At Bristol see the Hot-well; St. George’s Cave, where the Bristol diamonds are found; Ratcliff Church; and at Kingwood, the coal-pits.  Taste there Milford oysters, marrow-puddings, cock-ale, metheglin, white and red-muggets, elvers, sherry, sack (which, with sugar, is called Bristol milk,) and some other wines, which, perhaps you will not drink so good at London.  At Gloucester observe the whispering place in the cathedral.  At Oxford see all the colleges, and their libraries; the schools and public library, and the physic-garden.  Buy there knives and gloves, especially white kid-skin; and the cuts of all the colleges graved by Loggins.  If you go into the North, see the Peak in Derbyshire, described by Hobbes, in a Latin poem, called “Mirabilia Pecci.”  Home-made drinks of England are beer and ale, strong and small; those of most note, that are to be sold, are Lambeth ale, Margaret ale, and Derby ale; Herefordshire cider, perry, mede.  There are also several sorts of compounded ales, as cock-ale, wormwood-ale, lemon-ale, scurvygrass-ale, college-ale, &c.  These are to be had at Hercules Pillars, near the Temple; at the Trumpet, and other houses in Sheer Lane, Bell Alley, and, as I remember, at the English Tavern, near Charing Cross.  Foreign drinks to be found in England are all sorts of Spanish, Greek, Italian, Rhenish, and other wines, which are to be got up and down at several taverns.  Coffe, the, and chocolate, at coffeehouses.  Mum at the mum houses and other places; and molly, a drink of Barbadoes, by chance at some Barbadoes merchants’.  Punch, a compounded drink, on board some West India ships; and Turkish sherbet amongst the merchants.  Manufactures of cloth that will keep out rain; flanel, knives, locks and keys; scabbards for swords; several things wrought in steel, as little boxes, heads for canes, boots, riding-whips, Rippon spurs, saddles, &c.  At Nottingham dwells a man who makes fans, hatbands, necklaces, and other things of glass, drawn out into very small threads.”

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NEW MAGAZINE.

Mr. Sharpe, the proprietor of the “Anniversary,” has just published the first number of “The Three Chapters,” which is one of the most splendid Magazines ever produced in this or any other country.  It has a charming print by H. Rolls, from Wilkie’s Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds to the Virgin, which alone is worth the price charged for the number.  Southey, A. Cunningham, L.E.L. and Hook, shine in the poetry and romance, one of the “Three Chapters,” from which we have just room to give the following:—­

EPITAPH IN BUTLEIGH CHURCH.

BY ROBERT SOUTHEY.