little to Bristol except his birth, it will ever have reason to be proud of having produced such a son.* There are eighteen other churches in the city and suburbs. That of St. Stephen's, in Clare-street, has a beautiful Gothic tower. In the church of All Saints is the monument of that excellent philanthropist Edward Colston, esq. And Temple church is remarkable for its leaning tower; which, though sufficiently firm, appears in the act of falling. When the bells are rung, the lower stones of the belfry open so as to admit of a thin shilling being introduced between them, and withdrawn. Under St. John's gate, at the foot of Small-street, the corporation have lately erected a noble and spacious arch for the accommodation of foot-pas sengers. The GUILDHALL, the EXCHANGE, the MERCHANTS' HALL, and several other public buildings, besides HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, and various charitable foundations, do honour to the taste, opulence, and benevolence, of the Bristolians. The Quay is very long, and extremely commodious, not only for loading and unloading ships, but also for foot-passengers, who are not incommoded by drays and other stoppages, as in London. The THEATRE-ROYAL, in King-street, is a model of elegance and convenience, and was first opened Chatterton was born on the 20th of November, 1752. He never saw his father, and the master under whose care he was placed in his infancy, pronounced him " too dull to learn." Accordingly, what little education he acquired was owing to his mother and his own industry, except during the time that he remained in Colston's charity-school. He appears to have been born a poet, and to have shewn all the eccentricities of genius from his earliest years. Pride and distress (with a tendency to insanity, which affected also several members of his family) drove him to swallow poison, when he was only about eighteen years of age; and thus deprived the world of a person formed to be one of its brightest ornaments. in 1766. It belongs to the patentees of the Bath theatre; and the same company perform in both, on stated days and seasons. They act here on Mondays and Wednesdays in the winter, but at other times on Mondays only; and are brought from Bath in three covered carriages, returning the same night. This must be very dangerous to the health of the performers, as at the beginning of the season they come to a damp house, and have always to return at midnight, after the fatigue of acting, to their homes in Bath. Yet Elliston was thus reared; and, under the same severe discipline, Egerton now bids fair to surpass him. The ASSEMBLY ROOM, in Princes-street, has a beautiful front of free-stone, with a central projection, supported by four columns of the Corinthian order, coupled and crowned by an open pediment. On the pediment is the following sentiment in relief letters: "CURAS CITHERA TOLLIT." Music dispels care. Here a Master of the Ceremonies presides, who has an annual ball, and rules by certain fundamental constitutions and regulations, which every subscriber and visitor is bound to observe, on pain of offending against good manners, and incurring the censure which must infallibly attach to such delinquency. It is occasionally let, for concerts, lectures, &c. on which occasions the company usually go through a tavern on the quay. The Inns and Taverns at Bristol have long been justly celebrated. The principal is the Bush Tavern, opposite the Exchange. It has an excellent coffeeroom, supplied with the London and provincial papers; and it is famous for its larder, particularly at Christmas. The Rummer, White Lion, White Hart, and Talbot, are all good houses. The Full Moon also, at Stoke's Croft, is a noble inn; and at Reeve's Hotel, near College-green, are elegant and quiet accommodations, with excellent wine, a billiard-table, and as much decency as at a private house; yet on terms as moderate as some of the others. But we have sojourned long enough in Bristol; it is time to proceed to the Hot-wells, which was our principal object. Before we quit the city however, we must observe that some of the squares, particularly Queen's, in which is an equestrian statue of William III.; and also the Custom House, may vie with any thing of the kind elsewhere. The College Green is also a delightful situation. Strangers who are desirous of taking a view of the whole, should observe Bristol from Brandonhill; a pleasant lofty conic mount, rising about 250 feet in perpendicular height from its base. From its summit, Cromwell battered the cathedral and town. It is evidently the effect of a volcano, as its south side exhibits a lava that has flowed almost to the river. THE HOT-WELL. This salutary spring, which "pale-eyed suppliants drink, and soon flies pain," lies about a quarter of a mile westward from the boundary of Bristol, in the parish of Clifton, on the Gloucestershire side of the Avon. It rises near the bottom of the cliffs, about twenty-six feet below high-water mark, and ten feet above low water, forcibly gushing from an aperture in the solid rock. A spring so copious as to discharge sixty gallons in a minute, and possessing the rare quality of being warm, could not escape the notice of our ancestors. William of Worcester, the earliest writer concerning Bristol, whose works are extant, observes, that it is as warm as milk, and like the waters of Bath; but without adverting to its medical qualities. In time however, it became famous for stone and gravel, diarrhoeas and diabetes, king's evil, cancer, sterility, and impotence; and, in short, for almost every disease that can afflict human nature. In 1725, Dr. Winter seems first to have noticed its sedative effects, on which probably its real virtues depend; since that time, its waters have been analyzed by various physicians; and |