of this or that State, or Individual, upon it, is totally out of the question.

"If they tamely acquiesced in the Decree of the French against the "carriage of English Goods, they cannot with any fairness com"plain of this, which no other ways differs from the French measure, than "that we put into force what they from inability could only threa"ten."

The two former quotations, we willingly believe, proceeded from sheer ignorance to the present we cannot assign so respectable an origin; it was begotten by insidiousness on malignity a parentage truly Jacobinical. The French, with a piratical rapacity till now unheard-of, seize all the Neutral Vessels on the High Seas, that have any English Merchandize on board, and confiscate both Ship and Cargo:-We, on the contrary, only put in practice a measure to which we might at all times have had recourse, provided it had been deemed expedient, and that our Superiority (which it happily now is) had been so decided as to have admitted of it.

And what is this measure? - An exclusion of Neutral Ships from an Enemy's Port, which we have so closely blockaded as to render inaccessible; a measure perfectly just in itself, conformable to every existing Law on the subject, and sanctioned by the constant practice of every Nation in Europe! This is what the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, with unparalleled effrontery, dares to call "a measure no ways differing from the French, than "by executing what they, from inability, only threaten.” He proceeds,

"The Agents of our Ministers speak in high language of the cala"mities it will bring upon Havre, Rouen, and Paris. If there "were no other benefits to be derived from the measure than in"ternal clamour, the measure would be as defective in point of "dignity as of legitimate use; but we see in it a more national "object. It will re-invigorate our own Shipping, by taking the Carrying Trade out of the hands of Foreigners."

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Passing by the ingenious slight of converting calamities into clamours, we shall content ourselves with noticing the peculiar luck of this unfortunate Scribbler. The only advantage he can find in the step we have taken, is precisely the only one that will not accrue from it. Our Shipping, happily, want no invigoration; and if they did, the carrying the Cargoes of Neutral Bottoms to an Enemy's Port (which this wise-acre so ingeniously fancies will be the consequence of what we have done) would hardly supply it.

The Morning Post, equally ignorant, but seemingly more distressed at the vigour of the Proceeding, attacks it with all the rhetoric of the Corresponding Society, and of Billingsgate. It likens the Blockade of the Seine to that of Fleet Ditch · (we think the French will not agree with their old Friend in the propriety of this simile) — but allows," that the Blockade of Cadiz, Brest, and the "Texel, was indeed a subject for exultation." Say'st thou so, old True-penny! Well then, we will join issue on this point, and only beg leave to hope, that the addition. of another Port to the three former, may not be considered as any derogation from our Triumph.

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The Morning Chronicle, after an interval of two days, seems to have recovered its spirits a little (for we are confident no hints can yet be received from France) and now (March 8th) treats the measure which it had deigned to call" a prompt and vigourous one," on Tuesday, as a "mark of the little-mindedness of Ministers and their Creatures."—" These Beings "— (it begins to rave we see)These Beings can conceive nothing great in design; and to keep Men" (lo! the Beings are become Men)-" like these in power, is the purpose of the beggarly SUBSCRIPTION." Oh that SUBSCRIPTION!-the

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Victories

Victories of ALEXANDER never disturbed CÆSAR half so much as the SUBSCRIPTION does the Jacobins. It will not let them sleep; nor, if we may speak our minds on the subject, their Friends either.

The Morning Post, too, is as restless on the subject as the Morning Chronicle." What good," says he, " can "be derived from the measure? What is it that Neutral "Ships carry to France? Either French Property, or "English Property."-Who is this poor idiot? we hope he is not trusted without a slavering bib. So then, the rest of Europe has no Property! But we cannot waste time on such nonsense; nor on the assertion borrowed from the Morning Chronicle, and already refuted, that the French proceedings, respecting Neutral Ships, are similar to that which we have adopted.

We shall, probably, have occasion to return to this subject; meanwhile, we wish Our Readers to notice the ridiculous efforts of the tools of France to decry a measure, of which, from this very circumstance, we augur well; and on which, we wish those tools themselves to observe a temporary silence. It cannot be long before they hear from that Country on the subject; and they will then probably be enabled to vilify it, without adding, as they now do, at every step they take, ignorance to infamy!

MISTAKES.

"POLITICAL Factions have generally been partial to a display of "their Principles, by some article of their dress."-Morning Cronicle, March 6.

We noticed, in our 14th Number, the unhappy propensity of the Pere du Chene to injure his unsuspecting

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friends. We had a farther proof of it in our last, in his attack on the brief" existence of Mr. Fox's consistency;" and we have now a fresh instance of it, in a sneer at the harmless costume of that Gentleman's friends, Buff and Blue! When will the United Clubs take our well-meant advice into consideration, and appoint a Committee of Inspection for the leading Paper of the Party?

"The want of unanimity seems to be the crying sin of all Parties, "and is eqully conspicuous amongst Innovators, as among the ad"herents to old establishments.”—Morning Chronicle, March 7.

This is a most portentous Paragraph—it points, if we mistake not, at an approaching schism in the new Coalition at the Crown and Anchor. The rejection of Citizen WADDINGTON, by ballot, and the bringing him in by dint of lungs and fisty-cuffs, is an ominous circumstance! But what a devil possesses the Pere du Chene, to lay open the "secrets of the prison-house in this wanton manner! We should not be surprized if the United Clubs were to adopt measures of self-defence, and absolutely exclude him from their Cabals.

"The design of France is to continue Hostilities with Portugal, that "she may have a pretext for marching an Army through Spain; "and thus, not merely to conquer and revolutionize Portugal, but "by the introduction of her Troops to overthrow the Spanish "Monarchy, and erect a Republic in its stead." Morning Post, February 17.

Our Readers, we hope, recollect the quotation in our 16th Number (page 541) respecting Portugal, which the Morning Chronicle, with that " priority of information " which it so proudly and so properly boasts, declared had made Peace with France. It was there insinuated, that the object of the Republic's making Peace, was to

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new model the Government of Portugal; and we now find, from the Morning Post (certainly a better informed Paper than the Morning Chronicle) that the object of the Republic's not making Peace, is to new model the Government of Spain!

Most assuredly, if the People of this Country are not thoroughly aware of the danger of any Peace with France, but such as shall preserve inviolate the Power and Independence of this Country, it is not the fault of the Jacobin Journals. This benefit, at least, results from their intimate acquaintance with the Enemy.

We cannot take leave of our worthy Friends the Jacobin Papers, without remarking, that three weeks have now elapsed, since we produced (in a Note to the Essay on Neutral Navigation) a passage from CAMILLE JORDAN'S Letter to his Constituents, * asserting, in direct terms, that the Editor of one of them (he does not say which) was in the pay of the French Government. We trusted that a charge of this nature would have been repelled with real or affected indignation by them all; but to our astonishment, not one word has been said by any of them on the subject.

Whence is this obstinate silence? Do they believe, that when we made the quotation, we considered it as a light and unimportant passage, to be mentioned and forgotten, provided it were not recalled to our memory by any sturdy attempts to evade or deny it? Sic notus

We shall say nothing in this place of CAMILLE JORDAN, because we understand that a Gentleman, excellently qualified for the under taking, is now translating his interesting Letter; and by him we are confident every necessary information will be given.

Ulysses?