every fence must be removed except those which are most offensive, such as separate woods and lawns. Iu the principal View to the South, this modern taste may be in an object of great importance, yet I have frequently seen large honses placed where no water can be had, but by aqueducts or distant land carriage; and as it is not only for the constant use of the family, that wa-dulged to the greatest excess by "Lawnter is essential, but as a security in case of fire, some great Reservoir or Tank ought always to be provided near the House. 2dly, Sufficient space, to contain all the numerous appendages of comfort and convenience, as Offices and Office Courts, Stables, and Yards for Wood, Coals, Linen, &c. &c. &c. ing a hundred good acres of wheat," but I' should not advise the extending the verdant surface too far, as I consider the mixture of Corn-lands with Woods at a distance more chearful than grass, because at certain seasons, at seed time and at harvest, it may be enlivened by men as well as beasts. I hope I may be here al lowed to indulge my favourite propensity for humanizing as well as animating beau Sdly, Relative Objects, or such as though pot immediately belonging, must be considered as relating to the place, and there-tiful Scenery. fore must be properly connected with it, viz. the Post Towns, the Church and Village, and the Sea; to all which there must be roads, and these may be made highly ornamental, useful, and convenient, or the contrary. 4thly, View from the House. Although with mauy, the Views from a House form the first consideration, yet I am not so infatuated with Landscape as to prefer it to any of the objects already enumerated. Perhaps a natural habit of cheerfulness operates too powerfully on my mind; but I have ever considered the View of trees and laws only, as creating a certain degree of gloom; which I am convinced is oftener felt than acknowledged by the posBessors of places admired for their solitary grandeur. We are apt to lament the desertion of such family mansions for the residence of London in Winter, and watering places in summer; but we should consider the difference betwixt the country gentleman's Seat, when only separated from his neighbours and dependants by Court Yards or Garden Walls, and the modern fashion of placing the House in the middle of the Park, at a distance from all mankind, THE VILLAGE. Notwithstanding the modern fashion of placing a House in the Centre of a Park, at a distance from the haunts of men, or even the habitationof its own dependants and labourers, yet there are numerous objects belonging to a Village with which the Mansion must be connected, such as the Church, the Ina, the Shop, the Carpenter, Blacksmith, and other Tradesmen, to which may here be added the Farming premises, and the Steward's house. The vicinity of a Village is very differently marked in different parks. In some, I see lame and blind beggars moving sorrowfully towards the Hall-house, where I know, and they fear, no relief will be given in others, I see women and children with cheerful faces bearing jugs and milk and provisions at stated periods, and I know, before I enter the house, which are the bappiest families. In some places I hear complaints that the neighbours are all idle thieves and poachers: in others all the inhabitants of the neighbouring Villages would rise at night to serve their liberal Patron; and I have been often led to consider the source of this difference. Formerly the poor labourers on an Estate "Where only grass and foliage we obtain looked for assistance in age or sickness to the hand that paid for their work when To mark the Bat insipid waving plain, they could work; now they are turned "Which wrapt all o'er in everlasting green over to the Parish Officer, and prisons are Make one dull vapid, smooth though tran-erected under the name of Workhouses for quil scene." KNIGHT'S Landscape. To this might be added, that, "Now not one moving object must appear "Except the owner's Bullocks, Sheep, or Deer, those who are past all work. A common Farmer, who works as hard as his labourers, with them, is considered as one of themselves; but wheu a very opulent Gentleman Farmer told me that by rising at four o'clock every day, and watching his men all day, he could get more work done, I thought he paid dearly for it; and whe "As if his Landscape were all made to eat, ther the poor slave is urged on by the lash "And yet he shudders at a Crop of Wheat" of the Negro-driver or the dread of con finement in a Workhouse, he must fre For in the Present taste for Park Scenery that man is not equal, though he may be a Coru-field is not adurissible, because | taught to read that he is so, Instead of forbidding all access to the poor, in some places, I have observed it is customary one day in the mouth, or oftener If necessary, particularly after any storm of wind, to admit into the woods, but under the eye of the keeper, all persons belonging to the Parish, to pick up dead wood for firing; and in these places no wood is stolen, and no trees are lopped and disfigured. With respect to the Game, which is every where, and particularly in Norfolk, the perpetual source of suspicion and temptation, I foresee that at Sherringham it will be one source of conferring happiness: for, there is a great difference betwixt shooting and coursing; one is a selfish, the other a social enjoyment. The' villagers will occasionally partake in the sport like those where the games of cricket or prison-bars are celebrated; thus promoting a mutual endearment betwixt the Landlord, the Tenant, and the Labourer, which is kept up with little expense, securing the reciprocity of assistance of each to the other, by a happy medium betwixt licentious equality and oppressive tyranny. Many other hints well entitled to attention, may be gleaned from Mr. R.'s remarks. The work is got up with "great care ond attention, and at almost unlimited cost. the Third. By Lord Byron. 8vo. 5s. Murray, London. 1816. IF Content be the sun-shine which gilds all around us, and irradiates with the glow of beauty, every object on which it falls, elegant or rustic, rude, or exquisite, then Discontent is the storm, which raging in its fury, deforms the fair face of nature, and equally destroys the stately and the humble. The storm exhausts itself by its own vehemence, and in the mind of the noble author, if we mistake not, there is less -pf violence than heretofore. Perhaps, a simile more aptly expressing its pre*sent state, were one of those dark, 'gloomy, chilling, every way uncomfortable fogs, which are but too well known in the City of London, towards the close of the year. In the soft melan-choly of some minds, there is a charm which interests, while it leaves talent free to admiration in the cheerless broodings of others there is a kind of *repulsion, which it costs more to over deck When mariners would madly meet their doom tory? Fit retribution! Gaul may champ the bit If not, o'er one fallen despot boast no more! There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty, and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Did ye not hear it?—No; 'twas but the wind, meet His Lordship bestows no honours on the Battle, or the Heroes who fell in it. Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine, but he singles out an individuel to whose sire he had done some wrong, and makes the amende honorable-all now in his power-beneath the trees where the hero fell. In the note referring to this passage, there is surely a gross misprint, or a striking proof of that perverse aberration of mind, which is too much in character with the unfortunate Childe. To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet-I more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; My guide from Mont St. Jean over the field seemed intelligent and accurate. The place where Major Howard fell was uot far from two tall and solitary trees (there was a third cut down, or shivered in the Arm! Arm! it is-it is the cannon's opening battle) which stand a few yards from each roar ! "Within a windowed niche of that high hall near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well He rush'd into the field, and foremost fighting other at a pathway's side.-Beneath these he died and was buried. The body has since been removed to England. A small hollow for the present marks where it lay, but will probably soon be effaced; the plough has been upon it, and the grain is. After pointing out the different spots where Picton and other gallant men had perished, the guide said, "here Major Howard lay; I was near him when wounded." I told him my relationship, and he seemed then still more anxious to point out the particular spot and circumstances. The place is one of the most marked in the field from the peculiarity of the two trees above mentioned. I went on horseback twice over the field, comparing it with my recollection of similar scenes. As a plain, Waterloo seems marked out for the scene of some great action, though this may be mere imagination: I have viewed with attention those of Platea, Troy, Mantinea, Leuctra, Charonca. and Marathon; and the field around Mont St. Jear and Hou And there was mounting in hot haste; the goumont appears to want little but a bet steed The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, ter cause, and that undefinable but impressive halo which the lapse of ages throws around a celebrated spot, to vie in interest with any or all of these, except perhaps the last mentioned. • A better cause!" what! were not the liberties of Europe, partly recovered by the hand of heaven in Russia, by persevering valour at Leipsic, and vindicated at great cost in the field around Mont St. Jean and Hougoumont, a "cause" that defies comparison ! Platea and Mantinea, and Leuctra, and Cheronea, and Marathon, saved but a small number of citizens from slavery. the battle of Waterloo saved countless millions for nobody can suppose that if the tyrant had prevailed, he would not again have "he strode the world like a Colossus." It was not to reign in France, that Napoleon fought the battle in which he failed. The character of Buonaparte is well estimated, and the following comparison evidently originates with an observer of nature. Verses to the memory of the late Richard Reynolds of Bristol. By James Montgomery, Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland, &c. 8vo. price 2s. Longman & Co. Loudon, 1816. THE Author apologizes for his verses by calling them "a sincere tribute of his affections as well as of his mind, to the Christian virtues of the deceased." Wedding Odes and funereal tributes are scarcely fair subjects of criticism:-if the first please the Bride and Bridegroom, and the latter, the friends and survivors of the deceased, all is well. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, The joy inspiring banks of the Rhine diffuse a "tranquil sterness," over the brow of the noble Lord, and amidst such laughing scenes, Joy was not always absent from his face, the death of the righteous-the memo- Reynolds expires, a nobler chief than these; And foundling voices on their father call: But sweet repose his slumbering ashes find, away. Here then, he should have fixed his residence; he should have cherished sensations opposite to those which corroded his mind; and who knows to Not in the fiery hurricane of strife, what extent happy consequences might Midst slaughter'd legions, he resign'd his life; have ensued ? He continues, however, But peaceful as the twilight's parting ray, his journey to the Leman Lake; and His spirit vanish'd from its house of clay, fame reports that these shores being And left on kindred souls such power imprest, accessible to his countrymen, as well to They seem'd with him to enter into rest. himself, he has retired to the inaccessi-Hence no vain pomp, his glory to prolong, bilities of the Alps, whence we anticipate another canto of his Pilgrimage. No airy immortality of song ; For after having, with wonderful spirit, brought us acquainted with the rude but trusty Albanian, after having seen human nature in that rough state, he will not fail to notice with poetic eyes the different kind of roughness exhibited by human pature among the Alps. Equally rude, but radeness of another class;-the subject is fair for the uoble Baron's Muse; and her talent at observation can hardly fail of ample employment and reward. No sculptured imagery of bronze or stone, Prompt at his meck and lowly Master's call "The Right Worshipful the MAYOR in the To prove himself the minister of all. - BRISTOL! to thee the eye of Albion turns ; At thought of thee thy country's spirit burns; For in thy walls, as on her dearest ground, Are British minds and British manners found: [pour Chair': "It was unanimously resolved, That in consequence of the severe loss which Society has sustained by the death of the venerable RICHARD REYNOLDS, änd in order to perpetuate, as far as may be, the great and important benefits he has coùferred upon the City of Bristol and its vici And midst the wealth, which Avon's watersity, and to excite others to imitate the ex From every clime, ou thy commercial shore, In Ocean's chariot round the utmost world; At home, abroad, to woe of every kind. 'Now, we are not sure that " ample of the departed Philanthropist, an Association be formed under the desiguation of "That the Members of the Society do consist of Life Subscribers of ten Guineas or upwards, and Annual Subscribers of one Guinea or upwards'; and that the object of this Society be to grant relief to persons in necessituous circumstances, and also occasional assistance to other benevolent Institutions in or near the City, to enable them to continue or increase their usefulness, and that especial regard be had to the Samarttan Society, of which RICHARD REYNOLDS was the Founder.” At the Public Meeting, mentioned in the foregoing advertisement, many eloquent Panegyrics were pronounced on the Character of RICHARD REYNOLDS. The following pleasing circumstance is from the authority of Dr. Stock." A Lady sculp-applied to him on behalf of an Orphan. After he had given liberally, she said, tured imagery" could be better e remployed than in perpetuating a resemblance of Mr. Reynolds: for we remember to have looked on a portrait of Colston with with great respect-a name not mentioned on this occasion-and even Chatterton's Rowley would please us, were bis charities in statu quo, and his resemblance certainly genuine. RICHARD REYNOLDS was one of the Society of Friends, but, as far as human judgment can extend, he was one of those who also are Christians, not in word only but in deed. To his Memory the Inhabitants of Bristol have already instituted, and may their Posterity perpetuate it, the noblest Monument, perhaps, that Mau ever raised in honour of his Fellow Man. This will he sufficiently explained by the following advertisement. When he is old enough, I will teach him to name and thank his Benefactor.'Stop, (said the Good Man,) thou art mistaken-we do not thank the clouds for the rain. Teach him to look higher, and thank HIM who giveth both the clouds and the rain." It is supposed, that he gave in benevolences of various kinds, upwards of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds. and the philanthropist rejoices, let the And now, while the Christian triumphs, patriot take his share of the joy. We are not aware, that in any nation under heaven, there is so noble a monument erected to any man. Princes have left valuable charities, but this is volantary, and we hope will flourish-will establish and perpetuate itself, and will be doing “At a GENERAL MEETING of the Inha- good for ages by emulation of a recollectbitants of BRISTOL, held in the Guildhalled character, not the founder of the inof that City, on Wednesday, the 2d Octo-stitution, but the occasion of its being ber instant, founded. |