Tour in Ireland.-Dublin and Vicinity. The fmall house, where this inftitution commenced, was, upon the removal of the girls to their new building above mentioned, taken for the purpose of relieving deftitute orphan boys, and which, though now only in its fecond and third year, will, we hope, meet with the encouragement it deferves. The Meflrs. La Touche, the Dublin bankers, are treasurers to these charities, who thankfully receive the fmalleft contributions from the humane and benevolent. There are, befides these which I have mentioned, fourteen other hofpitals in the metropolis of Ireland, chiefly fupported by voluntary contributions. As to the churches in Dublin (which has each its parochial fchool), they exhibit no external beauty to arreft the attention of the traveller, nor yet much internal decoration. The only two churches in Dublin, out of near thirty, which have fteeples with fpires, are St. Patrick's cathedral, and St. Werburgh church. St. Patrick's cathedral, from its antiquity, is worth investigation, but it is falling rapidly into decay; and, to mend the matter, the government of Ireland and the chapter are at this hour engaged in a fuit at law, relative to the right of chufing or electing a dean. I fhall now mention the few principal houses of the nobility in that city, which deferve attention; and firft, LeinsterHoufe, the town refidence of the Duke of Leinfter. The principal entrance is from Kildare-street, through a very bold gateway of ruftic architecture, erected in the centre of a wall of the fame ftile, within fide of which is a very large circular area, and in the front ftands the house, which is of ftone, with three-quarter columns, fupporting the frieze and cornice. The hall has a very grand appearance, rifing into a part of the fecond floor and fupported by black marble columns. In this hall are feveral buftos and other pieces of fculpture. The fuite of rooms upon this floor is well contrived, and most of them are decorated with good paintings. When you afcend the principal staircase, you enter from the lefthand into the gallery of paintings, in which are fome of the best works of Van Dyke, Guido and Titian; and, in a light femi-circular colonnade, upon the north de of the room, ftands a ftatue of Adonis, well fculptured in marble, four feet high; this gallery extends the whole depth of the houfe, from Weft to Eaft, and is fuperbly furnished. Before the rere of this houfe, which is of plain stone arMONTHLY MAG. No, XXXI. 431 chitecture, is a lawn, containing about three acres, planted upon each fide with flowering fhrubs, and divided from the newly finished fquare, called MerrionSquare, of which it commands an unin. terrupted view, by a part of Merrionftreet, which never can be built upon, forming, upon the whole, the grandeft town relidence in the city of Dublin. That which ranks next, in point of fituation and real tafte, in this city, is Charlemont House, the town refidence of Earl Charlemont. It is of plain ftone architecture, embellished in front with nothing more than a fimple door cafe, and architrave windows. There is a femicircular fweep at each fide of the house, with niches in the wall and balustrades at top; but its fituation being in the centre of a high ground, on the north fide of Rutland-Square, and commanding an entire view of a beautiful and extenfive pleafure-ground, called the New Gardens, fituate at the rear of the Lying-in Hofpital, and terminated by that building, render this houfe delightful and cheartul in the extreme. The hall is fimple and neat, yet fufficiently large. There are in it four columns of the Corinthian order, but they are of wood, which has an appearance of poverty, and ill-accords with a ftone fronted houfe. There are but three rooms upon the parlour-foor, viz. a breakfatt-parlour, a dining-parlour, and a drawing-room. In the breakfast-parlour there are fome good pictures, particularly, an holy family by Vanlo, two original Hogarths, one, of the harlot's progrefs, in high keeping with a Jew; the other, called the lady's last stake. This last picture was copied after Hogarth's death, by a perfon fent from London to Dublin for that purpose, in order. to complete the engravings of that artift's works. Lord Charlemont is alfo in poffeflion of the original picture of the gates of Calais, by Hogarth. In the drawing room are a few good pictures, particularly a St. Matthew, and a repenting Judas throwing down the pieces of filver, by Rembrant, in his best ftile. principal floor of this houfe has never been finished, although built above thirty years, nor have even the walls or cieling been plaistered. Ample amends is made for this apparent mifery, by the magnificence of the library, which is attached to the rere of this houfe, at a distance of about one hundred and fifty feet from the dwelling-houfe. This library, which. ftands unrivalled by that of any private gentleman in Europe, confifts of four 3 K The rooms, 432 Tour in Ireland.-Charlemont Houfe.. The anti-chamber is a room about thirty feet fquare, well furnished with aluable books. There are in this room four antique buftos, in copper, viz. Julius Cæfar, Junius Brutus, M. Aurelius, and another, fuppofed to be executed about the time those persons flourished. In a large niche, fupported by columns, in this room, and immediately oppofite the great room, is a Parian marble statue large as life, of the Venus De Medicis, clofely and finely copied from the original, by Wilton, at Florence, in the year 1753. This ftatue is elevated upon a moft curiously fculptured pedeftal, three feet high, and can only be equalled by the original. There are in this room allo, two marble buftes by the fame artist, one, of the great William Pitt, late Earl of Chatham, the other, of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield. From this, you enter into the great room, which is fixty feet long and thirty feet wide. At the oppofite end is an amazing large marble chimney-piece, which is more like a monument than a chimney-piece. It is a building of white marble, having nothing to recommend it but a very fine bulto of Homer, which is placed upon the top. At each fide of this room, are pilafters of the Corinthian order, about 20 inches diameter, from the capitals of which, fprings a coved cieling, through which the room is lighted; and between thefe pilaiters are a number of fhelves, all filled with a moft valuable collection of precious books. The cieling has fome ornamented ftucco, and there are fome pannels over the doors, &c. of Cipriani's painting. Beyond this are two smaller rooms, the entrance to which is at each fide of the chimney-piece, the one for antique medals, curiofities, &c. the other called the medal-room, for the purpofe of keeping medals, gems, &c. of which Lord Charlemont has a great and precious collection. All thefe rooms are floored with Irish oak, laid in geometrical figures, and highly polifhed. Returning through the corridor which I have before mentioned, there is upon the right hand a door, over which is a painting in imitation of baffo-relievo, finely executed by the late De Gree, reprefenting Fauftulus, the king's herdfman, difcovering Romulus and Remus fucking the wolf. This door leads into a room, built about the year 1788, in addition to the library I have just defcribed, and extremely beautiful. It is built fomewhat in the ftyle of the large room I have before mentioned, but upon à finaller fcale. The columns and pilafters in this room are of an irregular, or rather, a fancied order, fomething too frippery, and departing a little from the maffy richness of the antient, into the degeneracy of modern tafte. The cieling and the floor in this, are much fuperior to any of the other rooms. The fize is about fifty feet long and twenty feet wide, of an oval form. At one extremity is an handfome chimney-piece,richly carved and well executed, in white marble, upon the top of which is placed an uncommonly fine marble bufto of the late General Wolfe; and upon the front of the pedestal is the following infcription, composed by Lord Charlemont: Sacred to military glory, And to the memory Where fortune had no fhare, Died Conqueror of Canada, On the thirteenth of September, At the oppofite extremity of this room is a monument executed in white marble. correfponding as to the general form with that of the chimney-piece. It is a defign of well fculptured emblematic ornaments, pourtraying the different offices which the late Marquis of Rockingham (to whofe memory it has been erected) held under the crown of Great Britain; as well as other devices emblematic of his private virtues, and of the arts and sciences he was known to have patronized. Upon the top of this monument, likewife, ftands a bufto of the Marquis of Rockingham finely executed in white marble; and in the front of its pedestal is engraved the following infcription: This ftriking refemblance of her departed lord, Perpetual fource of her grief and pride, Was the precious gift Of Mary, Marchionefs of Rockingham, Under Tour in Ireland.-Marquis of Rockingham. Under whofe painful inspection And pious care, Exerted in behalf of his ever-lamenting friend, 433 graved the following infcription; which, from its masterly and bold ftile, as well as the happiness of communicating a mamont's, hitherto unknown to the public, induced me to take a literal manuscript of it. And by the help of whofe faithful memory nufcript compofition of Lord Charle The model was made. Upon a large marble tablet which occupies the front of this monument, is en The most noble Charles Watfon Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham, On whofe character A consciousness of partiality would prevent my expatiating, That the utmost ardour of friendship may be neceffary Which, even thus infpired, muft fall fhort of his merits. Was marked, adorned, and sweetened By all the endearments of friendship, Whofe modeft merit might otherwife have been concealed Which principally, by his means, Is now become the ATTICA of the modern world. Hiftory will beft fpeak his praise! He rescued the dominion, committed to his charge, And the deftructive tendency of unconstitutional principles. His conciliatory endeavours were effectual AND THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, Again called him to the helm of the finking state; By external ftorms and internal mutiny, By the love of his perfon, the reverence for his chara&er, And of justice, Which 434 Marquis of Rockingham.-Tour from New York, &c. Which had long been ftrangers to British councils, He gave peace and fecurity to his native land, LIBERTY TO AMERICA, And, coinciding with the unparalleled efforts of her virtuous fons, His death had well nigh been the ruin of the British empire; Had been loath to furvive her darling fon, In this room is a collection of models in Terra Cotta, copied under Lord Charlemont's immediate infpection, when in Italy, of most of the celebrated antique buftos in that part of Europe, upwards of fifty in number; and it rau be a For the Monthly Magazine. JOURNEY from NEW-YORK to PHILADELPHIA and the BRANDYWINE, in the STATE of PENSYLVANIA. (Continued from page 332.) MR. EDITOR, in EARLY in the evening we arrived Philadelphia, having been 36 hours on the journey; though it is frequently performed, and with facility, in lefs. Glad to evade the noify bustle of the inn, I took lodgings in Second-street; and fallying out in the' cool of the evening, went in queft of my Quaker friend, who had agreed to give me the meeting here; and, good as his word, politely received and introduced me to his acquaintance. Philadelphia, at firft fight, has much the appearance of an English town, but I doubt whether Great Britain can justly boast of one fo perfectly regular and beautiful. To attempt a particular defcription of it would be fuperfluous, after the repeated information on the fubject already before the public, therefore brevity will do. In extent and number of inhabitants, it far exceeds every other town in the United States, for they amount (according to a recent eftimate) to 60,000, fome authors fay 70,000. No apparent decreafe of population was difcoverable, as one would naturally enough have expected, after the very fevere vifitation (the fatal fever of 1793) it had recently experienced; but probably the continual influx of European and Weft-Indian emigration, had fully contributed to replace the lofs occafioned by fo calamitous a mortality. Along the quays on the banks of the Delaware, all was busy throng and com pleafing circumftance to know, that all ladies and gentlemen are with the utmost liberality permitted to view this magnificent fuite of rooms. [To be continued.] mercial bustle, denoting a very extenfive trade, as alfo appeared from the vast quantities of home and foreign produce, either imported, or ready for exportation: the latter chiefly confifted of flour, wheat, India-corn, ftaves, and pot and pearlafhes. The Delaware here affumes the grandeur of a noble river; the width be ing confiderably greater than that of the Thames at Weftminfter-bridge, though double the distance from the fea,-118 miles from the Capes, where it difembogues its mighty waters into the Atlan tic Ocean. The afcent from its fhores on either fide is gradual, which, together with the fine paftures and variety of timber growing on the oppofite banks, give the profpect, as beheld from the upper parts of the town, and from the quays, an exceedingly pleafant look. As for the city itself, notwithstanding the modern elegance of feveral of the streets and buildings, and the wonderful regularity of the whole; it quickly conveys to the mind an idea of dulnefs and infipidity: at least it had that effect on me, which I could only attribute to that very uniformity fo generally admired. The mind of man naturally inclines to the love of variety, and perhaps no circumftance in life tends more to render it defirable; therefore, to the generality of people, the varied and irregular magnificence of the weft end of the British metropolis, or of the city of Bath, will prove incomparably more attractive and pleafing than the elegant uniformity of Philadelphia. In point of temperature and falubrity of climate, conveniency and beauty of ma ritime fituation, or romantic, picturesque fcenery, it mult decidedly give up the palm to its rival New-York: a few revolving years Tour from New York to Philadelphia, &c. years will likewife in all probability give the latter the fame pre-eminence in population and commercial confequence. At prefent the New-Yorkers and Philadelphians feem very jealous of the merits, fancied or real, of their respective citiesmy opinion I have given frankly and impartially. The different quarters and ftreets of Philadelphia are adorned and fhaded with numberlefs gardens and trees, conducing greatly to its beauty and amenity :-their various tints of lively green fenfibly relieve the eye in fo hot a climate, as well as from the tirefome effect occafioned by the fhow of fo many brick buildings. The winter here is fevere, but ferene and healthful; the spring variable; the fummer intenfely and infufferably hot, the true caufe probably, in fo large a city, of the fatal fevers which fo frequently rage during the dog-days, and the early part of autumn. The thermometer in the fhade, in May and September, often rifes confiderably above 80, and in the intervening months beyond 90; a degree of heat very trying to the conftitution of Britons. The Whites had in general the look of health and vigour, notwithstanding the extreme heat, which far exceeded any thing of the kind I recollected to have felt in England. The city. fwarmed with French, Irish, and German emigrants. The fociety of Friends, or Quakers, amount to feveral thousands; but to afcertain their number would be difficult, having been unable to obtain any accurate information on the subject. The ladies of Philadelphia may vie with thofe of New-York in delicacy of feature and complexion, or graceful figure and elegance of apparel: I faw several at both places who might have paffed for beauties, even in England and to judge alfo by the fpecimens I met with from New England, the female face divine, and fine proportion of form, have not degenerated in the Trans-atlantic colonies. The American fair, from their modeft referve and fhynefs, win not fo foon perhaps on the ftranger, as the more fprightly and gay European; but, on a proper introduction and habits of friendly intercourfe, that constraint alters into chearfulnefs and alluring manners, gradually fubfides into frank and playful, though innocent familiarity. They have, indeed, but too wellfounded reason to dread the Europeans; for during the revolutionary-war, many of them fuffered from their haplefs credulity, having been left the difconfolate victims of thofe men whom they had fo generoully felected for lovers and huf"X wonderfull !!!!! 435 bands: it may be owing to this very There are feveral country houfes in the Sauntering one evening with some Englishmen upon the quays on the Delaware, we were not a little furprised at the disembarkation of a very fingular cargono less than that of 500 Irish emigrants feemingly in a wretched plight! their vacant and forlorn looks, fqualid and fickly appearance, and tattered apparel, fufficiently indicated their poverty, long voyage, and crowded ftowage: and what was more than probable-their mean and fcanty fare. It was, however, foothing, to obferve the mutual congratulations of the poor wanderers on their fafe arrival on terra firma--a land as it were stretching out its expanded and friendly arms to receive the diftreffed outcafts that annually quit, by thoufands, the parent countries: (witness the amazing emigration of late years from Great Britain, Ireland, Holland, Germany, and France.) Among the number were fome decent-looking people-farmers and their families-attracted to America by the hopes of purchafing lands at a cheap rate, and evading grinding taxes and tythes; for fo they honeftly informed us." This clafs of laborious hufbandmen from Europe, has of late very confiderably ftrengthened the in terior of the states from Vermont to Georgia: whilft the poorer fort generally indenture themselves as fervants for a terin of years in the country to the farmers, or to the trades-people in the towns! [To be continued} |