I look from my window upon the Avon and its wooded and rocky bounds--the trees yet green.

A vessel is sailing down, and here comes a steamer (Irish, I suppose).

I have in view the end of the Cliff to the right, and on my left a wide and varied prospect over Bristol, as far as the eye can reach, and at present the novelty makes it very interesting.

Clifton was always a favourite place with me.

I have more strength and more spirits since my arrival at this place, and do not despair of giving a good account of my excursion on my return." It is noteworthy that Crabbe, who as a young man witnessed the Lord George Gordon Riots of 1780, should, fifty years later, have been in Bristol during the disgraceful Reform Bill Rising of 1831, which, through the cowardice or connivance of the government of the day, went on unchecked to work such disastrous results to life and property.