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his detestable and cowardly perfidy excited either stir.
prise or animadversion. This is the story alluded to in
"Peveril of the Peak, where the &al is celled a young
Nobleman ; but Aubrey de Vere was botn in the reign
of James the First, and, therefore, could hardly plead
his youth as an excuse for his excesses. lie died in
1702, and saw, with all the mortification of a vain,
weak, and proud man, his illustrious name and long-
descended honours, expire in himself.
The Duchess of St. Aiban's was the mother of eight
sons, and lived to see most of them distinguished in the
service of their country.* She was first Lady of the
Bedchamber, and Lady of the Stole to Queen Caroline,
and died in 1741.

This picture was painted at the time of her marriage,
and the face and figure are those of a blooming girl of
fourteen or fifteen. She is represented as leaning on a
sculptured vase, containing an orange tree, and holding
one of the fruit in her hand. The features are delicate,
with an expression of childish simplicity and sweetness,
and the drapery easy and graceful. On the whole, this
may be pronottnced one of the most beautiful of the
collection.

Tim COUNTINS OF Esszx.—Lady Mary Bentinck,
eldest daughter of William Earl of Portland (the fa-
vourite of William the Third), and wife of Algernon
Cape), second Earl of Essex. -
This Earl of Essex was a valiant and distinguished offi-
cer, and son of that unhappy Lord Essex, who was found
with his throat cut in the Tower, on the occasion of
L-rd Russell's trial. We find the beauty of the Countess
ofsEssex-, celebrated by most of the courtly poets of that
time; and all, without exception, particularise the ex-
treme gentleness and retiring sweetness of her disposi-
tion. The following stanza was composed on her
marriage, in allusion to the military prowess of the
Kingf, and her own gentle charms:

" The bravest hero, and the gentlest dame,
From Belgium's happy clime Britannia drew ;
One pregnant cloud we find does often frame
The awful thunder and the gentle dew."
Addison bas been happier in the elegant compliment
he pays her among the toasts of the Kit-Kat Club:

" To Essex fill the sprightly wine !
Let purest odours scent the air,
And wreaths of roses bind our hair :
In her chaste lips these blushing lie,
And those het gentle sighs supply!"

Lady Essex was not so happy in her painter, as in
her poet ; if the fitter may be supposed to have flattered
a little, the former has done her less than justice. Het
portrait is the least striking of all the " Beauties"—
meagre in the colouring, and cold and stiff in design :
the face has considerable sweetness, but this is all.

These are all theßeauties actually at Hampton Court;
but in the engraved set three ethers are generally in-
cluded ; Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, the
Countess of Clarendon, and the Duchess of Manchester,
all celebrated women in their day. We look in vain,
too, for some beautiful faces) which the works of Addi-
son, Pope, and Steele, have rendered familiar to us by
name ; as, for example, Lady Wham n, the Duchess a
Queensbury,t Lady Newburgh (Lord Lansdown's
Myra), Arabella Fermor (the heroine of the " Rape of
the Lock"), and a host of others; but of these hereafter.

• Lord Sidney Beauclerc, her fifth son, was the father of Topham
Beane!erei the celebrated wit and friend of Dr. Johnson, wbo
makes such a figure in Boswell's Life.

t And not of husband, as Mr. Noble supposes.
4 Klf Queensberry to strip there's no compelling,
'Tts from her handmaid we must take a Helm'.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Middleton. a Merchant, resident in Devonshire street,
whose counting-house was broken open a short time ago. and
robbed of Bank.nntes, summoned the book-keeper of Mr. Water-
house, the respectable proprietor of the Swan with Two Necks, in
Lad-lane, to account for the possession of a Bank of England note
for £2O, which had been amongst those that were stolen from the
complainant's premises.
Air. Middleton's statement was to the following effect : His
warehouse bad been broken open on the night of the 2241 of
September, and robbed of Bank notes. He gave information at
the Bank of the numbers of the notes, and a few days ago he
learned that the £2O in question had been paid in by the house of
Smith, Payne, and Smith. He found upon inquiry tbat the Bank-
ing-house had received the note from Mr. Waterhouse's clerk or
book-keeper, and he immediately went to Mr. Waterhouse upon
the subject. The necessary inquiry was made at the establishment,
and it was akenained that the clerk bad received the £2O note
from some person, but who that person was nobody knew, as the'
house was in the habit of accommodating with change, persons
who had business to transact with it, and this it was in the habit of
doing, on account of the great multiplicity of business, without
entering the name or address of the person so accommodated. The
complainant thought it necessary, under the circumstances, to apply
' to the Lord Mayor, in order that a proper investigation might take
place into the circumstances.
Hemans, Mr. Waterhouse's clerk, was then questioned by
the Lord Mayor, and he made a atatement to this effect : He was
in the habit of taking to the Bankers a considerable sum of money
daily, which the house received from a great variety of persons.—'
On the day the £2O note was paid into the Bankers, be had re-
ceived no less than £520 from differ( nt persons in the employment
of Mr. Waterhouse, and he did not know from what particular
person he had received the note in question.
Another clerk stated that he could not say from whom the £2O
had been received. It was impossible to decide, as they were in the
habit of accommodating Gentlemen, and were not in the habit of
taking names or addresses.
The Loan Maroc —This way of doing business, sell not do at all.
Mr. Lee, Solicitor to air. Waterhouse, represented the difficulty
of transacting business in the manner of which the Lord Mayor
would approve, in such an extensive and bustling concern as that
of Mr. Waterhouse. It was easy to give false names and addresses,
and therefore the House accommodated those who had business to
do, without upon all occasions requiring such particulars.
A great deal of discussion took place upon the subject of the man-
ner in which business was done at Mr. Waterhouse 'establishment,
and the Lord Mayor made the most accurate enquiries into the
particular transaction referred to. Nothing further, however, could
be done in the case. It could sot be stated who had paid the EU
at the Inn; but it was, the Lord Mayor said, palpable that the
note had been paid to one of that firm, by one df the clerks, and
that further trace failed in consequence of the necessary precaution
of having the name and address of the party written upon the note,
not being taken.
Mr. Lee repeated, that the proprietors might have received a
wrong name and address. He declared it was impossible that busi-
ness of such a nature as that of Mr. Waterhouse could be conducted
with greater regularity.
The Loan Maros told the complainant that he could not do any
more in the case. _ _

Mr. Lee complained that a summons had been granted upon such

n occasion.

His Lordship said he considered that he was perfectly right in
consenting to bear the particulars of the case. He considered that
the subject was of some importance.
Mr. Lee—l ask Mr. Middleton whether he was net assisted by
Mr. Waterhouse as muck as it was possible to be assisted in the
investigation?
Mr. Middleton admitted that he was.
The case ended with a hope, upon the part of the Lord Mayor,
that the usual practice adopted by men of business, would not be
any longer neglected.
A Stockbroker of respectability, was summoned before the Loin
Marna, to answer the charge of having obtained sums of money,
to the amount of SM. from a young Gentleman, who holds an
office in the East India House.

Each party had a Solicitor in attendance:
The Secretary to'the Managers of the Stock Exchange stated? in
answer to questions from the complainant's Solicitor, that the de-
fendant was not a Member of the &ock Exchange, and that he had
never been one.