476 Walk round the Garden of 



give you some idea. Here I always spend some part of every day ; some- 

 times with the mistress of my affections, with her arm in mine, I plan 

 little schemes of future amusement; and, at other less playful hours, 



' Walk thoughtful on the quiet solenm shore 

 Of that vast ocean I must sail so soon; 



and wait the wind 



That silent wafts me to the world unknown.' 



On a Sunday, too, the gates are always thrown open, that my Catholic 

 neighbours may indulge themselves with a walk to the cave. A saint, I 

 forget whether male or female, presides over its recesses : — 



' Nemus, et nigra formidine collem, 

 Quis Deus inccrtum est, habitat Dens, Arcades ipsura 

 Credunt se vldisse.' 



On all other days of the week, no one ventures to intrude upon my 

 retirement, not even the prebendary in residence : — 



* Pavet ipse saccrdos 



Accessiun, Domin unique timet deprendere loci.' 



At least so I found the rule established; but, as I hate the insolence 

 of wealth, I have been employing the carpenters some time past in making 

 that sort of gate which cannot be left open for cattle, or shut against man. 



" Of Berkeley little is remembered, though his benevolence, I have no 

 doubt, was very widely diffuseil. He made no improvement to the house ; 

 yet the part of it he inhabited wanted it nuich, for it is now thought only 

 good enough for the upper servants. My study is the room where he 

 kept his apparatus for tar water. I wish he Inul |)lanteil, instcail of build- 

 ing; if, indeed, he built any thing, for I cannot find any trailition of it. 

 Crowe, one of his jjredecessors, and Johnson, one of his successors, ap- 

 pear to have contributed most to the comfort of the place; but had there 

 been a venerable oak or two nursed by the care of this excellent man, with 

 iiow nuich respect should I have rested under its branches ! and in no spot 

 of earth do trees grow with more vigoiu*. There is no chapel in the 

 house; i)ut a private door from the garden leads to the catheilral. The 

 bell is in the round tower, the gift of Davies, dean of Ross. 



" 1 have thus, I tiiink, run through every tiling relative to the situation of 

 Cloyne. The neighboiu-hood is gooil ; the barony of Imokilly, which sur- 

 rounds it, particularly fertile. Two lords are near me, (Shannon and 

 Longueville, hostile to each otiier, but vying in civility to me. The com- 

 mon people getting rich, iioni the money spent by the large detachments 

 of the army and navy occasionally detained in Cork harbour ; and giving 

 any price for fresh provisions. Protestants, comj)aratively, none. We are 

 twenty English miles from Cork, which lies much farther from its own 

 harbour than we do. On the whole, if you survey this place with an 

 English eye, you would fiuti little to reconnnend ; but with an Irish one, 

 nothing to blame." {llcnmll, Jiixlmp ofClni/nc, lo Dr. Parr, in July 16. 

 Vim {Works of Dr. Purr^ by Johndonc.)—G. M. Li/nn, Dec. 1828. 



Art. III. A JVcdk, on the 30/A of June, round the Garden of the 

 late Comtcsse de Vandes. By J. D. 



Tnis garden delights and surprises one the more from the situation in 

 which it is found. The approach to it is through Lavender Mews, which, 

 though far from scentless, effuse nought of lavender odour. On opening 

 the closely boarded gate of the garden, fixeil in the boundary wall which 



