The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828

THE ADMIRALTY-OFFICE

HUITAIN DE CLEMENT MAROT

TEMPLE AT ABURY

TRANSLATED EPITAPH

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

The Topographer

A VISIT TO STUDLEY PARK AND FOUNTAINS ABBEY, YORKSHIRE

ON CROSSING THE ROMAN MILITARY ROAD, LEADING FROM ISURIUM TO THE NORTH

THE ANECDOTE GALLERY

PALEY

SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

RECOLLECTIONS OF A R*T

THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

A MOTHER'S LOVE

FAGGING AT WINCHESTER SCHOOL

WRITTEN IN A LADY'S ALBUM

THE SUICIDE LOVER

THE CRUSADER'S SONG

A SERENADE

THE GATHERER

FILTHY WATER

NAPOLEON

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

EPITAPH ON A SILLY, DRUNKEN SOT

CONVENIENT ABSENCE

TARRAGON

PEREMPTORY CONCLUSION

GROUNDS OF RECOGNITION

SINGULAR MISTAKE

BROTHERS AND SISTERS

SPANISH REFUGEES

THE ANNUALS

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The Admiralty Office, Whitehall, has few pretensions to architectual beauty. It is, however, to use a common phrase, a commanding pile, and its association with Britain's best bulwarks—her NAVY—renders it an interesting subject for representation.

The Admiralty-office adjoins to the north side of the Horse Guards, and was erected by Ripley, in the reign of George II., on the site of Wallingford House. It recedes from, but communicates with, the street by advancing wings, and is built principally of brick. In the centre of the main building is a lofty portico, of the Ionic order, the taste of which is not entitled to much praise. It consists of four columns, and on the entablature is an anchor in bold relief. Here are the offices, and the spacious abodes of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, together with a handsome hall, &c. On the roof of the building is a Semaphore telegraph, which communicates orders by signal to the principal ports of the empire.

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Nor was Stonehenge ever of such magnitude as Abury, the diameter of the former being 99 feet, whilst the latter was 1,400; the largest stones of the former weigh 30 tons, but the latter weigh 100 tons!

Gwaith Emrys was possibly more for political than religious assemblies. Here was held the meeting of the Britons and Saxons, when the Plot of the Long Knives (Twyll y Cyllyll Hirion) was consummated, and the flower of the British chiefs treacherously destroyed by their pretended friends.

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