have retained his popularity.-Mr. PITT attempted this trick, and has carried his point. PINETTI has a bird which sings exactly any tune put before it.-Mr. PITT has upwards of TWO HUNDRED birds of this description.-N. B. PEARSON says they are a pack of CHATTERING MAGPIES.

COMMUTATION TAX.-AN ACT for rendering houses more chearful, healthy, comfortable, and commodious.

PAPER DITTO. AN ACT for the encourage

ment of authors, the promotion of learn

ing, and extending the liberty of the press.

POSTAGE DITTO.-AN ACT for expediting business, increasing social intercourse,

and facilitating the epistolary correspondence of friends.

DISTILLERY DITTO.-AN ACT for making

the landlords responsible to government

for the obedience of their own and their

neighbours tenantry.

CANDLE DITTO.-AN ACT for the benevo

lent purpose of putting the blind on a level with their fellow-creatures.

EXCISE GOODS DITTO.-AN ACT for lessening the burthen of the subject by an increase of the collection.

SOAP DITTO.-AN ACT for suppressing the effeminacy of Englishmen, by disappointing them of clean linen.

SMUGGLING DITTO.-AN ACT for demonstrating the arbitrary spirit of this free government, in whatever clashes with the interests of the Treasury.

GAME DITTO.-AN ACT for making the many responsible, for a monopoly of every thing nice and delicate, to the palates of the few.

HORSE DITTO. AN ACT for reducing the farmers to the wholesome exercise of

walking, while their servants enfeeble themselves with riding.

THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Ar the last grand FETE given by Mr. JENKINSON to his friends in Administration, it was proposed, that as WILBERFORCE had sprained his leg at the last game at LEAPFROG, and PRATT had grown too fat for their old favourite sport of HIDE-AND-SEEK, Some new diversion should be instituted.-Various succedanea were suggested, such as CHUCKFARTHING, MARBLES, &c. but at last the general voice determined in favour of the DRAMA. After some little altercation as to what particular dramatic production to select, the comic opera of TOM JONES was perform

ed, and the arrangement of characters was disposed of as follows:

The parts of ALLWORTHY, TOM JONES, and SOPHIA, were subjects of long and difficult discussion; but at length Mr. DUNDAS put an end to the altercation, by assuring the company that he was willing and able to act ANY part, and would be glad, though at so short a notice, to attempt that of ALLWORTHY. The same offer was handsomely made by Lord DENBIGH for that of Tom JONES, and the character of SOPHIA was at last allotted to VILLIERS.