abufe, ticketted Bonaparte, fufficient to last for two or three years. And, Sir, befides the lofs of employment to the poor manufacturers (most of whom live down about Lower Thames Street*, and were taken from the trade of felling fish to that of writing politics), what is to become of the retailers and venders of this article, when deprived of the means of getting their bread in a way for which nature feems particularly to have qualified them? Now, Sir, if time had been given; if light had been permitted to break upon us through crannies and flits; if any intimation had been given that things were about to take this furprifing turn, gentlemen might have by degrees prepared a civil tongue; their stock of gull and Spleen might have been fold at leaft for what it was worth, or by a gradual mixture with the oil of retraction, or the more common elixir of existing circumftances, might have been rendered bland and harmlefs. The hands too might have been gradually taken off the manufacture, and recommended to fome honest way of getting their bread. Inftead of this, however, it is notorious, that they laboured in their vocation until the last moment, and the rancour mills were actually going at the very time the hawkers were felling the Extraordinary Gazette by found of horn, a Gazette which has operated like a commiffion of bankruptcy, and has reduced fo many poor creatures to a state of helpleffnefs, not having an enemy in the world. I am alfo credibly informed, that a prodigious trade was opened for the praife of the new miniftry, on account of the vigour and fuccefs with which they were to carry on the war for two or three years, including fome very curious fpecimens of encomiums on new budgets, loans, expeditions, &c. I do not mention this, however, with the fame feelings of regret, because praife of this kind, by a very fmall alteration in the fabrique, may be turned into fatire, and has indeed often been taken for fuch by thofe who look at it in a full light, and with a fteady eye. But as to the articles of abufe now on hand, the Minifter will not act fairly, if he does not grant relief by Exchequer bills, or fome other part of his predeceffor's folid fyftem of relieving, merchants by enabling them to trade without customers... I am, Sir, your humble fervant, MR. EDITOR, MORE ABOUT IT. A SUFFERER. [From the Morning Herald.] COMING to town on the first evening of illumination for the peace, I went into a refpectable coffeehoufe in the city before I took off my boots, to partake, as early as poffible, of the general joy. I there found a felect fet of grave-looking gentlemen, with their backs to the fire; and, as one might naturally anticipate the fubject of their difcourfe at fuch a moment, I walked up, without much ceremony, and faid, "Gentlemen, I give you joy of the peace!"-" Joy! Sir," fays one, " I fee no joy in it." "Dn the peace!" fays a fecond, pulling up a loose pair of pantaloon breeches; "it will ruin the country!"" Pray, gentlemen," fays I, "what's the matter with the peace? If it be not as good as we could with, let us thank God, and the Minifters, that it is no worfe !" Sir," fays another, who had not spoken before, “ you are not in the fecret ; there will now be an end to all fubordination; the lower claffes will require to be crammed equally with the higheft; and how are the riff-raff to be kept in fubjection, but by now and then grinding the face of the poor?" Turning away, fomewhat diffatisfied, from thefe arguers, to the two remaining of the knot, I thought thought I was fecure in their coincidence of fentiment with me, becaufe one had loft a leg, which I thought might have given him a bellyful of the war, and the other had a countenance univerfally lighted up, as a fignal for general illumination. But thefe, if poffible, were more indignant against the peace than the others: for the one faid, that the people, who fhould never be fed but by private contract under Government, would now demand to feed themfelves;-and the other remarked, that every vagabond now would expect to crack a bottle and a bifcuit with the best man in the city!-I was just going to break out in vehement reply, when my landlord, giving me a twitch of the ikirt, took me afide, and whifpered me, that it was not worth my while to debate the point with thofe gentlemen, who were a little too interested at prefent to reafon difpaffionately on the fubject; the one being an Uxbridge miller-another a great army commiffary-a third a great bifcuit-baker—and the others men who alfo lived by the war, as falamanders do in fire. On this, I took a parting look at this group of malcontents, paid for my glass of brandy and water, and withdrew. Yours, October 13 Rus. MORE STILL. [From the Oracle] MR. EDITOR, WHEREVER I go I hear nothing talked of but peace; but, though nobody likes quietnefs better than myself, I muft infift on it that peace and quietnefs are not fynonymous terms, for I never was fo much difturbed during the hottest war as by this change in our political affairs. From the unfettled ftate of the public mind-the huzzas of boys-the fongs of men-and the found of numberlefs barrel-organs, and other inftruments of mufic-one would imagine that this populous city was infefted by St. Vitus's Dance, an epidemic which raged in Germany about two centuries ago, and made the people caper about as if they were mad. Perhaps it is fome invifible electric fluid which has given a new impetus to the blood and animal fpirits; and I am the more induced to be of this opinion from the uncommon luftre which I fee in the eyes of all ranks of people within these few days. Another proof that it is fome electric effluvium is, its effect on the bells of the different churches, which have been almoft continually ringing for fome days paft. The air is certainly filled with this matter to a moft alarming degree, infomuch that it has occafioned innumerable explofions, fimilar to the noise of squibs, the firing of pistols, and the like. In many inftances it has caufed a confiderable confumption of gunpowder; nay, a fhopkeeper of my acquaintance has not only fold all that he had of that article, but has written to Dartford for a speedy fupply. The tailors, hairdreffers, and man-milliners, are particularly clamorous for ammunition, and fwear that as the war began in fmoke it fhall end in fire. Indeed, the fierce looks of thofe formidable heroes, and their martial ftride, might rather induce us to think that there was an invafion than a peace. On the whole, I am heartily tired of this carnival, efpecially as I understand that Peace was one of the heathen deities. What a fhame for people in a Chriftian country to make fuch a noise about her!— Why, d-n it, I have not got a wink of fleep fince laft Friday evening, though I have regularly drank a gallon of porter every night by way of opiate; but thofe curfed Atreet musicians, with their fiddles, hurdygurdies, barrel-organs, and tamborines, are enough to raise the devil! Then there is fuch hallooing among the boys, whenever a piftol goes off, that it makes my head ache; and, worfe than all, the fudden decline that that is expected in the price of provifions makes my heart ache. I had bought up as much wheat, cheese, bacon, and butter, as would ferve a parish, and now I fuppofe I must fell my goods at twenty or thirty per cent. lofs. This heathenifh Peace has played the devil with me, that's certain; and I would much rather half the people in Europe had been starved or knocked on the head than that I should lofe by fair dealing. I intend to fet out to-morrow for my refidence in Gloucestershire; and if I find any of my children or fervants making a fufs about this good-no, this dif treffing news, I'll horsewhip them; d-n me if I don't. I am, Mr. Editor, Your disappointed and angry humble fervant, REMARKS ON THE ILLUMINATIONS. PERHAPS the predominance of joy over every other paffion was never more truly evinced than in this capital on the aufpicious event of peace. Rich and poor, old and young, united in one gratulatory accla mation, and hailed the return of peace with fongs of triumph, as the Laplanders welcome the fun. A variety of beautiful tranfparencies of Peace, Plenty, and Happiness, were exhibited in different parts of the town; and, what may appear very wonderful, the poor far excelled the opulent in the art of illumi nating. An artist of the gentle kind, commonly ycleped a cobler, contrived to illuminate his whole manfion in Piccadilly with four candle-ends; and an old woman, who, like our good mother Eve, mpts every paffing fon of Adam with fruit which must not be touched under the penalty of one halfpenny, alfo difplayed three whole candles in the front of her Temple of Pomoną! This patriotic matron obferved, $6 with |