"was murdered lay dead.”. ·Courier, Feb. 5. Morning Herald, The first thing that struck us on reading this contemptible trash, was the extreme stupidity of the people who are selected by the Corresponding Society to conduct their favourite Papers. Is a fellow too dishonest for a ticketporter, too idle for a chairman, or too dull for a balladmaker? he immediately commences Jacobin, raves as loud as Mr. Fox for a Radical Reform, and, as a reward for his zeal, is entrusted with the care of enlightening his Countrymen in the Courier, Post, or Chronicle. Let us, however, be just to the United Clubs. Persons like those that we have described, are not likely to injure their employers, by too scrupulous an attachment to truth; and they know, by long experience, that the stupidity of a fabrication is no bar to its being believed In this kind of knowledge too, the French Government do not seem to be behind hand with them; for, besides what the dullness of their own Journalists can supply, they constantly copy from the Jacobin Prints of this Country, every Lie distinguished either for its atrocity or its absurdity. The one which we have quoted, was too precious to escape them. It is prefaced with "On nous ecrit de "Londres, un trait singulier;" and concludes with an additional circumstance, which we presume was sent with an UNSTAMPED Paper (WE TRUST WE ARE UNDERSTOOD; IF NOT, WE SHALL SHORTLY SPEAK PLAINER) from one of the Jacobin Offices-" après avoir crié "Damnation seize all KNIG," (this word was spelt right in the Courier) il prend la fuite. Les Gardes le poursuivirent, il alloit étre saisi, lorsque des milliers de voix sécrient "au secours;" Les Soldats se retournent et l'inconnu s'échappe ! ! !" This is pretty well; but the use made of it by POULTIER, Representant du Peuple, in his Paper l'Ami des Loix, is still better: Hear how gravely he comments on this important fact. "Le Peuple Anglois ne garde plus aucune mesure avec PITT et GEORGE: tous les jours ils sont ex"posés à de nouvelles Pamphlets, à de nouvelles insulUn homme monte sur la statue de CHARLES, "&c." He is arrested, but the people rescue him, and the next day the walls of St. James are covered with labels "This Palace to be Sold.” ·ss tes. Bravo, Citizen POULTIER, Representant du Peuple! you do not contribute to the support of our Patriotic Prints for nothing. "Some curious arrangements are taking place at the Tower. The "largest Apartments, which have hitherto served only one` Pri"soner, have now been divided into several Cells! What use is "intended to be made of them?" Morning Chronicle, Morning Post, Courier, &c. This the French Journals call " un Paragraphe assez piquant." -We thought it dull and vapid - but they are right. It has created, we are assured, a great sensation in France, where there is but one cry, "Guerre à mort au Gouvernement Britannique," which, as the next Paragraph informs us, has reached the Tower" où il ranime l'esperance des amis de la Liberté"-taking it for granted, we suppose, that the Friends of Liberty were already there. "We are informed a Gentleman was last night apprehended in the "Pit of Covent-Garden Theatre, and conveyed away under a "Guard of twelve Soldiers."-Morning Post, March 7. Written Written for the Republicain, L'Ami des Lois, &c. and may be expected back from Paris, with improvements, about the 17th instant. MISREPRESENTATIONS. "AFTER all the boasting about the Voluntary Contribution, it does "not appear that it is yet sufficiently large for Official Publication. "The True Briton publishes the names in a sneaking, half Official "manner, but the Conductors seem to be unwilling to allow the "real List to meet the public eye."-Morning Post, March 8. We do not know that we rightly understand this Paragraph: there seems to be a distinction intended between an official, a half official, and a real List; which is much too subtile for our appréhension. Would not one think, from the observations of the Jacobin Writers, that the SUBSCRIPTION was involved in mystery and concealment, and that the Books were inaccessible? Yet the contrary is the fact: the Names of the Subscribers are made as public as the Daily Papers can make them; and the Books lie open to universal inspection. This is not all :-complete Lists have been advertised in most of the Morning Papers, and every species of publicity is put in practice, that the ingenuity of the Press can supply. To what purpose then was the Paragraph before us fabricated? We will tell our Readers: to be inserted in the Republicain, Rédacteur, &c. Papers which have been of late remarkably silent on the subject of the Subscription not having, that we know, once ventured to mention since the noble Contribution at the Bank; though before, they triumphantly copied all the sarcasms and buffooneries of the Morning Post and Morning Chronicle on the subject. Pressing ΙΣ. Pressing orders are come from the Directory, to vindicate its diabolical conduct towards Genoa, Venice, Rome, Switzerland, &c. and accordingly the mad Drivellers of the Courier inserted in their Paper of the 8th a Caution, to all whom it may concern, not to "raise their blasphemous voice against the pretended Despotism of the French, since, in fact, it is but the dawning. Liberty of a Nation which is making gigantic struggles to regain its Freedom !!!" This is terrible news for Europe. If a seven years' plundering and devastating its fairest Provinces, be but the "dawning of Liberty," what will the Meridian be ?— We seldom combat the scurrilitics of this despicable Print, because they are in general too sottish and stupid for any Readers but such as the Corresponding Society, or France, can supply; to whom indeed it is chiefly, if not altogether, confined. We ought, however, to observe, that this burst of frenzy in favour of the "dawning Liberty of France," is hazarded for the sake of introducing a puff direct on the ci-devant American Minister at Paris, a Mr. MUNROE, who instead of attending, as was his duty, to the interests of his Country, sacrificed them to France; was dismissed from his Office in consequence of it; and has now published a false and shameless exculpation of his own treachery, and the criminal manoeuvres of those "gigantic strugglers for Freedom," REUBELL and Co. Blockade of the Seine. The Blockade of the Seine, first announced to the Public in our Seventeenth Number, seems to have embarrassed the the Jacobins more than any measure that Government has lately undertaken. As there has scarcely been time to receive any hints from the Paris Papers on the subject, they are left to the resources of their own ingenuity;-tolerably adequate, we must confess, to ordinary occasions, but hardly competent to the discussion of so important a measure as the present. The Morning Chronicle took the lead, and, as if it were fully aware of the magnitude of the measure, gave it a conspicuous place in its Paper of Tuesday last. At first it seemed inclined to approve; but recollecting that the Corresponding Society, and their Friends elsewhere, might not be pleased with such a notorious dereliction of all principle, it adroitly contrived to intermix such a portion of falsehood and disingenuity with its comments on the transaction, as to leave it in doubt whether it really approved or condemned it. "The Books of Lloyd's Coffee-house yesterday bore testimony to the new Plan of Attack which our Mi"nisters have thought themselves justified in adopting, in consequence of the measure of the Directory against "Neutral Commerce." This is rather an inauspicious beginning. The Plan was not adopted in consequence of any such thing; it was adopted in consequence of our Naval Superiority; and in perfect conformity to the Law of Nations, established and acknowledged by all the Powers of the Civilized World, for more than two Centuries. "What may be the impression of this measure on the "Neutral Powers, time only can show." - There is no necessity for recurring to time on the subject: the legality of the measure has long been determined; and the opinion of |