Tour in Ireland.—-Dublin and Vicinity. 
The fmall houfe, where this inftitution ¥ 
commenced, was, upon the removal of 
the girls to their new building above 
mentioned, taken for the purpofe of re- 
hieving deftitute orphan boys, and which, 
though now only in its fecond and third | 
year, will, we hope, meet with the en- 
couragement it deferves. ‘he Mefirs. 
La Touche, the Dublin bankers, are 
treafurers to thefe charities, who thank- 
fully receive the fmalleft contributions 
from the humane and benevolent. There 
are, befides thefe which I have nientioned, 
fourteen. other hofpitals in the metrepolis. 
of Ireland, chiefly fupported by voluntary 
contributions, a 
As to the churches in Dublin (which 
has each its parochial {chool), they ex- 
hibit no external beauty to arreft the at- 
tention of the traveller, nor yet much 
internal decoration. The only two 
churches in Dublin; out of near thirty, 
which have fteeples with fpires, are St. 
Patrick’s cathedral, and St. Werburgh 
church. St. Patrick’s- cathedral, trom 
its antiquity, is worth inveftigation, but 
it is falling rapidly into decay; and, to 
mend the matter, the government of Ire- 
land and the chapter are at this hour en- 
gaged in a fuit at lav, relative to the 
right of chufing or eleéting a dean. 
I fhall now mention the few principal 
houfes of the nobility in that city, which 
deferve attention; and firft, Leinfer- 
Houfe, the town refidence of the Duke of 
Leinfter. ‘The principal entrance is from 
Kildare-ftreet, through a very bold gate- 
way of ruftic architeCture, ereCted in the 
centre of a wall of the fame ftile, within 
fide of which is a very Jarge circular area, 
and in the front ftands the houfe, which 
is of ftone, with three-quarter columns, 
fupporting the frieze and cornice. The 
hall has a very grand appearance, rifling 
into a part of the fecond floor afid fup- 
ported by black marble columns, In 
this hall are feveral buitos and .other 
pieces of fculpture. ‘The fuite of rooms 
upon this floor is well contrived, and 
moft of them are decorated with good 
paintings. When you afcend the prin- 
cipal itaireafe, you enter from the left- 
hand into the gallery of paintings, in 
which are fome of the beft works of Van 
Dyke, Guido and Titian; and, ina light 
femi-circular colonnade, upon the north 
fide of the room, ftands a {tatue of Ado- 
nis, well fculptured in marble, four feet 
‘high; this gallery extends the whole 
depth of the houfe, from Weft to Eaft, 
andis fuperbly furnifhed. Before the rere 
ef this houfe, which is of plain ftone ar- 
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chite&ture, is a. lawn, containing about 
three acres, planted upon each fide with 
flowering fhrubs, and divided from the 
newly finifhed fquare, called Merrion- 
Square, of which it commands an anin- 
terrupted view, by a part of Merrion- 
ftreet, which never can be built upon; 
forming, upon the whole, the grandeft, 
town-refidence in the city of Dublin. 
That which ranks next, in point of 
fituation and real tafte, in this city, is 
Charlemont Houle, the town refidence of 
Earl Charlemont. -It is of plain ftone 
architecture, embellifhed in front. with 
nothing more than a fimple door cafe, 
and architrave windows. ‘here is a femi-. 
circular fweep at each fide of the houfe, 
with niches in the wall and baluftrades 
at top; but its fituation being in the 
centre of a high ground, on the north fide 
of Rutland-Square, and commanding an 
entire view of a beautiful and extenfive 
pleafure-ground, called the New Gardens, 
fituate at the rear of the Lying-in Hof- 
pital, and terminated by that building, 
render this houfe delightful and chearful. 
in the extreme. The hall is fimple and 
neat, yet fuliciently large. ‘There are in 
it four columns of the Corinthian order. 
but they are of wood, which has an ap- 
pearance of poverty, and ill-accords witk. 
a ftone fronted houfle. -There are but 
three rooms upon the parlour-foor, viz. 
a breakfalt-parlour, a dining-pariour, and 
a drawing-room. In the breakfaft-par- 
lour there are fome good pictures, parti- 
cularly, an holy family by Vanlo, two 
original Hogarths, one, of the harlot’s 
progteis, in high keeping with a Jew; 
the other, called the lady's laf fae. 
This laft picture was copied after Ho- 
garth’s death, by a perfon jent from Lon- 
don to Dublin tor that purpofe, in order. 
to complete the engravings of that artift’s 
works. Lord Charlemont is alfo in pof- 
feffion of the original picture of the gates: 
of Calais, by Hogarth.. In the drawing | 
room are a few good pictures, particu- 
larly a St. Matthew, and a repenting 
Judas throwing down the pieces of filver, 
by Rembrant, in his beit ftile. ‘The 
principal floor of this houfe has never 
been finifhed, although built above thirty 
years, nor have even the walls or cieling 
been plaiftered. Ample amends is made 
for this apparent mifery, by the magni~ 
ficence of the library, which is attached 
to the rere of this houfe, at a diftance of 
about one hundred and fifty feet from the 
dwelling-houfe. This Jibrary, which 
ftands unrivalled by that of any private 
gentleman in ‘Europe; confifts of four 
fF rooms, 
