4 BRILL.

England and Holland, Helvoetsluys excites a strong feeling in an English mind, from the recollection that it was the spot whence our William the Third embarked when he began to enter upon that great operation which has eventually secured to our islands that constitution and those liberties which have raised them to a degree of prosperity, grandeur,‘and real happiness, unequalled in the history of past ages.

Being four of us with our baggage, we took two carriages to the Brill; they were neither very light nor very elegant, nor were the pair of horses attached to each very enviable nags, but they drew us the six miles within an hour. The road was admira- ble, the whole neatly paved with Dutch clinkers, without a rut, and almost without a wheel-mark, so that had we been disposed to grumble, we had nothing to complain of but the enormous expense of turnpikes, there being no less than four, where toll was paid within the six miles. Brill is a very neatly built town, containing 6,000 inhabitants. The streets are well paved with clinkers. In the centre of each is a canal, on both sides of it rows of trees, and between them and the houses a road sufficiently wide for two carriages to pass. Ît is well fortified; the country round can be easily inundated, and the approach towards it over a narrow causeway, has great capabilities of defence against assailants. From its position at one of the mouths of the Meuse, Brill has long been the resi- dence of the best pilots on the shores of Holland; and from among that class have been produced many of those naval heroes to whom, in the infaney of its independence, the country was idebted for its maritime triumphs; Van Tromp and De Witt, with many others of less celebrity, were natives of this place, and their memory is still cherished with the most patriotie pride. After crossing in an excellent ferry-boat this branch