Miss Hawkins was the youngest of the two daughters of a
Bristol merchant, of course, he must be called; but, as the whole of the profits of his mercantile life appeared so very moderate, it was not unfair to guess the dignity of his line of trade had been very moderate also.
But we got at last into Milford Haven, in Wales, where, though it was remote from our port, yet having my foot safe upon the firm ground of my native country, the isle of Britain, I resolved to venture it no more upon the waters, which had been so terrible to me; so getting my clothes and money on shore, with my bills of loading and other papers, I resolved to come for London, and leave the ship to get to her port as she could; the port whither she was bound was to
Bristol, where my brother's chief correspondent lived.
"It will amount to this: If we have the clue you talk about, I fit out a ship in
Bristol dock, and take you and Hawkins here along, and I'll have that treasure if I search a year."
He had only two hours' work to do to open communication with the king and, according to the calculations of the four friends, they had the entire day before them, since, the executioner being absent, another must be sent for to
Bristol.
The tortoise--as the alderman of
Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience--besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject.
James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for three days at
Bristol, and had only just returned upon the morning of last Monday, the 3rd.
And had he not "served his time" in the famous copper-ore trade out of the
Bristol Channel, the work of the staunchest ships afloat, and the school of staunch seamen?
"Put on your hat this moment -- there is no time to be lost -- we are going to
Bristol. How d'ye do, Mrs.
From Cleveland, which was within a few miles of
Bristol, the distance to Barton was not beyond one day, though a long day's journey; and their mother's servant might easily come there to attend them down; and as there could be no occasion of their staying above a week at Cleveland, they might now be at home in little more than three weeks' time.
We found her a ship of
Bristol, bound home from Barbadoes, but had been blown out of the road at Barbadoes a few days before she was ready to sail, by a terrible hurricane, while the captain and chief mate were both gone on shore; so that, besides the terror of the storm, they were in an indifferent case for good mariners to bring the ship home.
At one time also he largely devoted his efforts to a partly successful attack on the wastefulness and corruption of the government; and his generous effort to secure just treatment of Ireland and the Catholics was pushed so far as to result in the loss of his seat as member of Parliament from
Bristol. But the permanent interest of his thirty years of political life consists chiefly in his share in the three great questions, roughly successive in time, of what may be called England's foreign policy, namely the treatment of the English colonies in America, the treatment of the native population of the English empire in India, and the attitude of England toward the French Revolution.
Winkle's description, had gone over to
Bristol that morning, by the branch coach from the Royal Hotel.