absence, he will certainly be reminded that the waiter, the chamber-maid, the boots, and perhaps the ostler and porter, are not to be forgotten.

These customs, while they cannot be considered as honourable to the national manners, and are very troublesome to travellers, who are every where pestered with a swarm of expectants, are however productive of some very useful consequences. The servants, looking for their reward from the guest, are attentive to all his wishes, and assiduous to promote his comfort; their service is cheerfully rendered, and not with that sullen salvo for personal dignity, which we so often see in America. In England, the servant is contented with his condition; he does not aim at any thing higher, while in America a person of this description will usually behave in such a manner as to evince that he regards you as being no better than himself. This inconvenience arises, however, from the multiplied resources and superior condition of the low. er orders in America, and although one would wish to alter their deportment, still, as a patriot, he would not choose to remove the cause.

Being about to leave Liverpool, I have paid my bill, and after giving the waiter his due, I asked him whe ther that was as much as he usually received ?—he replied, that it was what mere travellers paid him, but that American gentlemen usually paid very liberally.

There was a French servant in the house, who, from the first, manifested designs upon our pockets. With the characteristic obsequiousness of his country, he was all bows, smiles, and flourishes, with most abun. dant declarations of the pleasure it would give him to consult our wishes; and he professed a peculiar sym

pathy for our situations, as being himself a stranger. He had fought for his king, and lost his estate; he had been in battles and sieges from Dunkirk to Toulon, and enumerated a list of illustrious commanders under whom he had served. Being amused with his harmless vanity, we listened with some attention to his story, and this gave him such spirits, that, "thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.” I called for a candle to go to bed ;-the Frenchman bounded through the long entry, with the elasticity of an antelope, and brought me one in less time than I have taken to relate the circumstance, and as he presented it, with a profound bow, begged my pardon. I told my companion, Mr. R—, that unless we repressed this man's obsequiousness, we should be obliged not only to pay him for his services, but for the loss of his nobility, for no one ever saw a Frenchman in a servile situation, in a foreign country, who was not, in his own account of the matter, very much out of his proper place in society, and who had not been a marquis, or at least a gentleman. We treated our Monsieur coldly for a day or two, and his bows, smiles, and flourishes all vanished.

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Ride to Manchester....Gilead House....Prescot... Warrington.... Beautiful scenery....Affability of stage companions. ..Manchester.... Sunday....English hospitality....A family scene........... College.....Roman camp.....Gothic church.....Prince Charles ....Rebellion of 1745. ..Barbarities....A philosophical lecture ....Volunteers....Sunday drilling....Duke of Bridgewater's canal...Ancient typography....Cotton manufactories... Method of stamping chintzes.... Of cutting velvets.... Of singeing the shag....New process of bleaching...American sumac... Sketch of Manchester....Manners, morals, and condition of the artists.

RIDE TO MANCHESTER.

May 11.-In the afternoon I left Liverpool for Manchester, in company with my fellow-passenger, Mr. R. You have heard that people ride on the roofs of the English stage coaches. This situation affords fine views of the country, and is often a convenient refuge when the inside places are all taken. I mounted the roof, and although the situation was so giddy, that at first I grasped the iron railing with great care, I soon learned to fold my arms in security, trusting to the balance of position.

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The first interesting object which attracted our notice, as we proceeded into the country, was Gilead House, the seat of the celebrated Dr. Solomon. need not inform you that the Doctor is well known in America, for every man who has learning enough to read a newspaper, and eyes enough to peruse double pica letters on an apothecary's door, must have become acquainted with the merits and modesty of Dr. Solo

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In Liverpool he is universally called a quack and an impostor, but you know where it is that the prophet is usually without honour, and if the Doctor has missed of obtaining this reward, he has gained a more substantial retribution-an ample fortune.

The first eight or ten miles we travelled on a paved way, and our progress was much embarrassed by the great number of carts going into Liverpool.

Our first stage was Prescot, an ancient town, built of brick. The appearance of that street through which we rode was disagreeable. Here the rain compelled me to leave the roof for the inside. Eight or ten miles more brought us to Warrington, another ancient town, with very narrow streets and houses of a ruinous aspect. The country in its vicinity is extremely beautiful, and through the next stage of 18 miles, to Man chester, we had a continued succession of green fields, neat hedge-rows, rivulets, and country seats; scenes peculiarly delightful to us who had so recently been on the ocean. Our companions were social, and we found that the circumstance of being shut up in the same coach, enabled us to dispense with the formalities of introduction. Conversation flowed without interruption, and every inquiry was answered with readiness.

Lancashire is a fine country for grass and cattle. Its dray-horses are animals of stupendous size; they are perfectly black, very fat, and rarely move faster than a walk. The carts in Liverpool are drawn by horses of this description, and one of them was imported into Connecticut a few years ago, for the sake of improv. ing our own dray breed, but I believe the experiment did not succeed, as our climate appears not well adapt. ed to so corpulent an animal.

MANCHESTER.

May 12.-It being the Sabbath, we wandered out to find a church, and by chance came to the old Cathedral, where an attendant, an old man, dressed in a kind of uniform of blue and red, conducted us to a seat in the gallery, as we were strangers, and had no claim to any more honourable place.

The preacher was a young man, who seemed very intent on exhibiting "his own fair form and just proportion."

His sermon was a kind of discursive historical essay on the temporary apostacy of St. Peter; it had very little theology in it, of hy kind. He had, however, one merit which his appearance would not have led one to expect, that of being superior to the desire of flattering at least one half of his audience; for he remarked, that St. Peter was confounded by the question of a maid servant, nay intimidated by a look from a woman. This church was well filled, and the greater part appeared to be poor people.

ENGLISH HOSPITALITY.

Having as yet been in England only a few days, my curiosity, as you may well suppose, is active, and con. stantly employed, in comparing the manners of this old country with those of the very young one of which we are natives. The comparisons of travellers, and their general conclusions, are however always liable to error, because they judge from a limited view of the subject; the present instance furnishes the hint, and is too apt to form the basis of the conclusion. General inductions are always dangerous unless drawn from a great number of particulars. For instance, I experi