Gl a Mo Rganshi Re

Tho peasantry of this county generally use the Welsh language, and either cannot or will not speak English. In the towns, however, the latter is very commonly spoken, and in the churches the service is occasionally conductedin it. There is, however, a portion of the county, to the south of the mountains round Oxwich Bay, where the Welsh language is quite unknown, whilst, on the opFosite side of the same mountains, the inhabitants are unacquainted with English.

Two members are returned to Parliament from Glamorganshire, one for the county, and one for the boroughs of Cardiff, Cserphilli, Myrthr-Tydvil, Cowbridge, Llantrissent, Bridgend, Aberavon, Neath, and Swansea. By the returns under the population act, the inhabitInts, in 1801, were 71,525, and, in 1811, were 85,067, besides the militiamen, their wives, and families, making together about 86,000. At the last enumeration, the males were 41,865, and the females 48,702.

As the

picturesque beauty of many parts of the county is very great, it has ever been the favourite resort of many families of respectability. That it was so in ancient times, the number of ruins of an cient castles clearly evince; and few parts of the island, except the immediate vicinity of the metro polis, have so many gentlemen's seats within them. 1'he principal of these are, Gnoll Castle, the seat of the Mackworths, now Mr Grant; Cardiff Castle, Mar quis of Bute; Dunraven, Thomas Wyndham, Esq.;

Penlline Castle, Lord Vernon ; Margram, Mr Tal bot; Claremont, Sir John Morris ; Southall, John Lucas, Esq.; Gellyhir, Sir Gabriel Powell ; Penner gaer, John Llewelyn, Esq. ; Penrice Castle, R. M. Talbot, Esq.; Woodlands, General Ward; and deri, Thomas Morgan, Esq. with many others.

The principal towns • in the county are Cardiff, which, though not the largest, is the county town, and the shipping place of the produce of Myrthr Tydvil. Its pier is accessible to ships of 200 tone burden. The inhabitants, in the year 1811, were 514,57, viz. 1084 males, and 1373 females. Llandaff; though a city, is reduced to a small assemblage of mean houses, and 960 inhabitants ; and remarkable for nothing but the cathedral, the ancient part of which is in ruins, within which a new and conimodi oua one of smaller dimensions was erected in 1751. Neath, a place of considerable trade, contained at the last census 2740 inhabitants : its environs are pe candy heantifid. Sweaseacontaimed 8196 inhldsit. ants; and besides the atatiorry people, great num bers flock to it in summer for the enjoyment of sea bathing, for which it is conveninady situated.

See Reese

South Wales; Malkin's Scenery 0 &mak Wales ; ParIsascnnary Ratans: of Poprda. lima for 1811.