to annihilate and destroy Petitioner, and all the other race of the Guineas, even to the Guineas of the half blood.

May it therefore please your Honour to take your Petitioner's cafe into confideration, and Petitioner will ever pray.

RECIPE TO MAKE A REBEL.

[From the Morning Poft.]

TAKE a loyal fubject, uninfluenced by title, place, or pension, burn his house over his head, let the foldiery exercife every fpecies of infult and barbarity towards his helplefs family, and march away with the plunder of every part of his property they choose to fave from the flames. Put him, then, for a few hours, on the picket, to teach him military difcipline Next day flog him; a first time, to tell fecrets he never knew; a fecond time, to discover arms he never faw; and a third time, going to bed, to confefs treafons he never committed.

If this mild and conciliatory fyftem shall not produce the defired effect, let him be half-hanged; bumanity would recommend the bufinefs fhould be confummated, but there are obvious reasons of policy against it. This generally throws him into a kind of delirium; he mistakes a keeper of the King's confcience for an executioner, and fancies himfelf in the infernal regions, inftead of enjoying the bleffings of a free government in a land of plenty. In this frenzy he will indulge fome days, and at the end of the third morning the most stubborn loyalist will be converted into a rebel. Should there, however, appear any dregs of his original difeafe lurking about him, lofe no time to inform him, that the juft indignation of his Sovereign is not to be averted by any earthly facrifice, and dif

mifs with infult any brave officer, who fhall dare to fpare the lives of the penitent and deluded. This mode has been practifed with great fuccess by certain quacks in Ireland.

HOW TO MAKE AN ENGLISH JACOBIN IN TWO DAYS.

[From the Oracle.]

TAKE of the herbs of hypocrify and ambition, of each two handfuls; of the flowers of humility, two fcruples; of the feeds of contention and stubbornnefs, one hundred ounces each; of the root of all evil, a large portion. Chop the herbs, flice the roots, and pound them together in a mortar of vain glory, with a peftle of contradiction and deceit; also add one hundred ounces of fyrup of felf-conceit, covetousness, and selfishness. Then let the perfon who is to be converted, take two fpoonfuls each night and morning, and when he is full of this hellish compound, let him make a wry face and mouth, and fqueeze out fome tears of diffimulation: this will do wonders, and make the fchifmatic maintain the Alcoran, run down the church, delude the people, justify defolations, foment contention and rebellion, and call it liberty of confcience.

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THE SIX GRAND PRINCIPLES OF MAN'S
HAPPINESS.

MILD monarchy; a pure epifcopacy; an upright adminiftration of juftice; a fervent fpirit of religion pervading all ranks; a general difpofition of industry in all orders of men, but particularly amongst the lower and more indigent claffes; together with a temperate enjoyment of focial and domeftic pleasures:

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these constitute the most perfect and most permanent means of happiness that man can enjoy, fo long as he remains an inhabitant of the earth.

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THE CHARACTER OF A TRUE BRITON.

N drawing the character of a True Briton, let us premife, that we fhow him of no rank or clafs exclufively. For, though our country, abhorring the 'dead level of equality, boafts the ornament and the utility of various ranks, by their gradation holding forth the fairest prize for emulation, the moft lafting and leaft fordid recompenfe of merit; yet one character pervades the whole. It is the inheritance, not of any clafs of individuals, but of the nation. It adorns the palace and the cottage, and prevails throughout all intervening ranks. Depreffed in one part, it would rife to notice in another: nor can it be extinct, till all, which Heaven avert! fhall be corrupted by foreign principles, or foreign manners.

The True Briton is the child of virtue and of reafon. The one he loves by natural difpofition; the other guides him in the practice of her dictates. From the ftrength of his reafon, he is a zealous friend to order; by the virtuous ardour of his fpirit, he is an adorer of Liberty. Without the due reftraint of law, he fears he might be vicious; without the energy of freedom, he feels he should be mean. He would neither have his evil tendencies indulged, nor his virtuous impulfes repreffed. So ftrong his hatred of vice, that he will bind himself to punish it, even in himself: fo proud his jealoufy of unjust force, that he will perifh rather than obey it, even in a trifle. A child may shame him when he is guilty; the whole world cannot make him fhrink when innocent.-Tó admonition he is a reed-to violence, a rock.

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The virtues most congenial to his foul are, Courage, Integrity, Generosity, Compaffion.

His courage, however, is neither irritable nor ambitious. He will bear even injuries, till well affured that they are fo intended; and then at length he feeks for justice, not revenge-for compenfation, not retaliation. Secure in native dignity, and confcious of it, he wastes no time in useless bustle to display his confequence. When the hour for action comes, he acts with vigour and effect; when that is over, he enjoys tranquillity as his reward, well-earned and welcome.

The integrity of the True Briton is inflexible. In all his dealings he is open, fair, ingenuous. He neither fufpects others of mean artifice, nor will he ever ftoop to it himself. To this characteristic he owes his great commercial credit, which even his unremitting industry could never have extended to its prefent magnitude, had it not been fanctioned and fupported by his probity. For the fame reafon, he is not a man of compliment. If he means to render fervice, he will do it without promifing and without parade; if he means it not, or thinks it cannot be performed, he will be filent. Nor is he at any time a boafter; for, knowing the deceptions of felf-love, he fears left they fhould lead him into falfehood. When most he has deferved commendation, he can with patience bear to lofe it; even envy and unjuft reproach he can defpife; the confcioufnefs of having done his beft, fupports him; but praife unmerited is fhame and torture to him.

His generofity and compaffion are infeparable. A tale of forrow never fails to melt him, and pity flows from him in fhowers of gold. Where gold cannot relieve, he tries fuch other means as feem inore fuited to the cafe; but his first movement is to give. The humanity of conquerors that fave their enemies is more congenial to his foul than the defire of victory itself;

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and yet for victory, no one has done more, or more fuccefsfully. The efforts of an Elliot amazed the continental nations; but Curtis, faving the lives of the enemy, at the imminent hazard of his own, was idolized in his native country. Without this trophy, the triumph would have loft its brightest ornament to Britons.

The religion of the True Briton is rational and firm -equally remote from the folly of fuperftition and the impudence of infidelity. He was among the first

to fee and to reject the grofs corruptions of the Chriftian faith; he will be the last to countenance a worfe corruption, on pretence of farther reformation. He will never leave religion for the emptiness of false and infidel philofophy. His ftrength of reason teaches him in what points human reafon must be weak; and he will never boaft his knowledge, where he feels his ignorance.

His intellectual qualities, like all the reft, are more for ufe than oftentation. Sagacity and wisdom are allowed him by all furrounding nations; nor can a name be mentioned to which all sciences have higher obligations, than to that of the True Briton. Others may excel him in invention; in profundity and accuracy of refearch, he is unrivalled. Yet is he not

deficient in true genius. It is his pride, that in the line of poetry his country ftands the firft of modern nations, and not unfrequently has rivalled the best models of antiquity. The tricks of falfe tafte and ambitious ornament, in spite of temporary fashion, he defpifes. The writing that obtains his praise must fatisfy the judgment and affect the heart. By the fame rule he values eloquence, and every other effort of the intellectual faculty.

At the prefent day, one ftriking feature not to be omitted in the character of the True Briton, is, veneration for the conftitution of his country. He views