230 f^isil to Antwerp at the Capitulation of 1833. 



glass large, and the portals of width sufficient to admit a carriage. The 

 handsome parts of the town are chiefly in the Grecian, the curious and 

 venerable in tlie Gotliic, style of arcliitecture. The streets, although badly 

 paved, and without trotloirs, are for the most part broad, and there are 

 a few subterranean sewers, a rare luxury upon the continent. 



The public buildings are numerous and splendid, and the cathedral, after 

 that of Milan, perhaps tlie most noble Gothic temple in the world. 



The town is built upon the Schelt, there very broad : towards the land 

 it is defended by strong ramparts, ravelins, horn-works, and a double 

 ditch : there are six gates. 



The population is about sixty-two thousand, and the Burgher guard near 

 twelve thousand strong. 



The citadel, erected from the designs of Pacciotto, by the infamous 

 duke of Alva, is situate at the north-western extremity of the town, and 

 separated from it, agreeably to the rules of forlification, by a spacious es- 

 planade. Jt is in form a regular pentagon, contains some acres within its 

 precinct, and is strengthened by three demi-lunes, three lunettes, a horn- 

 work, and a wet ditch; between the gate and the river are dock-yards; 

 and beyond the river are the T6te de Flandres, and the smaller forts and 

 redoubts, its dependencies. Our readers will pardon this necessary di- 

 gression. 



In such numbers had the curious from all quarters poured in, that all the 

 hotels were full, and not even a birth in the ' worst inn's worst room' was 

 to be obtained : however, after much patient perambulation, a lodging was 

 discovered, and speedily put into requisition. 



The actual firing had ceased on Sunday, the 21st of January, but the 

 capitulation was not officially made known until Monday morning, the de- 

 lay having been caused, as was said, by the expectation of a courier from 

 the Hague. The flag of the citadel was lowered on Monday, and on Tues- 

 day morning early the garrison marched out, piled arms upon the glacis of 

 Fort Kehl, and returned to their quarters as prisoners, the French mounting 

 guard upon the citadel. At this period Chass6 received in his casemate 

 the visits of Gerard, the royal dukes of France, and several officers. 



We proceeded to view that part of the town which had suffered. The 

 Rue de la Cuiller, the next street to the esplanade, had been ruined by the 

 bombardment of 1830 ; the houses, for the most part mean, were shattered, 

 the roofs destroyed in part, the floors knocked in, and here and there a 

 fragment of iron was lying in the road. The children were playing at 

 marbles with grape and canister shot. 



Men with carts were collecting broken shells within the esplanade, upon 

 which, however, we were prevented, by a line of sentinels, from pro- 

 ceeding. 



The long line of barracks between the ruined street and the river, to- 

 gether with a fine church, lay in ruins. The injury inflicted upon the pre- 



