Warwick Castle. Feudal Grandeur. The baronial hall. Portraits. Joan of Arragon. Machiavelli. Leamington. Guy's Cliff. His cave. Gaveston's cross. Tombs of Warwick and Leicester. The ruins of Kenilworth. Elizabeth's balcony. The past. Birmingham. Mr. Thomasson's manufactory. Aston Hall. Cromwell. Chester. The town prison. The rogue's fête......70 LETTER X. Hawkestone Park. Uncommonly beautiful scenery. The red castle and New Zealander's hut. More manufactories. Dangerous employment. The room in which Shakspeare was born. His grave. Various parks. The Judith of Cigoli. Blenheim. Vandalism. Pictures. Oxford. Its Gothic aspect. The Sovereigns as Doctors. The Museum. Tradescant and his bird Dodo. The blue dung-beetle in the character of a knight. Elizabeth's riding gaiters, and her lover's locks of hair. The library. Manuscripts. Stowe. Overloading. Louis the Eighteenth's lime trees. Valuables behind a grating. Decoration for Don Juan. Portrait of Shakspeare. Ninon de l'Enclos. Balustrade. Christmas pantomimes......81 LETTER XI. Conversational talents of the French. Death of the Duke of York. Adventure at his house. English mourning. Excerpts from my journal. Lady Morgan's Salvator Rosa. 'What is conscience?' Cosmorama. Skating on the Serpentine. The blacking-manufacturer's 'sporting match.' Visit to C---- Hall. Life there. Lord D----'s recollections of M----. Pictures. The most beautiful woman. The Park......97 LETTER XII. Brighton. Sunset. Oriental baths. 'Gourmandise' and heroism. Count F----. Ride on the sea-shore. Almack's ball. English notions of precedence. The romantic Scot. Sermon and priests. Duties of a clergy. The windmill. Party at Count F----'s. Highland Costume. Private balls. Wanderings of the garden Odysseus. Innocent politics......107 LETTER XIII. Beggar's eloquence. Tea-kettle pantomime and jugglers. Dream Superstition. The fancy ball. Miss F----. Mrs. F----. Remarks on society, 'Nobodies.' Pleasures of a ball. Pictures in the clouds. The French Physician. Amateur Concerts. Chinese feet. Italian Opera. Hyde Park. English horsemanship......117 LETTER XIV. Technicalities of English Society. 'Bonne chere.' Captain Parry and his ship. The Guards' mess. Play. 'Le Moyen age.' Monkeys and Poneys. 'Le Grand Seigneur dentiste.' Lady Hester Stanhope in Syria. Adam still alive. Tippoo Saib's shawl. Homeward flight. Lord Mayor's dinner. Lord H----'s and the Banker's houses. Inaccessibleness of Englishmen. Persian Charge d'affaires. Courtesy of the English princes. Ride in the suburbs......123 LETTER XV.