Star.
London, England, 1826-01-11 00:00:00

IMPROMP fU,
ON VISITING A GARDEN AT YOUGHALL, IN THE COUNTY
Or CORK, REMARKABLE PAR HEIGHT, TASTE, ♦ND
GRANDEUR. ANNO 1816.

The orchards which round cloud-capt Atlas blooOlk
And o'er Hesperia spread their rare perfume,
Cease to admire; the richest fruits display
Their golden treasures to the gad of day:
On Ireland's coast a garden high appears,
Which far trap' ends allthosc of former years;
Oh, Erin, witness in thy Emerald Isle,
And look with Admiration's dearest smile, •
This Corfu's pendant gardens once so floe,
By ancient story prais 'l, succumb to thine

ANCIENT NOTICES OF SPOTS INTENDED
AS THE SCENES OF MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
RUNGERFORD MARKET, NORTHUMBERLAND
HOUSE, Bm.
A hospital, called St. Mary Rouncival, anciently
stood on Gris spot ; and, with its gardens and grounds,
occupied all the space between York House, or Villiers
street, east, and Scotland yard, south-west. William
Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, one of the Knights Tern-
, plars,'buried in the Temple-chUrch, owned it in the
. reign of Edward 111. and gave it to the Prior of Rosi-
daTalle, in Navarre; who thereon founded this as a
cell to the mother.h Arse. It was suppressed among
the Alien Priories by Henry V. and restored for a fra-
ternity by EdWard IV. In the year books of the reign
of Henry VIL mention is made of the master, wardens,
brethren, and sisters of St. Mary Rouncival. The fol
lowing occurs, among other items respecting it, in the
Churchwardens' accounts of St. Margaret, before
quoted :
1517. Rec' the 6th day of Sept. of Elyzabeth Sneth,
Robert Sydling, and John Knight, of the gift of the
Fraternity of our Lady at Rouncyvale, zjs."
One John Henburye appears to have been the master
at or near the time of the Dissolution, bring mentioned
in a Chafter of feoffment 25 Henry VIII. which con-
veys, among other premises, " All other messuages,
cottages, tenements, gardens, lands, and wastes, late in
the tenure of John Henburye, situate, lying, and b
on the east side of ' the King's highway, leading from a
certain croft or piece of land, commonly called Scot-
land, unto the Chapel of the blessed Mary de Roun-
cevall, nigh the cross called Charyngeerosse." This
.John Henburye is afterwards described as master of the
'said hospital.
' The ",Tabernacle," or canopied shrine in which the
patroness, St. Mary, stood, was, after the Dissolution,
iemoved and set up in St. Margaret's Church, the ex-
penses of which transfer are thus noticed in the Church•
ardens' accounts alluded to :
" 154.1. Paid to Roger Weston for taking down of
out. Ladies Tabernacle at Rowley vall, and for setting
up thereof in the Trinity aisle of St. Margaret's, West.
Minster, xiijs. iiijd." And again, •• Paid for repairing•
the Chapel wall at Rauncyvall, where the Tabernacle
stool, as by bill appeareth) iijs. iijd."
Eduard VI. bestowed the site of this Chapel on Sir
Thomas Cawarden. from whom it came to the ancestors
of the Northumberland family, who built the present
mansion there. They had not originally, however,
more than the spc.t on which the house and gardens
stand; for the Duke only received a lease from the
Crown of the intervening ground between them and
the Thames, in the reign or George 11. " Aftetwards,'
says Pennant, " an sibsaltre exchange of it was made
with the Duke for certain lands in Northumberland to
er•ct batter ie. on against fizeign invasion, at a period
when the project of universal lortifization prevailed."
The site of Hung. rford House aid GA:den (part of
the grounds of St. Mary Rouncival) passed into the fa-
mily of the Hung, rforda, of Fatleigh, Wilts; a de-
scendant of which, Sir Edward Hungerford, one of the
13 aainets made at the corona:ion of Charles 11. built a
h ;ndsrme mansion there, but preferting profit to a plea-
sant residence, be obtained afterwards, from Charles 11.
an Act of Parliament to convert tie spot into a market
and other buildings, as we now see it. This market,
which it is now 'proposed to convert into a fish-market,
was originally opened for the sale of fruit and herbs,
and would at first, as Styrpe says (1720) in all proba-
bility have taken well. as lying so convenient for the
gardeners to land their goods at the stairs, without the
charge and trouble of porters to carry them further by
land, as cow, to Covent-garden market. But being
baulked at first, it turns to little account, as that of
Covent-garden hath got the *start, which is much re-
torted unto, aucl well served with all fruit and he bs
• good its their kinds." The old crazy market-house
is stated to have had a French church over it.
SCOTLAND. YARD
Ora Scotland," as we have seen it. was called, was
the site of a house for the King of Scotland, when he
was attending the English Par liammt : of which,
atter the conquest of that kingdom by EdWard I. he
was considered a Member, as well as the Princes of
W.,}es; and both of whom,in a print inPerkerton's Icono-.
graphia Scotia (taken from an ancient limning at the
Herald's College) ate represented sitting in the, Peril:a,.
Lament of that sovereign, viz. Alexander .King of
Scots on his right, and Llewellyi, Prince of Wales on
his left. • ft is said by 'Styrpe, nit the authoriry of a
Tract printed in 1518, to have been first given by King
Edgar to Kenneth or Kynald, about the year 959, whom
Ile held tributary, and who repaired here yearly to do
Lim honiage; but there does not seem to be any corro-
bbrition cf this fact.

The rage for mining seems at length to have reached
Spain. In the Gazette of the 24:11 there is a long and
elaborate account of the experiments already performed
in several mines situated in Andalusia; particularly at
Guadalcanal, worked by a Madrid Company, and in
tbe mines of Constantine and Casalla, worked on ac-
count of Englishmen. The mines of Cantellana have also
beentrought into notice, and, from the manner in which
both letters and public prints speak of these operations,
it would stem that the Spaniards are proud of still
posse sing, .within themselves, the means of supplying
their losses in America. Miners, in ail countries, are
S 4 • guine, like men who risk their money in a lottery ;
but, in the great concerns now, carrying on in search of
subterranean riches, it is curious to see that neither
South- Americans nor Spaniards run the risk of the
stakes; Englishmen only have the courage to perform
this part of the bargain.
A recent private letter, alldding to mining in Spain,
says, it "is nothing but a. mere puff—a bait to try to in-
veigle the credulous. There is, in Madrid, a nominal
sor.disang Mine Company—names are not wanting; but
as to funds or capital, it is not necessary to be a very
great conjuror in order to see dun coup &cell, that they
are as aerial as the bait held ot,t."