unusual industry in a variety of Prints, as a fair representation of the Charges and Income of the Country. The detail we have been obliged to enter into for the purpose of exposing it, has been fatiguing to us, and will, we fear, be more so to our Readers; but we trust it may at least prove a useful warning against placing implicit confidence in similar Statements from the same quarter. The majority of the inhabitants of Venice formally declared, on "the 28th ult. that they were willing to submit to the Austrian "Government." Again, "On the 28th, the Assemblies of the People were called "together, when above two-thirds of them declared that they "would submit to the Austrian Government. This declaration "was accompanied by loud shouts of Long live the EMPEROR!' "From this scene we turn with disgust and horror." November 28, Courier, The nature of a Jacobin's nerves is incomprehensible. When the French, after seeing the streets of Paris heaped with the mangled carcases of thousands of their fellowcitizens, were dragooned into the freedom of allowing their Delegates to re-elect themselves, this delicate creature looked on with a steady eye, and shouted Vive la 'Liberté! Again, when in defiance of every rule of rectitude, in open violation even of their own mad Code, a part of the Directory, and no inconsiderable portion of the two Councils were seized, and, without the formality of a hearing, hurried off in iron cages, like wild beasts, to what Jacobins in France call the Civic Baptifm, and those of the same way of thinking here, more facetiously, the Water party-he still looked on undauntedly, and repeated his acclamations. But now that a vast majority of a rich and populace City have voluntarily (according to the account), chosen to submit to a regular Government, and thus preserve themselves from all the evils of anarchy -he -he grows dizzy, he is unable to sustain the blasting sight, and turns from it with DISGUST and HORROR * ! ! Volumes could not have let us so completely into the true nature of Jacobinism, as this short echappade. Let us no longer deceive ourselves. Ferrum eft, quod amant. 'Tis blood and plunder they love. Uproar and confusion are their elements. In these they long to wallow and disport themselves at large; and would think the indulgence cheaply bought by the extermination of half mankind. Morning "IT is likewise proposed in the Scheme, that the Taxes shall be ANSWER. "The fact is, that Mr. PITT said, that in raising Twelve Millions "by Loan, but Four Millions would be a permanent addition to "the Funded Debt, as Eight Millions would be extinguished by The Reader will observe, that we state this according to the account given by the Jacobins themselves. The truth is, that what they complain of is evidently the act of the French Government, who bargained with the EMPEROR to transfer Venice to him, nominally by its own consent, but in fact by the terror of their Armed Force. We could not, however, in candour suppose, that there appeared to these Writers any thing to complain of in this part of the transaction, as it is in strict conformity to all the great and most admired efforts by which France has lately either acquired Liberty to itself, or imparted it to other Nations. continuing "continuing the forced Assessment for fifteen months beyond the year 1798 ; "and that when it was recollected that the Sinking Fund would "nearly buy up Four Millions of the National Debt in the course "of 1798, the one would in reality balance the other; and we should be "no more in debt at the end of the year 1798, by borrowing Four "Millions, than at the beginning."-Morn. Chron. Dec. 2., "At this late day a British Minister must be sanguine and bewildered, "or buoyed up with puerile conceits, who proposes to raise without "a Loan the Capital and Interest for the War Supplies within the year, "as well as the Interest of all former Mortgages, instead of pur"suing his usual mode, and that of his Predecessors for the last "hundred years; that is, since the introduction of that political "canker, the Sinking Fund."-Morning Chronicle, Dec. 1. The beginning and the end of this Sentence answer one another. The middle part, in Italics, is answered in the first line of the Extract from the Morning Chronicle, Dec. 2." In raising Twelve Millions by Loan," &c. "We cannot but express some little surprise that the MINISTERIAL "PRINTS should insult and revile the memory of the KING of "PRUSSIA, on the very day when they announced to the Public "that a Court Mourning had been ordered to honcur it.”—Morn. "Chron. Dec. 1. “A reign of ten years, in which the KING of PRUSSIA has wasted "the inheritance of glory bequeathed to him by the great FREDE"RICK, has left no memorials behind him but the plunder of "Poland, THE DESERTION OF THE ALLIANCE AGAINST FRANCE, and "the character of a Prince who exposed himself to the derision "of all Europe."-Morning Post, Nov. 30. If the Morning Post be a MINISTERIAL PRINT, then is the Morning Chronicle more attentive to truth than usual. MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM. (Continued from No. III.) THE House of Russell being given, Lord JoHN and Lord WILLIAM rose both at once. Lord Lord JoHN made a very neat, and Lord WILLIAM a very appropriate speech. Alderman COOMBE made a very impressive speech. Mr. GREY made a very fine speech. He described the Ministers "bold bad men as their measures he repeatedly declared to be not only " weak, but wicked." Mr. BYNG said a few words. ર General TARLETON and the Electors of Liverpool being given, the General, after an eulogium on Mr. Fox, begged to anticipate their favourite concluding toast, and to give "The Cause of Freedom all over the World.” This toaft unfortunately gave rise to an altercation which threatened to disturb the harmony of the evening: OlauDAH EQUIANO, the African, and HENRY YORKE, the Mulatto, insisted upon being heard; but as it appeared that they were entering upon a subject which would have entirely altered the complexion of the Meeting, they were, though not without some difficulty, with-held from proceeding further. Mr. ERSKINE now rose, in consequence of some allusons which had been made to the Trial by Jury. He professed himself to be highly flattered by the encomiums which had been lavished upon him; at the same time he was conscious that he could not, without some degree of reserve, consent to arrogate to himself those qualities which the partiality of his friends had attributed to him. He had, on former occasions, declared himself to be clothed with the infirmities of man's nature; and he now begged leave, in all humility, to reiterate that confeffion : he fhould never cease to consider himself as a feeble, and with respect to the extent of his faculties, in many respects, a finite Being he had ever borne in mind, and he he hoped he should ever continue to bear in mind, those words of the inspired Penman, "Thou hast made him less than the Angels, to crown him with glory and honour." These lines were indeed applicable to the state of man in general, but of no man more than himself; they appeared to him pointed and personal, and little less than prophetic; they were always present to his mind; he could wish to wear them in his breast as a sort of amulet against the enchantment of public applause, and the witcheries of vanity and self-delusion: yet if he were indeed possessed of those super-human powers-all pretensions to which he again begged leave most earnestly to disclaim-if he were endowed with the eloquence of an Angel, and with all those other faculties which we attribute to angelic natures, it would be impossible for him to do justice to the eloquence with which the Honourable Gentleman who opened the Meeting had defended the Cause of Freedom, identified as he conceived it to be with the persons and government of the Directory. In his present terreftrial state he could only address it as a prayer to God, and as counsel to Man, that the words which they had heard from that Honourable Gentleman might work inwardly in their hearts, and, in due time, produce the fruit of Liberty and Revolution. He had not the advantage of being personally acquainted. with any, of the Gentlemen of the Directory; he understood, however, that one of them (Mr. MERLIN) previous to the last change, had stood in a situation similar to his own He was in fact, nothing less than a leading Advocate and Barrister, in the midst of a free, powerful, and enlightened people. The |