Middlesex; . y of July, 1826. God preserve the City of London ! The Lord Mayor then scattered abroad some hundred newly-coined sixpences, and after repeated cheering, returned on boardthe barge. We need not be surprised to hear that at threeoclock the party sat down in the cabin of the StateBarge to a cold collation ; after which some speecheswere made. By half-past eight they landed at Rich-mond, where the carriages were in waiting, and thesunburned Gilpins returned to their respectivehomes. His lordship, it is recorded, reached theMansion House a few minutes before ten on thisSaturday n
Middlesex; . y of July, 1826. God preserve the City of London ! The Lord Mayor then scattered abroad some hundred newly-coined sixpences, and after repeated cheering, returned on boardthe barge. We need not be surprised to hear that at threeoclock the party sat down in the cabin of the StateBarge to a cold collation ; after which some speecheswere made. By half-past eight they landed at Rich-mond, where the carriages were in waiting, and thesunburned Gilpins returned to their respectivehomes. His lordship, it is recorded, reached theMansion House a few minutes before ten on thisSaturday night; but future ages are left to guess atwhat hour he went to bed. The worthy chaplain, longlaid to deeper rest, would surely turn in his gravecould he know how he had taken pains to put in aludicrous light that truly august Corporation, worship-ful up and down the river for a hundred miles, thoughits practical power be now in the farther-reaching handsof the Thames Conservancy. 148 KEW BRIDGE FROM BRENTFORD. IX BEATING THE BOUNDS Like that corporation party, both writer and readermight now go home, having reached the limit of theircompanionship. But one more ramble we may take,if not tired of each other. We have viewed Middlesexfrom its most familiar eminence, and we have radiatedthrough it by Its highroads from London. Thereremains to bind up our short wayfarings by perambulat-ing the bounds of this little county, as some futureLord Mayor may be able to do from his state-balloon. A barge will not serve us all the way here so well asa broomstick. On three sides Middlesex Is enclosedby natural boundaries—the Thames on the south, theLea on the east, and the Colne on the west. It is onthe north side that the frontier becomes an arbitraryone, and, in fact, presents such a jagged outline assometimes to suggest that whoever shore off thisdivision of England must have been staggering fromone tap of strong ale or mead to the next in any more creditable explanation refer
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