WREXHAM, a market town of Denbigshire in North Wales, is situated on a small stream running into the Dee, and consists of several streets radiat ing like a star. The streets are spacious, and the buildings in general good. At the upper end of the High street is a handsome edifice of the Doric order, the upper part of which is used as a munici pal hall, and the piazza below as a market place. The church is a beautiful edifice, superior to many English cathedrals, and is reckoned the seventh won der of North Wales. It consists of a pentagonal chancel, a nave, two collateral aisles, and a lofty quadrangular tower at the west end. The tower, which is 135 feet high, is a specimen of the finest architecture. it is quadrangular, with elegant abut ments, terminating in crocketted pinnacles, and the summit is crowned with four pierced lantern tur rets, which rise 24 feet above the open work ballus trade. A circular staircase is attached to each of the turrets. Full length statutes of thirty saints are placed on the niches of the buttresses, and show the state of statuary at the end of the 15th century. The interior is spacious and handsome, the ceiling of the roof being peculiarly fine. The alter-piece, which is very handsome, is decorated with a paint ing of the last supper, supposed to be by Rubens. The church contains some beautiful monuments, among which that by Roubilliac to the memory of Mary Myddleton, daughter to Sir Richard Myddle ton of Chick Castle, is the most striking, and per haps a more beautiful work of art is not to be found in England. A most lovely female figure, attired in
her nocturnal robes, is exhibited in the act of burst ing the tomb, and rising from the sarcophagus. The countenance and attitude are angelic, and the mingled feelings of surprise and delight are finely blended and forcibly expressed.
Another monument by the same great artist is at the end of the north aisle. It is a mural one, with medallions of the Rev. Thomas Myddleton, and Arabella Flacker his wife. Besides the church, there are two large meeting-houses, a commodious town hall, and a well endowed free school. In the vicinity, there are several manufactories of warlike instruments, particularly a large foundry for cannon. A work for smelting lead is also in the neighbour hood. Great quantities of flannel are made in the town and its vicinity. The great annual fair of Wrexham begins on the 23d March, and continues for nine days. Population of the township of ham Regis in 1821, 665 houses, 706 families, 420 ditto in trade, and total number of inhabitants 3091.