Mr URBAN, Shrewsbury, Feb. 21. HE following church notes, &c. cefter, were taken on the fpot in the Summer of 1802. Having spent fome of my juvenile years there, and formed a confiderable acquaintance, I deter mined to vifit it after an abfence of 14 years; but, to my great afionishment, found only three people that I knew! Such is the mutability of this uncertain ftate! I fpent fome hours at the church in tranfcribing monumental in fcriptions, and making a drawing of the venerable building (fee Plate 1). Belbroughton is a pleafant village, in the lower divifion of Halfsfhire han dred, and deanry of Kidderminster. It is a rectory, in the gift of St. John's college, Oxford. The church is a handfome ftructure, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The arms of Erdington, Sudeley, and Corbet, ou painted glaf's, which were in the Eaft window, peare [life At all, but weep her death, who in her. Was a most loving and religious wife. Aye, bleffed faint !fure thou alone doft dye To bear thine unborn infant companie, And now o'er Death triumphantly doft fing, 'Grave where's thy victory,Death where 's thy fting!" On plain blue ftones in the chancelAoor (the firii in capitals) : "Johannes Perrot, nuper "In memory of FRANCIS SEVERN, Rector of Bellbroughton, who died Jan. 19th, 1755; And of BRIDGET his wife, who died Feb. 13th, 1770." On a tablet against the North wall: "Near this place lies the body of Hump Perrot, B. D. Vicar of Dudley, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon, fon of Thos. Perrott, efq. late of Bell-Hall. GENT. MAG. June, 1805. Near this place is depofited, the body of ELIZABETH, the wife of JOHN TRISTRAM, of Moor-Hall, Gent. She was the eldest daughter of Launcelot Nicholls, of the Bow-hills, in the parish of Alveley, and county of Salop, Gent. SHE departed this life June 26th, 1708, and in the 48th year of her age, Lamented by all: efpecially by the difeafed and the poor.Go thou, and do likewife; for laji night, Reader, is certainly gone, and to-morrow may never arrive. This infiant make use of. Alfo, near the fame place is interred the body of JOHN TRISTRAM, of Moor-Hall, Gent. He was buried the 2nd day of May, 1734, in the 77th year of his age.' On a tablet against the East wall: "Spe certa refurrectionishic depofitæ funt exuvia Richardi Triftram, qui per 51 plus minus annos ecclefiam hanc fumma ̈ cum curâ et fidelitate rexit; fuffectus in locum Thomæ Triftram patris, qui circa 30 annos The Lakes of CumHE following fimple narrative of On a neat tablet against the South berland and Wetmorland, in the wall: "Near this place are depofited the remains of the Rev. THOMAS CLARKE, D. D. rector of this parish, who died Auguft 12th, 1798, aged 56. When Sorrow weeps o'er Virtue's facred duft, Our tears become us, and our grief is just; Such were the tears the fhed who grate ful pays This laft fad tribute of her love and praise ; Who mourns the husband and the friend combin'd, Where gentle pity met a manly mind; Mourns, but not murmurs; fighs, but not despairs ; Feels as a wife, but as a Christian bears." On grave-stones in the church-yard : "In memory of Richard Phillpots, fen. of Bell-inn, in this parish, he departed this January the 2nd, 1766, aged 69 years. [life To tell a merry or a wond'rous tale Over a chearful glafs of nappy ale In harmleis mirth was his fupreme delight, To please his guests or friends by day or night. But no fine tale, how well foever told, Could make the tyrant Death his ftroke months of Auguft and September laft, is entirely at your fervice. B. T. Sunday evening, Aug. 12. Moving flowly over Highgate-hill, the groupe of domes and fpires fcattered over the vali plain of London burit upon us for a few moments, and difappeared. The fhades of Night gathered faft about us ere we had reached the walls of antient Verulam. Proceeding along the Roman Wating-ftreet, we pafled Woburn Abbey; and awoke at an early hour of the morning in the clean town of Northampton, upon the fine river Nen. The tireets are narrow and irregular, but contain fome well-built houfes. The principal church ftandscentrically, and is a firiking edifice, prefenting a grand portico of Ionic cefterfhire, blooming with verdure; columns. The level paftures of Leithe fiowy whiteness of the fleeces with which they are fpotted, and the airy lightnefs of its many taper fpires, contributed to amufe us as we wound fwifily between its rich inclofures. The low walls of fione piled rudely, and without cement, which ferve as fences to the paftures of the Northern counties, furnish a moft dreary fubfiitme. for the warm green hedge-rows of the South. From the old and populous town of Leicester, which is inhabited chiefly by graziers, and has to boast an hofpital built by Henry Earl of Lancafier, in the 14th century, we advanced farther Northward, and found in the road-fides of Derbyfhire a land scape fcape confiderably more abundant in wood and water. The crimson clufters of the mountain afh, now in full bearAng, afforded a most agreeable contraft to the emerald green of the furrounding foliage. The town of Derby, formerly Derwentby, feated upon the broad ríver of the Peak, and which was probably named Derwent from the fwift nefs of its fream, looked deplorably dull and uninviting under a heavy rain of fome hours continuance. We had no opportunity of vifiting the famous filk-mill upon the river, conftructed upon an Italian model by Sir Thomas Lombe. As we drew near to Ashbourn the weather and the country femed to brighten together. This is a poor little town, but prettily enough ftationed in a well-watered valley, under a fine flope of meadows. The evening was fine, and we rolled through fome pleafant meadows gently riding from the Eatt end of the town, oppofite to the house and eats of the late Sir Brook Boothby, bart. a gentleman formerly known in the circles of Politics and Philofophy, as the antagonili of Burke, and the friend of Darwin. Two of the unfortunare officers who had fhared the hair-breadth efcapes of Geu. Rochambeau in the wars of St. Domingo, now his companions in captivity, were engaged in carneli converfation upon this parade. Pajot is a vere tall and athletic man; his iomenfe whiskers and dangling pendants infpired us almoft with awe. He was dreffed en militaire. General Boyer, an officer more known than the former, dark, handfome, and of the middle fize, was habited as an Eughth gentleman. Agreeably to the genius of their nation, the troubles they had experienced appeared to be no fooner paft than forgotten; vivacity beamed' in every countenance. On the 14th we rofe early, and took a chaife to Ilain, about 4 miles diftant from Afhbourn. The village, confifting of a few scattered huts, lies at the foot of a rugged conical mountain, named Thorp Cloud; in approaching it we crofs the river Dove, which is the line of feparation between the counties of Derby and Stafford. Ilam houfe is a mean edifice, and at prefent under repair. It is occupied by a gentleman whom we understood to be an active Juftice of the Peace; and I regret to fay, that the functions of his civil capacity appear to have encroached not a little upon the genius of fo eafily tural improvement. The gara felicity much more richly wooded than eafily the nature of the country we we ome. all prepared to expect. There is a ets fine femi-circular range of hill fkir of the back and fides of the mansio houfe, completely cloathed with thrub of variegated tints; in which the yel low lime and fable afh are confpienoufly beautiful. In the bottom winds the Manifold, a pretty limpid ftream, which forms an eafy fall or two in its courfe, and is loft to view under a finall arched bridge. It is obfervable of this fiream, that it is continued under a bed of folid rock for a space of 6 miles; at which dittance from its fource it reappears, and is loft. On its hither bank is a verdant and extenfive lawn, feparated fron the houfe by woodwalks, which, winding fantastically through the rock, are completely overarched by fine old timber. In one of thefe, hidden from vulgar eyes, is a mofly abiet encircled by a bench of ftone, which is faid to have inspired the genius of the pathetic Congreve, in the compofition of his Old Batchelor. Leav ing the vale of Ilam, much of the beauty of which confifts in its feclution, we made the tour of Thorp Cloud, acrofs fome green meadows, where the wild ribbets are every where leen fcouring over an immenfe warren. Afier riding a thort mile on the banks of the Dove, we alighted at the entrance of its romantic glen. An aged fhepherd, whofe grey locks hung in venerable trelles upon his thoulders, flood ready 10 conduct us through the windings of the dale. The character of this delicious valley is chiefly derived from the artless and inceffant murmur of the little ftream from which it derives its name, which fometimes glides fmoothly over its rocky bed, and fometimes is impeded and broken in its courfe by the malles which time or accident have precipitated from its lofty fides. On the left, is a floping cliff in part firipped of is natural ornaments by the rade moleftations of the wooden, and partly covered by a fereen of young brushwood, interfperfed with foretttrees. At intervals, the naked rock difplays its rugged bofom, or shoots up in lofty fpiral pyramids, which, appearing at various distances, give a bold and romantic feature to the landscape. Thefe reminded me of the banks of the Wye, where the infulated column tow |