We dedicate the remainder of this Paper to them:and we shall always be happy, when the pressure of temporary matter allows us to avail ourselves of their kind

ness.

SIR,

To the Editor of the Anti-Jacobin.

In these times of difficulty, danger, and certainly of some distress, it becomes necessary to prevent those feelings of despondency, which are in themselves the first of human evils, from destroying the enjoyments of the many remaining comforts which the most determined Croakers will not deny we still possess. Let us, for this purpose, consider whether the very evils we complain of, may not in some, if not in a great degree, carry with them their attendant good, as I have been always taught to believe was the case of most human evils.

The first and loudest of our complaints is Poverty; and this in proportion to the different classes of Society. — I am one of those who have both the inclination and means of associating with various ranks of persons, and I send you, as briefly as I can state it, an acount of the effect this pretended Poverty has produced on each of them.

Soon after the Assessed Taxes were imposed, I dined with a person of about 6000l. per annum. He railed vehemently against them; declared he must make great reforms, reduce his establishment, keep six horses less, have four dishes instead of eight in each course, and be troubled himself to superintend the management of his affairs. I visited his principal Tenant, who in his turn complained, that he could no longer afford to keep his daughters at a genteel Boarding-School, and that they must

now come home and supply the place of the servant-maids who took care of his pigs, poultry, and domestic concerns; that he should be forced to withdraw his name from the Farmers' Hunt, and dismiss his greyhounds; and he particularly insisted on another hardship, that the Collector would not consider the horse with which he used to hunt and course as one employed in husbandry, but assess it as one kept for pleasure.

Little as I am given to question the acts of Government, I began to think that a measure which thus overset the comforts of every species of individuals, must be a bad one; and I was strongly confirmed in this opinion, when calling on my friend Mr. SARSENET, the great Haberdasher, I found him in the act of penning an Advertisement to dispose of his elegant Villa at Clapham, his Post-chaise, and Side-board of Plate, I went home almost a Democrat, or at least an Anti-Pittite; till an hour spent by my fire-side brought to my mind the following Reflections:

It has often been a source of complaint, that the luxury of the times has so pervaded all ranks of People in England, that every individual now terms hardships what were formerly considered as the duties of his particular situation; and that by each class having risen a step in their own estimation, the last of these classes (exclusive of day-labouring persons) has been nearly annihilated. Menial Servants of late have thought it necessary, not merely to be well clothed and fed, but to be pampered also like my Lady's Woman, or my Lord's Gentleman; and these, in their turn, are no longer satisfied with their Whist and Swabbers, but have their regular Routs, and are only distinguished from their Masters and Mistresses, by being better dressed, and often better fed. Farmers'

Daughters

Daughters are now above their work, and indeed incapable, from the Education which their Parents' vanity has bestowed on them, of contributing, by their Labours, to the benefit of their Family; and it is unnecessary to say, that this want of industry to acquire, and of economy to preserve what they had acquired, has often been the ruin of the Family in general, and has involved in infamy the Female part of it.

All this has been matter of just complaint with the rational part of mankind, and the result I draw from it, and the present cry of Ruin and Poverty, is this: - that the very evil of which we now are so ready to complain may serve as a remedy to that we before so justly lamented, viz. that the pressure of the times must necessitate, in all ranks of people, an attention to their pecuniary concerns, which will naturally replace them in the true situation for real comfort and happiness, that of a well-regulated and prudent Economy; with sufficient means to supply the comforts and real enjoyments of life, and sufficient occupation to give a relish to these enjoyments; nor is it necessary to add, that the consequence of such a reform as this, must be to mend the manners and morals, and conduce essentially to the happiness of individuals, and of course to the general mass of prosperity of the whole Country.

I am, Sir,

Your humble Servant,

AGRICOLA.

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To the Editor of the Anti-Jacobin.

"The French know how to distinguish the Conduct of Individuals."

SIR,

You would do well to recommend to the serious at tention of your Readers, the Letters which have been copied from the French Journals into most of our Daily Papers, as tending to illustrate the late pretended Conspiracy at Rome.

- One of the Cardinals in Opposition writes to the Ambassador BUONAPARTE, to exculpate himself from having had any share in proceedings inimical to the interests, or contrary to the wishes, of the French Republic.

The Letter is as follows:

Extract of a Letter from Cardinal Antici.

"CITIZEN AMBASSADOR,

"Rome, 30th Dec. 1797.

"Confined to my house for a month past by bad health, my indisposition has been increased in consequence of "the anguish I have experienced from the unfortunate "Event of the 28th.

"You will not, Citizen Ambassador, doubt the senti"ments I entertain towards your respectable Person and "Family. I am sorry that I have not had opportunities "of testifying them in a more particular manner. Those "sentiments which I have manifested towards the French "Republic have been proved on all occasions, by a con"duct always constant and uniform.

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"The French Republic, as great as it is generous,

"KNOWS HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE CONDUCT OF " EACH INDIVIDUAL.

"I have the Honour to be, &c."

Now, Sir, does not this suggest serious Reflections to a thinking Mind, as to what may possibly be the feelings and the objects of other Oppositions in other Countries?

A firm persuasion of the absolute necessity that the French should succeed ultimately in all they undertake, is no uncommon feeling at this moment. A resolution, not to be obnoxious to the vengeance of a triumphant Enemy, is very consistent with Prudence, though not perhaps with the ordinary notions of political Morality.

Such motives, we see, have been acted upon, and are avowed in the Letter before us. It is at least a pardonable curiosity, therefore it is, perhaps, not an useless one, in such times as the present, to inquire among ourselves" WHO is there in THIS COUNTRY, that, if "the FRENCH should become our Conquerors (which God "avert!) could WRITE WITH TRUTH, SUCH A Let"TER AS THIS OF CARDINAL ANTICI?"

Your's, &c.

SPECULATOR.

SIR,

To the Editor of the Anti-Jacobin.

I HAVE not seen it observed in your Paper, that on the 11th Pluviose-four days after the famous Constitutional Toast given by the Duke of NORFOLK, and drank