compliments of a similar kind, which he was in the habit of pouring forth to his acquaintances. And the reader may see that the English is really his own, from the employment of the word power as a dissyllable; a thing rarely done by a native writer, and which certainly would never have been done in the place where it is put.

Hervey, would you know the passion

You have kindled in my breast?

Trifling is the inclination

That by words can be express'd.

In my silence see the lover;

True love is by silence known;

In my eyes you'll best discover

All the power of your own.

There is no end, we confess, of supposing who might or might not have made their

appearance in Kensington Gardens at some

time or another; but we think it will be admitted that this hypothesis respecting Voltaire has every probability on its side. And full as much may be assumed respecting the most of the French painters of that time (though he was a Fleming), Watteau-the glorifier of gardens par excellence, that is to say, of artificial gardens; of well-bred groves and glades, where the trimmer had been with his shears, and ladies and gentlemen assembled to play at shepherd and shepherdess in groups full of silk and embroidery-a Golden Age, after the pattern of the Regent, Duke of Orleans. Watteau, however, had a great deal of merit as an artist; was a companionable man; and painted the ideal of an actual state of things, such as it was-pleasant, on canvass, at all events, and not to be omitted in comprehen

sive galleries. Watteau came to England in order to consult Dr. Mead on the state of his health; and he remained here a twelvemonth; but died on his return, still young. Kensington Gardens most unquestionably saw him,

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COSTUME-" PHILOSOPHY" OF THE HOOP-ITS

PRAISES BY THOMPSON -PRAISE OF PATCHES, BY ALLAN RAMSAY-A SQUADRON OF HOOPS IN THE GREAT

KENSINGTON ROADSTEAD.

GEORGE THE FIRST would seldom be visible in these promenades. George the Second, a man shorter than his short father, but smart, strutting, decided-looking, with higher fea

tures, and an underhanging jaw, was fond of being seen; and in all probability not seldom paraded the gardens, amidst avenues of bows and curtseys. Though by no means the conjuror for which he took himself, he was a less dull, though hardly better informed man than his father; had the same instinctive wisdom of self-security, which led to the putting and maintaining the government in the hands of Sir Robert Walpole; was nevertheless the same petty German autocrat, ruling, as far as he ruled at all, like a martinet and a barrack-master; thought men and women (according to the report of Lady Mary) born for nothing else, but to be "kicked or kissed for his diversion ;" and whenever one of the ladies gave him to understand that she differed with him on that point, he fancied that she only wanted an