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eburch, by assisting at the eommunion 
every Christmas and Easter-day. These, 
added to clergymen who may be visitors, 
elad in surplices, and all officiating at 
ence, render the scené in the highest 
degree solemn and impressive: The 
communicants, on these occasions, 
amounting to seven or eight hundred, 
kneel in different parts of a large chapel 
which surrounds the altar; the ministers 
carry round to them, as in colleges, the 
sacramental bread and wine, the large 
organ playing the 100th psalm. 
There are in Leeds a number of pub- 
Nie charities, well manayed and liberally 
supported: an infirmary, a fever-house, 
and large Sunday-schoel establishments. 
The inhabitants will contribute largely 
to every scheme which promises to be 
useful; but they have no idea of the 
ernamental. In the middle of the square 
in which the infirmary stands, and which 
ought to be decorated with trees, fuun- 
tains, and gravel-walks, the space con- 
tains long rows of posts, with webs of 
blue cloth stretched on the tenter-hooks. 
Owing to the same solidity of under- 
standing and absence of taste, no public 
amusements ever succeed in Leeds: at 
least none merely pleasurable. ‘There 
are assemblies attended like a London 
church on a Sunday afternoon; concerts 
at which Orpheus, for lack of men and 
women, might attempt toinove the stone 
walls; and plays, where the comedians 
grin, but cannot smile, over a “ beggarly 
account of empty boxes.” 
But Jet any Dr. Mac-Stirabout from 
the university of St. Andrew’s, arrive in 
Leeds with a course of lectures on na- 
tural philosophy, and his harvest is made 
in a fortnight. I went to the theatre 
one evening, by the way, and heard the 
hero of the piece call his charmer, his 
“dear heartless girl;” while one actor 
talked of his honnor, and another of his 
“appiness.” It was impossible to find 
fault with this transposition; as it is but 
reasonable and fair, that if the ” is taken 
- away from one word to which it belongs, 
“§t should be restored in another quarter 
where it is superflucus. One of the best 
stories of the misplacing of this letter, 
has been related concerning a_ pious 
cockney, who being desirous to commu. 
nicate, went into a circulating library at 
Brighton, and asked the bookseller if he 
had: a “Companion to the Haltar.” 
“© No, Sir,” said the summer adventurer 
of Leadenhall-street, ‘we have got the 
Newgate Calendar; but the Companion 
to the Walter has not yet come down,” 
Journal of a Winter Tour from Leeds to London. {July 1, 
There is a large public library in Leeda, 
having a handsome external appearanee, 
and a good stock of books; but the most 
liberal establishment is the news-room, 
which is open to any stranger of genteel 
appearance. 
Leeds contains a presbyterian meet- 
ing-house, where Dr. Priestly formerly 
held forth: but if I were to recount alt 
the sects who have here cut out different 
paths to the same place, I should be 
obliged to get Mr. Evans’s Sketch, and 
copy his title-page. The cloth of Leeds 
is unrivalled. Itis an hour’s walk round 
the cloth-halls. As soon as a bell rings, 
early in the morning, on the two market- 
days, multitudes walk in without any 
disorder or noise. Each seller of cloth 
knows his own place; and laying his 
goods on a table, stands opposite to them, 
as a shopman behind a counter. The 
pieces lie long-ways elose to one ano- 
ther; and the factors and buyers walk 
along the lanes, examining different ar- 
ticles. Leaning over to the clothier, 
they demand the price in a whisper: 
and the whole is transacted in a moment, 
Sometiines, in one ae tyenty thousand 
pounds worth of cloth are bought and 
sold in this manner. The woollen cloths 
of Leeds are exported, after being taken 
to Hull by the water-carriage of “the 
Aire and Calder, which fall into the 
Humber at Ferrybridge. In Gott’s Ma- 
nnfactory, the whole process of making 
woollen cloths may be seen, from the 
shearing of the sheep to the packing up 
of the finished cloth, The greater part 
of this process is of course carried on by 
machinery: but the cloth brought to 
market in the halls, is made by cottagers 
in their houses. The different parts of 
the manufacture employ the whole 
family; and as the children are thus at 
once kept to industry, and subjected to 
the eye of their parents, the woollen 
manufacture, as thus carried-on, is more 
favourable to morals than ,the cotton 
business; which is almost wholly con- 
ducted in factories. The Yorkslure 
coals are carried from Leeds and Wake- 
field te York, from whence the Ouse 
forwards them to the Humber. They 
have this advantage over the Newcastle 
coals, that being borne on the river, they 
are exempt from the duty of four shil- 
lings per chaldron, to which sea-ceal is 
subject. Z 
Harrowgate, eighteen miles to the 
north of Leeds, is too well known for the 
efficacy of its mineral waters, to detain 
us in describing it. It consists of twa 
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