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Was the echo that waked in the land ; But it was not his voice that prompted the cry, Nor his madness that kindled the brand ; He raised not his arm, he defied not his foes, While a leaf of the olive remained ; 'Till goaded with insult, his spirit arose Like a long-baited lion unchained. He struck with firm courage the blow of the brave, But Mghed o'er the carnage that spread ; He indignantly trampled the yoke of the slave, But wept for the thousands that bled. Though he threw back the fetters and headed the strife, Till man's charier was fairly restored, Yet he prayed for the moment "when freedom and strife Would no longer be pressed by the sword. 'Oh ! his laurels were pure, and his patriot name In the page of the future shall dwell, And be seen in the annals, the foremost in fame, By the side of a Ilofer and Tell. Jlevile not my song, for the wise and the good Among Britons have nobly confessed, That his was the glory and ours the blood Of the deep stained field of the West. IForeissii Correspondence. London, June 11, 1843. Hero am I in the gieat metropolis of the niuera ov a carrier orsiagu urivers euijjmj j iiuji.--Vors, will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. Vo n&ncrs discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except world, as still and quiet in my chamber as!""" "1S ow, Pariy. w,, "iay B iurbi ahou.h 1 was in our own quiet boroush. We j er. Liverpool is very much like New York. quiet arrived at about 8 P. M., yesterday, and though iTilv a wfiek has pone bv since I forwarded .v iat h.ttr T ha seen enniich to fill vol-1 fmes in description, yes volumes upon volumes ! ey build with ts most miserable. We would have been written on the places we have pass-j no1 l for ,he poorest outside walls. 1 ed through, nd not the half been told. I can l " one of our Yankees would bring over truly say 1 have never had crowded into one some Philadelphia brick, he would make a wetk the tithe part of so much, and how to i speculation wiili them. The most mteresimg tell it to you 1 know not. I feel as if I hadt P'o 1 saw in Liverpool was St. James Cem been travelling a month instead of 6 days ; you etery. It was formerly a quarry, in the neigh can easily imagine when I say to you we have borhood of what is now the best part of the risiiP.fl Chester. Eaton Hall. Birminpham.Cov- town, from whence was obtained most of the n)w ir;iumnrt Cnv' P.lifT WnrwirL - Caslle, Stratford on Avon, Woodstock, Blen heim", Oxford and Windsor Castle between this and Liverpool, and have seen every one thor oughly. Have we been idle ? Could we have done more? How to detail it is the trouble. First for generals. The season has been remarkably wet. There has been rain every- day for the last six weeks. have never seen so changeable a climate it trill raithvand clear up half a dozen times a dtiv ag'ain it will have the appearance of an immediate coming storm for hours, so that the only Way is to disregard appearances, and pro gress on, always with an umbrella. It is un comnnnly cold for the season, wo have had fire every day. The exquisite beauty and richne.ss of the herbage and foliage strikes the traveller first. The green is more uniform and vivid than with us, caused by the great mois mre of the climate. 1 have seerr nothing in rh cultivation' of the soil, that caused me to Jloh for Nonhanipjion. . Our farmers I think ,o up their fields as well and as scientifically as hy do here ; they cultivate to be sure a liule aore closely -but that is all', and that is ovYtiijf'tfJ the great valuta of land: In the tiat ral pictnresqueness of scenery too we be"at thom'Jii' what I have. seen far awav.but in that of ah tf'8 roust'yMtl-, arid do' it jvhh la good fcf.l 49&! b(?- i0mhourd ever come when ono man with an income of 400,000 per annum shall keep hundreds in poverty around him living out their lives to adorn thousands of acres of valuable land with trees and flowers and shrubs, which the propri etor only sees for perhaps a fortnight a year. The appearance of the buildings of all but the gentry are small and mean in the extreme their onJy redeeming feature is that each has its yard and garden adorned with beautiful shrubs. This gives beauty to the country which I wish our countrymen would imitate, it would not consume any valuable time and be sides humanizing those engaged in it, would add so much to the appearance of their dwell ings. Every thing almost but this seems an cient and old. The people that we have seen on the road and in the towns wo have passed through have mostly had a very common ap pearance. There is nothing like that attention to dress that is with vs. The idea of subordi nation prevails to a grat extent. The waiters at the mns-aro about the best dressed people that we see in travelling, but bow and scrape to every word they ulter and every answer they make; you see the sae in walking about. The buildings in most of tho lowns are very old and mean. Those that we have passed through "put us in mind very much of te an cient pans of many of the towns of Pennsyl vania, as Lancaster, lork and the older parts of Easion. They are generally not more than 2 stories high, you will often not see what we would call u handsome house in a town of 6 or S,000 inhabitants, yet this ancient appearance is interesting, it points to bye gone days, that history has so familiarized us with. 1 mention this peculiarity as only the most common, for of course the palaces and seats of noblemen and gentry are of the most superb and magnit- iceut character. My ideas of English scenery have been fully realized. Add to that rich beauty of herbage, the splendid mansions and castles scattered over the country, the towers and turrets peering up in every direction, the close cultivation, their beautiful hedges of Hawthorn and Holly: the Ivy creeping over their buildings and the ruins around, and you have what few countries can excel. So much now for generals, or a six. days sojourn. I will now go to particulars in detail which will be a mere journal e?i route. We landed at Liverpool about 12 M. of Sat urday and first accompanied our baggage to the Custom House, to have it searched to see that we had not undertaken to smuggle into Her Majesty's dominion, any contraband articles on which a duty should be paid. Wo were kept hanging about this place for some 3 hours be fore it was completed and though when it came our turn it was a mere sham, not taking half a minute with my trunk; it was annoying to be kept so long. All that was captured among our crew was some bundles of cigars, belong ing to some of our young smokers, which were pounced upon quite greedily. We took up our lodgings at the Waterloo Hotel, a good house. The mode of living at the English hotels is new, but l.tninKwe can easily laii inio it every one lives by himself and orders 6uch ses as lie HKes, unless lie is in company It is indeed called the American city, having been raised and kept up by the American trade, which it has engrossed. Tho brick which 1 building stone. After excavating a hundred feet or thereabouts, for perhaps 5 or 600 yards or more in length, and half as many in breadth, in different ways, they filled up the bottom to a considerable depth with soil and placed the graves there, making vaults in the rock and, planting it with trees, flowers, and shrubs in the most picturesque manner. Here we first saw the Laburnum, the Holly, the Yew, and the Cypress the, effect was very fine. The tomb of Huskissen, erected by the citizens of Liverpool, whose representative I think he was, is the finest. He was killed near there on the rail road. The statue of him which is over it, cost .3,000. The docks of Liverpool are deservedly its pride. The tides rise in the Mersey from 20 to 30 feet and are so rapid that vessels cannot lie along sjiore to receive their cargoes. To obviate this difficulty the merchants constructed immense basins in front of their ware-houses, all along the river, of splendid hewn stone, the vessels go in at high tide through openings, the gates of which are then closed, and they are tOiut in. The ap pearance presented in coming dp the river is very singular nothing of the hulls are to he seen, only these high walls and iho" tops and rigging of the vessels above. We left Liverpool at 10 A. M.on Monday, crosse'd in. a steamer to Birkenhead and from whence by rail Way! to' Chester,: oneWthe oldest t towns in England. Some date its origin about 100 years after the Christian era; It was no doubt commenced by the Romans, whoso XX legion quartered here. It is now richer in Roman ruins than any place on the Island. The great outline of the wall is distinctly visi ble. Wo walked round the old wall still kept Up, wide enough fdr two to walk abreast and paved with smooth stones. The remains of battlements and towers are numerous. We visited the Cathedral, perhaps tho oldest in England, its date being as tlknovvn as that of the town. It is a large Gothic pile of the most ancient character, the windows are stain ed in the most singular manner ; the tombs are the oldest known, no one wo. were shewn sculptured the three kings of Mercia. It was originally the celebrated Abbey of St. War burg. You know for every thing you see here you must pay, but we were amused at an extra ruse to levy black bail of strangers. As we entered the door 1 enquired of some lads for the porier ; they made no reply, and not find ing him wo walked in through the half-opened door into a damp looking room without uncov ering, when the boys sprung towards us and told us there was a forfeit of a shilling for any one having their hats on, and that they were appointed to collect it ; so we paid it down and sent them for the janitor to whom we also paid a fee. .rtfter leaving the Cathedral wc dove down into a dirty dark cellar to see what had been a Roman Bath. We could see the pil lars ami where tho spring was, now filled up with rubbish. They told us it communicated with the Abbey several hundred yards off. Having ordered dinner at 4 P. M. we took a fly and startod lo visit Eaton Hall, the seat of the Marquis of Westminster, about 4 miles. After crossing the Dee by a new. and very fine bridge, having the longest span of arch in the kingdom, we soon entered the grounds and rode through it about 2 miles along a splendid avenue lined on both sides with groves of trees all planted, but so that they are now only known by tho regular interchange of variety until we came to the Park. Here we saw flocks of Deer sporting around as tame as our sheep. We soon reached the building. It was the first structure of the kind we had seen and wo were all struck with its magnificence. It is in style what is called, 1 believe, the florid Gothic, built of Shropshite stone. The centre is three stories high, the wings two. The whole length of the building is about 700 foot. It is said that it cost about two millions of dol lars to build it, and the same to furnish it. To describe the interior from recollection now after all that I have seen since, would be im possible. I then thought it more magnificent than I shtiuld see again in England, but cannot say so after seeing Windsor, yet everything was most superb. The floors were all oak ; the ceilings most exquisitely painted or sculp tured; the rooms hung with the most splendid paintings anil filled with the most expensive furniture. Figures in mail guarded the en trance and coals of mail and armor ornament ed the walls. The views from tho windows were beautiful. After being politely shown through we were given over to the gardener with whom we spent an hour in the garden and it was an hour well spent. Heart s case as large as a dollar, some I think larger every flower that could be thought of, peaches in the green houses -just ripe, pineries, &c. What cannot money do ! The Marquis's income is about .300,000 per annum. Upon our return to Chester we dined and took the cars at 6 P. M. for Birmingham which we reached about 9 1-2 P. M. At this season it is hot dark until '9 P. M. In the morning we took a long walk over the town, and after breakfast went to the splendid show room of Mr. C0IH3, where we saw almost every thing in the shape of ware, and such like articles. It is a most splendid exhibition. Wo visited several manufactories and were kindly shewn through the different apartments. They have carried mechanism to a very great perfection. After this survey we again got into the cars and proceeded to Coventry, about 18 miles and stopped at tho King's Head, which ia in the same house where Peeping Tom,' as tho leg end has if,- who could not resist his curiosity to see the Lady Godiva, in her ride through the town in Eve's costume, took his stand. His im age dressed in a cocked hat is yet kept peep ing out of ihc window, and Lady Godiva's exploit is very frequently commemorated, out of gratitude for rhe favors she obtained for the citizens. We first visited St. Michael's Church erected about 000 A. D. It is an old and ven erable pile and has the tallest and finest spire in England.' h is 300 feet high and the Chapel is just the same length. From ihero we went to the Town Hall, another most ancient build ing. The triwn though large has nothing else in it" uncommon. Both J. and' l' were struck with the similarity in shape between this, ad mitt'ed one of the finest spires, and that of otir German Reformed Church at Easion. At Coventry we took a fly with two horses for Kennilworth. id see the celebrated riiins of KenniJ udrlli' Castle, which wo reached in' Ids's tliaiV aii Hodr and1 wlterV wo '.speiir morn than that lingering around there, enjoying the luxu rv nf retrosoect. neoolin? them with those of j j Jt j 0 bye gone ages. They are truly most magnifi cent even in their decay and before their de struction must have been grand in the extreme. It was built about 1100 and came into posses sion of the Royal family about 100 years after, and was the scene of many a plot, and fight and turmoil. In 1242 it was given by Henry the 3d to Simon Mohtford, Earl of Leister, his brother-in-law, who afterwards turned against him and dethroned him for a while, but was himself subsequently slain and the casile re turned to tho Royal family, by whom it was several times granted away and resumed, until granted in 1563 by Queen Elizabeth to Rdbert Dudley, whom she made Earl of Leicester. It was under him that Kennilworth reached the summit of its grandeur, and here he magnifi cently entertained the Queen for 17 days in the most sumptuous manner. The cost and expense of the entertainment may be guessed at by the quantity of beer drank, which amout ed to about 320 hogsheads. The great Wiz ard of the North ' has however, drawn tho pic lure in the most masterly manner, to which 1 will refer you. Massive fragments of walls, arches and columns covered with luxuriant ivy intermingled with hawthorn aiid ash, are all that now remain of this once splendid edifice.. Cromwell divided it among several of his offi cers who soon plundered and destroyed the Manor of Kennilworth. In the language of one of the old chronicles, "they pull down and demolish the Caslle, cut down the King's wood, destroy his parks and divide the lands into farms among themselves. Hawkcsworth seats himself in the gate house of the Caslle and drains the famous pool consisting of sever al hundreds of acres of land, and Hopo and Palmer enclose a fourth part of the commons called the King's woods from the. inhabitants and take it as their own free esiale.", We climbed to Caesar's Tower which yet remains, perhaps, most perfect. Stwod in the great Banqueting Hall visited as well as we could the Queen's Dressing Room, the Presence Chamber and the Privy Chamber, of all of which only fragments of wall richly clothed with ivy remain. From Kenilworth wo went to Guis Cliff, so celebrated as the place where the great Earl Guy, after performing the moat astonishing feats of valor and renow, retired to a cell or cave and spent the remainder of his life, a hermit. We drank from his well, went in his rave and made a general tour of his haunts along the now rap id Avon. The Cliff is now the residence of the Honorable Charles Bertie Percy, who has adorned and ornamented it most beautifully. His house is built upon the edge of the cliff, a fine avenue of trees reach from it to the road; the lawns are covered with the richest green sward, cascades of water leap among the rocks and flowers adorns" the terraces. We were shewn through the house by the housekeeper. The owner has. a very fine collection of paint ings by some of the first masters, and his house is very handsomely furnished. We also went down into the damp cloisters cut into the rock, where the Monks used to live as is said, 400 years before Sir Guy came. They were damp and cheerless enough. From here we wont to Warwick where we arrived in the evening. In the morning we went to Warwick castle, the seat of the great Earls of lhat name, and the only perfect speci msnt of the old Baronial Casiles left. It is one of the oldest and most rehowed families in Eng land, for Warwick is said to have had its Earls since the reign of the great Arthur, numbering the great Sir Guy, the destroyer of the Dun Cow, and that last of the Barons, 'The King Maker.' Tho exterior view of this noble pile is truly majestic, nor is the interior inferior. Passing through the Porter's Lodge we enter ed a winding road cut in the solid rock, covered above with the limbs and foliage of beautiful trees and its sides lined with the moss and ivy; which in about 100 yards brought us to the outet court where the stupendous lino of forti fications with 'the cloud capt lowers' broke suddenly on our sight. On our right was Guy's Tower, built in 1400, on the left Cesar's Tow er, said to be coeval with the Norman Con quest, the first rises to the height of 128 feet with 12 sides, walls 10 feel thick, base 30 feet in diameter, the laiter rises to tho height of 147 feel from its base and both are connected by a strong embattled wall, in tho centre of which is live ponderous arcnettgato way Hanked by towers and succeeded by a second arched gateway with towers and battlements; before the whole is a now empty moat. Passing the inner gateway ve came into the court and here beheld the pastellatcd mansion of the 'Mighty Warwicks4 fit residence for those warrior chiefs remaining uninjured by time or the elements. We entered the Great Hall by a flight of s'teps under a gothic porch. It is G2 feet long 40 broad. To describe the contents of jhis, great castle woilld rsquire a book instead' of a sheet let us suffice lo say that it i's filled with the finest of paintintis, fur niture, tapestry and curiosities. Ancient ar mor of the moai curious description hang ou the walls; iho ceilings are Carvedioornaniented in the most beautiful manner; the views from tlio windows are very fine, especially thiu from Lady Warwick's Boudoirj and was more pleas ing to me ihau the 'State Bed' of Queen Aiiimv which George the 3d gave to the Warwick family, and occupies what is called the 'Statu Bed Room.' From the Caslle wu WHni.lFt! Green house, where among the beautiful flu.w ers wo found the celebrated Warwick Va:el It is the most splendid thing of the, kind oIh seen, of white marble deigucd and executed in the puresi Grecian taste; 11 was Imiiid'aTlliK bottom of the iak al Andrians Villa, iu;ar',T vpli, about 12 miles from Rome, and wilUYoM 136 gallons. From the gren housti wetooki walk of. near a mile through trees and shnilfsi to the river from which there is a most magntl ice.nt view of. the castle wiih its towers and ui.r; rets, the Avon, with its cascade, the old arched of a broken bridgo left standing for effuct aiitl the verdant lawn. around, Passing on wc agaiti reached, the Castle, and went to the Porter Lodge where are kept the relics of the Grrat Earl Guy. Here we were shewn hU sworji which no man of our day would like to bear his armor a rib of the Dun Cow, which (untif liever) I look to be a whale's tusk, his L'itly'. stirrups, and in the middle a .treineiiditoiis Itoif Pqt, calledj 'Guy's Porridge Pot as larg.o. s.d: hatter's boiler from which 'iwas told his fain? and self partook their morning mush and uitik. Lft is now filled wiih punch on great, annua 1, ls- iiyais jor me lenauis, anu me quantity 01 sugar and spirits of different kinds taken in the tnjp lure which the Porter told us, was almost in credible, but I have forgotten iheih. He .took; Guy's fiesli fork with which he used 10 iis.li piii' from it his dainties and drawing it rjtlickly nunr" the rim it sounded like the tones of a loud b'efrL We left Warwick about 1 P. Ml and diovS to Stratford on Avon 'Where hi3 first infant lays sweet Sliakespear saiiig, Where his last accents faltered on his tongueV We stopped at the "White Lort," a few doors from ihe house in which the Bard of Aron was. born, and immediately went to look at it. The old Jady who shows it, depends upon ihe re ceipts of viaiiors for her livelihood, for sight, showing I should, think was a most profitable; as it is a very general business in this country The house is a very mean looking affair. We have scarce a two siory one poorer in appeap- ahce. The walls of the mom up stairs, wberV the event is, said o have taken place is scrib- bled over so thick with names of travellers that no more space is left. We saw many of our countrymens', and in a book of n?4mes many? more. The old lady poinled out some depre dations that some visitors had committedrivhich; surprised me. There was a huge mantle of solid oak of the toughest kind. A party of la' dies called in a carnag'e, told her they wanted1 to remain some time in the toom, for" medita tion I suppose, and managed to send her away, when with some iron insiruruent they split off a huge pieco of the old o.'iken manfel and. car ried off without suspicion! What think you of such veneration? 1 tiring they ought to have' been held asuear the. caldron of Macbetlfs witches as would at least have sickened them', awhile; others have split pieces from the doors and windows, so that if ihe spirit of appropria tiveness continue?. "S.hakespear's house" will be carried away hy inches. From the House we went to the Guild Hall over which i's the School House where the Eard was educated; and from thence, 10 the Church in which he" lies buried, where lay his bones protecied by his own defensive epitaph. "Ve lingered about Avon until the middle of iho next day, walked for miles around. I had the honor, as the chambermaid sweetly in-e formed me, to sleep. in the room audbe'd which the Queen Dowager Adelaide had occupied about a fortnight before, on her way to a coun try scat she is about occupying; it made no im pression on my slumbers, Which were as Ro publicanly sound as. though I had been in ollw cr quarters.,, Tho rooms are designated by the names of Shakespear's plays and not by num-1 bers, thus my bed room was Richard HI, my dressing chamber adjoining, Midsummers ni'qhS dream, our sitting room, The Merchant of Ve-. nice. The scion of the old mulberry which' Shakespear planted, stands in the garden' at tached to the Hotel, and iho gardener having, been trimming it, broughi us in a small block each, which we seized as a prize. , Our next stage was to Woodsiock,' the'.seaf of the Duke Marlborough. The honor of Woodsiock was conferred' by Queen Ann ou the Duke of Marlborough for his eminent ser vices, at the same time half a million' sterling was voted by Parliament to erect him a palace, and tho whole was called Blenheim, from iho victory of Blenheim, considered one of ihe most important of his victories. The grounds comprise nbom 2700 acres, the circumference is about' 12 miles, about 200 acres of garden or decorated pleasure grounds. We were im lato for admission into the Castle which we regretted, but made amends by a four hour.- walk over the garden's arid park, which exceed any thing of the kind I had . imagined. The bdauty amLmagnificunco aro beyond descrip tion; JXMq old oardentir wasnw iih Jus ahsKour ?
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