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have heaped on an innocent person, be particularly careful to glory in the one, and add to the other, by sneeringly observing that you are pleased to see he is not quite so bad as you thought him. Thus, without any provocation, without any apparent cause, you may ingeniously gratify your spleen against every Friend of his King and Country, who happens at the same time to be distinguished for talents, integrity, and virtue.

The following is no bad illustration of what we have been saying!

"The lucrative Sinecure of Chief Remembrancer of the Irish Ex"chequer, vacant by the death of the Earl of CLANBRASSIL, goes

to Lord GRENVILLE. Monstrous maw of the BUCKINGHAMS! "when will thy thirst for Sinecures be full!" &c.-Morning Post, February 14.

"The Sinecure of the late Earl of CLANBRASSIL does not go to "Lord GRENVILLE, but to Lord MORNINGTON. We are glad to 66 see His Lordship has some sense of decency," &c. Post, Feb. 15.

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"Not more than 40,000l. were subscribed yesterday at the Stock"Exchange.”—Morn. Chron. Feb. 10.

Not more than 40,000l.! what vast ideas the Pere du Chene has suddenly acquired of a Subscription! It is not long since a Six Livre Piece seemed to carry a magnificent sound with it to his Frenchified ear. But we will

spare him the agony with which he, and his worthy coadjutors see the Voluntary Contribution rapidly increasing, in spite of their unprincipled arts to discourage it, is a sufficient punishment and to that we leave them.

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Horrible Effects of the Assessed Taxes.

In a former Number (page 347) we borrowed from the Morning Chronicle, an account of the dreadful alterna

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tives proposed to the Waiting-Maids of great Families, viz. that they should abridge their TEA, or quit their places. We now find, from the same authentic Journal, that several of them have, as might reasonably be expected, chosen the latter. The Editor, much to the honour of his gallantry, takes up the part of the injured Ladies, and declares that such a mode of dismissal is "truly diabolical." Morning Chronicle, Feb. 10.

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MISTAKES.

"Ir would be a proper compliment from the Friends of Liberty, "to celebrate the dismissal of the Duke of NORFOLK from two "Posts, by a Public Dinner."-Morning Post, Feb. 7.

The Friends of Liberty have not taken the hint. Perhaps they are aware of a circumstance which the Editor of the Morning Post is yet to learn that the Duke of NORFOLK has lost his appetite.

"The French have been very appropriate in the choice of the “Month in which the Sovereignty of the People is to be cele"brated. It is to be in the month of Ventose, or the Stormy.” – Morning Chronicie, Feb. 13.

We recommend this Paragraph to the serious consideration of His Grace of NORFOLK - coming from a Friend, perhaps, it may not be thought unworthy of his notice. It is pregnant with meaning.

"When Mr. WILBERFORCE was told a Book was at the Bank to "reccive Voluntary Subscriptions, he compared it to the Book "in the Revelations, which one but Royal and Sanctified Per"sons were to open."-ining Pest, Jan. 19.

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The Morning Post is out of its element. In falsehood, in calumny, in zeal for the pure faith of Jacobinism, it is not inferior to any of its Brethren; but it must yield to the Morning Chronicle in the work of Blasphemy

Non cuivis bomini contingit adire Corinthum.

It is not every one who can ridicule OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR, by a comparison of his miracles with those of BACCHUS; nor that can persist, in spite of the horror he occasions, we will not say among the pious, but among the well-disposed, in a systematic attack on the Religion of his Country.

Let the Editor of the Morning Post have done - He cannot but see how much he is surpassed by his abler rival in this department - What, for instance, is the merit of the snivelling Paragraph given above, when compared with the bold and fearless impiety of the following, taken from the Morning Chronicle of Thursday last!

"Mr. WILBERFORCE, it seems, is now reconciled to his new Al"lies As the end is to sanctify the means, gaming, drinking, and "boring, when enlisted in the Cause of Religion, are as MERI66 TORIOUS as prayer and fasting.”—Morning Chronicle, Feb. 10.

NEUTRAL NAVIGATION.

WE make no apology for the length of this Article: its Importance will more than justify it.

"THE new measures of the Directory against English Manufac"tures and Commerce, will be felt as severely by Lyd's Coffee"house, as by the Weavers of Lancashire. It is impossible, "under such an Anathema to insure any Ship, since an English "pocket-handkerchief would ensure the Confiscation of the << Cargo,

"It is a most dreadful blow to our Trade, but it is ridiculous to "charge it upon the Enemy as a thing unprecedented-It is our "Maritime Maxim returned upon us-It is that assertion of power "which we have always made, when we were able; which gave "rise to the Armed Neutrality in the last War; and made us ob"noxious to all the Commercial Powers at the outset of our mad "career in this War."-Morning Chronicle, 15th Jan. 1798.

In our Comment on the Paragraphs before stated, as printed in a former Journal, we proved that the Writer of the Morning Chronicle had libelled, not only the present but the former Government of this Country; that he had libelled our Courts of Maritime Jurisdiction, by supposing that they ever founded their Decisions, on Principles of Maritime Law, similar to those of the French Directory; and lastly, that he had libelled the gallant Officers and Sailors of the British Navy, by supposing that they had ever acted on such Principles.

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We held forth also, to a discerning Public, the ignorance of this Writer, in supposing that the Navigation of this Kingdom, or the business of Insurance, founded upon it, would be diminished by the late Measures of the French Directory; - we proved, on the contrary, that they were both likely to be increased by them.

We showed, that they would affect the Interests of Neutral Nations (against which they were principally aimed) if their Governments neglected to afford to the Shipping of their Subjects that protection which they had a right to expect; or if, on failure of this, they did not put themselves under the protection of the British Con

voys.

Whoever will attentively consider the various Paragraphs, that are succesively inserted in this Paper, cannot fail to observe, that the Writer of it, under colour of attacking His Majesty's Ministers, directs, in fact, his whole invective against his Country-against its essential

Rights and Interests-its Glory and its Security. Such is the true character of this Paper. The Writer of it endeavours to intimidate and depress the spirits of our Merchants and Manufacturers, and to prepare them as fit Victims for the French Directory; he represents them as a People already degraded, because they will not adopt the same Principles of Anarchy, and Democratic Tyranny, as are avowed by him and his associates: and he always betrays a malignant joy, whenever he can find an opportunity of exaggerating the successes of the Enemy, or of misrepresenting the losses which this Country may have sustained, or is likely to sustain, by the Measures of the Directory.

We will now proceed to consider further, the Paragraphs stated at the head of this Paper, particularly that in which the Writer asserts, that the "new Measures of the French Directory are a dreadful blow to the Trade of Great Britain." We suppose that, in these new Measures, he means to include the new Prohibition issued by the Directory against the Importation of British Merchandize and Manufactures, and the arbitrary and violent seizure they have made of all that could be found in the Territory of the Republic.

It is proper first to observe, that these Prohibitions extend at present only to the Territories of France: what the Directory mean by the Territories of France, it is not

CAMILLE JORDAN, in a Letter to his Constituents, lately pubJished, complains of an assertion of an English Journalist, who is paid by their Government, p. 43 (de ce Journaliste Anglois, soldé par notre Gouvernement). We do not pretend to determine, to what Journalist this observation applies; but according to the information of CAMILLE JORDAN, there is certainly one of these Journalists in the pay of the Enemy.

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