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were educated; it is now converted into a cotton manufactory. We left Douay for Cambrai about eleven, and arrived at Cambrai at two. Here we found John Bull lord of the ascendant. The fortifications and gates are guarded by British soldiers. There are three regiments in Cambrai, and two in the camps close at the outside of the walls. Two of these, the grena dier guards, are remarkably fine men. The day was warm; the thermometer about 73. We walked to see the camp. The tents are small, and the men sleep on straw mattrasses on the ground. In bad weather it must be extremely disagreeable. This is the head quarters of the army. Lord Wellington and Lord Hill have country houses in the neighbourhood. Lord Hill has also handsome apartments in the town, at the house of Madame Canonne, Fabricant de Batistes, Rue de l'Epée, No. 330, where, upon the recommendation of our landlady, we purchased some excellent Cambric, at 16 francs per ell, above five quarters of a yard English measure. Our inn, the Hotel Hollandois, was a comfortable one, and we were treated with the utmost civility and attention by landlord, landlady, and waiters. It is a quiet retired house; not at all frequented by any of the English officers, many of whom dine at a coffee-house kept by an Englishman from Bath. This has been a very handsome town; the Grund Place is a noble one: but Cambrai has lost its great ornament, a venerable Gothic Cathedral, which was not only plundered at the Revolution, but totally demolished, so that not even its ruins are left: what is worse, a Theatre is erected on the site of it. The tomb of Archbishop Fenelon is also demolished, and his remains disturbed. Our English "Traveller's Guide" having asserted that his remains were removed at the period of the demolition, to the Chapel of the Hospital for poor girls, we had the curiosity to go thither and inquire. The Portress shewed us the Chapel, but we could gather from her no intelligence as to the Archbishop's remains. A lady, however, came to us, who appeared to be the superintendant, and she informed us that the

wooden coffin of Fenelon was deposited in an apartment of the Hospital, which was at that moment occupied, but would be at liberty to be seen in a few hours. Our curiosity was, however, satisfied with this information. It seems somewhat extraordinary that the good people who have shewn their respect for the Archbishop by preserving his remains, should be content without depositing them in consecrated ground; and should keep them in a private apartment unburied'; and further, that if the identity of the coffin is satisfactorily made out, the Government should not interest it self in having the body decently interred, and a proper monument erected in the Abbey Church, which is now used as the Cathedral. To neglect so great a man is a disgrace to the nation *. The Chapel of the above Hospital is now used for the English soldiers. The Roman Catholic altar is removed, and a Protestant readingdesk and pulpit are erected. This seems an instance of liberality, or else of indifference, on the part of the Roman Catholics here. There is not a Gothic church in Cambrai.

August 4.This morning before breakfast I went to mass at the Cathedral, where between 2 and 300 boys were present; from their manner of holding their books they seemed to have been taught in the Bellian or Lancasterian system. There is nothing remarkable in the building, except some paintings to imitate bas relief, which have a happy effect. At our inn the floors both of lodging rooms and sitting rooms were of glazed tiles. About eleven we set off by Bonavy, a walled town, to Peronne. The day was intensely hot, the thermometer in the shade 82 at four o'clock. Not a cloud to be seen. Occasionally on the road-side there were extended on crosses, naked figures as large as life, and painted a flesh colour, representing our Saviour. This is quite horrible and

*We have the pleasure to inform our Readers, that since our Correspondent's visit to Cambrai, the circumstance which he notices has engaged public attention. The Journal de Paris of the 18th ult. announces that a Subscription is set on foot in Cambrai, for a monument to Archbishop Fenelon. The Duke of Angouleme has transmitted to the Mayor a contribution of 1000 francs. profane,

profane, and seems to be trifling with the most sacred things. Our English "Guide" informs us we travel over "a considerable chain of mountains in this route." The book has been compiled from a French account. The French use the word Montagne for the most insignificant hills; and hence the mistake. The hills were pretty much like those between Tadcaster and Leeds. Peronne is a good sized and fortified town, with spacious streets and good shops. Our dinner bill for two was 11 francs or 9s. 2d. being 48. 7d. each, and the dinner consisted of soup, boiled beef, veal steaks, peas, sallad, iced lemonade, and brandy, a bottle of excellent Burgundy, a dish of fresh butter, apricots, plumbs, and pears. The Church is a building in the modern Gothic style, with a pretty tower. In the inside we found a splendid roof something resembling King's Chapel, Cambridge, and a remarkable echo, which must peculiarly adapt it for music. We proceeded after dinner by Faucaucourt and Villers to Amiens.-There was a delay of half an hour at the last stage, as the postillion was with the reapers. The gleaners in this country are numerous, and seem to fare well. Owing to the delay it was after nine when we arrived here. We saw a splendid sunset, and a beautiful moonset, on the road. The country was like Salisbury Plain, only corn instead of pasture. Amiens Cathedral in the dusk appeared like Filey Church. As soon as we approached the gates of Amiens, which were open, we saw the sentinels shutting them in our faces, that we might pay half a franc to have them again opened. There was a meteoric ball of fire in the air in the West over Amiens about nine.

August 5, two p.m.-We have been exploring Amiens Cathedral, and were proceeding to look at the city, but were driven in at one o'clock, by the heat the thermometer in the shade is at 86, and many of the houses are whitewashed and reflect the sun. I have written this with my coat off, and in a profuse perspiration; and feel not equal to the commencement

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having been adopted by you, calls for some observations, and must have them. It is evidently written by a Frenchman, and was no doubt copied by you from a French paper.

After the generous, the noble manner in which the Duke was received in this country, the only part of Europe, as the writer admits, in which a Bourbon could find an asylum, it was natural to expect that some acknowledgment would have been made,something like gratitude expressed; in vain you may look for any thing like it. "The Duke was under the necessity of becoming a sojourner in England;" "the Prince passed several years in London, whence he was in the babit of making frequent jour. neys to Hartwell." These are all the words respecting his hospitable reception in this country. What return he made to Englishmen who visited France after the re-establishment of the Bourbons, is known to many.

After his return to France, whether he moderated the rigour of his orders by the kindness of his manner to the soldiers, we here can have nothing to judge by but mere rumour ;

that rumour is not in favour of the kindness of his manner: and if we may form a guess at the kindness of the manner from the story which his French eulogist next tells us, we can hardly suppose much kindness of manner to a common soldier from one who could treat an officer with the insolence here described: "during the period of his emigration," says his eulogist," he happened one day to reprimand too severely an officer full of honour. In a moment, perceiving his error, the young Prince took the gentleman aside." What followed? he said, "It was never my intention to insult a man of honour. I am like yourself a French gentleman, and am ready to give you all the reparation you may demand."-That is, it is true I have insulted you, and I am ready to accept an invitation to take your life by way of making you

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Mr. URBAN,

March 27.
HE annexed Plate represents a

purposes of a shed. But the most ornamental portion of these ruins is

Two an weet view of the remains the Chapel, a short distance from the

of Llanfey or Llampbey Palace, Pembrokeshire, antiently the residence of the Bishops of St. David's (see Plate I.) Besides the magnificent mouldering pile contiguous to the Cathedral in old Menevia, and that now under consideration, there formerly belonged to this See the Castle of Swansea, Llandygwy in Cardiganshire, Llanddew, and the small manor of Brano, near the junction of the rivers Brann and Usk in Brecknockshire, with the Granges of Castrum Ponte, or Punch Castle, as it is now called, in Pembrokashire. The three first mentioned of these buildings were raised by Bishop Gower, and are remarkable for their magnificence, as well as distinguished for their open-arched parapets, shemounted by battlements, which served for ornament, as also for a cover to the leaden or tiled roof.

All the architectural works of this excellent Prelate are characterized for peculiar grandeur and richness of ornament. He lived in the reign of Edward III. a period distinguished for the magnificence of its Ecclesiastical buildings; and his Cathedral shared his bounty and munificence; and received, among other embellishments, the superb stone screen and rood-loft at the entrance to the Choir.

But returning to the subject of the accompanying plate:-the ruins of Llanfey Palace are situated a short distance out of the road (on the North side) between Pembroke and Tenby. They occupy an extensive plot of ground; and though literally speaking are ruins, and every part uninhabitable, yet large, and coinparatively perfect portions of the principal buildings are left standing, the plain substantial walls of which are covered with

thick masses of luxuriant ivy. The Great Hall towards the South is plain both within and without, and appears never to have been richly or namented, but the arches of its windows and doors have well-carved mouldings, and the arched parapet before remarked extended round the building. The original entrance gateway which forms the principal object in the subjoined plate, is entire, excepting its roof. The lower part has a modern enclosure, and is used for the GENT. MAG. April, 1820.

North-east angle of the hall, which still retains its East window with the tracery uninjured. Towards the East end of the hall is the kitchen, with a large circular chimney, strongly maintaining its erect position above the ruins of surrounding walls. There are numerous other offices and buildings distributed over a large uneven area of ruins, but none are ornamented more, and few of them so much as those described: from which it appears that this noble palace, when perfect, had but little architectural decoration to enrich its spacious walls, and was greatly inferior to the resi dence in the city-though perhaps superior to any other of the Episcopal Palaces.

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History of some curious Customs used by the Natives of the FEEJER ISLANDS. By J. A.

(Continued from p. 213.)

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HEN I saw the bodies together, and that I had endeavoured in vain to save the widow, I was excessively agitated, and, in the first impulse of my disappointment, went to the corpse of the widow and kissed it. The Caloo was standing near it; he was a man that could contain his passions; 1 knew of his hostility towards me; I upbraided him with the strongest expressions. I could think of; but, smothering every mark of passion, he merely answered coolly, it is the law.

Since that time I have been present at several ceremonies of the same kind, but all of them are nearly the same in their performance; it would not be worth while therefore to speak more on the subject.

The people of these Islands are cannibals. They inhabit a great many Islands which have no appropriate names on the charts, but all of them have their peculiar native designations. The largest of these Islands are divided into several districts, and there is often war among the people of the neighbouring places.

I had bought a bolt of canvass of the master of a vessel that was there, and he demanded a very large piece of sandel wood for it, ten times as much as it was worth. I was how

ever

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