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The Princess Cariboo; or, The Queen Of The Isles.
Bristol was, in 1812, the second commercial city of Great Britain, having in particular an extensive East India trade. Among its inhabitants were merchants, reckoned remarkably shrewd, and many of them very wealthy; and quite a number of aristocratic families, who were looked up to with the abject toad-eating kind of civility that follows "the nobility. " On the whole, Bristol was a very fashionable, rich, cultivated, and intelligent place -- considering.