BEAUMONT LODGE.

THIS very handsome villa is situated on a gentle rise, above the Thames, at Old Windsor, in Berkshire. It derives its name from the second title of the Roxburgh family, it having been the property of the noble duke of that title, about the year 1750. It was afterwards the residence of His Royal Highness the late Duke of Cumberland. The father of the present Lord Mulgrave was some time an inhabitant of it. Warren Hastings, we believe, then succeeded. Its last proprietor was Henry Griffiths, Esq. and its present possessor is Lord Viscount Ashbrooke.

The old structure, except a part of the west wing, was pulled down, and the present mansion built, under the direction of Mr. Emlyn, architect, of Windsor, whose order, invented by him, and called the British Order, happily embellishes the lofty portico of the grand front. This consists of two columns and two pilasters, on square bases, thirty-six feet, eight inches high. They are built with brick, stuccoed. The capitals are of Coade's artificial stone; the shields and bases of Portland stone. The enrichments are peculiar to Mr. Emlyn's designs for the finishing of the order, and consequently give a very light and elegant effect, from the upper gallery, which commands a fine view of the Thames, and the vale through which it flows.

The very handsome improvements of this place consist of upwards of one hundred acres of ground, rising, in an easy ascent, from the banks of the river, to an ornamented upland, comprehending a walk of nearly two miles; part of it is a fine winding terrace, to which is unfolded a prospect of great variety, beauty, and interest, the principal features consisting of the superb structure of Windsor Castle; a fine range of wood, stretching on to the forest; St. Leonard's Hill, the commanding villa of the Earl of Harcourt; and, in the extreme distance, the two principal edifices of the mc

tropolis (the dome of St. Paul's, and the towers of Westminster Abbey) may be discerned.

Near the upper road, at Old Windsor, is Pelling Place, the seat of James Bonnell, Esq. The house and grounds form together a most desirable and elegant residence, in which the acknowledged taste of Mr. Bonnell has had a very pleasing opportunity of displaying itself. The gardens are ornamented with buildings, which display, in their different and appropriate situations, a dairy, a grotto, an aviary, a billiard-room, and an hermitage.