fame, and lived not to tarnish the honours which he had acquired. A decent respect to his memory caused the British Government, some time ago, to bring his remains to England, at their own expence; where they have been placed in the family vault of his most gracious Majesty. When his remains were opened in America, it was discovered that the roots of a cypress-tree close by, had very poetically entwined their branches round the skull of the young hero. This tree, it is said, at present embellishes the private garden of George IV. Another object of interest to me, as a stranger, was, the astonishing range of hills, called the Fishkill Mountains: They are about sixteen miles in width, and extend along both sides of the Hudson to the distance of twenty miles. The height of the principal mountain has been estimated at 1,565 feet: These are what are called the Highlands, on the South side of which, at the entrance from New York, there is the site of an old Fort on Verplanck's Point, opposite to which stood the fort of Stoney Point. Ten miles further on the North is the site of Fort Montgomery. Beside those which I have mentioned, I do not recollect any other objects of particular interest. In the intervals between my arrival at these different places, my attention was sufficiently kept on the alert by the beautiful and varied scenery of the Hudson; and I arrived at New York quite unexpectedly, and without having suffered any of that ennui of which long journies are commonly productive. On landing from the boat, I made inquiries for the City Hotel, whither I proceeded in company with another gentleman, having previously procured a porter to carry my luggage in his truck. As I passed along, I was much pleased with the light and neat appearance of the city. The houses are chiefly built of brick, and, like those which have been described in other parts of my narrative, are painted with a bright red, with lines of white drawn over the mortar. The City Hotel is a very large building, five stories high, and containing seventy-three rooms. It is the best hotel in the place, and is frequented by the first characters in the country. The diningroom is large, commodious, and well-furnished; but the bed-rooms, like almost all others in America, have beds without curtains, cotton sheets, and are, in other respects, deficient in their furniture, and much inferior to many European Hotels of more modest pretensions. The company take all their meals together, and at stated times; breakfast at eight, dinner at halfpast two, tea at seven, and supper at eleven. The provisions and all other accommodations are of an excellent description, with the exception of vegetables, of which there appears to be a great deficiency, as well in quality as in abundance. Here, as in every other place, every one at table helps himself, and calls to the nearest waiter to reach him the dish which he prefers. Before I saw this practice in New York, I imagined it to be confined to the other places where I had seen it; but now I conceive it is general throughout the Continent. The charge for board and lodging per week is ten dollars; but for wine and liquors of every kind there is a separate price. One may look in vain at the dinner-table for the welcome visit of an ale or porter glass, for no malt liquor is ever to be seen: Diluted spirits are the drink which is commonly used, and before any of this can be obtained, one is forced to call to the waiter and tell him one's name and the number of the chamber, together with the order a boire, which he delivers at the bar, and immediately returns with the kind and quantity required. Before they have swallowed the last morsel, American gentlemen rise from the table without any regard to those rules of etiquette which, in Europe, are so destructive of liberty and independence, and immediately proceed to the hall or bar-room for the purpose of smoking their segars. The public edifices of New York are numerous, but all of them are plainly built and unworthy of particular notice, excepting the City Hall, which is a large and elegant structure, composed of white marble. This building is appropriated to the use of the Common Council, to the Judges of the Courts of Law, and to the various officers connected with these departments; and also contains I was rooms for their several accommodation. present at the sitting of one of the Courts, and was much disappointed on finding, that Judges, Counsellors, Jurymen, and spectators, all dressed alike. It appeared to me, that the want of their respective accoutrements, in wigs and gowns, entirely divested the Judges and Barristers of that dignity and venerableness, that acuteness and sagacity, which distinguish the lawyers of this country. If we may judge of the religion of the people of New York, by the number of places of worship, we must come to a very favourable conclusion: For there are no less than 82 buildings of this kind in the city. But my residence was not long enough, to enable me to form any accurate estimate of the state of religion or of morals. New York has been mentioned by some writers as a dirty city: But when I was there, it struck me as being perfectly clean; I observed no sort of nuisance within its boundaries, excepting pigs, which are improperly suffered to partake of the liberty of their masters and to go at large. The shops have also been stigmatized by a late writer, as betraying a considerable want of taste and cleanliness; and the same person complains, that large packages of goods were allowed to stand outside of the doors, obstructing the passage of the street. This may have been the case some years ago, buț it was not so when I was in the city. In my opinion, the shops in the principal streets, and especially in that of Broadway, are every way equal to any that we see in Bond-street or in Ludgate-hill. The gentlemen of New York have also been represented as negligent of their persons; but to me the reverse appeared to be the case: For neither in Portland-place, nor Rotten-row, nor in any other place of fashionable resort, have I seen gentlemen more elegantly dressed, or who seemed to be more attentive to the fashionable outfit of their exterior. They are tall and slight, but generally ill-made; in this respect differing widely from the ladies, who, beside being slender and rather high in stature, are elegantly formed. The gentlemen have the advantage, in regard to the features of the face; and the pallidness of their complexion might entitle them to the appellation of the fair sex, rather than the ladies, who have almost universally a sallow, sickly, and emaciated look. The females of New York are frequently seen walking through the streets, unaccompanied by gentlemen; and indeed I have remarked, that, throughout America, the women receive far less attention from the men than is commonly paid to them in European countries. Perhaps, this may partly arise from the paradoxical circumstance, that although the inhabitants of the United States have long since been declared independent, few of them have obtained the actual enjoyment of their declared privilege: For almost every man, who is even from his education entitled to be called a gentleman, is engaged in the business of his peculiar profession with such little intermission, that he can |