perhaps one of the finest apartments of the kind in England, presenting a combinafin of objects, beautiful and sumptuous. The expences of this apartment amounted #L12000. Its shape is oval, measuring fet long, 43 broad, and 56 high. The has designed and painted by Kent. The state drawing-room is 50 feet by 32, d22 high. It contains a collection of executed pictures, most of which are by the best old masters. The state galry, dressing-room, bed-chamber, and dset, are all formed on a suitable scale of eat, and elegance of embellishment. The pictures in them include portraits of all the celebrated characters in English hisry and literature. The library contains 10,000 volumes, many of which are very me and valuable, with a great collection f published manuscripts. The manor of Stowe appears to have been purchased into the Temple family in 1560, by Peter Temple, Esq. and the original mansion ed by that gentleman. Sir Peter Tempe, distant descendant, inclosed about cres of ground for a park, which he d with deer. Sir Richard, the next rebuilt the manor-house. On his death the estate devolved to his son, who created baron Cobham in 1714, and Sunt Cobham in 1718, with a collabral remainder of both titles to his second ter Hester, wife of Richard Grenville, Ey of Watton, in this county. Lord Cabban died in 1749, and was succeeded by the above lady, who was then created counCobham. The title of marquis of Buckingham was obtained in the year 1784. When in the possession of lord Cobham, Stowe was visited by the most distinguishel poets and literati of the age; and Pope, Chesterfield, Hammond, Lyttleton, Pitt, and West, were among its frequent guests. STOWELL, a hamlet of England, in Gloucestershire, 2 miles W. S. W. of North 1 Leach. STOWEY, a parish of England, in Sopersetshire, 3 miles S. S. W. of Pensford. STOWEY, NETHER, a town and parish of England, in Somersetshire, with a weekly market on Tuesday, and a fair on the 18th September. The church is a handsome building; and near it is a spring, which has the property of encrusting, with the appearance of stone, pieces of wood, &c. thrown into it. It had formerly a castle, of which no vestige now remaius, except the ditch. Population 620. 8 miles W. N. W. of Bridgewater, and 149 W. by S. of Lon don. STOWEY, Oven, another parish in the same county, about a mile distant from the foregoing. Population 461. STOWFORD, a parish of England, in De vonshire, between the rivers Lid and Thrushel, 10 miles S. W. by W. of Oakhampton. STOWGURSEY, a parish of England, in Somersetshire, 7 miles from Bridgewater. Population 1208, STOWTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire, 3 miles from Exeter. STOYESTOWN, a post township of the United States, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Population 170. STOZINGEN, LOWER and UPPER, a small town and village of the west of Germany, in Wirtemberg, 14 miles N. N. E. of Ulm. The former has 1300, the latter only 400 inhabitants. STRA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the Venetian district of Padua. STRABANE, a populous town of Ireland, in the county of Tyrone, pleasantly situ ated on the river Foyle. Before the union it sent two members to the Irish parliament. 40 miles N. W. of Armagh, and 11 S. S. W. of Londonderry. Long. 7. 19. W. Lat. 54. 50. N. STRABANE, a township of the United States, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Population 2395. STRACHAN, formerly called STRATHAEN, a parish of Scotland, in Kincardineshire, lying on the north side of the Grampian ridge. Population 806. STRACHUR AND STRALUCHAN, a united parish of Argyllshire, about 18 miles long, and from 3 to 6 broad, lying on the south side of Loch Fyne. Population 1129. STRADBALLY, & small neat village of Ire land, in Queen's county, where a handsome church, a good market-house, and a charter school are erected. In the 12th century a monastery for conventual Franciscans was founded here by lord O'More. 38 miles S. W. of Dublin. STRADBROOKE, a parish of England, in Suffolk, 5 miles E. by S. of Ely. Population 1277. STRADELLA, a town of the Continental Sardinian states, in the Milanese, pleasantly situated on a rising ground covered with vines and fruit trees, near the small river Aversa. It has some manufactures of woollens and silk, and a population of 3900. 10 miles S. S. E. of Pavia. STRADEN, a large village of the Austrian states, in Styria, circle of Gratz, with a well frequented annual fair. STRADFORD, or SLANEY, a town of Ire land, in the county of Wicklow, pleasantly situated on the Slaney. It has a very thriving cotton manufactory, which em ploys a considerable population. 26 miles S. of Dublin. STRADISHALL, a parish of England, in Suffolk, 5 miles N. N. W. of Clare. Population 404. STRADSET, a parish of England, in Norfolk, 4 miles E. N. E. of Market Down ham. STRAFFORD, a village of England, in Dorsetshire, 3 miles from Dorchester. STRAFFORD, a county of the United States, in the east part of New Hampshire, bounded north by Coos county, east by Maine, south-west by Rockingham county, and west by Grafton county. Population 41,594. Chief towns, Dover, Gilmanton, Rochester, and Durham. STRAFFORD, a township of the United States, in Orange county, Vermont, 35 miles N. of Windsor. Population 1735. Here is an extensive copperas manufactory, STRAFFORD, a township of the United States, in Montgomery county, New York, 15 miles N. W. of Johnstown. Population 853. STRAGGLETHORPE, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire, 12 miles W. N. W. of Sleaford. STRAID, a small village of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, 89 miles N. of Dublin. STRAIGHT, a small river of North America, which falls into the Ohio between the Little Miami and the Scioto. STRAIGHT CREEK, a river of America, which runs into the Ohio, Long. 84. 2. W. Lat. 38. 38. N. STRAITON, a parish of Scotland, in Ayrshire, about 15 miles in length from northwest to south-east, and 5 in breadth. Population 1069. STRAKONITZ, a small town of Bohemia, on the river Wotawa, 60 miles S. by W. of Prague, and 18 N. of Prachatitz. Population 2000. STRALEN, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, in the government of Cleves, 6 iniles S. W. of Gueldres. Population 1000. STRALSUND, one of the recently constituted governments of the Prussian states, including the part of Pomerania which be longed to Sweden until 1813, along with Rugen and other islands on the north coast. It is almost entirely surrounded by water, the Baltic bounding it on the north, and the Peene, the Trebel, and the Reckenitz, three rivers partly navigable, on the other sides. Its area is 1400 square miles; its population about 115,000; and it is much more fertile than the rest of Pomerania. Instead of the lakes and light sandy soils of the governments of Stettin and Coslin, there is here a heavy loam or black mould, producing fine crops of corn, rye, and pulse, as well as flax and tobacco. The pastures ar not favourable for the larger cattle; bu the number of sheep, hogs, and above all of geese, is very considerable. See Pome rania. STRALSUND, a considerable town Pomerania, long subject to Sweden, noy to Prussia. It is situated on the strai which separates the island of Rugen from the mainland; and being surrounded on on part by the sea, in others by lakes an marshes, is accessible only by bridges, an was a fortress of importance till 1807, sinc which it has been in a manner dismantled Its harbour is capacious and safe, admit ting ships of 15 feet of draught: those greater burden unload in the roads. Th population exceeds 11,000, but the aspec of the town is gloomy, the houses bein low, built of brick, and remarkable for bein pointed at the top. The streets are narrow and indifferently paved. Of churches ther are four Protestant and one Catholic. Th other public buildings are the government house, the town-house, the mint, the arse nal, and the governor's residence. Of publi institutions, the chief are the academy c gymnasium, the orphan-house, the poor house, the lunatic hospital, and the publi library. The environs are flat and sandy and the water used by the inhabitants i raised by a hydraulic machine. The manu factures are on a small scale, but very di versified, comprising woollens, linen, to bacco, soap, glass: also breweries and dis tilleries. Stralsund was built about th year 1209, became a member of the Hanse atic league, and has long been a place trade. Of corn, its principal export, ther is sometimes shipped between 30,000 an 40,000 quarters. The imports consist, as i the other towns in the Baltic, chiefly c colonial produce and foreign manufacture Here, as at Stettin, the building of ship and boats form a considerable branch o trade. The town has suffered much at dif ferent times by sieges, but has always re covered, in consequence chiefly of its favour able situation for trade. 90 miles N. N. W of Stettin. Long. 30. 32. E. Lat. 54, 19. N STRAMBERG, a small town of the Aus trian states, in Moravia, 35 miles E. Olmutz, and 5 S. S. W. of Freyberg. Popu lation 1600. STRAMBINO, a town of the Sardinia states, in the Piedmontese province of Ivrea on the Chiusella, with 3400 inhabitants. STRAMSHALL, or STRENSHALL, a town ship of England, in Staffordshire, situate on a rivulet, 1 mile N. N. W. of Uttoxeter STRAMULIPPA, a district of moder Greece, comprising the ancient Becotia. S Grecce. STRAND, NORTH, a strait of the Nor between the island of Benbecula and North Uist. STRAND, SOUTH, a strait of the North , between the island of Benbecula and South Uist. STRANGEA, a secondary ridge of mountain which branches off from the Hamus da on the south, and extends along the Black sea to the Thracian Bosphorus. An frier branch called Mount Tekis, becomes detached from this, and stretches pey in a south-west direction to the point the Chersonesus, partly in a circular fra, round the gulf of Enos. STRANGER'S KEY, a small island among the Bahamas, Long. 78. 40. W. Lat. 26. 4. N. STRANGFORD, an ancient town of Ireland, now decayed, in the county of Down, situatda rapid inlet leading to Lough Strangfard. Here a charter school was establishdin 1748, by the earl of Kildare, and libeally endowed. 6 miles E. of Downpatrick, 40 N.N.E. of Dublin. Long. 5.28. W. Lat. 54.21. N. SLANGFORD, LOUGH, a large bay of Ired in the county of Down, extending from Killard Point in the Irish sea, to New tom about 17 miles from south to north; sme places five miles broad, in others tre, and at its opening into the sea not one. contains a great many small islands, and erous creeks convenient for fishing har bours. It takes its name from the town of Strangford. STEANING, a small town of Lower Austra, in the quarter below the Mannhartsberg, with 1600 inhabitants. STRANORLANE, a neat little village of Ireland, in the county of Donegal, pleasantly situated on the river Fin, 112 miles N. W. of Dublin. STEANRAER, OF STRANRAWER, a royal burgh of Scotland, in Wigtonshire, seated at the head of the bay of Loch Ryan. It is the seat of a presbytery, and the chief town of the district called the Rinns. The principal street is of great length in proportion to the extent of the town. The greater part of the houses are old, and no regular plan has been observed. But whole streets of elegant houses have been lately built; and a handsome town-house and prison, erected about 45 years ago, adds greatly to the appearance of the town. It 1 port of the custom-house. It has some trade to the Baltic, to Ireland, and to England, chiefly in the exportation of grain. The cotton and linen manufactures are carried on to a considerable extent. There is also a considerable tan-work. The harbour of Stranraer is excellent, being sheltered on all sides, and lying at the head of Loch Ryan, which affords excel lent anchorage. The tonnage of vessels belonging to it is 1200 tons. Stranraer is governed by a provost, two bailies, a dean of guild, and 15 councillors, and unites with Wigton, New Galloway, and Whithorn, in electing a member to parliament. Near the town is the old castle of Stranraer, formerly a seat of the earls of Stair; and not far from it is the castle of Culhorn, the beautiful residence of that noble family. The burgh is chiefly the property of that nobleman, or dependent upon him. The great road from Carlisle, &c. to Port Patrick passes through the town. The parish is not large, and extends but to a small distance round the burgh. Population in 1801, 1722; in 1811, 1923. 50 miles S. of Ayr, 683 W. of Dumfries, and 61 E. of Port Patrick. STRANSDORF, a small town of Lower Austria, on the river Bulka, 32 miles N. of Vienna. Population 900. STRANTON, a parish of England, in Durham, 10 miles N. E. by N. of Stocktonupon-Tees. STRASBURG, a large city of France, in Alsace, situated at the influx of the Brusche into the Ille, and only half a mile from the Rhine. Its form approaches to the semicircular; and being built in a plain, it is divided into several parts by canals, over which there is a number of bridges. Its extent is considerable, its population about 50,000. The construction of the houses is after the German manner, Alsace having belonged to France only since the latter half of the 17th century, and the language and customs of the majority of the inhabitants being still German. The material chiefly employed for building is a red sort of stone found in the quarries along the Rhine. The houses are lofty, but often heavy and inelegant. Of the streets, the one called La Grande rue, and a few others, are wide and straight, but the far greater part are narrow. The place d'armes is a square, surrounded with good buildings, and planted with trees. It is frequented as a public walk; but the more extensive promenades are the Contadin, adjacent to the city walls; and at some distance, the Ruptborshant, a fine meadow, divided into a number of alleys bordered with trees. The fortifications are extensive: they are divided into old and new, the former only repaired by Vauban, the latter entirely constructed under the direction of that celebrated engineer. The citadel lies towards the east. It is a regular pentagon, composed of five bastions, and as many half-moons, and with outworks extending almost to the Rhine. Public Buildings. Of these the principal is the cathedral or minster, justly classed among the most distinguished specimens of Gothic architecture that exist. Its tower, of 470 feet in height, and ascended by a stair of above 700 steps, is said to be the loftiest building in the world, with the exception of the highest of the pyramids of Egypt. It is a master-piece of architecture, being built of hewn stone, cut with such nicety as to give it at a distance some resemblance to lace, and combining the most elegant symmetry of parts with the most perfect solidity. It was from first to last upwards of a century and a half in building. The clock of the cathedral is no less a master-piece of mechanism; for, besides the hour of the day, it describes, when in repair, the motions of the heavenly bodies. Of the other churches, the only one worth notice is that of St Thomas, containing the splendid monument erected by Louis XV. to marshal Saxe. The town-hall, a large structure, has its façade ornamented with antique paintings. The episcopal mansion is a good modern building, and the theatre is, for a provincial one, handsome and spacious. Here are two hospitals, one for the military, the other for the lower class of the public generally, both extensive and well regulated. Here is also a foundlinghospital and an orphan-house; an artillery school, a cannon foundry, and an arsenal; to which are to be added, as worth the attention of travellers, a telegraph station, a monument to general Desaix, and the wooden bridge over the Rhine, of the extraordinary length of 3900 feet. Strasburg is more favourably situated for trade than most inland towns; the fertile soil of Alsace furnishing the means of subsistence to manufacturers, and the Rhine connecting it with Switzerland on the one side, and the Netherlands on the other. Its articles for export consist of corn, flax, hemp, wine, spirituous liquors; also of linen, sailcloth, blankets, carpets, hardware, leather, cotton, and lace. Among other products of Alsace is tobacco, and snuff is consequently an object of manufacture and export at Strasburg. In regard to education, it is common to give the seminaries of Strasburg the next rank after those of Paris; and though the difference is necessarily very wide, there is here a greater variety of institutions for education than in many towns of larger population. The medical school of Strasburg dates from 1538. After being long an academy, it was constituted a university in the 17th century, and though curtailed in its classes during the French revolution, was replaced on its former footing in 1803. In that year also was established a Protest ant university, taught by ten professors, and comprising, as in the Scotch universitics, a classical, philosophical, and theolo gical course. The only other Protestar university (or, as they are here termed academies) in France is Montauban. Stras burg contains not only a medical, but a la school; two public libraries of old date and a botanic garden. For boys there i here a high school, on the plan of thos of Rouen, Caen, and other large townThe minor objects of a traveller's attentio are a cabinet of medals and an anatomica class-room. Strasburg is a place of great antiquity having existed prior to the Christian era and having been known to the Roman by the name of Argentoratum. It earl received the doctrines of the reforma tion, and is said to have counted amon its inhabitants a majority of Protestant until the latter part of the 17th cen tury, when it was ceded to France. Til then it had held the rank of a free city o the empire, by which is to be understood: town electing its own magistrates, exemp from subjection to any neighbouring prince and entitled to assert its independence a the Germanic diet. At present the propor tion of Catholics considerably exceed that of Protestants. The town is the se of a bishop, and being the capital of the department of the Lower Rhine, is, o course, the residence of a prefect. Strasburg, or rather its vicinity, has beer more than once the scene of military ope rations in the present age; in 1793, when the French revolutionists were hard pressed by the Austrians; in the early part of the summer 1796, when the former crossed the Rhine for the invasion of Germany; and, finally, in the autumn of that year, when the French being suddenly expelled from Franconia, Kehl, with its bridge leading to Strasburg, had very nearly fallen into the hands of their opponents. In the invasions of 1814 and 1815 Strasburg escaped attack, though the allies in both cases came very near it. 66 miles N. of Bale, 75 E. of Nancy, and 290 E. of Paris. Long. 7. 44. 51. É. Lat. 48. 34. 56. N. STRASBURG, a small town of West Prussia, on the river Dribenz. Population 1800. 35 miles N. E. of Thorn, and 39 E. of Culm. STRASBURG, a small town of the Prussian states, in Brandenburg, on the borders of Mecklenburg, with 2700 inhabitants, part of them French Calvinists, the descendants of refugees. 12 miles N. W. of Prenzlow, and 65 N. of Berlin. STRASBURG, a small town of Austrian Illyria, in Carinthia, on the river Gurk, with a castle, where the bishop of Gurk commonly resides. 16 miles N. of Klagen furt. STRASBURG, a post township of the Unit ed States, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, cast of North Mountain. 145 miles W. of Philadelphia. STRASBURG, a post township and village of the United States, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, 58 miles W. of Philadelphia. Population 2710. It is a pleasant and coniderable town. The village is built chiefly of brick and stone. STRASBURG, a post township of the Unit ed States, in Shenandoah county, Virginia, 1 miles N. N. E. of Woodstock, containing about 40 houses. STASCHETZ, a small town in the west Bohemia, with a park no less than 18 les in circumference, belonging to the prince of Furstenberg. 20 miles W. by of Prague. SILASOLDO, a small town of Austrian laly, in the district of Udina, not far from that town. STRASSWALCHEN, a small town of the Austrian states, in the duchy of Salzburg, a the Muhlbach, with 900 inhabitants. 13 miles N. E. of Salzburg. STRASZ, UPPER and LOWER, two large acturing villages of Switzerland, near Zurich. Srasz, a small town of Lower Austria, with 500 inhabitants. 2 miles N. E. of Maison. don, to Ipswich. It is a great thorough fare, and has also some manufacturing business. The church is a handsome building, About a quarter of a mile south-west of this place, on the bank of the Stour, is a camp, where some antiquarians fix the much disputed Roman station Ad Ansam. Population 573. 58 miles N. E. of London. STRATFORD, a parish of England, in Suf folk, 2 miles S. W. by W. of Saxmundham. STRATFORD, OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, a large and respectable market town of England, in Warwickshire, is chiefly cele brated for being the birthplace of Shakespeare. It is seated on the western bank of the river Avon, over which is a bridge of 14 arches, and 376 yards in length. The town consists of 12 principal streets, and has on the whole a cheerful, though not a busy aspect. The public buildings are, the bridge over the Avon, the church, the chapel of the Holy Cross, and the townhall. The church, a spacious and venerable structure, was forinerly collegiate, but the college buildings are now destroyed. It stands on the margin of the river Avon, and is embosomed in lofty trees. The structure is of a cruciform description, with a square tower at the intersection of the transept, of early and curious architecture, and on which was raised in 1764 an octagonal spire of stone, in place of one of wood. The different parts of the church appear, from the style of architecture, to have been constructed at various periods during the 14th and 15th centuries. The interior is divided into a nave, two aisles, a transept the foregoing. or cross aisles, and a chancel. It contains STRATFORD, OF LONG STRATFORD, a uumerous monuments and inscriptions, village of England, in the county of Essex, some of which are interesting. The most neighbourhood of London, the first remarkable is the monument and bust of that is met with after crossing Bow bridge, Shakespeare, which is attached to the north which it is joined to Stratford le Bow. wall of the chancel, near which lie the rea situated in the parish of Ham, and mains of the poet. The bust is a half and population, particularly on the forest both of the arms rest. Above the entabla the Gravel Pits, one facing the road to Shakespeare. The effigy was originally coWoodford and Epping, and the other that loured to resemble life. The eyes were of ed to Bow, notwithstanding the interven- burn. The dress consisted of a scarlet hither part is almost join a light hazel, and the hair and beard au STRATFIELD, MORTIMER, a parish of Ilford. The The bridge on of canals, loose black doublet, over which was a to be the most ancient stone arch in Eng- the cushion was of a crimson colour, and land, having been built by Maud, wife the upper part green, with gilt tassels, Henry II. 1 mile N. of West Ham, and the instance of a travelling company of Heary L., as its old church was by In 1748, this monument was repaired at 4NW. of London. players, who raised money for that purpose, Lad, in the county of Suffolk, situated In 1793, the bust and figures above it were STRATFORD, a village and parish of Eng- by acting in Stratford the play of Othello. Le river Stour, opposite Manningtree, s the road from Colchester and Lou painted white, at the request of Mr Maone, which, added to other previous coats |