Should any one desire to make himself acquainted with affairs
at Bristol in respect to the past state and present condition of the charges on its trade, the best mode, in the opinion of a very active and industrious " Burgess," of remedying the corruption of its old corporators and the extortions of its Dock Companies, as well as a variety of other matters connected with the muni- cipal history of the third city of the kingdom, lie will do well to possess himself of a volume entitled The City and Port of Bristol. For general readers it cannot be said to have any in- terest; for, independently of the local nature of the subjects, the tracts and letters of which the volume consists are too contro- versial in their nature, and were too evidently written for tem- porary purposes to challenge attention beyond the locality to which they relate.
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