WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.--Both the design and workmanship of this monument are extremely elegant. The figure of Shakspeare, and his attitude, his dress, his shape, his genteel air, and fine composure, all so delicately expressed by the sculptor, cannot be sufficiently admired; and those beautiful lines of his that appear on the scroll are very happily chosen:-- "The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind."--_The Tempest._ The heads on the pedestal, representing Henry V., Richard III., and Queen Elizabeth (three principal characters in his plays), are likewise proper ornaments to grace his tomb. In short, the taste that is here shown does honour to those great names under whose direction, by the public favour, it was so elegantly constructed: namely, the Earl of Burlington, Dr. Mead, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Martin. It was designed by Kent, executed by Scheemakers, and the expanse defrayed by the grateful contributions of the public, 125 years after his death. He died April 24, 1617, in his 53rd year, and was buried in the great church at Stratford. In front of this monument are buried Dr. Johnson, Garrick, Henderson, Sheridan, Campbell, and Cary. "To the memory of Mrs. PRITCHARD, this tablet is here placed by a voluntary subscription of those who admired and esteemed her. She retired from the stage, of which she had long been the ornament, in the month of April, 1768, and died at Bath in the month of August following, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. "Her comic vein had every charm to please, 'Twas nature's dictates breathed with nature's ease: E'en when her powers sustain'd the tragic load, Full, clear, and just, the harmonious accents flow'd; And the big passions of her feeling heart Burst freely forth and shamed the mimic art. Oft on the scene, with colours not her own, She painted Vice, and taught us what to shun; One virtuous track her real life pursu'd, That nobler part was uniformly good; Each duty there to such perfection wrought. That, if the precepts fail'd, the example taught." _W. Whitehead, P.L._ _Hayward, sculptor._ Above is a bust to ROBERT SOUTHEY (Poet Laureate); born August 12, 1774; died March 21, 1843.--_Weekes, sculptor._