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Their groans will never out of my ears, nor their agonies out of my imagination. The extream tortures of the innocent ereatures, who often run abfolutely mad thro' the excefs of their pains; the cries of the children; the tears of the women; and the fwell of filent grief which the ftronger hearts of the men appear to labour with; all thefe together exhibit a fcene of compleat wretchedness, the bare remembrance of which I can fcarcely fupport, and which has made fuch an impreffion upon me, that I protest to you, my dear friend, I queftion whether I fhall ever rightly enjoy myself again, or no. Feb. with a kind of tenderness, as the nurfes of mankind. To fee thefe benefactors to our fpecies labouring under fuch intollerable pains, and feeming by their asking eyes to implore the affistance of the byftanders, must tenderly affect any heart of the leaft fenfibility, and give it sympaAthetic pain: How much more when it is full of that affection I speak of! B How little, my dear friend, do great numbers of the rich, who perhaps are following their pleafures at the metropelis, know or imagine the diftre's which fo many of their poor country tenants are groaning under! consider, we know not how foon the difIt gives me the utmost horror when I temper may climb up to mankind. It is not uncommon, I believe, for peftilential difeafes to begin with brutes and proceed to men; at least we have read of feveral inftances of it. If this fhould come to be the cafe (I fhudder at the thoughts of the fountains of the great it) never was there an event more alarmdeep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened!" It would certainly threaten the total deftruction of the race of Adam: For any great wafte in our fpecies would much more difficultly be repaired, as the propagation of men proceeds fo much flower than that of thefe creatures. Cing fince In this part of the nation, you know, as well as in many others, our main dependance is upon our stock of cattle, our D ground producing fcarce any corn, and very nearly our whole fubfiftence coming from our dairies. In little more than une month's time, we have loft by the diftemper three parts out of four of our horned cattle. A great many poor labouring men, whose whole wealth confifted of a or fometimes three, by which they fupported a family of children, have loft their all.. cow or two, This may give you fome idea of the lofs the country fuftains; but I hear every one cry, that the lofs is the very least part of their affliction. This you will easily comprehend if you reflect, that the country people, fenfible of what they owe to these creatures, from whom they have F their fupport, feed and tend them with the most follicitous care, which improves by degrees into fomething like natural affection. They are to them like the poor man's lamb in the parable of the prophet Nathan; are regarded even as branches of the family, and next to their own children. I have often, in happier times, pleafed myself with obferving how the women fondle and care's them, and call them by the most endearing names. I own for my own part cannot help regarding them in an affectionate light, and The late learned Mr. Whifton, write ing on this melancholy fubject, tells us "of other great and amazing judgments, which he fully and fuddenly expected as a confequence of what is already begun." It is in a letter of his to the prefent archbishop of Canterbury; in answer to which that excellent prelate, who has long (hewn a juft fenfe of the danger hanging over the nation from our prevailing vices and impieties, fpeaks thus: "Many good men concur with you on the fubject of the murrain; and I am afraid in a little time it will make the ftouteft of us cry out for mercy, and reach thofe high places which feem almoft out of the reach of fuch calamities. Really there is reafon for men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after the things which are coming on the earth !" Let me add by way of poffcript, that to increase the common calamity at prefent, the flocks in many parts of the country are dying as fast as the herds. G 1755. Account of FIELDING'S JOURNAL., traordinary Relish to Perfons of Benevolence N two hours we arrived in Redriffe, and immediately went on board, and were to have failed the next morning; but as this was the king's proclamationday, and coniequently a holiday at the Cuftom-house, the captain could not clear his vetfel till the Thursday; for these holidays are as strictly observed as thofe in the Popish calendar, and are almost as numerous. I might add, that both are oppofite to the genius of trade, and confequently contra bonum publicum. B C 55. looking at me. In this condition. I ran This may be faid, and this is all that To go on board the hip it was neceffary first to go into a boat; a matter of no fmall difficulty, as I had no use of my limbs, and was to be carried by men, who tho' fufficiently ftrong for their burden, were, like Archimedes, puzzled to find a steady footing. Of this, as few of my readers have not gone into wherries on the Thames, they will eafily be able to form to themselves an idea. However, by the affiftance of my friend Mr. Welch, whom I never think or fpeak of but with love and esteem, I conquered this difficulty, as I did afterwards that of afcending the hip, into which I was hoifted E with more cafe, by a chair lifted with pullies. I was foon feated in a great chair in the cabin, to refresh myself after a fatigne which had been more intolerable, in a quarter of a mile's paffage from my coach to the fhip, than I had before underz ne in a land journey of 12 miles, which I had travelled with the utmost expedition. This latter fatigue was, perhaps, fome what heightened by an indignation which I could not prevent arifing in my mind. I think, upon my entrance into the boat, 1 prefented a spectacle of the highest hor ror. F The total lofs of limbs was apparent to all who faw me, and my face contained marks of a moft difeafed ftate, if G nt of death itfelf. Indeed fo ghaft'y was my countenance, that timorous women with cuid had abftained from my houte, for fear of the ill confequences of A furloin of beef was now placed on the table, for which, tho' little better than carrion, as much was charged by the master of the little paltry ale-houfe who drefled it, as would have been demanded for all the elegance of the King's Arms, or any other polite tavern or eating-houfe; for indeed the difference between the best house and the worst is, that at the former you pay largely for luxury, at the latter for nothing. Thursday, June 27. This morning the captain, who lay on fhore at his own house, paid us a vifit in the cabin; and after having expreffed his concern at the impoffibility of failing fo fcon as he expected, hoped we would excufe delay, which he could not forefee, but affured us he would certainly fall down the river on Saturday. This indeed was no small mortification to me; for, befides the difagreeable fituation in which we then lay, in the confines of Wapping and Redriffe, tafting a delicious mixture of the air of both thefe fweet places, and enjoying the concord of fweet founds of feamen, watermen, fifh-women, oyfter-women, and of all the vociferous inhabitants of both thores, 56 DESCRIPTION of RADNORSHIRE. fhores, compofing altogether a greater DESCRIPTION of RADNORSHIRE, with a Corred MAP. ADNORSHIRE, a county of South R Wales, is bounded by Herefordinire C on the east, by Brecknockshire on the E 1. Radnor, or New Radnor, which ftands near the spring head of the river Somergil, in a valley called the forest of Radnor, which is very fruitful and which feeds abundance of sheep. It is a very ancient borough town and its jurif diction reaches 10 or 12 miles about. It is governed by a bailiff and 25 burgeffis, and keeps a court of plea for all actins F It was without limitation of the fum. 2. Defteign, the handfoment and best built town in the county is fituated in a pleafant vale, on the river Lug; the affizes are held and county goal kept there, G Feb. and it is much frequented and well inhabited. The market is weekly, on Saturday, and is particularly famous for the great quantities of malt which are brought to it. it is diftant from London 116 computed, and 148 measured miles. 3. Knighton, miles diftant from Presteign, seated in a valley, on a rifing ground upon the river Teme, over which it has a good bridge. It is a well built town, very much reforted to, and the inhabitants enjoy a confiderable trade. The market, which is held on Tuesdays, is well ferved with cattle, corn, provifi-` ons, iron ware, hops, &c. &c. The remains of part of Offa's Dyke lie near it, which that Mercian prince threw up, with prodigious labour and industry, as a boundary between his fubjects and the Britons, from the mouth of the Dee to the Wye, for near 100 miles. It is diftant from London 114 computed, and 147 measured miles. 4. Rhaiadargwy, a fmall town, with an inconfiderable market fituated on the river Wye; remarkable for a large wil. dernefs in its neighbourhood, made dreadful by many crooked ways and towering mountains, to which Vortigern retired after his repenting the invitation of the English Saxons and the incestuous mar riage of his own daughter. Near it are many furprizing cairns or burial places of the dead, perhaps malefactors, on whom thofe vaft heaps of ftones might have been caft; tho', before christianity was planted, men of the best quality, feem to have had fuch funeral piles. The river Wye croffes the weft angle of this county, and the rocks fomewhat abating its rapid courfe, it fuddenly falis over a deep precipice. The castle Rhaiadar, of which there are no veftiges, ftood near this cataract; but there e. mains a deep trench, cut out of a hard and folid rock, on one fide of what is fuppofed to have been the caftle-yard. This county was part of the ancient marches of Wales, a diftrict between that principality and England, for the government of which, and repreffing infolencies on either fide, certain powerful men, whofe lands lay nearest to thofe tracts, were called lords marchers, who had great power and jurifdiction in their feveral diftri&ts. The title of earl of mach, or of the marches, was first conferred on the Mortimers of Wigmore, and in Auguft 1675, was bestowed, by king Charles the Second, on the illuftrious family of Lenos, being now enjoyed by the reprefentative of that family his prefent grace the duke of Richmond. JOUR |