help the wicked! If wishing for a peaceful and tempe Fate reform be wicked and fenfelefs, we are certainly a fet of reprobate blockheads: for fuch are the avowed opinions of a very great part, and the real fentiments of more.

. I mean not, however, to deny, that this manifefto has Lome touches of true eloquence. In particular I admire that fentence, "The inequality of rank and fortune in "this bleffed country is more the refult of every man's ❝own exertions, than of any controuling institution of "the state." Here is at once a plain confeffion, that all the prosperity, whatever it is, that we enjoy, is due to the exertions of individuals, and not to the foftering influence of Government; together with a most bitter scarcasm upon our prefent condition, conveyed in the words, "this bleffed country." But I think in prudence, they should have contented themfelves with defending the abuses of the constitution, without infulting the miseries of the nation.

The latter end of thefe gentlemen's commonwealth for gets the beginning. They beftow great part of their advertisement upon the fhocking French Revolution, which they fee with grief; and presently they take no concern in the ftruggles now making abroad. Some folks have need of good memories, quoth Partridge. I think there is nothing more in the first charge that requires animad

verfion,

verfion. Their fecond advertisement prefcribes an opiate, called a fermon. I wifh the readers a comfortable nap. One of their resolutions of to-day is " to undeceive the "poor people by reasoning." If I had been one of the gentlemen of this fociety, (for it seems no men, or citizens belong to the club) I would have advised them to have omitted the words, undeceive the people by reafoning, which is a thing at once needless and impracticable. It is needlefs, because the poor people are undeceived already; and it is impracticable, because reason is a commodity of which these gentlemen fcarcely poffefs enough for home confumption.

At the conclufion of this last address we are told, that the wicked men meet in defiance of law, but good men - (i. e. the gentlemen of this club) meet in aid of law. If the first addrefs had not had clear marks of its origin, this paragraph would have fhewn us, that it could not proceed but from a gentleman of the robe. None but a lawyer could have recommended Judge Afhhurst's Charge. None but a lawyer could have made the nice diftinction juft quoted, between wicked and good men.

I fhall keep a conftant eye upon the proceedings of thefe gentry, and from time to time communicate my remarks upon them, when the fubject feems to require it, and you think what I fay worthy of infertion. But

all

all criticifin, or anfwering, will be ufelefs, if they go on as they have begun.

"Friend, for your long harangues I'm griev'd,

"Where still fo much is faid;

« One half will never be believ'd,

"The other never read."

JACK SHERIFF.

TO CHLOE.

BY PETER PINDAR, ESQ.

CHLOE, a thoufand charms are thine,
That give my heart the constant figh;
Ah! wherefore let thy poet pine,
Who can'st with eafe his wants fupply?

O hafte, thy charity display;

With little I'll contented be!
The kiffes which thou throw'ft away
Upon thy dog, will do for me.

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SONNET.

BY PETER PINDAR, ESQ

OH Fortune! do not tempt my heart

To ftray from her my foul adores; Amidst thy gifts the tear will start,

And every hour her lofs deplores.

Her languid eyes and pallid cheek
Shall often drop on Fancy's eye;
On Fancy's ear her fighs fhall break,
And all the foul of sweetness die.

PASTORAL BALLAD

BY PETER PINDAR, ESQ

THE fwains and the virgins so gay
Refort to my fountains and groves;
Joy follows wherever they ftray,

And

my vales feem the Court of the Loves

But with wonder they mark me forlorn,
'Mid fountains and valleys fo fair-
Ah! their hearts have no reason to mourn,

Nor to heave the fad figh of despair.

To love, and be lov'd not again,

Is a curfe that embitters each hour;
Then dull are the fongs of the plain,

And faded the blooms of the bower!!

But with her who will smile on our fighs,
Even rocks of the defart must bloom,
Pale night be a fun to our eyes,
And the dungeon depriv'd of its gloom!

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN the prefs, and speedily will be published, The Reafonableness of Conformity to the measures of Adminiftration for the time being; in which will be demonstrated that political difcuffion and private judgement are abfolutely inconfiftent with the nature and end of Civil Govern ment. To which will be added, An Appendix, containing fome perfuafive confiderations on the profitableness of fuch conformity.

By the Right Hon. WHA WANTS ME

Quocunque modo REM.

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