1821.] 
Excursion through North Wales, 
controverted through t he same medium 
which disseminated tie poison of pre¬ 
judice and misrepresentation. If Scru¬ 
tator had been either a promoter of, or 
& subscriber to the houseless, two most 
satisfactory reports must have informed 
him every particular relative to the dis¬ 
tribution ot the fund committed by a 
generous public to the care of honour¬ 
able men for the laudable purpose of 
relieving distress the most appalling ; 
but he can satisfy himself of his error 
whenever he pleases, for the proceed¬ 
ings of that charity invite scrutiny, 
although the common courtesies of life 
forbid animadversion on the conduct 
of such as gratuitously take on them¬ 
selves the office of its stewards, with¬ 
out it having been first ascertained that 
there was reason for so doing. Sir, this 
society has nothing to do with any 
other, nor the acts of honorary secre¬ 
taries, (they must stand or fall on their 
respective merits,) but I fear not con¬ 
tradiction when I assert that no insti¬ 
tution has done more than the one l 
advocate, in the short space of time it 
has been in operation. I repeat that 
the reports must satisfy the most fasti¬ 
dious, and if Scrutator will add his 
mite and come among us, we will not 
only do him good, but make him the 
happy instrument of benefiting others, 
l his charity is for the express purpose 
ol relieving that kind of distress which 
no other can reach ; it has been the 
means of saving the lives of many; it 
tends to diminish crime, assist honest 
distress, and shelters the poor out¬ 
cast, the naked, the wanderer, and the 
toiloin, at that period of the year when 
even the luxuries of affluence afford 
but an insufficient refuge from the 
storm ; the heart, therefore, that can 
lesist such claims must be hard us ada¬ 
mant. 
^ hen I reflect that, at a season flie 
most severe, when the London Wall 
workhouse was opened as an asylum, 
some of the committee, and other re¬ 
spectable characters, devoted, for two 
months, the whole of their time invisit- 
ing the seciuded haunts of misery in all 
parts of this great metropolis, encounter¬ 
ing at every step scenes of abject woe, 
too soul-harrowing to describe, from 
tne pure motives of benevolence ; that 
the wretched objects of their solicitude 
were relieved from immediate want_ 
generally clothed, and in many instan¬ 
ces Avatched over and protected until, 
renovated health superseding the debi- 
1 extreme poverty, they were fur- 
Monthly Mag. No 361. 
401 
fished with the means of future support 
by recommendations to places ofservi- 
tude, oi the purchase of implements to 
enable them to pursue their respective 
callings—-and that none were suffered 
to peiishfoi lack ot aid—for regardless 
of country, age, or sex, it held out a 
helping hand to every child of want, and 
often drew forth the kind assistance of 
the more wealthy, to take some of pe¬ 
culiar interest under their more imme- 
, I am hence led to remark, 
that if the whole amount had been ex¬ 
pended, the subscribers would have 
been amply repaid; and they richly 
deserve the thanks of the committee, 
and the blessings of those who were 
ready to perish. 
In conclusion, permit me to say to 
scrutator, 44 go and do thou likewise.” 
^ VlNDEX. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
excursion through north wales 
in 1819. 
Continued from No. 360, «. 360. 
INSTEAD of returning from Bar- 
• m< f ith directly to Dolgelley, we re- 
solved to go to Harlech, to see the ruins 
ot its old castle, and to view some very 
beautitul scenery in the neighbourhood. 
' e se t °ff early in the morning then, 
on hoi seback, as the road we were 
about to travel is one of the most 
rugged in North Wales. The morn¬ 
ing was just such an one as \\ r e could 
have wished; there was a 44 springiness” 
in the air, as Mr. Leigh Hunt would 
which ren <lered it quite de¬ 
lightful; and Ave rode in perfect glee 
amongst the hills, regardless of the 
roughness of the road, or the still 
rougher trotting of our matchless pal- 
treys—for 
’Twas mom—and from the east the sun 
had shed 
His glowing beams, and tinged the moun¬ 
tains red; 
The dancing mists in swift succession 
new, 
Chas d by the early breeze that softly 
blew J 
Along the dark blue hills,—the yellow 
beam 
Smil’d on the forests, sparkled in the 
stream, 
And, gaily laughing at the conquer’d 
night, 
Displayed on every cliff the grateful light, 
The pearly drops, that bent the blooming 
thorn. 
Started from slumber with the opening 
morn, 6 
And, from the green leaves dropping 
spread around 
3 E Delightful 
