1807.] 
amidst a romantic part of the under cliff ; 
the grounds are extensive, and compre- 
hend a rich yariety. The house is con- 
cealed till we come close to it, amidst 
woods and rocks; and a long trellissed 
way, covered with vines, leads to. its 
front; which opens on a knoll, around 
which the eround has been cleared, for 
the creation of gardens and shrubberies. 
Steps cut in the rock and overarched 
with shade, lead to the wild fantastic 
scenery on the mountains; amid whose 
broken craggs a way has heen formed, 
without doing violence to nature, by 
which a park phaeton_ may ascend to 
their utmost summit. In a most retired 
and romantic situation, half-sheltered by 
masses of projecting clitts, is a sort of 
rural pavilion ; which, by its little Gothic 
windows, and crucifix’ on the top, as- 
sumes the appearance of a chapel, or 
hermitage. here are a stillness and a so- 
lemnity in this scene, peculiarly impres- 
sive, and 
*«* Meditation here might think down hours 
to moments.’ 
Yn different parts of the grounds are cot- 
tages simply elegant, where gardeners and 
labourers reside; these give interest and 
cheerfulness to the scene, and manifest 
the benevolent character of the noble 
possessor. 
The whole of this ride beneath the 
under cliff, is sublime, beyond all that ' 
fancy has pictured. The stupendous 
height and varied furms of the dark-grey 
cliff, towering in awful. majesty above ; 
the rich and lovely landscape in the 
valley; and the broad blue deep, swelling 
on the shore ; ; all combine to produce a 
scene which cannot be adequately deli- 
neated. Its effects on a mind so happily 
organized as to feel it in all its power, 
cannot be better described than in the 
following language: “ The majesty of 
the scene, very much heightened by one 
of the most glowing and beautiful sun- 
sets | ever beheld, quite overcame me. 
I wept as a new idea of the power and 
immensity of the author of creation shot 
across my soul; and silently adored the 
Being who could create a scene so sub- 
lime, and tune the human heart tosuch ex- 
guisite sensations.”—( ‘Io be conéinued. ) 
expence, now so lavishly bestowed on her 
numerous tribes of dogs and cats; and endea- 
your to secure that refined and sacred plea- 
sure, which must resule from judicious efforts 
to benefit her indigent and suffering fellow- 
creatures 
‘filled with combuttibles ; 
Account of the Company of Firemen at Paris, 429 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT OF TNE COMPANY OF FIREMEN 
AT PARIS. 
Fas eft et ab hofte doceri. 
NGULISi literature abounds in pub- 
4 lications contauting ample and ac- 
curate information on almott every thing 
either ufeful or interefling in the city of 
Paris. There are, however, fome fub- 
jects of contiderable importance in that 
capital, concerning which the accounts 
of our tourilts are fartrom being fatisfac- 
tory. One of thele is the means ufed te 
prevent the fpreading of cor lagrations. 
If the police of Paris has folie features 
which an Englifhman mutt abhor, it alfo 
is remarkable for a few regulations that 
delerve commendation : among the latter 
is undoubtedly to be clatled le-Corps des 
Pompicrs, ov Company of Firemen. 
It is On record, that in the courfe of 
the year 1805, from January to Septem- 
ber, upwards of three hund red houfes in 
Paris caught fire: yet ofall thefe accidents 
the majority of the Parifians remained 
totally ignorant; becaufé even where the 
ereatett danger appeared, not a fingle 
dwelling was totally laid in afhes, ow- 
ing to the exertions of the firemen. In 
the above number are not compre- 
hended fome equally dangerous acci- 
dents of fire that happened in cellars 
and in which 
the flames were extinguifhed with fuch 
expedition, that mot. of the inhabitants 
of the very {treet where the conflagra- 
tion broke out, heard nothing of it. Lett 
the writer fhould be fufpected of exag- 
geration, he thinks it not improper, in 
this place, to relate what fell under his 
own obfervation. When in the year 1805, 
he refided in Paris, a fire broke out, in 
the evening, two doors from the houfe 
where he lodged. All prefent deemed 
the danger to be imminent, efpecially 
as the adjoining houfe was occupied by 
a. druggilt, who kept in his cellar a quan- 
tity of gunpowder, together with a varie- 
ty of combuttibies, which, it was dread- 
ed every moment, eles eaten fire. The 
firemen arrived in time fufficient to check 
the blaze; and by the exertion of their 
fill and intrepidity confined, and, in the 
{pace of a few hours, totally quenched 
thofe flames, which, perhaps, in any 
other city, would have confumed whole 
streets. During ali this time the writer 
was sitting quietly i in his room, without 
the leatt knowledge of the danse er which 
menaced defiruétion to the houfe of his 
neighbour, | 
In moit towns and cities of the Conti- 
neat 
