1 2 3 JUL 1964

LONDON :
Printed by is. SPOTTISWOOD,

New-Street-Square.

LETTER I. - GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Town Scenery — A Comparison with certain Views in the

Country - The River and Quay - Ship-building - Sea-

Boys and Port-Views — Walks from Town - House of

Sunday Entertainment - The Sea: a Summer and Winter

View — A Shipwreck at Night, and its Effects on Shore -

Evening Amusements

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LETTER II. - The Church.

Several Meanings of the Word Church - The Building so

called — Its Antiquity and Grandeur - Columns and Ailes

- The Tower: the Stains made by Time - Progress of

Vegetation on such Buildings — Bells — Tombs — Mural

Monuments — Church-yard Graves- A Story of a betrothed

Pair in humble Life, and Effects of Grief in the Survivor.

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LETTER III. - THE VICAR.

The lately departed Minister of the Borough — His soothing

and supplicatory Manners — His cool and timid Affections
--- No Praise due to such negative Virtue — The Vicar's

Employments — His Talents and moderate Ambition - His

Dislike of Innovation — His mild but ineffectual Bene-

volence - Summary of his Character

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THE CURATE.

Mode of paying the Borough-Minister — The Curate -- His

Learning and Poverty - His Feelings as a Husband and

Father — The dutiful Regard of his numerous Family -

His Pleasure as a Writer, how interrupted - No Resource

in the Press — His Account of a Literary Society, and a

Fund for the Relief of indigent Authors, &c. - - 55

LETTER IV. - SECTS AND PROFESSIONS IN Religion.

Sects and Professions in Religion numerous and successive -

General Effect of False Zeal — Deists — Fanatical Idea of

Church Reformers - The Church of Rome - Baptists -

Swedenborgians - Universalists — Jews.

Methodists of two Kind; Calvinistic and Arminian.

The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast — His Contempt of

* Learning - Dislike to sound Morality: why – His. Idea

of Conversion--His Success, and Pretensions to Humility.

The Arminian Teacher of the older Flock - Their Notions of

the Operations and Power of Satan --Their Opinion of

Regular Ministers - Comparison of these with the Preacher

himself - His Description of the powerful Effects of the
Word in the awakening Days of Methodism

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LETTER V.- ELECTIONS.

The Evils of the Contest — Miseries endured by a Friend of

the Candidate - Unreasonable Expectations of Voters -

Censures of the opposing Party - Vices and Follies shown

in such Time of Contest -- Plans and Cunning of Electors

- Evils which remain after the Decision - Advancement of

the Mayor till raised to the Government of the Borough -

These Évils not to be placed in Balance with the Liberty of

the People

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LETTER VI. - PROFESSIONS — Law.

Trades and Professions of every Kind to be found in the

Borough - Its Seamen and Soldiers — Law, the Danger of

the Subject - Coddrington's Offence- Attorneys increased ;

their splendid Appearance, how supported — Some worthy

Exceptions - Spirit of Litigation, how stirred up - How

this Profession perverts the Judgment - Success from honest

Application -- Archer, a worthy Character - Swallow, a

Character of a different Kind — His Origin, Progress,
Success, &c. -

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LETTER VII. — PROFESSIONS — Physic.

The Worth and Excellence of the true Physician — Modes of

advancing Reputation — The great Evil of Quackery -

Present State of advertising Quacks - Causes of Success -

How Men of Understanding are prevailed upon to have

Recourse to Empirics — Evils of Quackery: to nervous

Females : to Youth: to Infants - History of an advertising

Empiric, &c. -

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LETTER VIII. - TRADES.

No extensive Manufactories in the Borough - Ill Judgment

of Parents in disposing of their Sons — The best educated

not the most likely to succeed — Instance — Want of Success

compensated by the lenient Power of some Avocations -

The Naturalist — The Weaver an Entomologist, &c. - A

Prize-Flower — Story of Walter and William - 143

LETTER IX. — AMUSEMENTS.

Common Amusements of a Bathing-place – Morning Rides,

Walks, &c. - Lodgings - Sea-side Walks - Wealthy In-

valid - Summer Evening on the Sands — Winter Views

serene — Sailing upon the River — A small Islet of Sand off

the Coast – Visited by Company - Covered by the flowing

of the Tide - Adventure

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LETTER X. - CLUBS AND Social MEETINGS.

Desire of Country Gentlemen for Town Associations — Book-

clubs — Literary Conversation prevented: by Feasting; by

Cards - Good, notwithstanding, results - Card-club- Free-

and-Easy Club — Drinking and Smoking Clubs — Society
of the poorer Inhabitants — its Use -- Pleasant Habitations
of the frugal Poor - Sailor returning to his Family
Freemasons' Club — Griggs and Gregorians — Reflections
on these Societies

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LETTER XI. — Inns.

A difficult Subject for Poetry – Invocation of the Muse -

Description of the principal Inn - Those of a second Order

- Their Company – A lower Kind of Public Houses : yet

distinguished among themselves — Houses on the Quays for

Sailors - The Green-Man: its Landlord, and the Adventures

of his Marriage, &c. -

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LETTER XII. - PLAYERS.

Their Arrival in the Borough—Are better fitted for Comic than

Tragic Scenes — Their general Character and Pleasantry -

Particular Distresses and Labours - A private Rehearsal —

Vanity of the aged Actress — A Heroine from the Milliner's

Shop - Adventures of Frederic Thompson - - 201

LETTER XIII. — THE ALMS-HOUSE, AND TRUSTEES.

The frugal Merchant - Alms-house built - Its Description

- Founder dies — Six Trustees - Sir Denys Brand a

Principal - His Eulogium in the Chronicles of the Day -

An Explanation of the Magnanimity and Wisdom of Sir

Denys — His Kinds of Moderation and Humility - Laugh-

ton, his Successor, a planning, ambitious, wealthy Man -

His Idea of Falsehood — His Resentment dangerous : how

removed — His Love of Flattery - His Merits and Acts of

Kindness

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