i 811.1 Excursion through North Wales, SI3 
capacity of master and servant, director 
and secretary at the same time, but 
standing in their due relation, and act¬ 
ing upon an accountability, imposed 
both by interest and continual obser¬ 
vation, to perform the various duties 
prescribed. In institutions that have 
been duly organised, this necessary ar¬ 
rangement must take place, or their 
interests will be in complete jeopardy; 
and as the objects of many of them, 
from the state of society, are never likely 
to retire or cease, so does it behove the 
managers to make such appointments 
as may pennanently conduce to its inte¬ 
rests. Gentlemen who kindly assume 
the character of managers for such so¬ 
cieties, should never forget that they 
are acting for the benefit of the public, 
and as trustees for the poor, that they 
are violating every honest and consci¬ 
entious obligation by rendering these 
situations subservient to the advance¬ 
ment of unworthy persons or private 
individuals, whose interests they solely 
wish to advance. These few desultory 
observations I commend to your notice ; 
all of them I believe, might receive apt 
and direct illustration by reference to 
numerous institutions: but as my object 
is general advantage and correction, 
I purposely decline (however for the 
present) from specifying some frightful 
circumstances that have lately occurred 
in good and large associations. But I 
think it must be palpable to every re- 
flect’^ mind that no secretaries should 
be appointed whose conduct and cha¬ 
racter are not unimpeachable; who 
would be contented to act their parts 
without arrogance, and who could give 
ample and undeniable security*-for the 
trust they are appointed to discharge. 
Without such essential qualifications 
they ought not to be admitted to re¬ 
ceive legacies, donations, and monies, 
arising from other sources, which 
would unnecessarily be exposed and 
perhaps applied to private and unworthy 
ends. Candidus. 
For the Monthly Magazine . 
excursion through north wales 
in 1819. 
C Continued from No. 359, p. 20 6.J 
b we are any judges of physiognomy, 
we are sure that the lovely widow’s 
daughter possesses the germ of much 
fine feeling and intellect; but how 
will it be nursed, cultivated, and ma¬ 
tured ilia Welsh farm house? Hap¬ 
pier, perhaps, is it for her that she was 
Monthly Mag. No. 360. 
born and bred among the peaceful soli¬ 
tudes which she adorns. There 
—Like a lily on the mountain’s side, 
She blooms in vestal purity, 
far and securely removed from the tu¬ 
multuous cares and temptations of a 
dangerous and discontented world. 
As we were preparing to leave the 
afflicted but hospitable family, the 
sound of approaching footsteps an¬ 
nounced the arrival of some enquiring - 
friend, and in marched a man and two 
women, who greeted the inmates, our¬ 
selves included, in their native lan- 
guage, and deposited on a dresser at 
one end of the room, a small cheese, a 
loaf of white wheaten bread, and a 
bottle of some cheering beverage. The 
widow’s daughter now beckoned them 
to follow her, and led the way into the 
apartment from which she first issued. 
They quickly returned, and sat down 
at tlie long table to eat their fill of the 
provisions with which it was spread. 
We now took leave of the widow and 
her daughter, the latter, as W— shook 
her by the hand, said a few words in 
Welsh, smiling gratefully in her afflic¬ 
tion as she spoke, thanked us in Eng¬ 
lish for the honour we did the house in 
calling there at such a time, and beg¬ 
ged that if ever we visited that part of 
the country again we would not fail to 
call and refresh ourselves, when we 
should be heartily welcome to all they 
could afford. As we walked home we 
asked our friend for an explanation to 
the singular ceremony the three visitors 
had undergone. 44 It is a custom,” 
said he, “ very seldom dispensed with 
at the funerals of the lower orders 
here. The evening before the burial 
the friends of the family repair to the 
house of death, each bearing some 
trifling present, of an eatable character, 
to contribute to the feast on the mor¬ 
row. Having presented their offering, 
they are conducted into the chamber to 
see the corpse, and then invited to par¬ 
take of such cheer as the house affoids, 
and the person who receives them on 
this occasion is invariably a female. 
We shall meet some more of these visi¬ 
tors before we reach Barmouth, as the 
ceremony will be prolonged to a late 
hour.” We consequently did meet several 
groupes of peasants hastening to the 
abode of death and sorrow; and just as 
we were entering the town, a serene, be¬ 
nevolent lookinggentleman passed by us 
on horseback ; who, W— told us, was 
the parish minister, repairing to the 
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