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Letters from England, Volume 2 (of 3)
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Transcriber's Note:

This work is by Robert Southey. It is a fictitious account of an imaginary Spanish nobleman travelling through England.

Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has been rationalised. Inconsistent spelling (including accents and capitals) has been retained.

LETTERS
FROM
ENGLAND:

BY
DON MANUEL ALVAREZ ESPRIELLA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND
BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1814.

Edinburgh :
Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.

Page

LETTER XXXII

High-street , Oxford.Dress of the Oxonians.Christ Church Walk.Friar Bacon's Study.Lincoln College.Baliol.Trinity.New College.Saint John's.Mode of Living at the Colleges.Servitors.Summer Lightning.

LETTER XXXIII

Reform in the Examinations at Oxford.Nothing but Divinity studied there.Tendency towards the Catholic Faith long continued there.New Edifices.The Bodleian.The Schools.

LETTER XXXIV

Godstow.Fair Rosamund.Blenheim. Water-Works at Enstone.Four-shire Stone.Road to Worcester.Vale of Evesham.Hop-yards.Malvern Hills.

LETTER XXXV

Man killed at Worcester by a Sword-fish.Teignton Squash.Grafting.Ned of the Toddin.Worcester China.Cathedral.St Wulstan.K. John's Grave.Journey to Birmingham.

LETTER XXXVI

Birmingham.Miserable State of the Artificers.Bad Guns manufactured for the Guinea Trade.Anecdotes of Systematic Roguery.Coiners.Forgers.Riots in 1791.More Excuse for Dishonesty here than in any other Place.

LETTER XXXVII

Mail Coaches.Mr Palmer ill-used.Vicinity of Birmingham.Collieries on fire.Stafford.Stone.Newcastle-under-Line.Punishments for Scolding.Cheshire.Bridgewater Arms at Manchester.

LETTER XXXVIII

Manchester.Cotton Manufactory.Remarks upon the pernicious Effects of the manufacturing System.

LETTER XXXIX

Manchester.Journey to Chester.Packet-boat.Brindley.Rail Roads.Chester Cathedral.New Jail.Assassination in the South of Europe not like Murder in England.Number of Criminals,but Abatement of Atrocity in Crimes.Mitigation of Penal Law.Robert Dew.Excellent Administration of Justice.Amendments still desired.

LETTER XL

Voyage to Liverpool.Filthy Custom at the Inns.School of the Blind.Athenum.Mr Roscoe.Journey to Kendal.

LETTER XLI

Queen Mary I.Lake of Winandermere.AmblesideLake of Coniston.Kirkstone Mountain.Lake of Brotherwater.Paterdale.Lake of Ulswater.Penrith.

LETTER XLII

Keswick, and its Lake.Lodore Waterfall.Ascent of Skiddaw.

LETTER XLIII

Borrodale.Wasdale.Waswater.Calder Bridge.Ennerdale.Crummock Water.Lake of Buttermere.Lakes on the Mountains.

LETTER XLIV

Departure from the Lakes.Wigton.Carlisle.Penrith.The Borderers.The Pillar of the Countess.Appleby.Brough.Stainmoor.Bowes.Yorkshire Schools.

LETTER XLV

York City and Minster.Journey to Lincoln.Travellers imposed upon.Innkeepers.Ferry over the Trent.Lincoln.Great Tom.Newark.Alconbury Hill.

LETTER XLVI

Cambridge.Republican Tendency of Schools counteracted at College.College a useful Place for the debauched Students, a melancholy one for others.Fellowships.Advantage of a University Education.Not so necessary as it once was.

LETTER XLVII

Newmarket.Cruelty of Horse-racing.Process of Wasting.Character of a Man of the Turf.Royston.Buntingford.Cheshunt.Return to London.

LETTER XLVIII

Middlesex Election.Nottingham Election.Seats in Parliament, how obtained.Modes of Bribery.Aylesbury.Ilchester.Contested Elections.Marriages at Bristol.Want of Talent in the English Government accounted for.

LETTER XLIX

Fashion.Total Change in the English Costume.Leathern Breeches. Shoes.Boots.Inventors of new Fashions.Colours.Female Fashions. Tight Lacing.Hair-dressing.Hoops.Bustlers.Rumps.Merry-thoughts and Pads.

LETTER L

Lady Wortley Montagu's Remark upon Credulity.Superstitions of the English respecting the Cure of Diseases.Sickness and Healing connected with Superstition.Wesley's Primitive Physic.Quacks.Dr Graham.Tractors.Magnetic Girdles.Quoz.Quack Medicines.

LETTER LI

Account of Animal Magnetism.

LETTER LII

Blasphemous Conclusion of Mainauduc's Lectures.The Effects which he produced explainedDisappearance of the Imposture.

LETTER LIII

Methodists.Wesley and Whitfield.Different Methods of attacking the Establishment.Tithes.Methodism approaches Popery, and paves the Way for it.William Huntington, S. S.

ESPRIELLA'S
LETTERS FROM ENGLAND.

LETTER XXXII.

High-street, Oxford.Dress of the Oxonians.Christ Church Walk.Friar Bacon's Study.Lincoln College.Baliol.Trinity.New College.Saint John's.Mode of Living at the Colleges.Servitors.Summer Lightning.

D . has a relation at one of the colleges, to whom he dispatched a note immediately upon our arrival. By the time tea was ready he was with us. It must be admitted, that though the English are in general inhospitable towards foreigners, no people can be more courteous to those who are properly introduced. The young student told us that he should show us the University with as much pleasure as we could see it; for he had abstained from visiting many things himself, till he should have a lion to take with him. Upon enquiring the meaning of this strange term, I found that I was a lion myself; it is the name for a stranger in Oxford.

The High-street, in which our inn is situated, is said to be the finest street in Europe. The Calle de Alcala is longer, broader, straighter, and, were the trees in the Prado of tolerable size, would have a finer termination. In point of fine buildings, I should suppose no street can be compared with this; but the whole cannot be seen at once, because it is not sufficiently straight.

The dress of the collegians is picturesque; that which the great body of students wear is not unlike that of a secular priest. The cap is square, worn diagonally, covered with black cloth, and has a silk tassel in the middle: noblemen have the tassel of gold. It is graceful, but inconvenient, being of no use against sun, wind, or rain. Every degree has its distinguishing habit; they are not numerous, and all are of the same colour. I was the more sensible of the beauty of this collegiate costume, as cloaks are not worn in this country: there are no monastics, and the clergy are not to be distinguished from the laity; so that there is a total want of drapery in the dress of Englishmen every where, except in the universities.

We went after tea to a walk belonging to the college of Christ Church, a foundation of the famous Wolsey, who thus made some compensation to literature, and, as he thought, to the church, for the injury which he had done them. The foundation has been greatly increased;it has a modern square, finely built, with a modern gateway leading to it; but modern buildings are not in keeping with the monastic character of the place. Our monasteries, indeed, are rarely or never so beautiful as these colleges: these are lighter, without being the less venerable in appearance, and have that propriety about them which characterizes every thing English. The greater part of Christ Church college is antient; nothing can be finer than the great gateway, the great square, and the open ascent to the refectory, though the great square is debased by a little miserable fountain of green and stinking water in the centre, so pitiful, that the famous

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