text:  Just as we were sauntering in the rural road admiring the placidity of the night about ten o'clock and the twilight landscape of the banks of the Towey a sudden light opened up to us the whole night prospect where the farther side of this broad vale rises finely covered with woods round Middleton Hall and soon learned the nature of this sudden illumination and pyramidal fire being the conflagration of extensive property belonging to its owner Mr Adams close to the mansion