Ulster Terrace xi 401 York Terrace Nash xiii 129 Sussex Place Nash xiii 273 Cornwall Terrace D. Burton xiii 305 Clarence Terrace D. Burton xii 17 Hanover Terrace Nash x 313 Hanover Lodge xiii 49 Grove House D. Burton xiii 49 Marquess of Hertford’s Villa D. Burton xiii 81 Macclesfield Bridge Morgan xiii 351 East (now Gloucester) Gate xi 225 St. Katherine’s Poynter xi 273 Master’s Residence Poynter xi 289 Cumberland Terrace Nash xiii 401 Chester Terrace Nash xiii 193 Exterior of the Colosseum D. Burton xiii 65 Interior of the Colosseum D. Burton xiii 97
In this Series we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection, they are extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this castle-building age.
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The King’s stag, &C.
(To the Editor of the Mirror.)
As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the sign of “The Cat and Fiddle;” a few observations may not be thought irrelevant, on the probable origin of the “King’s Stag,” a description of which, under the signature, Ruris, appeared in the mirror, of Saturday, the 30th ult. Its rise may, I conceive, with tolerable certainty, be traced to the stag said to have been taken in the Forest of Senlis, by Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the inscription, “Caesar hoc mihi donavit,” which induced a belief that the animal had lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars. This inscription also exists in the following form:—
“Tempore, quo Caesar Roma, dominatus
in alta
Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;
Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,
Caesaris heu causa, periturae parcere
vitae.”
which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted by Ruris—
“When Julius Caesar reigned king,
About my neck he put this ring,
That whosoever did me take,
Should spare my life for Caesar’s
sake.”
It thus appears that Julius Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to determine its application, or render it more probable, that the reference should be to Julius Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines given by Ruris, have evidently been introduced by way of transferring the subject to our own country.