799.] 
Henbury, Clevedon, and Stoke, conftei- 
Jated with villas, fill the mind with the 
molt ferene fenfation of pleafure. 
neque enim pecori gratior ullo 
Herba loco eft: aptamque vides paftoribus 
umbram. 
To have fuch fcenes prefented to the 
eye, is to read the faivelt pages of the 
Book of Nature, and te experience the 
mind infentibly opened to every thing 
refined and_elevated. Such, at leaft, is 
their effect on fouls of fine fenfibility.— 
The croud, immerfed in fenluality, and 
blinded with the purfuits of avarice, fee 
thefe things with the fame indifference as 
the oxen that ruminate in their meadows. 
It was not with fuch difcrimination they 
were viewed by a Chatterton, a More, a 
Yearfley, or a Southey ; names fufficient 
of themfelves to refcue Brifto! from the 
charge of dullnefs and infipidity ; ‘which 
character, fince the days of Savage, it 
has been teo much the cuftom to attri- 
bute to this city. 
Though I have mentioned a few names 
who have done honour to the place of 
their nativity, I would not wifh to do 
this to the exclufion of others. The 
humble name of Bryant fhould not be 
forgotten; who, from a pipe-maker, be- 
came a poet; and has written, if not in 
the firft ftyle of excellence, yet more 
meritorioufiy than could have been ex- 
petted from a, perfon of his. birth and 
education. A young man, that is now 
no more, of the name of Lovel, who, in 
conjunction with Mr. Southey, publithed 
a volume of poems, - betrayed evident 
marks of a poetical genius. Briftol, per- 
haps, can boaft of one of the firft Perfic 
{cholars in the kingdom, in Mr. CHARLEs 
Fox, who is likewife an artift of con- 
fiderable eminence. An ardent defire of 
improvement in his profeflion of land- 
fcape-painting led him, in the early part 
of life, to vilit the romantic fcenes of 
Norway and Denmark ; through which 
countries he travelled alone and on foot, 
enriching his mind with every thing wor- 
thy of notice. This gentleman tranflated 
the poems of Achmed Arbideili; 2 work 
which has experienced a favourable re- 
<eption from the public. In this enu- 
meration it would not be proper to omit 
mentioning the name of a printer of this 
city, whofe name is CoTTLe. He has not 
enly, by the many valuable works he has 
publithed, railed the reputation of the 
Briftol prefs, but is himfeif a poet, and 
aconfiderable patron of men of genius. 
He is now engaged in writing an epic 
State of Manners, Sc. at Briftol. 
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poem on Alfred; in which Blackmore 
failed. The pen of the Pcet Laureat is 
alfo employed on the fame iubject. £ 
hope one, at leat, will be found to twine 
a wreath worthy the brow of thar im- 
mortal prince and {cholar. 
In ‘the ftricter walk of {cience,: the 
names of BowLeEs and SMITH, two pro- 
miling young furgeons of Briltol, delerve 
richly to be mentioned. Phyficians, like 
the wife politician with refpect to difor- 
ders of ftate, fhould beow as much pains 
on the prefervation, as on the cure of dif- 
eafes. It is their duty to enlighten man- 
kind, and guard the avenués oi life from 
the encroachments of every morbid joe. 
This point, however, has not been much 
laboured by them ; and the art ‘of living 
judicioufly and well, has been locked up 
among the arcana of medical {cience. 
Dr. BUCHAN was the firft perfon of aay 
re{pectability, who adopted a work of me- 
dical inftruction, te the comprehenfion of 
the world at large. It has proved mone 
particularly beneficial, in having ex- 
ploded the mifchievous errors of nurfes, 
in the management of young children; but 
has a tendency to make perfons too much 
their. own phyficians. Dr. WiLLicH, 
in his legtures lately publithed, has trod- 
den fomewhat in the fteps of BucHAN ; 
bat his work poffefles this fuperior ‘ex- 
cellence, that it is calculated more to, 
teach the prevention, than cure of difcafes. 
Every one who can read does himéelf in- 
juftice not to perufe this work. Still, 
however, local and viva voce infruétion 
was wanting to further the f{pread of me- 
dical knowledge: and practitioners in 
every town in England would do well to 
follow the example of the aforementioned 
gentlemen, Bowes and Smiru. They 
have inftisuted anatomical, dietetic, and 
phyfological lectures, to which they pub- 
licly invite perfons of either fex to at- 
tend. The mott refpectable ladies of 
the city, waving every objection of falfe 
delicacy and talte, have regularly yuilited 
their lecture room ; where they learnt the 
ftructure of the human form; the various 
caufes of infantine difeafes, ariiing from | 
the mifmanagement. of nurfes ; and the 
rational way to adapt food to their ten- 
der organs of digeftion. To the intem- 
perate they pointed out, with more than, 
pulpit eloquence, the fatal effects of their 
indulgences, by prefenting to their view 
the fcirrhous and difabled organs: of the 
drunkard. They accurately defcribed the 
proceis of its effets from the gutta rofea, 
to gout, analarca, dropfy, and death : and, 
in many inflances, by this. ftriking elo- 
quence, 
