HAMLET, a prince celebrated in the annals of Denmark, and whose name has been rendered familiar in this country, by forming the ſubject of one of the nobleſt tragedies of Shakſpeare. Adjoining to a royal palace, which ſtands about half a mile from that of Cronberg, in Elſineur, is a garden, which, Mr Coxe informs us, is called Hamlet's Garden, and, according to tradition, is the very ſpot where the murder of his father was perpetrated. The houſe is of modern date, and is ſituated at the foot of a ſandy ridge near the ſea. The garden occupies the ſide of the hill, and is laid out in terraces riſing one above another. Elſineur is the ſcene of Shakſpeare's Hamlet; and the original history from which our poet derived the principal incidents of his play is founded upon facts, but ſo deeply buried in remote antiquity, that it is difficult to diſcriminate truth from fable. Saxo Grammaticus, who flouriſhed in the twelfth century, is the earliest hiſtorian of Denmark who relates the adventures of Hamlet. His account is extracted, and much altered, by Belleforeſt, a French author, an English translation of whose romance was publiſhed under the title of the History of Hamlet; and from this translation Shakſpeare formed the groundwork of his play, though with many alterations and additions.