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London, England, 1846-07-01 00:00:00

A CAPITAL BATH-ROOM,

wall constructed ; and there arc two bed-rooms for the females, and,
over the conch-houses two for the males. On the basement is a su-
perior kitchen, with larder, butler's pantry, and every essential
appendage to comfort : and be it known, every place is not only in
the best keeping, but also in the best possible order. There can be
no need to unto :se the. purse-strings, for ingenuity cannot find occa-
sion t.nr the slightest outlay. The entree is well managed, from
go and not otherwise required. Indeed, atter taking much pains to
disco, er room for improvement, Mr. Robins had the satisfaction to
rind his ingenuity could not accomplish it.

THE WHOLE I 3 FREEHOLD,
so that a purchaser has the pleasing knowledge that his comforts
may descend to his latest posterity, without the alloy of tl'esh and
expensive renewals.

The t-ste and style of the villa and its appendages throughout
will incline a purchaser to avail himself of the power to take it all
as it stands, at a valuation, but this is quite optional. The natures
and planned furniture alone is Imperative. It can of course only be
seen with ticket, and during the hours from twelve to four.
Particulars had twenty-one days prior to the sale at Mr. George
Robins's offices, Covent-garden.
A FIRST-RATE INVESTMENT IN BARER-STREET, NEAR TO
DOUBTTI E RAZORAtIkzAI Int ED. SETW.TcI.IATUYNDURNEDSUA UNUSUALLY
FY I FREEvEI. FuRNOI
If
A YEAR CLEAR FOR SIXTEEN YEARS. A PROSFECTIV
INCREASE OF ONE ,UNDRED POUNDS A-TEAR ORE
FOR TWENTY FOUR YEARS AFTER. TILE TENANT uti-
EN,' E T lON ABLE.
MR. GF,f)RGE ROBINS is directed to SELL
by AUCTION, at the Mart, on T-lIIRSDAY, July 23, at

Twelve,
A FIRST-RATE RESIDENCE AND EXTENSIVE PREMISES,
approximating upon the famed Bazaar. It is
No. 54, BAKER-STREET,
a corner house, recently placed in the most perfect order, not alone
for the convenience and gratification of a first-rate family for occu-
pation, hut it pos.tesses

A SPLENDID 3IAGAZIN OF CONSIDERABLE SPACE,
an erection in uncommonly good taste, and presenting a humble
copy of

SEWELL AND CROSS'S SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT,
although confessedly not quite so large, but for perfect convenience
to carry out an immensely profitable concern, It will yield to very
few in London. It may be well to observe that the tenant, Mr.
Moule, claims the very great advantage of respectability m'aed up
with an equal proportion of responsibility. As a safe tenant the
Bank dividends do not offer greater security; he has (to render his
place perfect)

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ENCOUNTERED AN OUTLAY OF
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS,
which ke has expended with great caution and equal judgment; in-
deed, he seems to have rendered it complete throughout.
THE SPLENDID ABODE

in days of yore was a residence for a nobleman or merchant of high
standing, and the present possessor, partaking of similar feelings,
has restored it to a fit state for the most fastidious to enjoy, observing
Mr. Mottle, who (fortunately for himself) has still a sixteen years'
lease unexpired, is not to be tempted even to give hope that money
would incline him to quit it. He would (it is believed) rather look
forward to the determination of his term, and then to renew, although
he sees but too clearly that his outlay has added, at the end of his
lease, an additional annual value of 1501. a-year. The rent before
he possessed it was near 400/. a year; it is now leased to him for only
2001., independently of the coachhouse and stables in Crawford-street,
Dorset Mews (worth 351. a year). This term extends to sixteen
years, t the estate under consideration has still an unexpired TERM
OF FORTY YEARS, subject only to the orginal ground rent of 251.;
a purchaser will therefore have to be content with

A BANK-NOTE TENANT,
and rental of two hundred guineas for the first sixteen years,
and then with just conti4ence look to an increased Income of at least
one hundred a year.

The residence is really worthy of a nobleman's occupation. Its
appearance within and without justifies the assertion; it
contains five upper chambers, four best bed-rooms. The drawing-
room floor has four elegant rooms. The entrance hall is capital.
'pi:is story is used for the bazaar, and there are lots of useful
appendages, and accommodation for twenty clerks, who superintend
this profitable ready money vocation. On the basement is a large
kiteren, a dining-room for the establishment up stairs, and a sleeping
room. There is also a larder, a pantry, good cellars, &c., &c. To
conclude, Mr. R. flatters himself enough is before the moneyed world
to incline them to compete for this thoroughly well-secured estate.
It is not an everyday affair to possess a present clear income of 200
guineas, with a certain addition of 1001. a year, when the present
leans expires. It can only be seen fourteen days before the auction,
from three to :our o'clock, and with a written order, by the kind
permission of the worthy tenant.
Printed particulars ready fourteen days before the sale at Mr.
George Robin's Oleo, Covent-garden.

FORD ABBEY, IN DORSETdRIRE.
THE GREAT AND PROUD FEATURE OF THE COUNTY, THE
FORD ABBEY ESTATE,
,WITH ITS NEVER-ENDING DE-
LIGHTS, THE INVALUABLE FISHERY, ABUNDANCE OF
GAME, AND SPORT Or EVERY DESCRIPTION, AND,
" THOUGH LAST NOT LEAST IN OUR DEAR LOVE," THE
MAGNIFICENTLY FINE ABBEY, PRESENTING BY FAR
THE 'MOST CLASSICAL AND CELEBRATED MONASTERY
THROUGHOUT ENGLAND. THE PRESENT LOW RENTAL
ARISING FROM THIS FINE PROPERTY, INCLUDING THE
VALUE OF THE ABBEY. AND LANDS IN HAND, AND ON
LEASE FOR LIVES,_ IS. ABOUT 2,090/. A TEAR. IT IS
NEARLY ALL TlTTlFenitt, AND' THE TENANTRY BOTH
WEALTHY AND RESPECTABLE. AN IMPERATIVE SALE.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS feels much gratifica-
tion In having been preferred to OFFER for PUBLIC COM-
PETITION, at the Auction Mart, London, on THURSDAY, the 9th
of July, at Twelve o'clock, and in One Lot, by direction of the trus-
tees for absolute sale, one of

THE IOST MAGNIFICENT FREEHOLD INVESTMENTS
THROUGHOUT ENGLAND.

And in the description that necessarily must follow, Mr. Robins,
without the slightest affectation, proclaims that he ap-
proaches the task with fear and trembling. The only saving clause by
which be can well seek to soften the reproaches of an enlightened and
deeply-read community is alone to be found in the liberty the com-
poser will take with authors so highly gifted, that he must indeed be
a bold man who will not yield assent to his re.earches. Dugdale
is no mean authority, and with this, and a few introductory facts, the
herculean task must be approached.

THE FORD ABBEY DEMESZ7E3
are to he traced back to a very distant day, and it has ever slim
maintained its proud superiority over
EVERY OTHER MONASTERY IN ENGLAND.
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Old, old niouisstery once, and new

Still older mansion, of a rich and rare
Mix'd Gothic, such as artists all allow
Few specimens yet left us can compare.
Its classic front
EXTENDS TO NEAR THREE HUNDRED FEET.
The order of architecture is in the Tudor style, and may be dated
about the time of Henn, VIII. ; but to describe it as it deserves is
felt to be far beyond the reach of the limited capacity of the com-
poser, and even much wiser heads would be puzeled in the attempt
to do it justice—it is indeed
• THE GREAT LEVIATHAN OF THE WEST.
Its fame has been held in the highest veneration from generation to
generation, and it is now avowed to have no successful rival amid
the vast variety of monasteries to be found throughout the country.
The first impression on beholding this
ANCIENT AND CLASSIC PILE
the writer feels can never be obliterated from his memory ; his
mind on the instant seemed to be subdued into a most devout and reli-
gious state—one of absolute wonder—mixed up with bound-
less admiration ; it was a joyous spectacle, but Mr. Robins cannot
too earnestly invoke all those who possess a soul congenial with ob-
jects of antiquity to go to the Abbey, and then judge for themselves ;
they will, with one accord, proclaim how absolutely impossible it is
to convey in suitable terms the panegyric which would be awarded
to it. However, these preliminary remarks must arrive at a conclu-
sion ; the form prescribed to the length of an announcement will not ad-
mit of more, but the writer promises, in his printed particulars, to
go into a little historical statement that will be acceptable, at
least to the learned, and all such as are well versed in our history ;
and he is fortunately enabled, by the assistance of a very highly
talented lady, to aid the historical account of Dugdale by -elections
of her own, and guided by a judgment and cleverness that has never
been held in doubt. To gratify the learned and the curious in distant
parts, Mr. Robins hasdetermined to append to the explanatory par-
ticulars of the several farms and lands a plan of the whole, with a
beautiful drawing of the Abbey.

'The situation of this monastery is familiar to most of s. It is
on the borders of the three fine counties of Dorset, Devon, and
Somerset, 15 miles from Taunton, 3 from Chard, about 50 miles
from Bristol and Bath, and within a delighlui ride of 5% hours
from London, which the approaching railway through Chard will
reduce to about 4 hours, and also bring it within fifty
minutes' ride of Exeter. The county in which the Abbey
is placed will not yield to any other. The reader needs not
be reminded that, in days of yore, the taste of the monks
in the selection of their lands was never questioned, and, amidst all
the good things of this world, they were remarkable for the accuracy
of their judgment.

In selecting the best of everything, even
THE FAT OF THE LAND

was not
ACCOUNTED TOO GOOD FOR THEIR REFINED TASTE.
This princely property is all freehold of inheritance, surrounded by
lawns and pleasure-grounds, with gravelled walks between rows of
umbrageous trees of great size and stateliness, Interspersed with or-
namental waters, cascades, and waterfalls sparkling with foam, and
here and there a states to diversify the scene. The Park, which is
one of great beauty, is stocked with deer, whose venison has ob-
tained the highest celebrity for its fatness and fine flavour, while the
soft undulating foliage of its magnificent and
TIME-HONOURED TREES _ _ .

is perpetually deluding the eye into a belief that it was of almost
boundless extent, and imparting just such an air of tempered wild-
ness as would gratify the lover of scenery, without offence to those
who are inclined to look rather for the evidences of the superintend-
ing hand of care and cultivation. Indeed everything seems to in-
crease the charms of a spot so rich in nature's beauties. Of the orna-
mental waters in front of the Abbey it is recorded—
Before the mansion lay a lucid lake,
Broad as transparent, deep and freshly fed
By a river, which its softened way did take
In currents through the calmer waters spread.
THE AE
so renowned by the disciples ofRIVER IsaakXWalton for its placatory
Pleasures and delicious trout, winds, in serpentine beauty, through
the fair demesne.

Lost for a apace through thickets veering,
But broader When again appearing.
It was here that

The branching stag swept down with all his herd,
To quaff a brook which murmured like a bird.
It may stil be asked,
"WHAT MORE CAN MORTALS NOW DESIRE?"

The sporting qualities extend to everything a gentleman's heat
can contemplate ; by the way,
THE MONKS' CELEBRATED WALK
is in high preservation. And to omit a panegyric upon