New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-15

men III tow ! went Il once to the chancel,
where the bust Of Shakspere looked down upon
me from the eastern wall This busi Is sup
posed to have been copied from mask taken
afte. oeath ChaltTey unhesnatDgiy deoiaredthls
70 he his cplnlon One OF the eyes seems III
tie more sunken than the other, and there arc
additional indications Of death about the neck
Tie face is large. serene and maJestIc-not 50
thin and young rs IN the Chancos picture, nor
with that fine melancholy IN the eyes, which
suggests to YOU his Hamlet In contemplating
It, ! at once required TO Prospero- Thus might
the sage have looked after he had broken his
wand and renounced his art And Prospero one
Of Shakspere's grandest creations, was at the
same time his last.
While | was looking on that wonderful fore
head, the Snowman rolled up piece OF course
mating spread upon the pavement and, stepping
of to allow 1t to pass, | found these hines under
my feet:
Good friend. for Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust inclosed here
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And cuTst be he that moves my bones.
This was the simple and touching inscription
dictated by himself None have incurred the
poets maedicton by disturbing his rest There
Is nothing but dust under the stone now, but
that dust was once animated by Shaksperes
foul. Thank God that IN this irreverent age
there are still some spots too holy to proiane,
some memories too grand and glorious TO neg
lec, | could have knelt and aklssed the dusty
slab. had been alone The profound sadness
with which the spot oppressed me was one OF
hob ,pOrI
bardens us. Too subtle and precious to be
called UP at Will. they surprise Us at times with
the freshness Of feeling We had thought ex
hausted.
We walked back to Warwick over the same
breezy ridge, and in the evening, with our
friends. sauntered over the fields to Guys CHI.
The family was absent, but A housekeeper.
Haunting IN purple satin, refused to admit US;
so. after watching the sunset build a crimson
and golden oriel, at the end of a long chancel OF
arching elms facing the west, we descended to
the Avon, climbed INTO Guys Cave, explored the
damp cloisters cut in the cliff. by the brlei light
Of lucier matches and closed the evening by
walk TO bennington, which we saw to great adj
vantage BY mingled Gas and moonlight.
NafNlth VIII Always ht til"t'itA a. 80" ~
the recollection Of the kind English hospitality
have received within It's walls ] am indebted
to Frederick Enoch. a young WarwIckshlre poet,
whose volume had read IN America for two OF
the most pleasant and memorable days of all my
travels. inpatient as am to get to the Orient,
| leave here an hour or two hence with some
thing very much like regret
This morning we Were TO see another house,
scarcely less interesting than Warwick Castle
Few Americans, Ipresume have heard OF Charles
Redeem, yet there are not many of the English
nobility to whom his name and person are not
familiar. II any sale of rare and curious turnl-
ture. old helrlooms, Jewelry or objects OF uertu,
takes place any where between the Alps and
John O'Groat's house, Redfern IS sure to be there
Does any Lord want to make rare and costly
present TO his betrothed, any Dowager wish to
surpass some other Dowager IN the attractions
Of her boudoir, il Is to Redeem he or she applies
Redeem, who began life with scarce penny, is
now Mayor of Warwick, and has house cram
med from top to bottom with the rarest, most
unique and superb articles. There Is barely
room to get Up and down stairs and to pass In
and out OF the rooms. Your nerves are IN tin
gle from the time YOU enter tlllyou leave. Stun
bic in the entry and you will knock down an
antique bust, open the door too wide and, you
smash vase of gllded porcelain lean too far
TO the right, and YOU shater some urns OF agate
and amethyst to the left and YOU break the
dresslng-case of Charles | Here is Cromwelps
mother, taken rom life there Holbeln or
Salvador Rosa here, Jewels that belonged to
Marie Aniclnotte. there, the spoils of twenty
palaces The whole collection must be worth
at least $4,000
Our friend declared that after seeing Redfens
house, we ought TO visit its owner, who was then
holding Court in the Town Hall. So we en-
tered the Courtroom, where a case Of some kind
was being tried in the presence of forty or fifty
spectators our friend led the way the Mayor,
on the bench made sign to the attendant Po-
icemen. Make way make way cried the
officials. The people fell back, the case was
SUSPENDED, and we walked up to the bench
amid the most solem silence Mayor Redeem,
however. who has frank, ruddy face. which no
one could help liking, was exceedingly affable
and nut Us quite al our ease with his first words.
We did not suspend justice long the police
men kent the way clear and We made our exit In
state As we are about TO leave Warwick the
SPECTATORS Will have no chance of beng unde-
ceived as 70 our rank B.
THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION.