MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
FEBRUARY 1], 1822. 
No. 364.] 
[1 of Vol. 53. 
BILTON HALL, THE RESIDENCE OF ADDISON. 
At the pleasant village of Bilton, one mile and a half from Rugby, aud two miles 
from Dunchurch, stands the irregular but spacious mansion, once the property and 
residence of ADbison. He gave £10,000 for it and the adjacent manor, furnished it, 
and hung it with pictures, as a lure to the Countess of Warwick, to whom he was then 
paying his court. His only daughter, imbecile in her understanding, lived here till 
1797, when she died in her 79th year. 
the spacious gardens retain the fashion of the age of the “Spectator.” The adjoining 
A long walk is still called Addison’s walk, and 
Parish Church, and other places in the vicinity, are consecrated by the habits and 
presence of the once illustrious occupant. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of a JOURNEY from CUCUTA 
to CARACCAS, performed in the 
months of August, September, and 
October, 1821. 
HE time occupied in the prepara- 
tions indispensable for a long 
journey, made it nearly evening on the 
17th August before we left Rosario ; but 
having at length put every thing in 
readiness, and taken leave of a friend 
or two who accompanied us a short 
distance out of the town, we set for- 
ward seriously upon our march. Night 
however advanced rapidly upon us, and 
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hour. 
obliged us to seek a lodging at a small 
house probably about two leagues from 
Capacho, at which latter place we ar- 
rived the following morning at an early 
We found the temperature of 
Capacho, as before, very cool and agree- 
able, and partook of some potatoes 
grown in the neighbourhood. The 
chief object of our attention here was 
the Lancasterian schoo! which the Padre 
Sebastian Mora, had, with infinite cre- 
dit to himself, lately established. We 
found about twenty boys learning read- 
ing and writing, in both of which the 
greater part of them had made consi- 
derable 
