VOL. 69.-No. 17.]

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH, 1830.

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The soldier's children are put into two "Royal Asylums"; the boys in that at CHEL SEA, and the girls in that at SOUTHAMPTON; where they are well fed, clad, and brought up, out of money raised in taxes, part of which taxes every labouring man (however many children he may have) pays out of the fruit of his labour; and of course has less to give his own poor children to eat and to wear.

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Spittal, near Lincoln, 19th April, 1830. HERE we are, at the end of a pretty decent trip since we left Boston. The next place, on our way to HULL, was HORNCASTLE, where I preached politics, in the playhouse, to a most respectable body of farmers, who had come in the wet to meet me. Mr. JOHN PENISTON, who had invited me to stop there, behaved in a very obliging manner, and made all things very pleasant.

some places: here and there a chalkpit in the hills: the shape of the ground somewhat like that of the broadest valleys in Wiltshire; but the fields not without fences, as they are there: fields from fifteen to forty acres: the hills not downs, as in Wiltshire; but cultivated all over. The houses white and thatched, as they are in all chalkcountries. The valley at SCAMBLESBY has a little rivulet running down it, just as in all the chalk countries. The land continues nearly the same to LOUTH, which lies in a deep dell, with beautiful pastures on the surrounding hills, like those that I once admired at Shaftesbury, in Dorsetshire, and like that near ST. AUSTLE, in Cornwall, which I described in 1808.

At Lourn the wise corporation had refused to let us have the playhouse; but my friends had prepared a very good place; and I had an opportunity of addressing crowded audiences, two nights running. At no place have I been better pleased than at Louth. Mr. PADDISON, solicitor, a young gentleman whom I had the honour to know slightly before, and to know whom, whether I estimate The country from Boston continued, by character or by talent, would be an as I said before, flat for about half the honour to any man, was particularly way to Horncastle, and we then began attentive to us. Mr. NAULL, ironmonger, to see the high land. From Horncastle who had had the battle to fight for me I set off two hours before the carriage, for twenty years, expressed his exultaand going through a very pretty village tion at my triumph, in a manner that called ASHBY, got to another at the showed that he justly participated it foot of a hill, which, they say, forms with me. I breakfasted, at Mr. NAULL'S, part of the WOLDS; that is, a ridge of with a gentleman 88 or 89 years of age, hills. This second village is called whose joy at shaking me by the hand SCAMBLESBY. The vale in which it was excessive. "Ah!" said he, "where lies is very fine land. A hazel mould, are now those savages who, at HULL, rich and light too. I saw a man here" threatened to kill me for raising my ploughing for barley, after turnips, with" voice against this system?" This is a one horse: the horse did not seem to very fine town, and has a beautiful work hard, and the man was singing: I need not say that he was young; and I dare say he had the good sense to keep his legs under another man's table, and to stretch his body on another man's bed. This is a very fine corn country: chalk at bottom: stony near the surface, in

church, nearly equal to that at Boston.

We left Louth on the morning of Thursday, the 15th and got to BARTON on the HUMBER by about noon, over a very fine country, large fields, fine pastures, flocks of those great sheep, of from 200 to 1000 in a flock; and here

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at Barton, we arrived at the northern point of this noble county, having never seen one single acre of waste land, and not one acre that would be called bad land, in the south of England. The Wolds, or highlands, lie away to our right, from Horncastle to near Barton; and, on the other side of the Wolds, lie the marshes of Lincolnshire, which extend along the coast, from Boston to the mouth of the HUMBER, on the bank of which we were at Barton, HULL being on the opposite side of the river, which is here about five miles wide, and which we had to cross in a steam-boat.

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my life, I had the following facts;
namely, that one of his sons sailed for
New York some years ago; that the
ship was cast away on the shores of
Long Island; that the captain, crew,
and passengers, all perished; that the
wrecked vessel was taken possession of
by people on the coast; that his son
had a watch in his trunk, or chest, a
purse with fourteen shillings in it, and
divers articles of wearing apparel; that
the Americans, who searched the wreck,
sent all these articles safely to England
to him"; "and," said he, "I keep the
purse and the money at home, and
here is the watch in my pocket"!
It would have been worth the expense

But let me not forget GREAT GRIMSBY," at which we changed horses, and breakfasted, in our way from Louth to Barton. of coming from London to Grimsby, if "What the devil!" the reader will say, "should you want to recollect that place "for? Why do you want not to forget "that sink of corruption? What could you find there to be snatched from "everlasting oblivion, except for the purpose of being execrated?" I did, however, find something there worthy of being made known, not only to every man in England but to every man in the world; and not to mention it here, would be to be guilty of the greatest injustice.

for nothing but to learn this fact, which
I record, not only in justice to the free
people of America, and particularly in
justice to my late neighbours in Long
Island, but in justice to the character of
mankind. I publish it as something to
counterbalance the conduct of the atro-
cious monsters who plunder the wrecks
on the coast of Cornwall, and, as I am
told, on the coasts here in the east of
the island.

Away go, then, all the accusations upon the character of the Yankees. To my surprise, I found a good many People may call them sharp, cunning, people assembled at the inn-door,evident-overreaching; and when they have exly expecting my arrival. While breakfast hausted the vocabulary of their abuse, was preparing, I wished to speak to the the answer is found in this one fact, bookseller of the place, if there were stated by Mr. JOSHUA PLASKITT, of Great one, and to give him a list of my books Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, Old England. and writings, that he might place it in The person who sent the things to Mr. his shop. When he came, I was sur- Plaskitt, was named JONES. It did not prised to find that he had it already, occur to me to ask his christian name, and that he, occasionally, sold my books. nor to inquire what was the particular Upon my asking him how he got it, he place where he lived in Long Island. I said that it was brought down from request Mr. Plaskitt to contrive to let London and given to him by a Mr. me know these particulars; as I should PLASKITT, who, he said, had all my like to communicate them to friends writings, and who, he said, he was that I have on the north side of that sure would be very glad to see me; but island. However, it would excite no that he lived about a mile from the surprise there, that one of their countrytown. A messenger, however, had gone men had acted this part; for every man off to carry the news, and Mr. Plaskitt of them, having the same opportunity, arrived before we had done breakfast, would do the same. Their forefathers bringing with him a son and a daughter; carried to New England the nature and and from the lips of this gentleman, a character of the people of Old England, man of as kind and benevolent appear-before national debts, paper-money, sepance and manners as I ever beheld in tennial bills, standing armies, dead

weights, and jubilees, had beggared and corrupted the people.

that of the Yorkshire boy, who, seeing a gentleman eating some eggs, asked the cook to give him a little salt; and upon being asked what he could want with salt, he said, "perhaps that gentleman may give me an egg presently."

At HULL I lectured (I laugh at the werd) to about seven hundred persons, on the same evening that I arrived from Louth, which was on Thursday the 15th. We had what they call the summer It is surprising what effect sayings. theatre, which was crowded in every like these produce upon the mind. From part except on the stage; and the next one end to the other of the kingdom, evening, the stage was crowded too. Yorkshiremen are looked upon as being The third evening was merely acci-keener than other people; more eager dental, no previous notice having been in pursuit of their own interests; more given of it. On the Saturday, I went sharp and more selfish. For my part, in the middle of the day to Beverley; I was cured with regard to the people saw there the beautiful minster, and long before I saw Yorkshire. In the some of the fine horses which they show army, where we see men of all counties, there at this season of the year; dined I always found Yorkshiremen distinwith about fifty farmers; made a speech guished for their frank manners and to them and about a hundred more, generous disposition. In the United perhaps; and got back to Hull time States, my kind and generous friends of enough to go to the theatre there.

Pennsylvania were the children and deThe country round Hull appears to scendants of Yorkshire parents; and, exceed even that of Lincolnshire. The in truth, I long ago made up my mind, three mornings that I was at Hull I that this hardness and sharpness ascribed walked out in three different directions, to Yorkshiremen, arose from the sort of and found the country every where fine. envy excited by that quickness, that To the east lies the HOLDERNESS coun- activity, that buoyancy of spirits, which try. I used to wonder that Yorkshire, bears them up through adverse circumto which I, from some false impression stances, and their consequent success in in my youth, had always attached the all the situations of life. They, like idea of sterility, should send us of the the people of Lancashire, are just the south those beautiful cattle with short very reverse of being cunning and horns and straight and deep bodies. selfish; be they farmers, or be they. You have only to see the country, to what they may, you get at the bottom cease to wonder at this. It lies on the of their hearts in a minute. Every thing north side of the mouth of the Humber; they think soon gets to the tongue, and is as flat and fat as the land between out it comes, heads and tails, as fast as Holbeach and Boston, without, as they they can pour it. Fine materials for tell me, the necessity of such numerous OLIVER to work on! If he had been ditches. The appellation "Yorkshire sent to the west instead of the north, he bite"; the acute, sayings ascribed to would have found people there on whom Yorkshiremen; and their quick manner, he would have exercised his powers in I remember, in the army. When speak- vain. You are not to have every valuing of what country a man was, one able quality in the same man and the used to say, in defence of the party, same people: you are not to have pru"York, but honest." Another saying dent caution united with quickness and was, that it was a bare common that a volubility. Yorkshireman would go over without But though, as to the character of taking a bite. Every one knows the the people, I, having known so many story of the gentleman, who, upon find- hundreds of Yorkshiremen, was pering that a boot-cleaner, in the south, fectly enlightened, and had quite got the was a Yorkshireman, and expressing better of all prejudices many years ago, his surprise that he was not become I still, in spite of the matchless horses master of the inn, received for answer, and matchless cattle, had a general im"Ah, sir, but master is York too"! And pression that Yorkshire was a sterile

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county, compared with the counties in thief-looking sheds that you see in the the south and the west; and this notion approaches to London: none of those was confirmed, in some measure, by my off-scourings of pernicious and insolent seeing the moory and rocky parts in the luxury. I hate commercial towns in West Riding, last winter. It was neces- general: there is generally something sary for me to come and see the country so loathsome in the look, and so stern on the banks of the Humber. I have and unfeeling in the manners of seaseen the vale of Honiton, in Devonshire, faring people, that I have always, from that of Taunton and of Glastonbury, in my very youth, disliked sea-ports; but Somersetshire I have seen the vales of really, the sight of this nice town, the Gloucester and Worcester, and the manners of its people, the civil, and kind banks of the Severn and the Avon: I and cordial reception that I met with, have seen the vale of Berkshire, that of and the clean streets, and especially the Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire: I have pretty gardens in every direction, as seen the beautiful vales of Wiltshire; you walk into the country, has made and the banks of the Medway, from Hull, though a sea-port, a place that I Tunbridge to Maidstone, called the shall always look back to with delight. Garden of Eden: I was born at one end of Arthur Young's "finest ten miles in considerable city, with three or four BEVERLEY, which was formerly a very England": I have ridden my horse gates, one of which is yet standing, had across the Thames at its two sources; a great college, built in the year 700, by and I have been along every inch of its the Archbishop of York. It had three banks, from its sources, to Gravesend, famous hospitals and two friaries. There whence I have sailed out of it into the is one church, a very fine one, and the channel; and, having seen and had minster still left; of which a bookseller ability to judge of the goodness of the in the town was so good as to give me land in all these places, I declare that I copper-plate representations. It is still have never seen any to be compared a very pretty town; the market large; with the land on the banks of the Hum- the land all round the country good; ber, from the Holderness country in- and it is particularly famous for horses; cluded, and with the exception of the those for speed being shown off here land from Wisbeach to Holbeach, and on the market-days at this time of the Holbeach to Boston. Really, the single year. parish of Holbeach, or a patch of the assemble in a very wide street, on the The farmers and gentlemen same size in the Holderness country, outside of the western gate of the town; seems to be equal in value to the whole and at a certain time of the day, the of the county of Surrey, if we leave out grooms come from their different stables the little plot of hop-garden, at Farnham. to show off their beautiful horses; blood Nor is the town of Hull itself to be horses, coach horses, hunters, and cart overlooked. It is a little city of London: horses; sometimes, they tell me, forty or streets, shops, every thing like it; clean fifty in number. The day that I was as the best parts of London, and the there (being late in the season), there people as bustling and attentive. The were only seven or eight, or ten, at the town of Hull is surrounded with com- most. modious docks for shipping. These go and see "the horses," I had no curioWhen I was asked at the inn to docks are separated, in three or four sity, thinking it was such a parcel of places, by draw-bridges; so that, as you horses as we see at a market in the walk round the town, you walk by the south; but I found it a sight worth side of the docks and the ships. The going to see; for, besides the beauty of town on the outside of the docks is the horses, there were the adroitness, the pretty considerable, and the walks from agility, and the boldness of the grooms, it into the country beautiful. I went each running alongside of his horse, about a good deal, and I nowhere saw with the latter trotting at the rate of ten marks of beggary or filth, even in the or twelve miles an hour, and then swingputskirts: none of those nasty, shabby, ing him round, and showing him off to

the best advantage. In short, I was particularly the ash, very fine, and of exceedingly gratified by the trip to free growth; and innumerable flocks of Beverley: the day was fair and mild; we those big, long-woolled sheep, from one went by one road and came back by hundred to a thousand in a flock, each another, and I have very seldom passed having from eight to ten pounds of wool a pleasanter day in my life. upon his body. One of the finest sights in the world is one of these thirty or forty-acre fields, with four or five or six hundred ewes, each with her one or two lambs skipping about upon grass, the most beautiful that can be conceived, and on lands as level as a bowling-green. I do not recollect having seen a molehill or an ant-hill since I came into the country; and not one acre of waste land, though I have gone the whole length of the country one way, and am now got nearly half way back another way.

I found, very much to my surprise, that at Hull, I was very nearly as far north as at Leeds, and, at Beverley, a little farther north. Of all things in the world, I wanted to speak to Mr. FOSTER, of the Leeds Patriot; but was not aware of the relative situation till it was too late to write to him. Boats go up the Humber and the Ouse to within a few miles of Leeds. The HOLDERNESS country is that piece of land which lies between Hull and the sea: it appears to be a perfect flat; and is said to be, and I dare say is, one of the very finest spots in the whole kingdom. I had a very kind invitation to go into it; but I could not stay longer on that side of the Humber, without neglecting some duty or other. In quitting Hull, I left behind me but one thing, the sight of which had not pleased me; namely, a fine gilded equestrian statue of the Dutch deliverer," who gave to England the national debt, that fruitful mother of mischief and misery. Until this statue be replaced by that of ANDREW MARVELL, that real honour of this town, England will never be what it ought to

be.

Having seen this country, and having had a glimpse at the Holderness country, which lies on the banks of the sen, and to the east and north-east of Hull, can I cease to wonder that those devils, the Danes, found their way hither so often. There were the fat sheep then, just as there are now, depend upon it; and these numbers of noble churches, and these magnificent minsters, were reared, because the wealth of the country remained in the country, and was not carried away to the south, to keep swarms of devouring tax-eaters, to cram the maws of wasteful idlers, and to be transferred to the grasp of luxurious and blaspheming Jews.

We came back to Barton, by the steam-boat, on Sunday, in the afternoon You always perceive that the churches of the 18th, and in the evening reached are large and fine and lofty, in proporthis place, which is an inn, with three tion to the richness of the soil and the or four houses near it, at the distance of extent of the parish. In many places, ten miles from Lincoln, to which we are where there are now but a very few going on Wednesday the 21st. Between houses, and those comparatively miserthis place and Barton, we passed through able, there are churches that look like a delightfully pretty town, called BRIGO. cathedrals. It is quite curious to obThe land in this, which is called the serve the difference in the style of the high part of Lincolnshire, has generally churches of Suffolk and Norfolk, and stone, a solid bed of stone of great those of Lincolnshire, and of the other depth, at different distances from the bank of the Humber. In the former surface. In some parts, this stone is of two counties the churches are good, a yellowish colour, and in the form of large, and with a good, plain, and pretty very thick slate; and in these parts the lofty tower. And, in a few instances, soil is not so good; but, generally speak-particularly at Ipswich and Long Meling, the land is excellent; easily tilled; ford, you find magnificence in these no surface water; the fields very large; buildings; but in Lincolnshire the magnot many trees; but what there are, nificence of the churches is surprising.