The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381 Saturday, July 18, 1829 Author: Various Release Date: February 27, 2004 [EBook #11332] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO 381 *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith M. Eckrich, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [pg 33] THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV. NO. 381.] SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1829. [PRICE 2d. THE MANSION OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. The town mansions of our nobility are generally beneath all architectural criticism; and it has been pertinently observed that "an educated foreigner is quite astonished when shown the residences of our higher nobility and gentry in the British capital. He has heard speak of some great nobleman, with a revenue equal to that of a principality. He feels a curiosity to look at his palace, and he is shown a plain, common, brick house of forty or fifty feet in extent.