. Marquis of Rockingham.—Tour from New York, Sc. 
Which had long been ftrangers to Britifh councils, 
He gave peace and fecurity to his native land, 
‘LipenTy TO AMERICA, eta 
And, coinciding with the unparalleled efforts of her virtuous fons, 
RESTORED HER RIGHTS to IRELAND! 
As his life was the fupport, 
His death had well nigh been the ruin of the Britifh empire; 
As if his lamenting country 
Had been loath to furvive her darling fon, 
Her friend, her benefaétor, her preferver! 
We. Os PB. 
in this room is a colle€tion of medels 
in Terra Cotta, copied under Lord Char- 
Jemont’s immediate infpeétion, when in 
Italy, of moft. of the celebrated antique 
buftos in that part of Europe, upwards 
of fifty in number; and it muft be a 
CHARLEMONT. 
pleafing circumftance to Know, that all 
ladies and gentlemen are with the utmof 
liberality permitted to view this magni- 
ficent fuite of rooms. 
[To be coutinued.] 
hg rT a a ae 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
JouRNEY from NEW-YorK fo PHILa- 
DELPHIA and the BRANDYWINE, iz 
the STATE of PENSYLVANIA. 
(Continued from page 332.) 
MR. EDITOR, 
ARLY in the evening we arrived in 
Philadelphia, having been 36 hours 
on the journey ; though it is frequently 
erformed, and with facility, in lefs. 
Glad to evade the noify buftle of the inn, 
I took lodgings in Second-ftreet ; and 
fallying out.in the cool of the evening, 
went in queft of my Quaker friend, who 
Wad agreed to give me the meeting here ; 
and, good as his word, politely received 
and introduced me to his acquaintance. 
Philadelphia, at firft ight, has much the 
appearance of an Englith town, but I 
doubt whether Great: Britain can juftly 
boaft of one fo perfectly regular and beau- 
tiful. To attempt a‘particular deferip- 
tion of it would be fupertluous, after the 
repeated information on the fubjeét al- 
ready before the public, therefore brevity 
will de. . In extent and. number of inha- 
bitants, it far exceeds every other town 
in the United States, for they amount 
(according to a recent eftimate) to 60,000, 
fome authors fay 70,cc0. “No apparent 
decreafe of population was difcoverable, 
as one would naturally enough have ex- 
pected, after the very fevere vifitation 
(the fatal fever of 1793) itthad recently 
experienced ;.but probably the continual 
influx of European and Weft-Indian 
emigration, had fully contributed to re- 
place the lofs occafioned by fo calamitous 
amortality. | 
Along the quays’on the banks of the 
Demware, ali was bufy throng and com- 
mercial buftle, denoting a very extenfive 
trade, as alfo appeared trom the vaft quan- 
tities of home and foreign produce, either 
imported, or ready for exportation : the 
latter chiefly confifted of flour, wheat, 
India-corn, ftaves, and pot and pearl- 
afhes. The Delaware here affumes the 
grandeur of a noble viver ; the width be- 
ing confiderably greater than that of the - 
Thames at Weftminfter-bridge, though 
double the diftance: from the fea,—118 
-miles from the Capes, where it difem- 
bogues its mighty waters into the Atlan- 
tic Ocean. ‘The afcent from its thores 
on either fide is gradual, which, together 
with the fine paftures and variety of tim- 
ber growing on the oppofite banks, give 
the profpeét, as beheld from the upper 
parts of the town, and from the quays, 
am exceedingly ‘pleafant look. As for 
the city itfelf, notwithftanding the mo- 
dern elegance of feveral of the ftreets and 
buildings, and the wonderful regularity 
of the whole; it quickly conveys to the 
mind an idea of dulne!s and infipidity : 
at leaft it had that efrect on me, which I 
could only attribute to, that very uni- 
formity fo generally admired. The mind 
of man naturally inclines to the love of 
variety, and perhaps no circumftance im 
life tends more to render it defirable 5 
therefore, to the yenerality of people, the 
varied and irregular magnificence of the- 
weft end of the Britifh metropolis, or of 
the city of Bath, will prove imcomparably 
more attractive and pleafing ‘than ‘the 
elegant uniformity of Philadelphia. In 
point of temperature and. ialubrity of 
climate, conveniency and beauty of ma- 
ritime fituation, or romantic, picturefque 
{cenery, it muft decidedly give up the palm 
to its rival New-York : a few revolving 
= ee years 
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