As to the Panegyric which the Morning Chronicle takes this occasion to pronounce upon the private character and personal virtues of the dismissed Duke, we have no disposition to controvert it. Of his Grace we know nothing, except so much of his convivial life, as he has thought proper at different times to obtrude upon public notice. With regard to the attempt which is made to represent this act of government as a violent and unheard-of exertion of the power and prerogative of the Crown, nothing can be more idle. It is well known to every man at all versed in the Political History of the Country, to be a prerogative that has been often used upon ordinary occasions, and in ordinary times. But upon this point we do not desire to dwell. Had it been the strongest and most unusual exercise of an undoubted right, on the part of the Crown, we should have conceived the circumstance of a Nobleman in the Duke of NORFOLK's situation, possessed of high privileges, and invested with high trust, affording, at a moment like che present, the sanction of his presence, and the authority of his name, to the ceremony of a formal act of alliance between the remains of the PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION of this Country, and the leaders of a faction, French in principle, French in inclination, and French in conduct; we should have considered such a circumstance as holding out any man as an object of rational jealousy and mistrust, to those whose duty it is to provide for the safety of these Kingdoms; and not as justifying only, but as calling for his removal from any office or dignity, where his error might have weighed, and where his influence might create followers. As to the effects upon the feelings of THE PEOPLE, the Morning Chronicle may be perfectly at case. The PEO VOL. I. F f PLE ance. PLE are not so anxious for the possession of the Sovereignty which the Meetings of the Crown and Anchor have been for "forty years" labouring to confer upon them, as to have forgotten that they have a SOVEREIGN to whom they owe, and to whom they chearfully pay, their allegiThe PEOPLE are not so easily fooled, as to suppose that a guzzling riot at a Tavern has any thing to do with their interests, or is in any way conducive to their happiThe PEOPLE are enough alive to their real interests in the constitution, to know that justice done impartially upon the highest, as upon the lowest subject of the Realm, is a valuable and vital principle of sound Government. With the great body of the PEOPLE, therefore the example cannot fail to "promote union,” and " secure exertion" † - to " promote union," because they must now see the extent and danger of the principles which they are called upon to oppose - to ness. secure exertion," because they have, in the vigilance and the energy of Government, a security that their opposition to those principles will, if united, be effectual. In this light, though we cannot but lament the cause of the DISMISSAL of a man of the Duke of NORFOLK'S rank and character, as highly disgraceful to the times in which we live; yet coupled with the speedy and exemplary punishment which has followed it, the whole transaction may be not unserviceable to the general interests of the Community. It has roused the attention of all sober and well-disposed People. It has led them to reflections, which cannot but be salutary. It has put to the proof the spirit of the Government. It may be the pledge of safety of the Country. *Morning Chronicle, Jan. 23. 7 + Ibid. Feb. 2. WEEKLY WEEKLY EXAMINER. LIES. "THE Earl of MOIRA goes immediately to Ireland, to take care of "his Character."-Morning Post, Jan. 31. "There never was a Man more popular in Ireland than the Earl of "MOIRA."-Morning Post, Jan. 31. "The Dublin Papers are full of the Praises of the Earl of MOIRA.", -Morning Post, Jan. 31. We leave the admirers of the Morning Post to reconcile these three Paragraphs, almost immediately following each other. We shall only observe of the last of them, that if by the Dublin Papers are meant "The Press " and "Union Star," it may be true, for ought we know or care; for, to tell our Readers a secret, we are almost as sick of the Earl of MOIRA, as we formerly were of the Duke of BEDFORD. "It is a fact, that a great speculation is going on between persons "in this Country and Ireland, for the purchase of Charcoal.. The "number of Houses burned there, renders this article so cheap as to be worth importing into this Country." Morning Post, January 27. - Whenever the Jacobins have a falsehood in contemplation more atrocious than common, they generally preface it with the words " It is a fact."-We do not despair of seeing them soon exhibit their fabrications in the form. of an Affidavit. It will cost them but a Shilling; and, as to the turpitude of the act, that has long ceased to be an object of consideration with them. "It is a fact, that there is an Office established by Government, "for the purposes of registering the names, occupations, and "residences, of every Suspected Person. There are Ten Clerks constantly employed for this purpose, and the whole is under "the direction of Mr. REEVES."-Morning Post, Jan. 23. "IT IS A FACT."-On this we shall make no Comment, but shall content ourselves with merely observing, that these and similar Lies are composed for the use of the French Government, by whom they are carefully translated, and reprinted in the Journals of the Directory, as authentic evidences of the state of this Country. We have some thoughts of marking, in future, such Paragraphs as are adopted by the French Papers, which, we doubt not, are honestly paid for in this Country. MISREPRESENTATIONS. "THE desperate stretch of Power by which the Directory confis"cated the English Merchandize in France, will not fail to alien"ate the People, who, sanctioned by the Laws which protected Neu"tral Bottoms, had expended their property in the articles they "imported-the whole of which they have thus been basely rob"bed of."-Morning Herald, Jan. 19. This seems clear enough: yet the Morning Post of the same day cc can see no injustice in it: and the Morning Chronicle thinks it "absolutely ridiculous to charge robbery upon the Enemy as unprecedented," &c. The French left the justification of this robbery to their Friends here; and the words we have just quoted, show they did wisely. In France, where every word is We hope our Readers still bear in mind, the accurate notions of meum and tuum, inculcated by the Conductor of this Print, and noticed in a former Number:- - we allude to his calling robbing on the highway "Honesty;" not to any supposed forgery of a French Paper. death death or banishment, Papers can be found to reprobate the Measure. The following is verbatim from the Republicain: "To say nothing of the inquisitorial visits "which this Decree occasions, it is clear that it does (c more injury to us than to the English, who have been "paid for the Goods of which we are thus violently - deprived." And yet the two Prints we have mentioned (we say nothing of that despicable medley of idiotism and phrenzy, the Courier, because its sale is confined to the Corresponding Society) — and yet, we say, the Morning Post and Morning Chronicle, with this passage before them, are not ashamed to insult the common sense, and common feelings of mankind, by attempting to excuse an action which to mention is to condemn. "The different OBJECTS for which the War is now carried on, can"not fail to unite all men: -1 - thus Mr. WILBERFORCE is to fight "for Religion, the Gentlemen of the LAW for Order, and the lovers "of good Eating for Cloves and Cinnamon.” - Morn. Chron. Dec. 29. We intended to have given this Paragraph some time since, with a single remark, that the two first of these OBJECTS, however reviled by the Conductors of this Paper, were almost as well worth fighting for, as those they are pleased to recommend so warmly in their stead, viz. Atheism and Anarchy: but it was thrown aside to make room for other extracts still more wicked; for, such is the fertility of Jacobinism in the production of these abortive lumps of iniquity, that we are almost daily obliged to exclaim with the Poet Quid, si nunquam adeo fædis, adeoque pudendis We are glad, however, the Paragraph in question did not escape our mind; for, in the Morning Chronicle of |