stantly rectified, by transferring his Subscription to the Book for Voluntary Contributions.

We recommend to the Fabricators of these Falsehoods, a maxim of the Rev. JOHN HORNE, which we can assure them has never been deteriorated by the use of its Author, and has been wholly abandoned by JOHN HORNE TOOKE.

"Personal enmity is a motive fit only for the Devil *."

LIES.

"MINISTERS have, within a few days, made overtures to the Mar. "quis of LANSDOWNE." - Morning Post, Feb. 13.

No. Though we have not the Noble Marquis's authority to contradict this Paragraph, we venture to do it notwithstanding. It is cruel in the Jacobins, to break in thus upon the deep solitude of "the Hermit of Bowood."

"General ABERCROMBIE has written home to Mr. DUNDAS in "the strongest manner, against the conduct of the Military. "Among other remarkable expressions, he uses this "I "shall always be ready to sacrifice my life for my Country as 66 a Soldier, but I will never be a Butcher." Morning Post,

Feb. 19.

Did the conductor of the Morning Post ever hear of a Newspaper that was convicted of Forgery, and condemned to pay 1ool.? If so, we think it should have made

him a little cautious. Forgery had a motive;

Besides, if we recollect right, that it was to fill the Author's pockets;

the present (for it is a Forgery, and a very wicked one)

Letter to Junius.

seems

seems to have none.

To be gratuitously infamous is pecu

liar to the present race of Jacobins.

"Mr. Fox says, that the manner in which the Duke of NORFOLK "drank the late toast, is precisely the same it was fifteen years

the Editor of the Morning Post; and one of them (Will His Grace of NORFOLK condescend to say which-?) says "the thing that is not."

"The Instructions of Colonel TATE, which have been forged in this "Country, and uttered in the name of General HOCHE, bear " evident marks," &c.—Morning Chronicle, Feo 21.

"A very large impression of Colonel TATE'S Instructions have "been printed with blanks, which are filled up wich London, "&c. as the subscriptions may happen to flag in those places. "We are now reduced to SCARECROWS." Morning Chronicle, Feb. 20.

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We gave the Editor of the Morning Chronicle credit for allowing the authenticity of TATE's Instructionsbecause he could not but know it, and because he suffered near a fortnight to clapse without disputing it. Now, however, orders are come, either from the Directory or from the Corresponding Society; and this miserable, this degraded Scribbler, is driven to the infamy of a tardy denial of what the Courier and the Morning Post have long since confessed to be true!

Our Readers, who cannot but know with what " mendacious turpitude," as Mr. ADAIR would say (speaking of his Mission to Petersburgh) this Print persisted in maintaining that Lord MALMESBURY'S Projet was a Projet of BLANKS, long after all Europe had seen to the contrary, and the French themselves allowed they were completely

completely filled up; -will, doubtless, be surprized at its fool-hardiness, in mentioning the word Blank, and thereby bringing to mind a transaction, better forgotten. But they should recollect the Proverb, Quem Deus, &c. and, indeed, this is the only method by which we can account for its not imitating the prudent conduct of the Morning Post, which avoids the word Forgery, like a pestilence.

"The Irish CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER watches the progress "of his Brother of England with due attention. He has "just adopted a Tax upon Maid Servants.” — Morning Chronicle, Feb. 19.

The Irish Papers had inadvertently printed Maid for Male Servants. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, not content with having this corrected in the ordinary way, mentioned it the next day in the House; and his Speech has been inserted in most of the London Papers. No one knows this better than the Editor of the Morning Chronicle; yet he prints the Lie for the use o the Whig Club, and contradicts it the next day, in a smty joke, for the entertainment of the Corresponding Society

Close to the Paragraph we have quoted, we, to our utter astonishment, the following:

"To retrench the Ears, is said to be a mighty good remedy "lying Tongue."- Morn. Chron. Feb. 19.

We are inclined to believe in the efficacy of the ceipt; and could wish to see it tried on the Writer such Paragraphs as the above. Why it has not alre been done, we know not; certain it is, that no Pati has needed it more.

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MISREPRESENTATIONS.

"LETTERS from Paris confirm the report, that Portugal has con-
"cluded a Peace with France the terms granted by the Direc-
*tory are said to be generous and liberal. We do not doubt
"the fact because, in more than one instance, the first terms
"granted to an Enemy have done honour to the French name;
"but is there a single instance of late, where they have not
"seized on some pretext to go beyond the Preliminary Treaty,
"and to new model the Government of which they became a
"Friend?" - Morning Chronicle, Feb. 15.

See how far a rooted malignity to the prosperity of his Country can carry a Jacobin! He is told by some ignorant or designing Brother, that France has made Peace with Portugal on favourable terms. "Hah!" quoth he, "Peace, and our Fleet not excluded from the Tagus! that should not be. I must find a way to depress the spirits of my Countrymen, at the expence of my Employers;" - the "end sanctifies the means; Then comes out the secret of French Negotiation; and a dreadful one it is! We wish it were written in letters of gold, and hung before the eyes of the Chairman at the next Meeting of the newly Associated Clubs.

It is hardly necessary to add, that the "Paris Letters which confirm this Peace," never existed but in the head of this unfortunate Bungler.

"The alarm among the Fair Sex happily subsides. It arose from
"the mistake of an elderly Lady, who read in a Newspaper, that
"the French had ravished (ravaged) all Europe!"

Chronicle, Jan. 29.

Morning

Whether

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Whether the Lady read 'ravaged' or 'ravished,' is of little consequence; enough remained, in either case, to justify her" alarms."- Our Readers will hardly believe that all the ribaldry with which the Jacobin Journals have overflowed for these last six weeks, originated from a report, that a most respectable Lady at Kensington had subscribed at the Bank! Such, however, is the fact. Faithful to the interests of their Employers, they have endeavoured, by reproaches, by insults, by obscenities, to intimidate the "Fair Sex," and prevent them from following their Brothers, Husbands, and Fathers, in contributing towards the defence of the Country. That they have been unsuccessful, only adds shame to guilt.

It is worth observing, that the very print which affects to be so witty on the Lady's mistake, contains the following Paragraph, taken from the French Papers :-"Yes"terday one of our Soldiers was stabbed in the act of "violating a young Woman, by a Swiss Peasant, her "Lover. The Soldier died of the wound; the Peasant "was seized, and, after a short examination, dismissed "unhurt."

In return for this Frolic, we will present the Morning Chronicle with another, which we copy verbatim from the last French Papers that arrived: "Four desperate "Villains are at present on their Trial. Among the va"rious crimes of which they are accused, is one which "makes us shudder with horror.-They forced their way "into a farm-house not far from hence, and after satia"ting their brutal lust on a young Woman they found "there, they burnt her breasts with a red-hot poker, and "plunged it " The pen drops from our hands The poor creature, though left for dead, had strength enough