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formed a moft ftriking contraft. Every body admired the illustration of the motto Deliverance of Europe!

In another part of the picture, but in the back ground, was feen Britannia, fitting pale, very pale and dejected (here the light was faint); the feemed to look with a difconfolate air at a number of papers lying scattered and torn around, on which were written Mag. Chart. Hab. Cor. and other unmeaning, difjointed phrafes. At no great diftance from thefe fragments were feen certain lofty edifices, which fome called barracks, or prifons. The goddefs feemed to look from the one to the other, and to connect them. We never faw a finer fpecimen of the painter's fkill. The fpectator exclaimed that it was real life!

The

Towards another quarter, in the diftance, was faintly feen a view, which we cannot well defcribe. lights glared very red on moft of this fcene. We could difcern the fmoke of cottages; but it was not the fmoke which rifes from the cot of calm and content. A little farther were seen scenes which were fo black and gloomy, that defcription is impoffible. Farther and farther were to be traced fomething like the words Union; then, after an intervening glimmering of light and hope, appeared the words Catholic Emancipation, which had a momentary radiance; but in an inftant they totally vanished, nobody knew why or

wherefore.

This, however, is but a faint fketch of this animated picture. Some faid it was the production of an artilt who had lately produced a picture of the infernal regions. But of this we know nothing. We only deferibe what we faw.

OF THE HOUSE OF G-NV-E.

The illumination of L-d T-mp-e may be confidered as the type of the rejoicings of the whole houfe of G-nv-e, of which he is the worthy feyon. The defign is evidently the production of his young

and

and ardent fancy. The noble L-d is a man not likely to degenerate from the hereditary character of that family, who certainly pay due regard to the recommendation of Ralphe, in Hudibras—

"You'd beft (quoth Ralpho), as the ancients
Say, wifely have a care o' th' main chance !”

This idea of the main chance was foon fixed upon the well-educated mind of the youthful G-nv-e; and almost the first thing he ever faid in the House of Commons was founded upon this maxim of political wifdom.

The hint of the tranfparency, defigned by his L-df-p, was founded on these principles, fo calculated to form a folid fyftem of family finance. The infeription was, Aftake in the country, a motto very happily illuftrated. There was depicted a stake of fingular configuration. It was cut in the exact G-ny-e model, being extremely thick about the centre of gravity. This fake was driven into the proper body of the allegorical perfonage called John Bull, in whom the operation of driving it produced divers writhings and contortions, the effect of pain and of lofs of blood; for it was obferved that the stake made him bleed very freely. Out of this flake (fuch was the extravagance of the allegory) fecmed to grow many very fair and fpreading branches; but it was obferved that these branches produced an effect mentioned of fome tree in a foreign land, Java, we believe-nothing flourished under their fhade; every thing looked fhrivelled, wafted, and exhaufted. Nevertheless the flake, become a tree, produced very noble fruit, for the fruit was gold, and the leaves very bank notes. Most of the fpectators who faw this tree wifhed for such a stake in the country

To diverfify the picture, the eye was relieved by a view of the Treafury, that noble nurfery for fhoots of

the

the G-ny-e ftock; there was a glimpfe too of the Admiralty, and fhips, dock-yards, &c. almost buried in mift. An oldith man, fomewhat grofs, and not over and above well favoured, appeared to contemplate this part of the fcene almoft conftantly, except that he feemed to have the art of at the fame time looking afkance on the stake in the country. There was a faint profpect of a houfe, which fome faid was a house in a certain park. There was feen a man muffled up in a cloak ftealing in by a back door and a private ftaircafe; fome thought it was a thief going to rob the manfion; others faid it would be found to be a Peer going by night to poifon the ear of unfufpecting Royalty. Thefe, however, were but epifodes in the piece. The grand object which, by a well-combined mechanifm, recurred in infinite variety of fhapes, was, the ftake in the country. It was obferved that there was nothing emblematical of peace in the whole combination..

May 1, 1802.

CELEBRATION OF MR. PITT'S BIRTH-DAY. [From the Morning Chronicle]

MY LORD,

To E--I S-----r.

BSERVING your L--d--p's name in an advertifement for the ch--r of an intended meeting for the celebration of Mr. Pitt's birth-day; and alfo that it ftands among the first of the fubfcribers to erecting a ftatue to him for his "able and upright adminiftration," I feel myself irrefiftibly impelled to addrefs a few obfervations to your L--d---p, fuggefted to me by an occupation into which I naturally enough fell upon a perufal of the notifications of your two committees. Retracing, in fomewhat of the fpirit of a philofopher, the tranfactions of these last eight years (a

and ardent fancy. The noble L-d is a man not likely to degenerate from the hereditary character of that family, who certainly pay due regard to the recommendation of Ralpho, in Hudibras—

"You'd beft (quoth Ralpho), as the ancients
Say, wifely have a care o' th' main chance !"

This idea of the main chance was foon fixed upon the well-educated mind of the youthful G-nv-e; and almoft the first thing he ever faid in the House of Commons was founded upon this maxim of political wifdom.

The hint of the tranfparency, defigned by his L-df-p, was founded on thefe principles, fo calculated to form a folid fyftem of family finance. The infeription was, Aftake in the country, a motto very happily illuftrated. There was depicted a fake of fingular configuration. It was cut in the exact G-ny-e model, being extremely thick about the centre of gravity. This fake was driven into the proper body of the allegorical perfonage called John Bull, in whom the operation of driving it produced divers writhings and contortions, the effect of pain and of lofs of blood; for it was observed that the stake made him bleed very freely. Out of this flake (fuch was the extravagance of the allegory) feemed to grow many very fair and fpreading branches; but it was obferved that these branches produced an effect mentioned of fome tree in a foreign land, Java, we believe-nothing flourished under their fhade; every thing looked fhrivelled, wafted, and exhaufied. Nevertheless the flake, become a tree, produced very noble fruit, for the fruit was gold, and the leaves very bank notes. Mofl of the fpectators who faw this tree wifhed for such a stake in the country

To diverfify the picture, the eye was relieved by a view of the Treafury, that noble nursery for shoots of

the

the G-ny-e ftock; there was a glimpfe too of the Admiralty, and fhips, dock-yards, &c. almost buried in mist. An oldifh man, fomewhat grofs, and not over and above well favoured, appeared to contemplate this part of the fcene almoft conftantly, except that he feemed to have the art of at the fame time looking afkance on the stake in the country.

There was a

faint profpect of a houfe, which fome faid was a house in a certain park. There was feen a man muffled up in a cloak ftealing in by a back door and a private ftaircase; fome thought it was a thief going to rob the manfion; others faid it would be found to be a Peer going by night to poifon the ear of unfufpecting Royalty. Thefe, however, were but epifodes in the piece. The grand object which, by a well-combined mechanifm, recurred in infinite variety of fhapes, was, the fake in the country. It was obferved that there was nothing emblematical of peace in the whole combination..

May 1, 1802.

CELEBRATION OF MR. PITT'S BIRTH-DAY.

MY LORD,

[From the Morning Chronicle]

To E--I S-----r.

OB BSERVING your L--d--p's name in an advertifement for the ch--r of an intended meeting for the celebration of Mr. Pitt's birth-day; and alfo that it ftands among the first of the fubfcribers to erecting a ftatue to him for his "able and upright administration," I feel myself irrefiftibly impelled to addrefs a few obfervations to your L--d---p, fuggefted to me by an occupation into which I naturally enough fell upon a perufal of the notifications of your two committees. Retracing, in fomewhat of the fpirit of a philofopher, the tranfactions of these laft eight years (a

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