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There's a Star in the West
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dpwn,
Till the records of valor decay ;
W must worship his light, tho' 'us not our own,
For Liberty burst's in iis ray ;
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By a freeman, and thrill not his breast ?
Is there none out of bondage that hails not that
word,
As the Bethlehem Star of the West.
" War, war to the knife be enthralled or ye
die !"
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
?