“MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
[5.of Vol. 56. 
No. DECEMBER 1, 1823. 
389.] 
POPE'S HOUSE at TWICKENHAM. 
THE personal celebrity of Mr. Pope, and the classical structure and commanding 
situation of his honse, in a district which may be described as the garden of England, 
have always conferred great interest on these’ premises. In the days of the poet, they 
were also famous for his grotto, constructed in the fashion of the time, and of extraordi- 
nary extent and exquisite taste. After his death, the louse was occupied by several 
persons of distinction, who considered themselves flattered by living in a place so 
celebrated, and gratified by exhibiting its interior to strangers. But about the year 
1807 it fell into the hands of the Countess Howe, who, to avoid the intrusion of 
strangers, destroyed the grotto, dismantled the house, added new wings, and converted 
it into a stately mansion, in which only small part of the original structure can now be 
recognized, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A S the pages of the Monthly Maga- 
zine seem peculiarly devoted to 
statistical subjects, and those of poli- 
tical economy, I have to offer a few 
remarks on “the Report from the 
Select Committee on the Employment 
of the Poor in Ireland, printed by 
order of the House of Cemmons, ‘July 
16, 1823.” The statements which 
form the basis of this Report are taken 
from the last census of 1821, and from 
Montuty Maa, No, 389. 
the Memoir annexed to Dr. Beanfort’s 
large map of Ireland ; which Memoir 
is not surpassed in accuracy or 
authentic information by any similar 
work oh any country.* 
The calculation, made by the Com- 
mittee, of the distressed districts 
which 
* Memoir of a Map of Ireland, illus- 
trating the Topography of that Kingdom, 
by Daniel Augustus Beaufort, Lt,p, &c, 
&c. Quarto. at fae 1792, 
