that scatter death and ruin from their wings. The latter part of the pier, that which juts farthest into the deep, was perfectly dry; but, in passing over the front part, by the beach, I was covered and wet with the descent of that spray which the thundering billows, that almost stunned me as I proceeded, had thrown up, at least ten yards above the floor of the pier. With the explosion of cannon, they burst on all sides upon the rocks, and hurled their showers of silver an unimaginable height, to the winds which had enraged them. Many of them, repelled by the rocks, turned, in pyramidal columns, upon their furious successors, dashing into their bosoms with tremendous roar, smoking clouds of snowy foam flying up in the conflict. Conflagration only, when it is of resistless force, can give to the terrible graces such prodigious animation. Never, in my sight, were the dreadful and the beautiful so blended, for the sun shone full upon the vast and turbid billows, and upon the silvery shower they threw up. Above twenty ships stood out to sea a few miles from us, pinned to the bottom of the tumultuous ocean; upright and still they stood, in motionless dread of being blown from their anchors.

VOL. III.

Tuesday Night.

This morning we went, a large party,-Mr Gisbon's coach, Mrs Sykes' chaise, and Mr R. Sykes' phaeton,-to see the contrast of a sweet sequestered umbrageous glen, where Lady Strictland has erected a farm-house and a dairy-house in the Dutch style. A brook intersects the circular meadow, and flows around the buildings, resembling the dikes of Holland, with Dutch bridges over it. The whole scene is said to be completely Belgic, and, as such, is a curious spectacle to English eyes. You would be charmed with the cool and fragrant cleanliness of the dairy, and with the redbreast asylum. Poetic inscriptions, beautifully simple, deprecate, at the shady entrance, schoolboy depredations for the first, and for the second, invite the golden-bosomed songsters to what is justly called "their peaceful happy home."

I am just returned from the pier, which has shown this capricious and formidable element in an appearance, by me, as yet, unbeheld, however common. Upon its gently curling waves, the moon looks from her blue and cloudless vault in full brightness. Her reflection makes a pool of milky-light upon the sea beneath, on the edge of the horizon; from whence a zig-zag train of brilliants, of the apparent breadth of twenty yards,

glitters across the ocean, to the very foot of the

- You are by this time arrived at Wellsburn, my dear Mrs Granville. I requested from you a line of information, if any favourable symptom appeared in the health of one of the best and most esteemed of men. I said I would interpret your silence as a negative upon hopes so precious to me; but my heart is too much in the subject, my anxiety too painful, to avoid soliciting information how he bore his journey, and how you found him on your arrival.

An ingenious medical gentleman here assures me, that a patient of his, equally a valetudinarian

through life, and in no respect more athletic than your brother, has been a considerable time afflicted with the same complaint; that his pains have been relieved by daily applications of the surgical kind, which are not tormenting; that the disease, though an oppressive one, is not of inevitable tendency to shorten existence; that if the sufferer, like his friend, is too feeble to bear those powerful medicines which might effect a cure, the distemper may yet be assuaged, as to its consequences, by art and care. God grant that dear Mr Dewes may find them effectual to procure a tolerable degree of comfort! such as shall still leave life desirable on balanced considerations;-his intellectual pleasures; the habitual exercise of his benevolence; the proofs he will receive of that affection which his virtues have inspired, and his talents augmented in the breasts of all he loves, opposed to the pressure of some degree of bodily pain and periodical uneasiness. If the disorder can, as I trust it will, be thus softened, he must permit us ardently to wish that we may not prematurely lose the happiness of his society, nor his general contemporaries the benefit of an example, more excellent than they will readily find supplied, when the light of his spirit shall be extinguished in our sphere.

I say nothing to you about the music at Derby.

Somewhat it might sooth, but could not delight hearts oppressed by sympathetic pain. O! that you may bring less apprehensive sensibilities a few weeks hence; and, by the side of our beloved invalid, honour my habitation, and listen to the services and anthems of our little cathedral, where they are performed so well.

I did not quit your Arcadian scenes at * Crystal Calwich till near an hour after they had lost their kind proprietors. In the clearer light of morning, my eye was attracted, and my attention as much engrossed, as in my then frame of mind it could be, by the fine pictures in the drawing room, indistinctly seen the preceding evening. With many a sigh I left the lovely precincts, hoping to revisit them in happier hours.

Do you think I shall be permitted to take a copy of Dr Parr's last admirable letter to Mr Dewes on his present illness? The Doctor's fine imagination, his discriminating powers, and forcible eloquence, could not be better employed than in eulogy, just to its object, and honourable to himself.

Adieu! dear and ever amiable Mrs Granville,

* So called by the author from that clear and expansive lake, on the green margin of which stands Mr Granville's beautiful seat, near Ashbourn, in Derbyshire.-S.