Christopher Anstey, an English satirical poet, bornatBrinkley, Cambridgeshire, Oct. 31,1724, died at Chippenham in 1805. He is only remembered for his amusing satire called " The New Bath Guide," the profit on the sale of which was declared by Dodsley to be greater than he had ever gained in the same period from any other book. The principal targets for the writer's shafts are physicians and Methodists. Smollett borrowed largely from this poem in " Humphrey Clinker."