ficer's House, at an immenfe Expence, as he obferves in his Letter, he was at length removed to Newgate.

This Expence he was enabled to fupport, by the Generofity of Mr. Nafb at Bath, who upon receiving from him an Account of his Condition, immediately fent him five Guineas, and promised to promote his Subscription at Bath, with all his Intereft.

By his Removal to Newgate, he obtained at least a Freedom from Sufpence, and Reft from the difturbing Viciffitudes of Hope and Disappointment; he now found that his Friends were only Companions, who were willing to share his Gaiety, but not to partake of his Misfortunes; and therefore he no longer expected any Affiftance from them.

He was offered by fome of his Friends that a Collection fhould be made for his Enlargement, but he treated the Propofal, and declared, that he should again treat it with Difdain. As to writing any Mendicant Letters, he had too high a Spirit, and determined only to write to fome Minifters of State, to try to regain his Penfion.

He continned to complain of those that had sent him into the Country, and objected to them, that he had loft the Profits of the Play which had been finished three Years, and in another Letter declares his Refolution to publish a Pamphlet, that the World might know how he had been used.

He was treated by Mr. Dagg, the Keeper of the Prifon, with great Humanity; was supported by him at his own Table without any Certainty of Recompence, had a Room to himself, to which he could at any Time retire from all Difturbance, was allow'd to ftand at the Door of the Prifon, and fometimes taken out into the Fields; fo that he fuffered fewer Hardships

Hardships in the Prifon, than he had been accustomed to undergo in the greateft Part of his Life.

Mr. Savage very frequently received Vifits, and fometimes Prefents from his Acquaintances, but they did not amount to a Subfiftence, for the greater Part of which he was indebted to the Generosity of his Keeper; but thefe Favours, however they might endear to him the particular Perfons, from whom he received them, were very far from impreffing upon his Mind any advantageous Ideas of the People of Bristol, and therefore he thought he could not more properly employ himself in Prison, than in writing the following Poem.

LONDON and BRISTOL delineated.

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WO Sea-port Cities mark Britannia's Fame,
And thefe from Commerce different Honours
What different Honours fhall the Mufes pay, [claim.
While one inspires and one untunes the Lay?
Now filver Ifis bright'ning flows along,

Echoing from Oxford's Shore each claffick Song;
Then weds with Tame; and the fe, O London, fee
Swelling with naval Pride, the Pride of Thee!
Wide deep unfullied Thames meand'ring glides
And bears thy Wealth on mild majestick Tides.
Thy Ships, with gilded Palaces that vie,
In glitt'ring Pomp, ftrike wond'ring China's Eye;
And thence returning bear, in fplendid State,
To Britain's Merchants, India's Eaftern Freight.
India, her Treasures from her western Shores,
Due at thy Feet, a willing Tribute pours;
Thy warring Navies diftant Nations awe,
And bid the World obey thy righteous Law.
Thus fhine thy manly Sons of lib'ral Mind;
Thy Change deep bufied, yet as Courts refin'd;

- Councils,

Councils, like Senates that enforce Debate
With fluent Eloquence and Reason's Weight.
Whofe Patriot Virtue, lawless Pow'r controuls;
Their British emulating Roman Souls.

Of thefe the worthieft ftill selected ftand,
Still lead the Senate, and ftill fave the Land:
Social, not felfifh, here, O Learning trace
Thy Friends, the Lovers of all human Race!
In a dark Bottom funk, O Bristol now,
With native Malice, lift thy low'ring Brow!
Then as fome Hell-born Sprite, in mortal Guife,
Borrows the Shape of Goodness and belies,
All fair, all fmug to yon proud Hall invite,
To feaft all Strangers ape an Air polite !
From Cambria drain'd, or England's western Coaft,
Not elegant yet coftly Banquets boast!
Revere, or feem the Stranger to revere;
Praife, fawn, profefs, be all Things but fincere;
Infidious now, our Bofom Secrets steal,

And these with fly farcaftick Sneer reveal.
Prefent we meet thy fneaking treach❜rous Smiles ;
The harmless Abfent ftill thy Sneer reviles;
Such as in Thee all Parts fuperior find;

The Sneer that marks the Fool and Knave combin'd.
When melting Pity wou'd afford Relief,
The ruthlefs Sneer that Infult adds to Grief.

What Friendship can't thou boaft? What Honours
To thee each Stranger owes an injur'd Name. [claim?
What Smiles. thy Sons muft in their Foes excite?
Thy Sons to whom all Difcord is Delight :
From whom eternal mutual Railing flows;
Who in each others Crimes, their own expofe;
Thy Sons, tho' crafty, deaf to Wifdom's Call;
Defpifing all Men and defpis'd by all.
Sons, while thy Clifs a Ditch-like River laves,
Rude as thy Rocks, and muddy as thy Waves;

Of

Of Thoughts as narrow as of Words immenfe ;
As full of Turbulence as void of Senfe:
Thee, thee what fenatorial Souls adorn?

Thy Natives fure wou'd prove a Senate's Scorn.
Do Strangers deign to serve thee? What their Praise ?
Their gen'rous Services thy Murmurs raise.
What Fiend malign, that o'er thy Air prefides,
Around from Breaft to Breaft inherent glides,
And, as he glides, there scatters in a Trice
The lurking Seeds of ev'ry rank Device?
Let foreign Youths to thy Indentures run!
Each, each will prove, in thy adopted Son,
Proud, pert and dull-Tho' brilliant once from Schools,
Will fcorn all Learning's as all Virtue's Rules;
And, tho' by Nature friendly, honeft, brave,
Turn a fly, felfifh, fimp'ring, fharping Knave.
Boaft petty Courts, where 'ftead of fluent Eafe;
Of cited Precedents and learned Pleas;
'Stead of fage Council in the dubious Cause,
Attornies chatt'ring wild, burlesque the Laws.
So fhameless Quacks, who Doctor's Rights invade,
Of Jargon and of Poison form a Trade.

So canting Coblers, while from Tubs they teach,
Buffoon the Gofpel they pretend to preach.
Boaft petty Courts, whence Rules new Rigour draw;
Unknown to Nature's and to Statute Law;
Quirks that explain all faving Rights away,
To give the Attorney and the Catch-poll Prey.
Is there where Law too rig'rous may defcend?
Or Charity her kindly Hand extend?

Thy Courts that shut, when Pity wou'd redrefs,
Spontaneous open to inflict Diftrefs.
Try Mifdemeanours !-All thy Wiles employ,,
Not to chastise the Offender but destroy;
Bid the large lawless Fine his Fate foretel;
Bid it beyond his Crime and Fortune fwell.

Cut

Cut off from Service due to kindred Blood
To private Welfare and to publick Good,
Pitied by all, but thee, he fentenc'd lies s
Imprifon'd languifhes, imprifon'd dies,

Boaft fwarming Veffels, whofe Plæbean State
Owes not to Merchants but Mechanicks Freight.
Boaft nought but Pedlar Fleets In War's Alarms,
Unknown to Glory, as unknown to Arms.
Boaft thy bafe Tolfey, and thy Turn-fpit Dogs;
Thy + Hallier's Horses and thy human Hogs;
Upftarts and Mushrooms, proud, relentless Hearts;
Thou Blank of Sciences! Thou Dearth of Arts!
Such Foes as Learning once was doom'd to fee;
Huns, Goths, and Vandals were but Types of Thee.
Proceed, great Bristol, in all-righteous Ways,
And let one Juftice heighten yet thy Praife;
Still spare the Catamite, and swinge the Whore,
And be, whate'er Gomorrah was before.

When he had brought this Poem to its prefent State, which, without confidering the Chafm, is not perfect, he wrote to London an Account of his Defign, and informed his Friend, that he was determined to print it with his Name; but enjoined him not to communicate his Intention to his Bristol Acquaintance: The Gentleman furpriz'd at his Refolution, endeavoured to diffuade him from publifhing VOL. II.

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* A Place where the Merchants used to meet to tranfact their Affairs before the Exchange was erected.

Halliers are the Perfons who drive cr own the Sledg

as, which are used here instead of Carts.