The Earl crossed the country to Bristol.

But in the most romantic spirit of chivalry he permitted the Empress to pass out, and to set forward to join her brother at Bristol, under a safe-conduct.

" After the capture of King Stephen, at this brief but decisive battle, he was kept a close prisoner at Bristol Castle.

When Stephen had shaken off the chains with which he was loaded in Bristol Castle, the Bishop summoned a council at Westminster, on his legatine authority; and there "by great powers of eloquence, endeavored to extenuate the odium of his own conduct"; affirming that he had supported the Empress, "not from inclination, but necessity."

Battle of Lincoln; King Stephen defeated and carried prisoner to Bristol.

" But he went under to Neale, of Bristol, on the great day that Hazlitt describes.

Visits Bath The Yearly MeetingLife of J. J. Gurney Visit to MindenReligious service in Yorkshire Goes again to Minden Neuveville Paris Visit to Bristol and Gloucester Quarterly Meetings Minden Visit to Birmingham, Leicester, &c. Goes to Nismes Visits Chelmsford, &c. CHAPTER XXI.

[Preface to first edition of ADDISON's Works 1721.] JOSEPH ADDISON, the son of LANCELOT ADDISON, D.D., and of JANE, the daughter of NATHANIEL GULSTON, D.D., and sister of Dr. WILLIAM GULSTON, Bishop of BRISTOL, was born at Milston, near Ambrosebury, in the county of Wilts, in the year 1671.

He tells the citizens of Bristol plainly that such a claim he ought not to admit, and never will.

You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament.

"General Election Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll at Bristol, November 3d, 1774, Burke's Works, vol.

] Norton, a relation near Bristol.

Sept. 15.] ship at Bristol to carry him to France or Spain; and he introduced Lord Wilmot to his chamber at the hour of midnight.

From London the house ordered him to be conducted[e] to Bristol, the place of his offence.

The London executioner has vanished, and there is no executioner nearer at hand than Bristol.

Thus the Bristol has become the Crown Prince Café, and the Piccadilly is the Germania; but otherwise they are just as they were before the war started, and the business in them is quite as good, the residents say, as it ever was.

In the House of Lords, Lord Bristol, who brought the question forward, denounced "this identification of a judge with the executive government as injurious to the judicial character, subversive of the liberty of the people, and having a direct and alarming tendency to blend and amalgamate those great elementary principles of political power which it is the very object of a free constitution to keep separate and distinct."

[Footnote 214: Speech to the electors of Bristol on being declared by the sheriffs duly elected member for that city, November 3, 1774.Burke's Works, iii., 11, ed 1803.]

Riots at Bristol and Nottingham.

But Nottingham almost equalled Bristol in its horrors.

So, when Bristol had disgraced itself by the rejection of Burke, Malton had averted the loss with which Parliament and the country were threatened by again, through the influence of Lord Rockingham, returning the great statesman as their representative.

This is succeeded by a poetic panorama of views from the Severn to Bristol, introducing a solitary ship at seaand the "solitary sand:" No sound was heard, Save of the sea-gull warping on the wind, Or of the surge that broke along the shore, Sad as the seas.

A picture of Bristol is succeeded by some scenes of great picturesque beautyas Wrington, the birth-place of the immortal Locke; Blagdon, the rural rectory of Langhorne, a pastor and a poet too; and Barley-Wood, the seat of Mrs. Hannah More.

Another is from a Mr. Bowen, of Orchard Estate; and the third from Mr. Brockett, of Hopewell and Content Estates, the property of Mr. Miles, M.P. for Bristol.

He became Bishop of Bristol in 1714, and died in 1719.