POLITICAL EPIGRAM. To a friend roar'd out Pat, and with paffion he stampt, BOE SHORT. EPIGRAM ON THE TWO UNIVERSITIES COMING TO TOWN TO PRESENT THEIR ADDRESSES TO THE KING ON ASCENSION DAY. URE, ye graybeard Divines, you got into the lurch, When, your King to addrefs, you deferted the church; Leave the Church for a Court! How is this, Alma Mater? "Why, our faith's the reform'd, you impertinent prater And in Proteftant Parfons 't is no ftrange vagary, "To pay more refpect to St. James, than St. Mary!": LINES COPTED FROM A BOARD OVER THE DOOR OF JOHN GROVE, OF WHITE WALTHAM, BERKS. JOHN Grove, grocer, and dealer in tea, Sells the finest of congous and best of bohea; A dealer in coppice, a meas'rer of land; Sells the finest of fouffs, and the fineft white fand; : A finger of pfalms, and a scriv'ner of money; And a clerk to the living, as well as the dead; : Deputy Deputy furveyor, fells fine writing paper, A SPEECH AT THE COMMON HALL, [From the True Briton.] THE Livery had very unexpectedly their meeting at Guildhall yesterday, inftead of to-day, as was generally understood. The attendance was confiderable. At a quarter before twelve, Meffrs. R-bf-n and J-n-s arrived in a hackney-coach, and took the oaths and their feats as Citizens. Mr. WAITHMAN began the debate by saying, that as he had always difapproved of the war, fo he entirely difapproved of all the means that had been reforted to by the late adminiftration to carry it on. He particularly objected to the Income Tax, as being one of the moft efficient means. He fhould fav but little on the fubject, as he had the happinefs of feeing two celebrated perfonages prefent, who were fo eminently capable of throwing light on the fubject, on whofe recent acceffion to the dignified title of Citizens of London, he heartily congratulated the metropolis and the country at large. Mr. R-BS-N then rofe and faid, "Gentlemen, though I am in perfon a new man among you, I hope I aint quite new to you in character. I have been many years a Member of Parliament; and, as perhaps you know, have always fpoke on every occafion, even when there was nobody in the Houfe to hear me. It was generally reported, that Meffrs. J-s and R―n were to take up their lively, to qualify them to bear a part in the bufinefs of the day. Your Your money has been voted away in thin houfes fo I have been a faying for fix years paft. Good God! Gentlemen, what is money? I repeat the queftionWhat is money? Won't nobody anfwer me? I'll tell you then what it is. Gold, and filver, and copper is money. It aint credit, it aint paper, it aint all that fort of thing which the country banks deals in. There was no fuch thing as paper two centuries ago. It's paper, and the Income Tax, which has undone the country; and fome other things which I'm a going to mention to you. "Gentlemen, did you ever hear of the Sick and Hurt Office?-For the life of me can't find out where it is. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, nor the Secretaries of the Treasury, don't know.-It aint at Whitechapel, nor at the Tower, nor at High Park Corner. Where is it? I fhould like to know.-I've got a bill upon itand I fhould like to have it refufed payment.-(A loud cry of "Hear, bear!")-Wann't I the firft that brought that there business before Parliament? Wann't it I, Gentlemen, that first proved, that if Government could not pay nineteen pounds, they could not pay a million? The country will never be fafe, till we have a good map of all the Public Offices. It fhould be hung up in Guildhall, or at the Manfion House. One fhould then know where to for one's go money.I'll be the man to move for it in Parliament; and if the Minister refufes it, that there will be a proof that he aint a friend to the City, Gentlemen, nor to the good of the country. He aint no friend to me, Gentlemen, because I'm always at work; he knows I'm always at it. "Gentlemen, you have probably read my speeches in the Morning Poft; that's the paper for my money. I was always a working o' Mr. Pitt, and by the by, I believe I had fome hand in turning of him out. It was Pitt's carvalery that eat up the country.-You ney never had no occafion for half a quarter fo many. Think how many oats they eats in a year!-So, by the way, does geefe, which I wish I had thought on a little fooner.-Geefe is only a luxury (a general groan. and hifs)-Gentlemen, I beg pardon-to green geese I have no objection; oats aint neceffary for them. But in times like thefe, the fight of a full-grown goofe muft fhock every man who feels for the interefts of his country.-(Applaufe.) "I kann't help taking this opportunity of thanking the Worshipful Company of Knitters for the honour they have done me, in making me one of 'em. It was monstrous kind in 'em; I repeat it, it was monstrous kind. They know that I am a friend to manefacture, as well as to the arts and fciences. I am pretty much at home in arithmetic, and have taken great pains in looking after the extraordinaries of the army. Good God! Gentlemen, think of that!-There's a piece of work for you! You don't want no extraordinaries; nor, if we gets peace, you won't want no taxes.-As for the Income Tax, that was one o' Pitt's coining, o' purpofe to rob the country. You never heard of no fuch thing in Alfred's time, nor in Julius Cæfar's, nor in Queen Elizabeth's. My Hon. Friend near me, who knows what its neat produce will be for a month to come, will be able to tell you more about this. If Minifters goes on at this rate long, we fhall foon not have a fhirt to our backs. It's as much as we can do now to have a doff and a d'on. "Gentlemen, I thank you for this patient hearing. We shall have a monftrous deal of bufinefs on our hands here foon. At the next meeting, I give notice, that I fhall move for all the city accounts for the last. Here he read a long paper, containing all the items of charges for this fervice. thirty years, that we may know a little about the expenfes of the mayorality, the ftate of hackney coach fares, and the enormous expenditure of oil in the lighting of the metropolis. I conclude by moving, That the fheriffs and the city remembrancer be fummoned to attend on this day fe'nnight; and, in the mean time, that the Income Tax ought not to continue no longer." Mr. RN concluded a fpeech of near three quarters of an hour, amidst the plaudits of fuch of the Livery as had not withdrawn from Guildhall during the courfe of it. The remainder of this interesting debate, we hope to be able to give to-mor row. [It was never concluded.] March 18. PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN. [From the Morning Poft.] From our Head-quarters, Pall Mall, GENERAL ORDERS. THE army to be formed into two divifions; the first, commanded in perfon by General Ld G-nv-e, to occupy the heights; the other, under the orders of Lieutenant-general W-d-m, to attack the enemy in his lower pofition. The ground to be taken by either divifion, to be previoufly marked out by Quarter-master-general Cobbett. A copy to be given to each officer, to whom the command of a column may be intrufted; the Qurter-mafter-general's advice to be taken, and ftudiously obferved in every operation. The campaign to be vigorously opened as foon as the enemy thall be known to have taken his principal pofition. 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