HAMLET, a prince celebrated in the annals of Denmark, whose name has been rendered familiar by forming the subject of one of the noblest tragedies of Shakespeare. Adjoining a royal palace, which stands about half a mile from that of Kronberg, in Elsinore, is a garden, 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 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. Elsinore is the scene of Shakespeare'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 Historye of Hamlet; and from this translation Shakespeare formed the groundwork of his play, though with many alterations and additions.