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with this motto: " Duce Virtute; comite Indus- " tria; sorte contentus. " The first Duke of Rut- land, half-length, very fine; and the late Lord Sandwich, in a Turkish dress; one of the constant guests at Trentham-Hall, where hilarity and good living gathered together a constant knot, of ban livants, amongst whom the late Dukes of Bedford and Cumberland were frequently seen.

The turnpike to Drayton passing through the park admitted as to a nearer view of the noble woods seen before from the house, as well as several more distant objects caught from this eminence, as we followed its sandy course. But the scene be- came infinitely more extensive and diversified, when we ascended Ashley-Heath, the highest fiat land in England; from v. hose elevated surface we com- manded a great part of Cheshire; Staffordshire; and Shropshire, its proverbial mountain the well- known Wrekin; the distant heights of Flintshire; and Denbighshire; and die wooded eminences of Ilawkcsteue-Park, to which we were going. Leav- ii; iVlarket-Drayton on our left, and wading for eh--] t miles throimb a sand 1, heavy road, we entered this demesne, the re,idenee of Sir Richard Hill, bt. inlu :. d i sssi a Ic, train of ancestors. The road } ctween the house to the left, a good rami;-/ man-
 * . - >urse through the park upwards of a mile,

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