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PRICES of STOCKS, from SEPTEMBER 27, to OCTOBER 27 1792, both inclufive.

By ANTHONY CLARKE, Stock-Broker, No. 13, Sweeting's-Alley, Cornhill.

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In the 3 per Cent. confols. the higheft and lowest Price of each Day is given; in every other Article the higheft Price only, the Long and Short Annuities excepted, which are given within a fixteenth of the highest Price. In the different Funds that are shut, the Prices are given with the Dividend till the Days of Opening.

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The UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE for NOVEMBER, 1792. 324

An Account of MARKTON HALL, in the County of Derby: With a beautiful Perspective View of that elegant Seat.

MARKTON HALL, or, more properly, Markeaton Hall, the elegant feat of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, efq. is fituated in a fmall hamlet, belonging to the parish of Mackworth, near the town of Derby. The ancestors of this gentleman have refided on this fpot upward of two hundred years. One of them, John Mundy, efq. was lord-mayor of the city of London in the year 1522: he died in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of king Henry the eighth, poffeffed of Markeaton, Mackworth, Allestry, and a very confiderable extent of land at Chester and Findern, between Derby and Burton upon

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Markeaton Hall is a very large and noble manfion, with bow windows at the four corners. On the principal front, toward Derby (that which is represented in the annexed plate) is a handsome pediment adorned with vafes. The front contains twentytwo windows, exclufive of thofe in the basement; and each of the fides has twelve. In this houfe are many fine pictures, particularly, fome halflength portraits, painted by Mr. Wright of Derby, of friends of Mr. Mundy's, his companions in his late hunt. It is here doing but juice (which will apologize for the digreffion) to the merits of an admirable artift, to obferve how much the county of Derby is indebted to Mr. Wright, for his exquifite productions in every branch of painting. Whether he choose to catch the rude towering tor, overgrown with fhrubs and mofs, or to defcend to humble portrait; to fnatch the flaming horrors of Vefuvius, or paint the glowing iron hifling from the coals; in each he never fails to display a peculiar felicity of execution. What pity then, that, from the long illness of its excellent mafter, his magic pencil thould remain unemployed!The houfe is

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likewife ornamented with feveral good

pictures by Mr. Gilpin.

Several houfes near Markeaton Hall have been lately taken down; a circumftance, which would not have failed to excite the poetical indignation of the Mufe of Auburn, who would certainly have adduced it as a new inftance of the fatal instance of depopulating wealth and all its concomitant evils.

Sweet fmiling village, lovelieft of the lawn,
Thy fports are fled, and all thy charms
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Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,
And defolation faddens all the green.
And half a tillage ftints thy fmiling plain.
One only mafter grafps thy whole domain,

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His feat, where folitary fports are feen, Indignant fpurns the cottage from the

green. GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE.

But the villagers of Markeaton are neither exiled from their country nor from their parish. They are removed to Mackworth only. Indeed, while we are pleased with the beautiful effufions of the poet, we are inclined to fufpect the fanciful theory of the politician. Goldfmith himself, in the dedication of his charming poem to the late fir Joshua Reynolds, has obferved, that he had been affured by feveral of his best and wifeft friends, (and expected to be affured fo by his patron too) that the depopulation he deplores is no where to be feen, and that the disorders he laments are to be found only in the poet's own ima gination.' Nothing, perhaps, can be a greater bleffing to a country than a noble manfion furrounded by extenfive grounds, in which the opulent owner continually displaying the expenfive but beneficial fpirit of improvement. Pope, who feems to have had jufter notions of policy than Goldsmith, has, long ago thas happily and juftly expreffed himself on this fubject:

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contribute fometimes to the fuperior cultivation of the country, and, at others, to render more delightful the beautiful grounds and extenfive plantations of fome, magnificent manfion; the rich owner of which has the fatisfaction, in course, of distributing food and raiment, and even health, among all the peafantry around. Thus, near. Miftley Hall, in Effex, the feat of the late Mr. Rigby, not only an elegant church, but a smiling town arofe, as it were,. his own crea tion: while the improvements of his grounds afforded conftant employ➡ ment to the neighbouring poor.

Where is fuch an old man,' he one day faid to his fteward I have discharged him, fir, because he cannot earn his wages.' But is he will ing to work. Yes, fir.'- Fmploy him then, if it be only to pick up ftones. No man that is willing, fhall ever be discharged from my fervice because he is unable to work.'An incident like this will certainly, at leaft in the opinion of benevolent men, cover a multitude of political fins. It is a trait of exalted thinking which would do honour to the greatest and beft of characters, and which, therefore, (a digreffion as it is) we record with particular fatisfaction.

The environs of Markeaton are extremely pleafant. Through Mr. Mundy's grounds, and near his houfe, runs Markeaton Brook, which reaches the grounds and plantations of lord Scarf dale at Keddlefton, where his lordship has made a number of improvements on it, particularly a very fine bridge of three arches. Near Markeaton, ftands the village of Mackworth, at which place the remains of the gateway of a caftle are to be feen. Lord Scarfdale once thought of removing this gateway to Keddlefton, as an or nament to his grounds, but, it is fup pofed, he has now relinquished this intention: indeed, had he persevered in it, it must have excited univerfal regret, as thefe ruins, removed from their proper place, would no longer have formed an interefting object.

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