Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 11631-h.htm or 11631-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/6/3/11631/11631-h/11631-h.htm) or (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/6/3/11631/11631-h.zip) THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 19. No. 553.] SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1832. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * DUNHEVED CASTLE, CORNWALL. [Illustration: DUNHEVED CASTLE, CORNWALL.] These mouldering ruins occupy the crest of the hill, upon which stands the town of Launceston, near the centre of the eastern side of the county of Cornwall. They are the works of a thousand years since, when might triumphed over right with an unsparing hand, and when men perpetrated by fire and sword millions of murders, which, through the ignorance and credulity of their fellow creatures, have been glossed over with the vain glory of heroism. The ancient name of Launceston was Dunheved, or the Swelling Hill; its present appellation, according to Borlase, the antiquarian illustrator of Cornwall, signifies, in mixed British, the Church of the Castle. The latter structure is the most important object in the town, to which, in all probability, it gave origin. The remains surround a considerable extent of ground, and prove it to have been a very strong and important fortress. Borlase, who examined the building with great attention about the middle of the last century, thus describes it:--