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This little building, usually called the Mausoleum of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, has acquired considerable reputation as a work of art; and particularly as it proves the fact, that our workmen are as capable now of executing the elaborate detail of Gothic tracery and ornament as their predecessors were at any former period. It is, however, incomparably more interesting from the circumstances that attended its origin⟨—⟩the object for which it was erected—and, above all, on account of the mournful purpose to which it has been dedicated.

The ornamental plantations of Claremont are luxuriant and admirably diversified by bold undulations of surface. Upon one of the most elevated sites, called the amphitheatre from the fine view which it commands, formerly stood an ancient garden-seat, on which the Princess Charlotte contemplated the surrounding scenery,