
ants of Simon de. Nlonthailiitid Peter of Savoy—it
theirfeli into complete decay, and the greater part
suffered every sort of dilapidation, until it became
entirely hidden and surrounded by modern build..

The walls, which have been laid• open• by the
Strand Bridge• alterations, ib net display any very
remote workmanship; they. are of blick,.74;rodigi-
ously strong, and of consi&rable extent.; the but-
tresses and window casements are of stone, and clos
treniely solid in their construction.'' The style of
building is that•of the'emily or iniddle pert-of the
sixteenth century, when' brick bteatne generally
used in architecture, and when the low pointed
arch was succeeded by. that with the obtuse tingle
at the top. In the ;extensive range. rtf windows
which those ruins expose, there ii.ody one whieh.
appears to partake of a more ancient character,.,it is
newly twice the size of the others, andnissetome
Veidiges of theiii ornamental compartments and sinr
divisions which belong to what Sir Cliiistliphor
Wren calls S:iracenic architton,e, a .tole. very
common in England. hit ages Idler Ilse.
Except in this single instance, the ruins partake of
that plain awl mixt style which was•introdt.tecil into
England from Italy,• in gm, reign of Ilesirs' VII I~
and his successor. The *1(1 palace of the 'Duke of
Somerset was exactly on the saute plan.

It'estratisty moraing, at hulr-past nine o'clock,
Colima MACKINNON, of the Calflorream 111-I.it-
tneilt of Foot Gnarl's, arrive) ut the Foreita
Office, Dowoitig-strect, o itli eliipatches• film) the
Duke of-WLLI.ING,ION at Paris. 1 '

ilrr Royal Ilighttess the Princess of Wst.Es.re-
turned pit,thg LOLh of August, froni no eictirsiolt to
the St. Cotharil, to see the Devil's floid4e, and has
arrived fit Lugano, where she renutinetion the 15th,
but tvwg espeeted to quit it shortly.

'Yesterday, about 12 o'clock, the Duke of Cum.;
'RetiI.AND arrived iii.totvki from Kew on horseback.
At foiir o'clock Froyal highness returned to
Kew to..dimier, Where lie, had a select tairty.
Arrived ut OM A "I'S I bold, plablirgli—' • , . •
The 'Duke and Ditcher; of Argyll, Lady Stirling, Sir
Gilbert. Stirling, Sir Thomas and Lady Livingstone, and
a. Purvis, and Lady, •
Set off from the smite place— •
Mrs. Reid and Mis. Isom.

Migs O'NETt.r: played Juliet, in the trae,4rdy of
Rowe and Juliet, at the Newcastle Theatre, on
Torsday ; and Mrs. !Icor/ley, in The Gayle-
Oft., ou Wetintnfday ; and lost night, Aim Huller,
in The StrunKer.

Mini STE MIENS is performing, pit Liverpool. She
leaves there the beginning of next week to perinctit
at the Worcester M Mveting;

The accounts from Nismes, which we instated',
.lesterday, pot an end to all speetthititm
excesses in the South of France. A pitched battle
between a regiment or Royal ChOse. tirs and a larr!e •
body of newly-raised native troops, commanded hy
a -proscribed General, stamps them with a decidtid
character. - This doei not merely iclfik litre rebellton.
It is ifs actual bialy aurl spirit. The cry rice
iVapolcou the. rallying shoal of the rebel", is
not the It ast important .port of the N issues narrative.
Exclusive atilt! devoted fultierentS and worshippers
of jloN APA wet is Frasier, there see many pei-
soni there who would prefer the floNArmitta to
'the iiuuaUON dyhasty, us snore likely to coimi!Lite
all minds, and mutate the-welfare of tire: etanfiry:
Tub action at Ners we therefore .regard as merely
the first explosion: 'of this smothered celiellion.
Viewing it its this light, we are cos firmed is the
•opinion that the presence of the allied troops will
be bong net•cssary for the maintenance of Louts the
EIGIITEENTK on the tittoist•;and the preventioa of
a widely extended civil war. The assemblage of
• alliisti troops at' Dijon, is pyofes:•ed to be for a re-
view by the sms:reigns, preparatory to their de-
parture; but this we apprehend is only their (Ks-ten-
sible object The real 'Ailed is to draw a consider-I
ulde force to the South, to pat dvan thotethiaßl rt-

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