and receiving the gratitude and acclamations of an enlightened, unprejudiced, and vir tuous Roman people!

Notwithstanding the chairing of Mr. Fox in Covent Garden, the Scrutiny, in all probability, will unfeat him in St. Stephens. Should that be the cafe, what fhame ought not be and the fenfelefs round-beads, who accompanied him in that mock triumph, to take to themselves! They may endeavour to brave it out; and it is most likely, indeed, that men of their hardy complexion will be able to look at the finger of derifion without a blufh. Few others, however, infenfible as the world is in general to delicate fenfations, could eafily ftand the brunt of the fcorn and ridicule that must follow.

No former party in this country had ever fuch a creative power as the prefent Coalition Junto. Their refolutions in the late Houfe of Commons made them fuperior to King, Lords, and People. Their refolutions at the Shakespeare made others the murderers of the unhappy Caffon; and their refolutions at the clofe of the Poll made Mr. Fox claim the ufual triumph as Member for Weftminster, contrary to the declared fenfe of the High Bailiff, whofe fole privilege it was to make the legal return, and granted a fcrutiny in bar to his pretenfions. What a wonderful omnipotence! Whatever they refolve, they need only pronounce the fiat, and the thing is instantly done!

An ironical Speech, spoken by Mr. W. at the Annual Dinner of the Conftitutional Society.

Gentlemen, Brethren, and Fellow Citizens !

"That the major part of you are a parcel of Numskulls, Tom-noodles, and Ninny"hammers-this I have no occafion to reprefent to you, fince your obftinacy in refu fing to elect Mr. Fox, puts me under the difagreeable neceffity of informing you, "that no man in this city is fo fit to represent you as himself. For G-d z--nds! (to "talk calmly with you) what would you be at? Is it his inability to ftuff your "paunches with the most delicate food? or is it his incapacity to flatter you, that de"prives him of your favour? If it be the first, with what face can you expect a dinner "from one who has always expreffed his abhorrence of that practice? or how should you expect gentlemen that he should flatter, whom you all know to be an enemy to "fawning? Yet thefe, bafe as they are, thefe feem to be the only means by which you are determined to be won! Well flaves!-go on-never leave off following cor❝ruption, till you find the Pope at your door, the Pretender in your chambers, the "Devil in your hearts, no reformation in Parliament, but flavery every where ! 'Till your bodies become as grovelling as your minds, and the Aldermen there erect an " inquifition, and broil free citizens. But, in vain do I ring freedom in your ears, "when the very first tinkling of jugs, flaggons, decanters, and quart pots, will drive "it all out again, and you become as enamoured of flavery as ever, which fhews you, "by the bye, to be of the true breed of Circe's hogs, who had rather lie wallowing in "your accustomed drunkennefs and gluttony, than by abftaining, enjoy the fober bleffings of reafon, virtue, and liberty. But ye changlings! Did Mr. Fox only "confult his own intereft on this occafion, he'd let you quietly fwim with the ftream. "But confcience! confcience! I fay, which over-rules every other confideration with "him, will not fuffer him to fee you make away quietly with yourfelves. No, no, "ye fear'd dogs, he loves you! and this is the reafon, that let it coft him what it will, he is determined at all events to be your Representative: not from the vain "motive of fetting himself above his fellow citizens-No-He is a blackguard like the "rest of you, and therefore by G-d no man fo fit to represent you!

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"Look ye, Gentlemen, I fay no more, only this, that if you do not elect him, you "will be a parcel of the greatest blackguards, villains, and fcoundrels that ever fold "city's liberty; but if you do elect him, not Rome in all her glory could boast such 66 a race of immaculate citizens! Then fhall you find, Gentlemen, that plenty fhall be "the common lot of you all; and as his belly is increafing in magnitude, why yours "fhall fwell in like proportion, which being one of the ftrongest motives I have at prefent to offer, I beg leave to fit down, Gentlemen,

"Your most humble fervant."

As the following is not without fome pretenfions to wit and humour, we give it a place in our Electioneering Mifcellany.

CURIOUS ELECTIONEERING LETTER.

Dear Jack,

"Expect neither wit, fenfe, confiftency, nor any one quality arifing from order and "a found understanding, for I am all confufion, my head, my houfe, my actions, all "are, as the poet fays, Confufion worfe confounded. Hubbub and Hurley-burley "ftrive for maftery, and Old Anarchy fits umpire, by his decifions more t' embroil "the fray. In fhort, the warfare of Election is begun; uproar and riot, brawling and bullying, roaft-beef and brandy, true-blues and black-guards, broken heads and "bribes; thele are the current coin of the kingdom, and no where in greater plenty than at

"I am playing for a dreadful stake, Jack! lofe this, lofe all; and by Heaven, I fear "I fhall be jockied! If I don't get into Parliament, it is all over with me; if I do, "why, then, the cards are in my own hand again; then, huzza! for a long speech, "a loud fpeech, a rancorous fpeech, and a place. If I fail, I am afraid that little "word place can find no fynonymy but piftol.

"The very devil of electioneering infpires, nay wholly poffeffes, my opponent. He "has a throat of a throat ?-no-a forehead of brafs, a throat of iron, a tongue"oh, damn his tongue! He wheedles, lyes, cants, rants, drinks, fings, and pro"mifes! I myself have engaged for a Bifhop, a Judge, and a keeper of the lions, at "five hundred a year each; befides excifemen, and places in the Cuftoms, out of number; but I find I am a fool to him; he has made fifteen Privy Counfellors, and "given his word of honour for feven and twenty East India principalities; so that "there is hardly a clod-hopper or taylor among his conftituents, who would thank "him to make his fon a General or an Admiral. His words glide into their guts"for there their brains lie-fafter than his wine. One of them, I am told, abfo"lutely refufed the place of Lord Chancellor, till he heard the title of Lord High "Chancellor of Great Britain, &c. at full length; and he was not then quite fatisfied "that it was worth his acceptance. The fellow's impudence is beyond all belief; ❝and even I, hackneyed as I have been for fome feafons paft in coalitions, changing "fides, faying and unfaying, and all the deteftable iniquities of corruption, to which, "by my follies, I have reduced myself, I yet want that impenetrability of countenance "neceffary for fuch grofs impofition. But, what is more extraordinary, he makes, by "the gloffing he gives, even these glaring abfurdities wear a mark of probability. "Was it not my father,' fays he, who then had the honour to represent the "which I now folicit your fuffrages, that recommended Mr. B, the great Nabob, "to the Directors of the Eaft India Company? and, give me leave to fay, Gentlemen, "I have ten, twenty, aye, fifty times the intereft with that r fpectable body of men my worthy father ever had." And in this manner he runs on, with a tongue fo "glib, that he perfuades the clods he can make Rajahs, Soubahs, and Mahratta Mo"narchs, fafter than their wives can ftuff black-puddings.

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"Had I not put the scheme in execution I hinted to you, and brought down our old acquaintance Harriet, I fhould have had no chance; but he goes through the bufinefs rarely. She is dreffed very fine, and that flatters her, and makes my wife "conftituents fuppofe her a lady of great rank, which flatters her ftill more. And "then he is fo complaifant, fo affable, fo humble, any body may kifs that will; and "those who are too bashful to approach, the will meet half-way. She talks too, fafter than five Frenchmen; and as for the oath fhe now and then raps out, it paffes cur"rent at prefent, and rather as a proof of good humour than vulgarity; for oaths fly ❝in vollies like amens at a methodist meeting; and notwithstanding all my cautions, fhe "cannot fometimes help letting the trigger flip, and discharging her over-loaded piece; "and I affure you, it goes off with the devil of a bounce. I can tell you we run thro' "a deal of bufinefs between us, and we are not nice; old and young, ugly and hand"fome, dirty and clean. I the women, and fhe the men, all are kiffed, and called "handfome, wife, witty, and brave; all are Gods and Goddeffes; their little, fmearfaced, waddling chubby-brats, are all cherubs, and kiffed and coaxed likewife.. "O Jack, it is the devil of a job! it unites all the labours of Hercules, and exceeds "them all his Augean stable was a work of delicacy to this, for he had a river to wash as he went.

"I'm thrown into the utmost confternation! Harriet is just come down, and is ftruck "dead hoarfe! What fhall I do! I can't hear her whifper across the breakfaft table. "Do, Jack, for the love of pity, run, feek, find fome rattle-headed fellow, that has "fpent his life in lying, fpunging, and finging, for the diversion of fools and benefit of "tavern-keepers. There are enough fuch; fend me one, and I'll make his fortune, "(you fee I have learnt to promise). But drefs him, daub him a little with lace, and "take care he don't give you the flip. I wish to Heaven you could find me one of that "order of poets, three degrees below Grub-street, that hit fo well the tafte of Cran"bourn alley and St. Paul's Church-yard; one that could write down to our under"ftandings, and afterwards bawl his own productions. Do try--try-try-try-You "know not the anxiety I am under. By the Almighty Thunder, if I am not returned, "I am extinct! If ever you expect to spend another happy hour with your old friend, "try. The above pair of perfons would be a treasure to me; and, ferioufly, I will "make it worth their while. If the poet has a wife that can fing, so much the

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"Adieu. yours in all confufion, hafte, anxiety, distraction, noise, hubbub, &c.. " &c. &c. &c.

"P. S. Juft as I was folding this, in comes a fellow whofe vote I had purchased atguineas, and tells me "his fon is a lad of fcorproizing geenas, for he has whittled "the head of an afs, ears and all, as parfit as the loife, on the top of an afhen plant; "and fo, if I will be fo koind as to make him mafter o' the mint, or otherwoife proime ftatutary to the King, which he hears is a'moft as good as proime minifter, whoy "he fhould teak it as a feavor dun to he; but if not, whoy, he canna tell what to feea "to't.' The rafcal's looks told me his meaning plain enough; and I have been obliged "to make this ridiculous promife; nay, I could fcarce get him away without giving it "under my hand. The abfurd thing he had heard about proime ftatutary, convinces me "the other party has been tampering with him, and will give you a fmall trait of his capacity for thefe affairs. Once again adieu-fend me the recruits if poffible."

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The faithful Selection of Paragraphs, &c. we have made in favour of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray being completed, we shall now produce thofe in favour of Mr. Fox, and doubt not they will be found to contain, not only useful Information, but confute (as in the Advertisements and Hand-bills) the bold and unfounded Assertions of his Adverfaries, whose Bufinefs, it evidently must appear, has been to deal Wholesale in Malignity and Mifreprefentation.

BEFORE people efpoufe the caufe of one man to the prejudice and difparagement of

another, they should rationally and coolly confider the actions and real principles of each party.

Popular clamour calls Mr. Fox a libertine, a gambler, an invader of chartered rights, and an unprincipled poor man, therefore ought not to be trusted: on the contrary, Mr. Pitt is painted out in the highest colours of philanthropy, prudence, fobriety, with firm, fteady, uniform, unimpeached principles, and therefore fhould be confided in.

In respect to their moral characters, the warmth and luxuriancy of Mr. Fox's imagination poffibly may have occafioned and been productive of many youthful follies and extravagancies, which the phlegmatic conftitution of Mr. Pitt has exempted him from. It would have been truly great and meritorious in the former to have ftopt or moderated the career of his paffions---but no merit in the latter in not following the pursuit of the former. Inftances we daily fee of people's conduct being much reprobated in their youth, and highly applauded in their manhood. In refpect to their political conduct, Mr. Fox has uniformly and regularly reprobated every idea relative to the American war---When called to office, finding he was to act under an unconstitutional Dictatorialship, he resigned, though an unprincipled poor man. When called a fecond time, conceffions were generously made, which he as nobly accepted. This formed a Coalition fo much talked of, and fo little understood.

Mr. Fox found the India affairs in anarchy and confufion-preliminary articles of peace inconclufive-the national debt immenfe and public credit on the decline.-What: fteps did he take? ift. He rectified, afterwards ratified the articles of peace. 2dly, Endeavoured to fecure the public money lent to the India Company, without injuring the Company's affairs, wifely lodging the power in the People's Reprefentatives, being the channel through which it was lent. 3dly, To leffen the national debt, and raife public credit, without oppreffing the already too much oppreffed fubject, he recommended Committees to be appointed to look into the abufes of the Customs, Excife, and fmuggling bufinefs, which Committees have already declared they have made difcoveries which will be a faving to the nation of between two and three millions yearly. However laudable these defigns, and beneficial to the public, by preventing heavy loans---Secret Influence interfered. Mr. Fox was difmiffed, and Mr. Pitt railed to the feat of honour, under the appellation of the Minister of the Crown: What has been his con-duct fince his elevation? 1ft, Manufacturing Addreffes, and therein meanly vilifying his predeceffors. 2dly, Courting Majefty, by endeavouring to introduce a bill on the India business, and vefting the power in the Crown, though his reply to Mr. Fox was, "The Right Honourable Secretary was willing to fecure to the Gentoos their natural rights, but let him take care that he did not destroy the liberties of

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"Englishmen: he mentioned the influence of the Crown, but had it ever been in its zenith equal to what it would be, when it fhould find itfelf ftrengthened by the "whole patronage of the Eaft, which the Right Honourable Secretary was going to "throw into the hands of the Crown by his bill?" 3dly, Keeping his feat when a majority of the Houfe of Commons have voted him inadequate to his fituation. As Minifter of the Crown, he fays he is juftified in keeping his feat, though two years ago he wondered how Lord North (on lofing a queftion by one or two) could have the effrontery to ftay in office when he found himfelf in a minority; yefterday he spurned at fecret influence, to-day condefcends to be the mere tool of one; yesterday daringly dif approved of the Receipt Tax bill, to-day openly avows he fhall adopt it; yefterday afferting nothing but what is radical fhould be attempted refpecting the funds, to-day temporizing with them for the fake of popularity, which Mr. Fox rejected though a gambler; afferting he would not deceive the public by falfe appearances and jobbing affiftance, his plans of reform would effentially retrieve their credit to every one's fatisfaction, and that the public must wait for this affirmation, was truly manly and honest, though unpopular in refpect to himfelf; and happy had it been for the nation if his plans had been carried into execution; our fituation would not then have been as it now really is, replete with uncertainty, inftability, and every dreary profpect of ruin.

THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT GEORGE* BUILT.

This is the House that George built.

Back Stairs.

This is the malt that lay in the Houfe that George built.

Lord Nugent. This is the Rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the house that George

built.

Mr. Fox. This is the Cat, that killed the Rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the houfe that George built.

Pepper Arden. This is the Dog, that barked at the cat, that killed the rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the houfe that George built.

Lord Thurlow. This is the Bull with the crumpled horn, that roared with the dog, that barked at the cat, that killed the rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the houfe that George built.

Mr. Pitt. This is the Maiden all forlorn, that coaxed the bull with the crumpled horn, that roared with the dog, that barked at the cat, that killed the rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the houfe that George built.

Mr. Dundas. This is the Scot by all forfworn, that wedded the maiden all forlorn, that coaxed the bull with the crumpled horn, that roared with the dog, that barked at

George Nugent Grenville, Earl Temple.

+ The immaculate continence of this British Scipio, fo ftrongly infifted on by his friends, as conftituting one of the moft fhining ingredients of his uncommon character, is only alluded to here as a received fact, and not by any means as a reproach.

Wedded. This Gentleman's own term for Coalition.

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