broad pavement round the square, forming the great resort of fashionable society, when the weather will not permit promenading round the Prado del Toro,' situated without the eastern walls of the town. Varieties of shops, excellent coffee-houses. billiard-rooms &c. are to be met with under these piazzas, which may be considered as forming the Bond-street of Salamanca. The general appearance of the city, and the number of large and handsome houses which are seen in different parts, might lead to the supposition of its being very rich and well peopled. But this is far from being the case, for on closer inspection it is found to be extremely deficient, and indeed scarcely amounts to a third of its former wealth and population. The inhabitants have become greatly impoverished, and the owners of the principal residences have either absolutely left the country altogether, and followed the fortunes of Joseph Buonaparte, or have removed to other towns of greater safety, such as Valladolid &c. so that few people of the higher ranks of society are now resident in the place.

"The towns-people are in general hospitable and communicative. They have their tertulias,' or evening assemblies, when they converse, play cards, dance or sing; and they also pretty constantly frequent the theatre, which is a light and elegant building, and fitted up somewhat in the style of the Opera-house in London, though very inferior with respect to size, while the actors and performances are below mediocrity. The present appearance of the town excites many melancholy reflections, when contrasted with the accounts which we have been accustomed to receive of its former magnificence, and high reputation as a seat of learning. Neither Oxford, nor Cambridge, I am convinced, from the appearance of the colleges (the walls of which are still standing,) equal in any point of view what this once flourishing town exhibited in better days. Perhaps you will not think me guilty of exaggeration, when I tell you that there are still the remains of nineteen splendid colleges, built of an handsome white stone, most elaborately and classically ornamented, forming once one of the chief repositories of ancient literature, which subsequently enlightened modern Europe. Several of these colleges were dedicated entirely to Irish students, numbers of whom are to be met with in the church, the army, and various other departments of the state, who have now become naturalized, and constitute perhaps the best informed part of the community." P. 141.

ART. XVIII. The Epicure's Almanack, or a Calendar of Good Living. 18mo. 331 pp. Longman & Co. 1815.

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ed with its contents. Let them know therefore that it is a directory to every tavern, coffee-house, eating-house, bun-house, within the metropolis and its environs, bestowing upon all alike the most unequivocal, impartial, and unprovoked commendation. One would really imagine from this universal panegyric that such things as greasy chops, grimy table cloths, stinking fish, poisonous port, and pert waiters, were unknown in the Elysian eatinghouses of the metropolis. Sometimes our author indulges in a vein of poetical imagination.

"Richard's Tavern and Chop-House.

"No. 8, Fleet Street, almost facing Chancery Lane, up a pas sage, is Richard's Tavern and Coffee-House. It is a very retired, comfortable, and highly respectable place; and is frequented by gentlemen of serious dispositions from the universities, on their oc casional visits to town. Here sequestered they almost forget the fumum et opes, strepitumque Rome, and transport themselves in fancy to the groves of Isis and of Cam." P. 77.

Again we find the same animated description.

"LEICESTER SQUARE.

"Now, reader, after toiling down Piccadilly, if your appetite be either sharp-set, or delicately urgent, be you peckish or half famish ed, only go with us through Sidney Passage, and a field shall burst on your view to which the Elysium of the Heathens has nothing fit to be compared. Leicester Square! how many noble and right honourable bowels yearn at the sound! Leicester Square! once the residence of the great Sir Isaac Newton, now the theatre of Miss Linwood's incomparable talent for picturesque needle-work, the spot which Catalani's seraphic or rather angelical notes and trills have consecrated! Leicester Square! the mirror in which the great cities, islands, sieges, battles, bombardments, sea-fights, and volcanoes, have been panoramically represented. Leicester Square! the very stones of which have trembled and turned pale under the marshal tramp and Tartarian mustachios of Ferdinand Baron Geramb, as he strode into the hotel à-la-Sablonière, curling up the said mustachios, and uttering a peremptory and irrevocable decree for dinner and wine, selon le bulletin de son excellence le restaurateur.” P. 149.

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