by regarding minute particularities, and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal rule, and pollute his canvass with deformity. A JOURNEY ΤΟ FLANDERS AND HOLLAND, IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXXI.* AT Ostend, where we landed, July 27, 1781, there are no pictures, and even Bruges affords but a scanty entertainment to a Painter: however, there are a few, which, though not of the first * Our author, accompanied by Philip Metcalfe, Esq. left London on Tuesday, July 24, 1781, went to Margate, and embarked there for Ostend; proceeded from thence to Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp; Dort, the Hague, Leyden, Amsterdam, Dusseldorp, Aix-la-chapelle, Liege; returned to Brussels again, from thence to Ostend; landed at Margate, and arrived in London Sunday, Sept. 16. To Mr. Metcalfe he intended to have dedicated his account of this Tour, but he had only written the following introductory paragraphs: "I send you, put together in as much order as |