The following tribute, to the memory of Mr. Edwards, the celebrated blind Harper, who died at his sister’s, (Mrs. Jones, Pen yr Allt, Bangor) on Friday, the 13th January, 1815, aged 65, may not be unacceptable to the reader, the author is unknown: Ah! quench’d is now that Minstrel’s fire, And mute those strings, whose magic tone Could once e’en Cambria’s Rocks inspire, And move to life her mountain stone. Cold is the hand, that once could sweep The native Harp, with Bardic sway; Could lull each passion rude to sleep, And drive the steps of care away. Ah come ye kindred Minstrels here, To kiss the Harp your master sway’d, And o’er it drop the mournful tear, And let it in his grave be laid. For now like him ’tis mute and dead, Its accents all are hush’d and still; The power is gone—the spirit fled, And every nerve in death is chill. But shall that spirit rise no more, And shall its powers no more revive, And, on this “Muse deserted shore,” Shall no such Bard hereafter live? Oh! Cambria, scorn the hateful dream, And raise thy drooping downcast head; Nor longer drop the pearly stream, Not longer mourn thy Minstrel dead. For yet some Heaven-taught child of thine, In ages yet unborn may rise; Some sapling of this Minstrel’s line, And lift thy glory to the skies. A new Market House, Town Hall, &c. have lately been built here, which is at once an improvement to the Town, and a convenience to farmers and others of the neighbourhood; a good Inn, on a commodious plan, adjoins it called the Waterloo Tavern. Several mean unsightly dwellings, at the East end of the Church-yard, have been taken down, and a new House erected for the residence of one of the Vicars. In short, from the speculative spirit of the inhabitants, and the increasing demand for Slates at Port Penrhyn, which, as well as the Quay at Hirael, is generally crowded not only with small craft, but with Ships of considerable burthen, Bangor seems advancing rapidly into consequence; it is also of late years become a place of fashionable resort, particularly in the Summer season. The population, according to the last _Census_, in 1811, was 2393, and it may now be stated at nearly 3000. The principal Inns, are the Castle, near the Cathedral, Crown and Anchor, and Waterloo Tavern in the Centre; the Penrhyn Arms at the East, and the Vaynol Arms at the West end of the Town.