The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-22 00:00:00

Liorace Walpole, with his tov-shop and his two-penny no-
tions, at Ste iwberry Hill. He would lave been a man,
if he had not been a lord. But Twickenham and Pope !
W hat a hnrst of beauty and wit is there !
Whatlad vs. that to whom he eerily bends? -
Who k non s not her; Ah, tho-e are Wortley'. eyes
The sweet tongued Murray manlier side at•cml.;
Now to my heart the glance of !Inward lies;
Now Harvey. fair of fare, 1 mark full well. •
Wiih thee.louttes youngest daughter, sweet Lepell.
I see two lovely sister* band in hand.
The fair•halred Martha, and Teresa brawn:
Madge Bellenden, the tallest of the lauds
And smiling Mary. fair and soft a. down.
Yonder I see the cheerful duchess stand
• For friendship, zeal, and blithesome humours known : •
Whence thatlead shout in such a hearty strain?
Why, all the Hamiltoos are in her traitt.--,:As.
We linty Pope always reading or writing; at intervals
entertaining Bolingbroke, Swift, or Arbuthnot, or all
three; or undergoing his pleasing provocations betwixt
the humours of
The fair-haired Martha, and T brown.
rher up, at Chertsey, died good-hearted and fine headed
Con ley,—Pope says, of a fever which he caught in conse-
(pence of having been drinking too freely, and lying out
all night in the fields, with Dean Sprat. The story is in
Spence's Anecdotes, but was omitted by Johnson, less out of
tenderness, I dare say, to the Tory poet, than to the Tory
Bishop, whom he was anxious to exalt. Pope added, that
" ;he parish still talked of the drunken Dean."
Srentford, as Sir Hugh Evans would have said, " bath
strange reputations." It was celebrated in the wars of the
King and Parliament. The "two kings" of it are renowned
in the Rehearsal. A poet, who lived at Richmond, records it
as "a town of mud ;"+ and a king, who lived at Kew, chose it
'for his prospect from the other side of the river. At Hammer-
smith Richardson had a country box. He used to bring unex-
pected nosegays from his garden there to his printing-office
in the city, in order to tempt his compositors to be early at their
work.
Kensington is eminent for the heaviest part of the gossiping
history of courts ; but there are one or two literary anecdotes
connected with it, which I cannot refer to for want of books.—
There is a poem on the Gardens by Tickell. I believe Kent
first displayed his genius in improving them. There was once
some inconvenience, perhaps, in walking in them at late hours ;
but all the rest of the time it was as it should be. Now, for—
" satyrs and sylvan boys," they have beadles, who take care
that you cultivate nature with propriety. and remind you at
every turn °Me Board of Green Cloth. Who can dine on the
grass with beadles looking at them? Eating their veal-pie
under favour, end merry by authority?

Bow-street, Uhe woold coine awl ore lihn. Jacob eat, a better figure here
than when's. ineerted had money among his prvments to poor Dryden for
his VireiL—See the letters at the end of Walter Scott's edition of Dryden.
f Castieeflndolence, the last stanza.
Es 'n so, throne!, Itrentfonl town, a town of mud,
And herd of bristly swine is prick'd along," Ste.
Gay records
Brentford's tedious town.
For dirty streets. an,, obite•lege'd chickens known.
[To he continued.]

MILITARY FORCE OF THR CONTENDING PAR.
TIES IN SPAIN.

Cadiz had, on the 12th of July, a garrison of 12.000
troops ofthe line; two battalions Artillery and 300 Cavalry,
isith about 8000 National Militia, well equipped, clothed
and fed. In the Bay were one ship of the line, two
frqates, two brigs, 20gun-boats ; the defences are stronger
than in 1812, when Cadiz defended itself against 25,000
French, or the Isla in 1820 against Freyne : the entrench-
ment of the Trocadero prevents shells being thrown into
the town ; the magazines are well supplied, and provisions
cheaper than at the end of June, in con,equence of the
itliabitants having, during the first days of the blockade,
provided themselves for two months, and they continually
receive • present snppiv.—The other fortresses in posses-
sion of the Spaniards are:—
Garrison.
Names. Provinces. Of the Line. Volunteers.
San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, 3.300 300
Pampluna, Navarra, 4.000 700
Santulli', Biscay, 2.500 100
Corunne, Galicia, 2,000 1,045)
Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, 1.300 800
lisdarox, Extremadura, 3,000 1,015)
Carthagena, Murcia, 3,000 800
A:leant, Valencia, 2.000 500
Lerida, Catalonia, 2.000 30.)
Tarragona, Do. 2.500 1,00
Ilalaguer, Do. 800 2.1'0
Barcelona, Do. 5,000 8.000
Mostalrich, Da. 400 254)
Fisueras, Do. 3,000 1,000
I4eo de Urge!, Du. 1,000 1,000
Minor places . . . • 1.000 1,000
Cadiz, Andalusia 12.300 8,000

49,500 28,050
Besides which the disposable force c4nsists of in
Ar.dalusia
Estremadura
Ea ?Mancha 5OO 1,500
Two Castillas .. .. • 1.51a) 2,00
Galicia
Catalonia
Arragon
Remaining Provinces

Garrisons 31,000 t, 100
Disposable 49,500 26,050

Total Effective Force 80,500 50,160

The French and Factious, taking the total of the former
who have entered, and not making the usual one-sixth
deduction for casualtii3, consists of 60,000 French and
20,000 Factious, who are employed as follows :
Of the Line. Factious.
Blockade of San Sebastian's 2.500
Do. of Santona
Do. of Pamplona
Do. of COI1101211
Do. Cadiz
Garrison of Madrid O,OOO 3.000
Do. of Seville - 3 OOO 1,090
Do. minor places and detachments .. 6,000 1,000
Army of Arragon 17.000 2.000
Ditto of Catalonia
Garrisons of Tartest', Jana, lifurviedro, i 8,000
and Mequineima