THIS WORK Acady honouree with His Approbation, Is most Humbly Dedicated by Permission, TO HIS MAJESTY, By his Grateful Obidient Servant R.ACKERMANN. PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S COTTAGE, OLD WINDSOR. In the immediate vicinity of Old || surrounded by some noble trees, fine Windsor church is situated this elegant cottage, the Garden - Front of which is represented in the annexed engraving. Its unpresuming and picturesque appearance, combined with the beauty of its situation, would alone have rendered it worth notice; but when to this is added, its being so long the occasional residence of the Princess Elizabeth (now Duchess of Hesse-Homburg), it becomes peculiarly interesting. It was here she delighted in diffusing around that exquisite taste for the arts in which she so much excelled. The ground belonging to this cottage is very limited; but the useful is nevertheless so admirably blended with the agreeable, that it is deficient in nothing that a summer residence of this nature requires. It is Vol. III. No. XIII. in form and richly luxuriant in foliage, imparting a sequestered feeling to this pretty spot, that well accords || with its immediate neighbourhood; and now that the fair owner, who che rished its beauties and gave a soul to the rural scene, has removed to other climes, this retired spot appears the emblem only of happier days. The reality is gone, perchance never to return. A pensive stillness now reposes over the scene, broken only by the native notes of the feathered songsters, that here undisturbed prolong their stay, or the footsteps of the occasional visitor. In spite of the wild luxuriance that now pervades the garden, which forms what may be termed a lawn and pleasureground, and notwithstanding the evident want of care, strong indica B |