the villa called FREEMANTLE. Its late owner, Mr. Jarret, wainscoted one of the apartments with sumptuous Italian marble. This spot will excite interest in many, when they recollect that, in some of his letters to Lady Hesketh, the amiable, pious, and melancholy Cowper, "whose virtues formed the magic of his song," refers to days of his early life, spent at Freemantle, in the enjoyment of that unclouded sunshine of the breast, which is the peculiar privilege of the morning of life.† Immediately below Freemantle, on the right, an iron foundry makes its appearance; and, on the left, the unfortunate canal, which was intended to form a communication between Southampton and Salisbury. The estimate of the sum required to complete it was below the actual expenditure; a small part only was finished; and the remainder has long been abandoned for want of "ways and means." The vengeance imprecated on this sapient project by the late poet laureate, has been amply: realized : "O Millbrook! shall my devious feet no more. +See Hayley's Life of Cowper, 8vo. vol. i. 69; and ii, 318, 407. See also the late Memoir of Cowper, written by himself; in which he particularly refers to the state of his mind while at Freemantle. Chastise the weak presumption, that would chain The view of Southampton from this shore, at high water, is excellent. The late marquis of Lansdown's castle formed, for a time, an agreeable feature of the prospect, which is now lost to it. While this expensive whim was being built, the noble projector has been known to have sometimes suppressed the cheap witticisms of his ready censors with---" Gentlemen, every man has his hobby: this is mine." MILLBROOK is a long village, with an old church, and several handsome houses. It existed as a village at the time of the Conqueror's great national survey, being called Melebroc in Domesday book. Millbrook is a rectory, in the gift of the bishop of Winchester: the resident population of the parish, which includes Redbridge, amounted, in 1801, to 1304 persons; in 1811, to 1798 persons. The church is ancient, sunk into the ground, and consequently damp. Among the monumental inscriptions, one in Latin, dated 1629, and dedicated to the memory of T. Pierce, esq, of North Tidworth, Wilts, testifies the * Pye's Naucratia, part iii. line 349. The following epigram is attributed to the same pen: 66 Southampton's wise sons found their river so large, A the villa called FREEMANTLE. Its late owner, Mr. Jarret, wainscoted one of the apartments with sumptuous Italian marble. This spot will excite interest in many, when they recollect that, in some of his letters to Lady Hesketh, the amiable, pious, and melancholy Cowper, "whose virtues formed the magic of his song," refers to days of his early life, spent at Freemantle, in the enjoyment of that unclouded sunshine of the breast, which is the peculiar privilege of the morning of life.† Immediately below Freemantle, on the right, an iron foundry makes its appearance; and, on the left, the unfortunate canal, which was intended to form a communication between Southampton and Salisbury. The estimate of the sum required to complete it was below the actual expenditure; a small part only was finished; and the remainder has long been abandoned for want of 66 ways and means." The vengeance imprecated on this sapient project by the late poet laureate, has been amply realized : "O Millbrook! shall my devious feet no more + See Hayley's Life of Cowper, 8vo. vol. i. 69; and ii. 318, 407. See also the late Memoir of Cowper, written by himself; in which he particularly refers to the state of his mind while at Freemantle. Chastise the weak presumption, that would chain The view of Southampton from this shore, at high water, is excellent. The late marquis of Lansdown's castle formed, for a time, an agreeable feature of the prospect, which is now lost to it. While this expensive whim was being built, the noble projector has been known to have sometimes suppressed the cheap witticisms of his ready censors with---" Gentlemen, every man has his hobby: this is mine." MILLBROOK is a long village, with an old church, and several handsome houses. It existed as a village at the time of the Conqueror's great national survey, being called Melebroc in Domesday book. : Millbrook is a rectory, in the gift of the bishop of Winchester the resident population of the parish, which includes Redbridge, amounted, in 1801, to 1304 persons; in 1811, to 1798 persons. The church is ancient, sunk into the ground, and consequently damp. Among the monumental inscriptions, one in Latin, dated 1629, and dedicated to the memory of T. Pierce, esq, of North Tidworth, Wilts, testifies the * Pye's Naucratia, part iii. line 349. The following epigram is attributed to the same pen: Southampton's wise sons found their river so large, gratitude of Philip Smytherd, fifteen years his servant, whom he had largely remembered in the disposal of his property. In the tower are three bells. Two epitaphs in the church-yard are remarkable for their absurdity. In one of these, a female, who was fifty at the time of her decease, is represented as being called to heaven, on account of her "angelic voice." The other is literally as follows: "Like a tender Rose Tree, was my spouse to me The populousness of Millbrook parish has rendered an additional burying ground necessary; for which purpose, a spot on the right, about the middle of the village, has been selected. The process of tanning has long been extensively carried on in Millbrook; the neighbouring forest supplying abundance of oak bark, and a rapid stream affording the necessary aid of water. The busy village of REDBRIDGE joins that of Millbrook. It is situated at the point where the tide meets the river Test. Ship building, and the coal, corn, and timber trade, are the sources of its traffic. It is also a considerable thoroughfare from Southampton to the West of England. The Andover canal terminates here; which has proved so unproductive, that though it has been completed five and twenty years, not a single dividend has been shared. Redbridge is a place of great an |