Redeemer for their repented transgressions, to a state of joyful immortality. Here it will be a new joy to meet several of their good neighbours, who now lie scattered in these sacred precincts around them. He died April 5th, 1804, at the age of 80. She died July 14th, 1807, at the age of 82."

CHAPTER II.

From Lymington to Christchurch; with a return to Lymington, through New Forest.

Soon after quitting Lymington, we pass, on the right, a villa called PRIESTLANDS. The plantations near the

house are too scanty to give it any ornament; but there is a beautiful view of a valley in front, and of the isle of Wight in the distance. The intervening channel, from the situation of the country, has the appearance of a noble lake.

About a mile from Lymington we have a view of Freshwater cliffs and the Needles; and, in advancing, obtain a glimpse of HURST CASTLE, which, if the tra.veller be disposed to visit, he must turn off, on the left, into the road leading to MILLFORD. This, though the longer road to Christchurch, is by far the more beautiful of the two. The village of Millford receives its name from a mill, which Domesday-book informs us it had, so long ago as the days of the Conqueror. It is a vicarage, in the gift of Queen's college, Oxford. At a small place called Keyhaven, a boat may be procured, which will convey passengers to Hurst Castle in less than half an hour.

Hurst Castle stands near the end of a singular tongue of land, which runs two miles into the sea, and leaves but a narrow channel, scarcely a mile over, between it and the isle of Wight. This little peninsula, at high water, is not more than two hundred yards in breadth. The castle is of stone. It was built by Henry VIII. about the year 1539, at the same time that he fortified the seacoast with many similar fabrics. About twelve years ago it was very substantially repaired, the central part being now rendered bomb-proof. It consists of a round tower, with semi-circular bastions. A small garrison is usually kept in it. The view from Hurst Castle, of the West Channel, the Hampshire coast, the isle of Wiglit,

the Needle rocks, the British Channel, and Portland, in fair weather, is highly grand and beautiful. The spot is still shown, though the late alterations have destroyed the apartment, in which Charles I. was confined, after his removal from Carisbrook, in the isle of Wight. He was here about three weeks, at the end of which time he was conveyed to London by a Col. Harrison, with a strong party of horse.

At a subsequent period, this place was made the scene of one of the triumphs of Protestant intolerance. A Franciscan friar, named Atkinson, having been infamously betrayed by his female servant for the reward of one hundred pounds, suffered an imprisonment of thirty years in Hurst Castle, for exercising his office in England, contrary to law. He was placed here in 1699, and he bore his tedious confinement with exemplary patience, till death released him, unconvinced and unconverted by coercion, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. The humanity of his keeper would have extended his bounds, so far as to indulge him with occasional walks in the neighbourhood; but some wretched bigots, who remarked this kindness, interfered, and the sufferer was debarred even this little alleviation of his severe lot. With the utmost abhorrence of every doctrinal position of the Popish religion that is contrary to the Holy Scriptures; with the most unbounded detestation of every political principle of that mischievous system, that would disturb the harmony of civil society; with the most heartfelt exultation, that the anti-christian power of that hierarchy which once terrified the world with its anathemas, is now on the very brink of annihilation;-how painful a subject of regret is it,

that Protestants should have imitated the church of Rome in one of its worst practices. Let us rejoice that they have gradually been learning a little more consistency; and let us hope that the time is not very distant, when a late severe sarcasm will be less applicable than it has been, that "toleration has no present tense, and taxation no future one.

For the direction of vessels at the entrance of the West Channel, a land-mark and two light-houses have been erected on this beach. The lights are formed by Argand's lamps, the whole illumination of which is thrown outward by means of large concave copper reflectors, plated with a thick coating of silver, which is kept in a high state of polish by daily cleaning. At an inn on the beach, refreshments may be procured, and dinners ordered for parties who may wish to spend some hours on this magnificent spot.

From Hurst beach is to be seen, at times, an island, (if it may be so denominated,) called the SHINGLES. Sometimes it is fifteen or twenty feet above the water; at other times, entirely out of sight. Sometimes it rises near the isle of Wight; at other times, nearer the Hampshire coast. It consists of a very extensive bank of loose pebbles, so near the surface, that the force of the tides and currents drives it from one side to the other, according to the direction in which they prevail.

* "Could some people reason, they would perceive that the same arguments which vindicate their own liberty, establish that of all mankind."

It is a curious circumstance, that the window of the larger lighthouse has been once or twice broken at midnight, by sea-fowl flying. at the light,