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Bristol Satire on Vice and Fashion in a Bristol Letter
A 1772 letter from Hot-Wells to a country friend critiques Bristol’s dirt, manners, and fashion, contrasting merchants and beaux with old virtues. The writer visits Bath and the Wells, praises Morass garden, and praises Bristol’s ships, then bids farewell while urging prudence over vanity. He closes with a disclaimer that the satire targets the vicious, not the wise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Ince
Bristol
Queen-square
Lucifer
Plutus
Trav’ling
Ome
France
England
Forrest
The
Wales
Garden of Eden
Pan
Bath
Fack
Stapleford Tawney
Messrs
Dynely and Bell
Gray’s Inn
London
William Cole
Epping
Nonz Bu
Hereford
Kinton
Kingsland
Bardidand
N.B
Arrow
Winfley
Borough of
Leominster
Ludlow
John Woodhouse
Bridwell Hospital
Adam Ward
Birchin
Herefordshire
Earl of Sandwich
Admiralty
J H. Moore
Royal Navy
Richardson and Urquhart
Royal Exchange
Great
Ireland
Fox Thedgeman
Met
WAY and Son
Swan Inn
Bedford
Henry James Pye
Kno
Souldrop
County
Higham Ferrers
Wellingborough
Thrapston
Highaus
Ferrers
Ward
Farringdon
Berks
Webley
Chafbery
Lane
Thame
Oxfordshire