Vol. V.] 
fidering the 3d of June, 1796, the era of 
their triumph over the powerful influence 
of great families, and of their afferting 
and obtaining their independence, had 
an appropriate medal ftruck, which I 
fend you. ; 
The figure of a buli has long been re- 
ecived as fymbolical of the dullnefs or 
tamenefs of the Englifh character. On 
the Face of the medal, therefore, appears: 
a bull breaking its chain:, and trampling 
them under its feet. The infcription on 
the edge, or, as it is called, the LEGEND, 
is fimply Herefordfhire. The exergue, 
June 3, 1796. 
' The reverfe is defcriptive of - the 
Tour in the Vicinity of Dublin, 
545 
agricultural charatter of Herefordthire, 
which is well known to abound with the 
apple tree, the pride of that county, and 
with the oak tree. A circle of oak leaves, 
an appletree, and plough, are, therefore, 
devices properly illuftrative of this cha- 
racter. ‘The fimplicity and appropriate- 
nefs of this medal render it unneceflary 
for me to offer any more obfervations. 
I thall be happy, fir, if to the excellent 
medal fent you from Edinburgh, you 
fhall fee reafon to add this. I remain, 
refpectfully, yours, G. Dyer, 
[The prefent Effay was fent to the Editog 
nearly a twelvemonth ago, but was miflaid. J 
Ee 
TOUR IN THE VICINITY OF DUBLIN, 
PERFORMED IN THE AUTUMN OF 1797, 
[Continued from the Magazine for Fune.] 
HE next houfe which claims any at- 
tention as an archite¢tural front, in 
Dublin, is Lord Powerfcourt’s, in Wil- 
liam. ftreet ; the archite€ture is found, 
and not devoid of tafte; it has a large 
ruftic gateway upon either fide, but its 
being fituated in one of the narroweft 
fireets, together with one of the moft 
crowded meat markets in that city, being 
within a few feet of the hall door, renders 
it almoft wholly unpleafant, and unwor- 
thy of notice. 
The marquis of Waterford’s houfe, in 
Marlborough-ftreet, is a good, plain, 
ftone-fronted building, detached from the 
fireet by a heavy wall, but it has a fpace 
of ground in the rife, forming a lawn and 
fhrubbery, and occupied by offices, &c. of 
not lefs than four acresin the whole. The 
former beauty of this fituation is almoft 
entirely deftroyed, by the number of 
houfes recently built in that vicinity, 
which, at prefent, nearly furround it. 
Lord Aldborough is now building, in a 
fituation the moft fwampy, and one of the 
Joweft levels in Dublin (called the North 
Strand), a very handfome houfe, as to ex-_ 
ternal appearance ; the north or principal 
front is of Irifh granite,; or mountain- 
ftone, which is of a very durable texture, 
and of a very bright colour, being much 
whiter than Portland ftone, and of a 
grain which works perfeétly neat and 
fharp, as far as is requifite for mouldings, 
cornices, &c. but not for ornamental carv- 
ings; the other three fronts are of a com- 
pofition of plaifter laid upon brick walls, 
and are intended to refemble ftone afhlers; 
 ghere is a neat baluftrade furrounding the 
~ Moxtsary Mags. Ne. SXXIII, 
roof, decorated with fome ornaments of 
Code’s artificial ftone-manufaétory at 
Weftmintter-bridge, from whence they 
were carried thither, as likewife his lord- 
‘fhip’s arms in éefo-relievo, placed in & 
pediment in the north front; but fuch a 
houfe, in and upon fuch an ill-chofen f{pot, 
is the aftonifhment of every perfon who 
fees it, even of common tafte: it is, bes 
fides, befpatcered upon all fronts with 
-Mottos, which makes it appear extremely 
vulgar: in a freize immediately below the 
cornice, in the principal front, is engraved, 
in capital letters, SIT, SITI, LE TAN. 
TUR.,; and in the freize of a fmall pore 
tico over the hall-door, in the fame front, 
is alfo engraved, in large letters, OTIUM 
CUM DIGNITATE. This is rendered 
the more ludicrous, by a circumftance 
which prefentéd juft at the time of this 
motto being exhibited, namely, that of the 
prefent Lord Chancellor of Ireland hav. 
ing declared, in the Houfe of Peers, his 
aAntention of moving for a cenfure upon 
Lord Aldborough, for ial-praétice ; this 
intention, however, the Chancellor waved, 
but, neverthelels, ordered his Majefty’s 
Attorney-General in that kingdom, to 
profecute Lord Aldborough for a libel 
againft the dignicy of parliament, and his 
ftation, which was accordingly done in 
obcdience to that order ,and his lordfhip 
was found guilty of the fame in the coure 
of King’s-Bench, in la% Michaeimas 
Term. There is ercéting, cicfe to the 
principal front of this houfe, a building 
which, from its ftrange appearance, in- 
duced me to enquire #cr what it sas ine 
tended ? when the workmen ainiwered, 
ond 
Re * klay “ 
