498. Shameful Practice of Exhibiting St. Pads, Kc. [June 1;! 
posed to be at variance are in unison, 
and thus compel these “lesser stars,” 
your Lapicidas, your Wares, and your 
Gwilts, to “hide their diminished 
heads.” This will have many advantages ; 
and among others will save me the trou- 
ble of quitting the Combination Room (as 
I have now done) when I have only drank 
half a bottle of wine, to expose the blun- 
ders of such insignificant scribblers. 
Puito VERITAS. 
C—— College, Cambridge, 
April 10, 1811. 
P.S. I have just to add on the subject of 
Mr. Garrard’s communication, that, from an 
examination of the work to which he refers, 
it appears that he did not, in 1792, demon- 
strate the proposition he says he then in- 
vented. Three demonstrations are there 
given, but none of them is Mr. Garrard’s, 
: . ——— 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
E hear a great deal from many 
quarters about, what are called, 
the abuses of governments in great con- 
cerns; and this makes so loud a noise, 
that minor evils seem not only to be 
overlooked, but even those who live by 
them appear to gain courage from the 
clamour. 
Among the most shameful of these, 
and easiest to reform, allow me to men- 
tion the exhibiting Westminster Abbey 
and St, Paul’s, for money, to that public, 
who out of their own pockets have paid 
for the monuments and the building. A 
philosopher, an artist, a country gentle- 
man, wish, from various views, to visit the 
tombs of our ancient kings, poets, and 
heroes, to see the progress of art, or to 
fill up some chain of history; or a person 
of pious feelings desires to enjoy them 
there, instead of dissipating them in the 
crowded streets. ‘These no sooner enter, 
than a demand is made of money before 
they can pass the barrier, and unless they 
pay to the church one shilling and nine- 
pence, there is no admission! St. 
Petev’s, and all the fine churches, in Italy, 
open their gates, their chapels, their 
sacristies, their vaults, to Christians of 
all ranks and all denominations. The 
Whore of Babylon would shrink with 
scorn from a proposal to take one shilling 
and nine-pence to shew her ornaments } 
GuiC, 
Ea 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
JOURNAL of a@ recent yoraGE to CADIZ. 
Gibraltar. 
LEFT Cadiz to come round here, 
in 4 heavy-sailing merchantman, and 
. two carriages to pass, and is about five 
was five days on the water, instead of» 
twelve hours. We entered the straights » 
with a gentle westerly wind, and had a 
pleasant view of the Spanish and African 
coasts; Gibraltar appearing like a cloud 
at iatervals behind the otber mountains 
in the neighbourhood. ‘It was night bes 
fore we could anchor, when the numerous 
lights from the houses extending over the 
rock, glittered with a very pretty effect. 
We entered by a narrow draw-bridge, 
that communicates from the ramparts 
with a flight of wooden steps, or circular 
stair-case erected on the beach, called 
Ragged Staff; this is the principal en- 
trance into the garrison from the har-: 
bour; the other entrances are at two 
moles. The communication ‘by land is 
over a narrow road, just wide enough for. 
hundred feet in length. The sea washes . 
up to it on one side, and on the other is 
a pond of still water, reaching close to 
the rock, This road is mined, and, if i¢ 
were destroyed, the garrison could not be 
approached but by passing through the 
tide. 
The rockis about three miles in cir- 
cumference, it is long and narrow, and 
not accessible on the eastern side; the 
north end boldly rises seventeen hundred 
feet, which is its highest elevation, and 
on the extreme height is a large mortar, 
called the ‘‘ Rock-mortar.” 
Here the famous galleries or exca- 
vations are formed. These are cham- 
bers containing guns, extending from | 
two to four hundred yards in length, in | 
several tiers some hundred of feet above 
the base. They communicate with each i 
other by stair-cases, cut within the rock, 
and leading into some large apartments, | 
distinguished by the names of St. George’s | 
ber, &c. The only light they receive is 
admitted from the holes where the gung 
are pointed, and some parts of the pas- 
sages are quite dark, The ‘guns are ina 
clined in the direction to defend the ap- 
proach to the town, from the Spanish] | 
main, and their elevation is so great ag} | 
to render it almost impossible to fire a | 
shot into the galleries; the men are, con- 
sequently, not exposed to injury from a 
enemy’s fire. These works have bee 
very considerably extended since the} 
siege in 1782, and at that time thd } 
Prince de Condé, who had permission td |! 
enter the yarrison’ a few hours after thd & 
truce, said, “that the undertaking wa 
of such a nature, that none but the En 
glish could have accomplished it.” ‘Ph 
vestiges of a strong work are to be sce 
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