1805.] 
complexity far nearer to an idea of fenfa- 
tion, than any fimpler fketch would have 
appeared todo. So that, whether we ex- 
amine, our ideas analytically or fyntheti- 
cally, we are led to conclude, in dixect op- 
ofition to Locke, that abftract or general 
ideas are the more fimple; and fenfible 
or particular ideas the more complex. 
So mere a remark hardly deferves the 
name of an inference; yet it is not un- 
important, for a vaft portion of the Effay 
on Human Underftanding, which paffes 
for a claflical work in ideology, will be 
found to repofe on the erroneous affump- 
tion that ideas of fenfaticn are fimple and 
unmixed, 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N addition to the defcription of the 
_ city of Carlifle, given in your Maga. 
zine for April 1801, I beg leave to add 
the following particulars. | 
Every ftranger who vifited this city, 
was fenfible, from its fituation, of its be- 
ing capable of much improvement, and 
many regretted the circumftances that 
Operated to retard it ; and though hints 
had been given by men of tafte refpecting 
its enlargement, it was not till the year 
1803 that any ferious efforts were made 
to put theie hints into execution. At 
that period the corporation, co-operating 
with the inhabitants, procured an act of 
parliament, ‘ for the purpofe of lighting 
and paving the ftreets, and opening a paf- 
fage through the citadel.” Whatever the 
bill provided was immediately carried 
into effect, The appearance of the town 
was much improved by fpaciaus pave- 
ments on each fide of tite ftreets. It is 
likewife well lighted ; and the paflage 
through the citadel, on the fouth extre- 
mity of the city, connects two extenfive 
ftreets, which run in a line with each 
other. But thefe are not the only im- 
provements which have been effected at 
Carlifle. The beautiful Gothic buildings 
which appertain to the cathedral, and 
even the cathedral itfelf, was thought ca- 
pable of receiving embellifhment. -The 
chapter-houfe, which had Jain in ruins 
fince the civil wars in Charles I.’s time, 
was repaired, and its rich and elegant 
windows of Gothic tracery, cleared from 
the wooden fhutters whjch had long ob. 
feured them. The abbey ciofe or yard, 
on the fouth fide of the cathedral, was 
cleared of a great quantity of subbimh that 
had accumulated trom neglect, and re- 
duced toa level; while a foacious gravel- 
walk was conducted in an eafy line along 
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Account of the City of Carlifte. 221 
the fide of the cathedral, and leading by 
the houfes in the abbey-clofe appropriated 
for the refidence of the dean, prebenda-. 
ries, and other fuperior officers of this 
church, and along an avenue of venerable 
lime-trees. It was farther propofed to 
take down a fragment of the cloilters, 
and unite the two feparate greens into 
one, which might be embellifhed by a 
broad gravel-walk (weeping round it. 
Within the cathedral many improve- 
ments were fuggelted, particularly the 
embellifhment of the tranfept and nave, 
which at prefent ill accord with the ex- 
treme beauty of the choir and the eaftern 
part of the building. Nor ought it to be 
omitted to be ftated here, that orders were 
given by the chapter to Mr. Avery, of 
London, to build a magnificent organ, 
which is to be in the Gothic ftyle, to ac- 
cord with the ornaments of the elegant 
choir in which it is to be placed. 
The caftle of Carlifle is alfo undergoing 
confiderable repairs, being thought by 
Government an object worthy of its care ; 
though we cannot help deprecating the 
taffe which, to forward thefe repairs, has 
fhut up one of the moft public frequented 
walks within the precincts of the city— 
the Caftle-hill, and doomed to deftruction 
the venerable afh-trees whofe {preading 
branches fhaded it. Thefe trees were 
confecrated in the eyes of every lover of 
beauty and every friend of antiquity, be- 
ing planted by the unfortunate Mar 
Queen of Scotland after her difaftrous de- 
feat at Langfide, when, taking refuge 
in the dominions of her fifter-queen, 
fhe was detained a prifoner here under the 
care of Lord Scroope, then warden of the 
weftern marches. © Part of the keep of the 
caftle is converted into a magazine, the 
chapel has been unroofed and heightened, 
a new armoury has been built in the 
area of the caftle, and the whole will, when 
finifhed, con{titute a grand military depot, 
furnifhed with tenthoufand (tand. of arms, 
and military ftores to the amount of three 
hundred thoufand pounds. 
But while thefe improvements have 
been effected, much to the fatisfaction of 
every inhabitant, itis a fubject of regret 
that many obftacles are fuffered to counter- 
act the laudable fpirit lacely manifelted.— 
The town, in every part, exhibits marks 
of opulence and wealth, chiefly arifing 
from fpeculations in manufactures and 
ecommerce. Print-flelds, cotton-mills, and 
bleach-grounds, ftrike the eye of the 
flraoger at every avenue, while the louad 
of the fhuttle falutes his ear on his ap- 
proach. White, therefore, additional im - 
Ff provements 
