Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.

LETTER XLV.

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Chepstow. Marten the Regicide. The girl's explanation. Taxes imposed by English lords and gentlemen on travellers. The possessor of Piercefield. Crossing the Bristol Channel. Men and horses pèle mèle. Recapitulation. Natural pictures. The most beautiful building. Bristol. The feudal churches. Disinterested piety of English clergymen. The mayor's equipage. Cook's Folly. Lord de Clifford's park. Russian fleet. The model of a village. Clifton. The black and white house. Sensibility of surgeons. Bath. The king of Bath. The Abbey church. Singular decoration. King James the Second's heroic feat. The eccentric Beckford. The tower. Strange _cortege_. The visit over the wall. Gothic architecture. Christmas-eve market. Walks by day and night. The conflagration......460