This is a trick that the Jacobin Prints seem fond of. When any one of them publishes a Lie more attrocious than usual, the next in course copies it, and boldly asserts it to be taken from a "Ministerial Paper." Thus we have already seen the Morning Chronicle call the Morning Post a Government Journal; and we now see the Morning Post paying the same compliment to the Morning Herald, in whose contemptible pages this Jacobinical fabrication first appeared.

MISREPRESENTATIONS,

"It is probable that the French will have a Thanksgiving for their "Successes, on the same day we have ours; they will beat us, "however, for they have ROBESPIERRE'S Solemn Thanksgiving 66 as a model."-Morn, Chron. Dec. 18.

We thank the Morning Chronicle for this paragraph. It gives us an opportunity of presenting our Provincial Readers with a brief account of the "Solemnity" so strenuously recommended to our imitation.

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HEBERT, a professed Atheist, at the instigation of the execrable CONDOR CET, set up a Morning Chronicle, alias Journal du Veritable Pere du Chene." This Paper was filled with blasphemy, and obscenity of the grossest kind, and was distributed with a most pernicious activity.

The blessed effects of this Patriotic Print were not long in manifesting themselves. The People, accustomed to see the Religion of their Ancestors daily reviled, learned to think of it with indifference, and soon became ripe for the "Farce" which CONDORCET and his Atheistical Associates were preparing for them.

GOBET

GOBET, the Revolutionary Bishop of Paris, appeared at the Bar of the Constituent Assembly, with his inferior Clergy, and made a formal abjuration of CHRISTIANITY. "He threw himself," he said, " on the Mercy of the "Nation, for having so long deceived them with the "absurdities of the Impostor CHRIST, and his pretended "FATHER, whose Doctrines he now abjured with de"testation and horror; and he assured them, that in "future he would acknowledge no other Deity than "REASON."

Here began the Ceremony so much admired by the Jacobin Prints. HEBERT kept a strumpet of the name of MOMORO, the Wife of a renegado Corsican. This miserable Prostitute was fixed upon to represent the GODDESS OF REASON; she was fantastically tricked out, and led at the head of a Grand Procession to the Church of Notre Dame, the Cathedral of Paris. Here she was solemnly placed on a Throne of Turf and Flowers, while GOBET and the rest of the Revolutionary Clergy burnt Incense on an Altar erected just before her.

While this was performing, the cannon announced the instauration of the new Goddess: the enlightened People of Paris fell prostrate at the Signal, and paid their brutified adorations at the feet of a Street-walker and an Adulteress !!!

Such was the ceremony which the Morning Chronicle now recommends us to adopt, instead of a grateful and pious prostration of ourselves before the Almighty Ruler of the Universe!

"Mr. WILBERFORCE would have been an admirable Coadjutor to "OLIVER CROMWELL, whose seeking the Lord was of as much "benefit to his Country as Mr. WILBERFORCE's looking unto "Jesus."-Morning Chronicle, December 21.

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We call upon the well-disposed People of this Country, to reflect seriously on these and similar Paragraphs with which the Jacobinical Prints abound.

Are they content to exchange rational Liberty for Anarchy, and the Religion of their Forefathers for Atheism in its most horrid form? If so, they will do well to attend to these zealots of Infidelity-these faithful copyists of the Pere du Chene; they are the mouth-pieces of the Party, and they speak to us in thunder.

But we have better hopes: we trust our Countrymen regard their blasphemies with abhorrence, and are well aware of the folly of confiding in the hypocritical pretensions of those Men, who begin their patriotic carcer by requiring us to renounce our peace here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter.

We beg pardon for this warmth; but when we see a good Man singled out for ridicule, and likened to an Usurper and a Murderer, for reverently looking to the Author of his Salvation, we know not how to repress our feelings.

"A Ministerial Paper complains, that the appointment of a "Thanksgiving Day has been treated with ridicule - None of "this ridicule has fallen in our way."-Morn. Chron. Dec. 18.

Some People have strange ideas of ridicule. We wish to ask this Writer a simple question or two:-Did a most impious parallel between the Life and Sufferings of our blessed Saviour, and the drunken buffooneries of Bacchus, ever fall in his way? and if so-did he consider that as a ridicule of any thing?

MISTAKES.

MISTAKES.

THE ASSESSED TAXES.

A full and true Account of the miraculous Operations of the New Tax, taken from that Hocus-Pocus Print, the Morning Chronicle.

THE RICH not affected by the Tax.

"The Rich will not be affected by the Assessed Taxes -even "should they be more than trebled, they will not be scratched "by them.-Morning Chronicle, December 2.

THE RICH ruined by it.

"That style of living, which our pride and vanity, our love of fa. "shion, &c. has introduced, must now yield to the imperious "Law of Necessity.-Morning Chronicle, Dec. 2.

THE POOR not affected by the Tax.

"It exempts the absolutely Poor, and those who are so in the next "degree.-Morning Chronicle, December 2.

THE POOR ruined by it.

"It is ridiculous to say that the Tax will not fall with the most " merciless severity on the Poor."-Morn. Chron. Dec. 11.

ECONOMY to be practised.

« We recommend Non-consumption Agreements,"

"We are afraid, Non-consumption Agreements will become com"mon."-Morning Chronicle, December 12.

ECONOMY not to be practised.

"Non-consumption Agreements will be impracticable during the 66 present year," &c.. Morn. Chron. Dec. 11.

It cannot be expected that we should seriously notice such contradictory nonsense. When the Jacobins shall have made themselves masters of the subject, and have found out what they really mean to complain of, we shall have pleasure in considering their objections; meanwhile, we take our leave of them in the words of EsCALUS, in

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Measure for Measure, to honest ELBOW, the Constable, who found himself in a similar situation.- Esc. "Truly "Officer, because he hath some offences in him that thou "wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him continue in his courses till thou knowest what they are."

NAVAL HISTORY.

THE SOVEREIGN and PARLIAMENT of this Country have, in the most solemn manner, offered their Thanks to the ALMIGHTY, for the THREE GREAT NAVAL VICTORIES which have distinguished the present War.

Undoubtedly it must afford, to every British Subject, the most heartfelt satisfaction to observe, that in the midst of the difficulties and dangers with which we have had to contend, the Naval Superiority of the Country appears more conspicuous than at any former period of its History; and that if, by the treachery or weakness of other Powers, we have been disappointed in many of our wellfounded expectations as to the general result of the Contest, in that part of it in which we have stood alone, our Success has been uniform.

If the contemplation of this Success cannot fail to inspire us with a proper sense of what we owe to PROVIDENCE, a Review of it, as compared with the Advantages obtained in former Wars, may be useful, as it will furnish us with a just confidence in our present Power and Resources.

The Victory obtained over the Spanish Armada in the reign of QUEEN ELIZABETH, is well known to have been the foundation of the Naval Glory of Great Britain; and it was not till more than half a century after

that