ficient that Authors are of the irritable genus-Critics fhould be difpaffionate, fedate, and collected. Crit. But, Sir!-I'll cramp your fame-I'll fetter it, depend on it! Auth. Having fetters, I fuppofe, like thofe of a jailor," of all prices." Crit. I'll ferve you up, Sir!-you'll prove an excellent treat. Auth. I'm glad of it-I am of a humane difpofition-your whole phyfiognomy fhews that a treat is much wanted. it. Crit. I'll ftrip your book of its fine coat. Auth. Welcome-fo that you patch your own with. Grit. I'll give you attic falt. Auth. From a red-herring in a garret !` Crit. Vengeance! (Exit in a fury.) The Critic, for quitting Court, non-suited. ΑΝ SPECIAL CONTRACT!!! [From the fame.] NY perfon inclined to contract for the removal of that well-known edifice at the west end of the town, erected of true Portland ftone, as a fpecimen of the durability of a structure raised profeffedly on Dutch principles, may deliver in proposals at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, any morning till the 1ft of January 1802, between the hours of nine and twelvein the forenoon. No contractor employed under Alderman Picket's city plan for pulling down Temple Bar, and its furmounting appendages, can be treated with. N. B. Whatever ropes or Scaffolding may be requifite to make it a perfect job, will be found at the public expenfe. The rubbish to be the fole property of A DOLOROUS OPPOSITION DITTY, INDITED AND SUNG BY THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.. Accompanied with Compofitors, Pressmen, and "Cadmi Filiolis atricoloribus"-(Anglicè Printers' Imps) Magnoque ululante tumultu. [From the True Briton] IND anditors lift to the difmallest strains K" VIRG. Ever yet manufactur'd by heads without brains! Oppofition is ready to give up the ghoft, And what will become of the fam'd' Morning Poft? What gallant battalions we muster'd at Campbell's *, Ah, thofe were fine times for the grand Morning Poft! * The Shakespear Tavern. + The Whigs are infinitely indebted to this learned, patriotic, and tuneful counsellor, who may be deservedly styled “ The throftle with his note fo true," as he never fails to enlift harmony in the caufe of politics, and to temper the fervours of Whiggifm with the melodies of "Ballinamona Ora," and the "Grand Punchinello," performed to admiration, and rapturously applauded (as our friend J. S. Jordan informs us from the fountain, head), at the recurring feftive folemnities of their club. What What eulogy Dignum's Da Capos engross'd— And entwin'd round the fceptre the olive of peace, The effect of this change, which Whig-newfmongers ru At the statesman, alas! whom we daily defame, The fool's bolts that we shoot still fall short of their aim; The Whig Chiefs we extoll d, all fecede from their bands, After this incomparable warbler of the bar, little Dignum, whofe modefty emulates his merit, will readily content himfelf with the fecond place, and allow us to depicture him as the " Wren" in the f fubfequent line of the quotation, an image equally expreffive of the fpherical graces of his perfon and the fweetnefs of his voice. Counf. Robinson-" The throftle with his note so true; SHAKES. MID. NIGHT'S DREAM. See The Morning Poft of Friday, Dec. 11, 1801.. Now deafnefs befriend all the Treafury Bench, Stephen's when operates fo copious a drench, he raves (as our draftic-applaufe takes effect) ›pofe—I deny—I contend-I object §.” fince R-bf-n's fo kind as to come in the nick, R-bf-n's deferts and achievements fublime, e charge is too true (we speak truth now and then), e best places he fills with the honestest men ¶;" ourselves and our friends of advancement defpair, evoutly unite in this new Form of Prayer: y culprits give law, and be magiftrates lash'd, e Minister's friends for their probity fwing, e Morning Pol Editor challenges the acknowledgments of his for the epitome of political science prefented to them in this ine, in which the whole amplitude,, extent, and dimensions, ha and Omega, the fubftance, quinteffence, and marrow, the tails, and extremities of R-bf-nian eloquence are fimplified, ed, and concentrated, like the Iliad in a nut-shell. mong thofe who hold offices under the present administration, rning Poft Editor deems an invidious statement of the names of Mr. Addington's relations fufficient to ensure his recent fourevelled against the Minifter, an eafy reception with the public. ight indeed be not unfavourable to the purposes of malevolence, uld inftance three gentlemen whose abilities do greater credit to pointments they hold, or whole characters are more deservedly ed in private life. "Let "Let Addington's fun from our hemifphere fade, THE GUARDIAN OF THE CONSTITUTION [From the True Briton] SIR, THE exiftence of a certain weight of oppofit to thofe intrufted with the adminiftration of vernment, is frequently faid to be effential to well-being of the community; and, accordingly this fentiment is more or lefs prevalent, the dee and fall of the old Oppofition is regarded with refponding fenfations of concern and apprehenfion. No one feems to have felt more intenfe alarm this account than the worthy reprefentative of O hampton; but the line of conduct which his app henfions have fince led him to adopt, muft fum matter of confolatory reflection to all modern Patri worshipful Whigs, and true Trojans of every dei mination. Minifters have not, indeed, at prefent, much c to expect that their laudable exertions for the wel and profperity of the empire will be obftructed by acknowledged powers of a Fox, the genius and a men of a Sheridan, or the ability and intelligenc a Grey; but have they not to contend with the lents, the genius, and energies of all three united their redoubtable antagonift, the member for 0 hampton? The luftre of abilities, and ardour in bate, which fignalized the late Oppofition in t collective capacity, though not diftinguishable at fent in their full expanfion, ftill exift undiminif but concentrated with inexpreffible effect and t liancy in one R-bf-nian focus. |