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to exert its influence, or excessive delicacy preserve her sway. What sensations such a determination immediately acted up to must have caused, he has often dwelt upon, and more than once impelled the pity of regret. Still, however, when he retraces his conduct, his Conscience does not upbraid him, neither does his eyes sink abashed at the present record his pen indites. What the opposite party feels he cares not. He little heeds the unworthiness of the plan, and recks not the disappointment of defeat. The worthlessness of regard has been clearly demonstrated, and taught him in what light to appreciate the bitterness of slanderous calumny. Springing from the same fountain, their waters separate only to unite in a more overwhelming confluent tide.

Under such circumstances the measure of the summer months was filled up. The sun poured its vivifying beams of heat, and decked nature in all the costly investment of blooming vegetation. With Eunomio, however, the forid verdure and rich foliage seemed to have lost their attractive charms. A listless languor and careless indifference pervaded his whole frame, and rendered bim alike heedless to the fascinating voice of society, or the numerous claims of beauteous nature. He was no longer the same man. Formerly active, alert, and talkative; now slow, sluggish, and silent. Autumn in quick succession followed, and saw Eunomio's future course of life fixed and established. June alone can speak of its success; the present prospect is cold and cheerless. A wide extensive plain appears before, beyond high and rugged mountains which threaten to subdue the hardiest efforts of indefatigability. No sun has yet dawned to brighten the scene, or warm the temperature of the clime. Darkness rather lowers on the horizon, and menaces the horrid discord of jarring elements. Winter has closed around, and its dreary aspect seems more readily to accord with the spirit of Eunomio than the gay glowing colours of spring, the healthful laugh of summer, or the ruddy glow of autumnal tints. The season wears on apace, and has brought the close of another year; a year eventful to Eunomio: for if he improvement by a

He has

which debase human nature. not explored distant countries, or visited populous cities; he has not trod mighty precipices, or scaled the mountain's glacier height. Yet he has watched more intimately the passions which disturb the breast's repose, break upon the quietness of sleep, and raise within the soul the horrid fued and din of war.

He

He has learnt to value human friendship, and appreciate the world's regard, which, like the balance on the needle's point, is weighed down by the pressure of the lightest feather. has discovered that the northern point to which the magnet of society tends is self-advantage. "Pro se quisque,” was a trite saying, and well adapted to the ruder periods of older time; but civilization should spurn it from her presence as the deadliest bitterest foe she has to contend with. He has moreover felt, that the smile of cordiality is only the smile of deceit ;-that the eye may glow with apparent fire, while all is cold and chill within; that the close pressure of the interwoven hand indicates nothing but the every day salute of an every-day acquaintance;-that professions of interest and esteem are common-place expressions, and form a substitute for the threadbare topics of clear or dull weather;-that gratitude is a name without the reality of existence;-that honour prevails only in its most falsified sense; and, that truth is subservient to contingent circum

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Well hast thou commenced thy allotted task!" exclaimed Eunomio, as he viewed the falling sands of his glass upon the commencement of the present year, "and may each returning hour bring back the substance of the once golden age, and with it increasing joy and happiness; and when thou shalt again warn thy master that the measure of another year is filled up, may his pen retrace happier recollections, and more joyous scenes, than those with which the dark ink now sullies the same white sheet!"

Jan. 1, 1818.

To the Editor of the European Magazine.

SIR,

N the last page of a work published

bas gained any coproer with his fellow I last month, and entitled Dowling'

man, he has had a clearer insight into the vices which degrade, and the crimes

Key to Hutton's Course of Mathematics," there is given the following new

and short rule for the pressure of water on dam and flood-gates.

"To the difference of the breadth at the surface and bottom add the less breadth, and multiply the sum in feet by half the square of the depth in feet; the product shall be the number of CUBIC feet whereof the absolute is the pres sure." Now this rule is certainly short, and easily remembered; and I believe it will hold good in all cases where the breadth at the surface of the water is greater than that at the bottom; that i, in every practical case. Should any of your numerous readers, however, investigate so useful a theorem, and prove in your next number either the fallacy and defects, or the merits of the rule, they will confer an obligation on many

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For the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

INSCRIPTION on the MONUMENT of M. DE LOUTHERBOURG in CHISWICK CHURCH YARD.

This Wonument

Is dedicated to the Memory of

PHILIP JAMES DE LOUTHERBOURG, Esq. R. A.

Who was born at STRASBOURG in ALSACE, Nov. 1st, 1740; was elected a Member of the Royal Academy, London, Nov. 28th, 1781; and departed this Life at Hammersmith Terrace, March 11th, 1812, aged 72 Years.

With Talents brilliant, and super-eminent
As an Artist,

He united the still more enviable endowments
Of a cultivated, enlarged, and elegant Mind;
Adding to both, those superior qualities of the Heart
Which entitled him,

As a Man, and as a Christian,

To the cordial respect of the Wise and Good.

In him

Science was associated with Faith,
Piety with Liberality,

Virtue with suavity of Mauners,

And the rational use of this World

With the ennobling Hope of a World to come.
A deathless Fame will record his professional excellence;
But to the hand of Friendship belongs the office
Of strewing on his tomb those moral flowers
Which displayed themselves in his Life
And which rendered him estimable
As a Social Being.

Here, LOUTHERBOURG! repose thy laurel'd head !
While Art is cherish'd thou canst neer be dead!
SALVATOR, POUSSIN, CLAUDE, thy skill combines
And beauteous Nature lives in thy desigus.

C. L. M.

IRISH EXTRACTS.

It is said that this castle was pro

CONTAINING A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF bably founded by De Courcy, in or

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PLACES IN
IRELAND; WITH THE ANTIQUITIES,
CUSTOMS, CHARACTER, AND MANNERS
OF THAT COUNTRY.

BY THOMAS STRINGER, M.D.

(Continued from Vol. LXXII. page 511.)

HAVING AT God eastward of this grand and sublime coast, we will proceed to the westward from the Giant's Causeway. At a short distance, the river Bush opens into the sea; at the strand is a salmon fishery. Just be yond is Port Ballintray; near which is a handsome bathing-seat of Mr. Leslie's; and about two miles farther westward are the ruins of Dunluce Castle, thus described by Hamilton and Drummond.

AVING now conducted our readers

THE CASTLF OF DUNLUCE

is at present in the possession of the Antrim family. It is situated in a sinsingular manner on an isolated abrupt rock, which projects into the sea, and seems as if it were split off from the terra firma. Over the intermediate chasm lies the only approach to the castle, along a narrow wall, which has been built some

what like a bridge, from the rock to the adjoining land; and this circumstance must have rendered it almost impregnable before the invention of artillery. It appears, however, that there was originally another narrow wall, which ran across the chasm parallel to the former, and that by laying boards across over those an easy passage might occasionally be made for the benefit of the gar

rison.

The walls of this castle are built of columnar basaltes, many joints of which are placed in such a manner as to shew their polygon sections; and in one of the windows of the north side, the architect has contrived to splay off the wall neatly enough, by making use of the joints of a pillar whose angle was sufficiently obtuse to suit his pur

pose.

The original lord of this castle and its territories was an Irish chief called M'Quillan, of whom little is known, except that, like most of his country. men, he was hospitable, brave, and improvident; unwarily allowing the Scots to grow in strength, until they contrived to beat him out of all his posses

sious.

Hamilton.

about 1182.

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The Castle of Dunluce is the most striking ruin on the coast of Antrim, perhaps in Ireland. It is situated on a rock nearly insulated, and perforated by a cavern re-echoing to the noise of the waves. Its dark basaltic walls, marked with the yellow tints of time, in some places form a perpendicular line with the mural rock on which it is built, and in others seem to project or stand without a foundation, by reason of the rock's decay. Its commanding situa tion, and its numerous gables and turrets, resembling the ruins of a village destroyed by fire, excite a high degree of veneration for its former magnificence, and a feeling of regret for its lost splendor. It is joined to the main land beneath by an isthmus of rock, and above by a narrow arch like a wall; to which it appears there was another wall of similar structure running parallel, and that when the two walls were connected by boards, a passage was formed for the accommodation of a garrison.

Drummond.

After having received so much pleasure from the masterly pen of Hamilton, it is with feelings of regret we have to state his melancholy fate, as thus described by Dr. Drummond :— To fire volcanic traced the curious frame. "Here hapless Hamilton, lamented name! And as his soul, by sportive Fancy's aid, Up to the fount of Time's long current stray'd,

Far round these rocks he saw fierce craters boil,

And torrent lavas flood the riven soil;

retire,

Saw vanquished Ocean from his bounds
And hailed the wonders of creative fire."

The Rev. William Hamilton, A M. F.T.C.D, the ingenious author of "Letters on the County of Antrim." He was justly characterized as a gentleman of great activity both of body and mind-a zealous magistrate-a lover of letters-of agreeable manners-decided loyalty, and steady resolution in opposing the designs of insurrection in

1:07. His exertions rendered him an object of fear and dislike; and an opportunity unhappily presented itself for the gratification of a sanguinary and atrocious revenge. Having crossed the ferry of Lough Swilly, from Fannet, where he resided, in the county of Donegal, to dine with Dr. Waller, a body of assassins receiving intelligence of his arrival, surrounded the house, and poured a volley of small arms through the windows, into the parlour, where he was sitting with Dr. Waller and his family. Mrs. Waller fell, but Mr. Hamilton was reserved for a more cruel fate. Knowing him self to be the object of their revenge, be had retreated to an inner apartment, and had unluckily forgotten to secure any weapon for his defence; for being a man of vigour and resolution, he would not have died, though taken like a deer in the toils, without a desperate conflict. Dragged from his retreat, and overcome by the superior force of armed ruffians, he fell in the full vigour of his powers, an irreparable loss to society, and the republic of letters.

Proceding westward along this coast from Dunluce Castle, we come to the small fishing and bathing village of Port Rush, and a few miles farther to Port Stewart, a place of the same nature, but not so large; at a little distance from which the river Bann opens into the sea.

About three or four miles from Port Rush, on an eminence at the edge of the coast nearly, is Down Hill, the seat of Sir Hervey Bruce, and the Glen of Down Hill, a romantic picturesque object, well described by the Rev. G. Vaughan Sampson, in his Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry. This spacious and elegant mansion was built by the late Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Londonderry. In view of the south front is the mausoleum. This elegant structure was erected by the late Earl to the memory of his brother, formerly ambassador to the Court of Spain. The statue of this Earl is placed in an elevated station. The whole of this erection is singularly beautiful, and I believe unique. The Messenden Temple, is also a beautiful and singular erection. The interior is fitted as a library, and filled with books. In the house are some fine paintings and statues.

Entering the eastern glen of Downbill, you pass the lawn, on either side of

which the planting consists of the almost grassy green of the larch, well contrasted with the blueish hue of the pine and Scotch fir. Through this plantation, nothing can produce a more romantic effect, than the presentation of the tabular, and sometimes almost columnar, basaltic rocks, whose naked protrusions and wild ruggedness prevent the new mown lawn and decorated slopes from tiring the fancy too much by the recollection of artificial labour. To the right, over the planting, reigns the majestic Mausoleum, which, together with the uppermost fringe of the branches, is projected on the sky, whose clear blue light gives to the eye the exact outline of the columns, the statue, and the dome. Along the same range, as you shift along the continually changeful course of the side banks, the eye catches the ruins of an old chapel, and of the wall enclosing an ancient burying-ground. Mean while the right bank bends off to the north, and then gives place to a new swell, which rises to divide the passage to the north. The southern declivity of this slope is planted, and thus a new outline is given to the remainder of the ravine. The jutting and retiring curves of the bank are covered with foliage. and some rocks. The natural channel of a stream which tumbles over the rocks at two separate places, produces two pleasing water-falls.

The Glen of Downhill opening to the sea at Port Vantage, to the north-east, winds round the sloping lawn, whose ter mination above is a continual escarpment, disclosing, where the planting has not succeeded, the rugged and overjutting masses of tabular basalt. Amongst these rude masses, winding walks are laid out with taste; the nakedness is generally relieved by abundant crops of grasses, chiefly bromus and aveua latior; and not unfrequently the brow of a rude ledge is beautifully decorated by the rich yellow and green of various trefoils, mosses, sea-pinks, and sea-campions.

The Glen, enclosing the lawn, is curved, nearly in the figure of a horseshoe, whose two heels are the opening to the north west: the bottoms have been planted and dressed into meadow, and the rugged declivity of each side trenched, planted, and intersected with walks.

The following quotation from Virgil, marked in large gilt letters around the

Mausoleum, testifies the fraternal affection of the living to the departed Earl:

"Ille meos errare boves, ut cernis, et ipsum Ludere quæ vellem calamo permisit agresti.” Returning to Colerain, after resting a few days, we proceeded on our journey to Ballymoney.

Ballymoney, in the county of Antrim, seven miles from Colerain, is a neat little town, well built with stone, and slated roofs; a decent inn. From thence to Ahoghill, in the same county, fourteen miles; to Antrim, twelve miles.

At Randlestown we turned off to the right, and entered the demesne of Lord O'Neill, Shane's Castle. The park is extensive and wild; its finest feature is the river Maine, which flows in a broad and rapid channel, between finely wooded bauks, and empties its waters into Lough Neagh.

Shane's Castle, the ancient seat of the O'Neill family, is placed immediately on the shores of the lake, whose waves beat against its walls; it is an old castle modernized, or rather a modern mansion attached to an old fort: its situation is hold, but its architectural designs far from picturesque or appropriate.

"The Lough." This immense sheet of water, which may well be styled a sea in comparison with any of the other lakes in Ireland, covers a great area in the heart of the province of Ulster, and is bounded by five counties; viz. Armagh on the south, Tyrone on the west, Londonderry on the north-west, Antrim on the north and east, and Down, which barely touches it on the southeastern angle. The Iter states it to be twenty miles long, and fifteen broad. By the survey made by Mr. Lendrick, he reduces it to fifty-eight thousand two hundred acres, and by his report it is fifteen miles in length. by seven in breadth. In all the old maps of Ireland, it has been stated that Lough Neagh covers a plain of one hundred thousand acres,

In our way to Antrim, we passed a neglected mansion-house of the Massareue family, seated on the banks of a small river.

Antrim is the capital of the county of the same name, and scated at the north end of Lough Neagh. Antrim, like the generality of Irish towns, consists of one long street with the market-place in the middle of it. Near Antrim is a round tower.

From Antrim to Belfast, county of

Antrim, twelve miles. One of the most commercial towns in Ireland, and the principal sea-port of the north of Ireland. Belfast is a borough town, seated at the mouth of the river Lagan, which opens into a bay or arm of the sea, called Belfast Lough, or Carrickfergus Bay. It is in size the fifth, in commerce the fourth, if not the third, town in Ireland; contains about twenty-five thousand inhabitants. There are several good streets; the houses are in general built of brick, and the roofs covered with slate. Upwards of seven hundred looms are employed in linen, cotton, sail-cloth, and in the fine article of cambric: these manufactories, with others of glass, sugar, and earthen-ware, the exports of linen, provisions, and a considerable trade to the West Indies, have rapidly increased its importance, and rendered it particularly attractive to the merchants. The public buildings are not particularly worthy of remark. There is an elegant assembly-room, built by the Marquis of Donegal at the expense of twenty thousand pounds. The Linen Halls are large, and appropriately laid out.

From Belfast to Hilsborough, county of Down, twelve miles. Cross a long bridge of twenty arches over the river Lagan.-Pass on the right a neglected seat of Lord Dungannon; and leave the town of Lisburn in the same direc

tion.

Hilsborough is a small neat town, pleasantly situated on an eminence, commanding an extensive view towards Belfast. The Marquis of Downshire has a seat immediately adjoining the market-place. His predecessor erected at his own expense an elegant Gothic church, which has some neat windows bordered with stained glass. There is also a handsome market house, and a small castle appropriated to modern

uses.

From Hilsborough to Lord Roden's seat, at Tollymore Park, is twenty-one miles. Passed through Ballynahinch, a small town. From thence. by a new road to Clough. See on the left some ruined walls on a raised earthen work. From Clough descended to Dundrum Bay; the noble range of Mourne Mountains in front appearing to great advantage. Ruins of Dundrum Castle upon a rocky eminence to the right. This castle is finely situated on a rock commanding a whole view of the bay of that name; the sea to the south, a

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