the child and champion of Jacobinifm; a copy of Lord Grenville's letter; and a plan of Marengo. The Dutch. A view of the Scheldt, with the fhips failing to Antwerp. The Stadtholder. A ftiver, in confideration of the indemnities procured for him. Louis XVIII. A complete map of his kingdom, and a print of his grand triumphal entry into Paris. The Emperor of Germany. A reverfion in the Imperial loan, and a map of Belgium, the Milanefe, &c. territories gained by the war. The Widows and Orphans of Soldiers and Sailors, &c. killed off. A mantle dyed in the blood of their deceafed relatives. J-ky, jun. A pair of jack-boots, accustomed to the road to Paris. The Habeas Corpus Act. An account of her long ftate of fufpended animation while under his care. Liberty. Her own portrait, in a deep decline. Mr. Ketch. Indemnity for the paft, and fecurity for the future. THE THE STATUE POSTPONED. [From the fame.] HE erection of this monument of national gratitude is poftponed for the prefent. Mr. Pitt has found out what it appears the fubfcribers could not find out that there is fome fmall impropriety in erecting a statue to a living character. This difcovery was made by Lord Vt B-ge, on Tuesday, at a meeting of the fubfcribers. He had been inftructed by Mr. Pitt to communicate his thanks, &c. and his with that they would drop the defign for the prefent. The company affented; but refolved that the statue fhould be erected at a future period, when it fhould please please Heaven to remove its born minifter to thofe happy realms where fervices are rewarded by perpetuity of place, and refignations are unknown. It was farther refolved, that the money collected, which exceeds three thousand guineas, fhould be vested in the hands of trustees for the above purpose. This way of poftponing gratitude, of deferring a paffion fine die, is fomewhat new in the hiftory of our feelings, and we fufpect, in the cafe of a man who follows fo precarious a trade as that of popularity, may be fomewhat dangerThe die is caft however, and Mr. Pitt is bound over to his good behaviour for life, under a penalty of three thoufand guineas! In the mean time, that the fubfcribers" gratitude might not evaporate, or be loft in the multiplicity of changes and chances of this mortal life, each determined for himself to refresh the memory of Mr. Pitt's eminent fervices, by an occafional contemplation of the national debt, the taxes, and other little traits of his glorious adminiftration, till the period arrive when they fhall be more durably recorded by the chifel. "Serus in cœlum redeas, diuque TRIBUTE TO THE VIRTUES OF OUR LATE HEAVEN-BORN MINISTER, OFFERED BY A POOR PARISH CLERK. Go [From the fame.] OOD Lord, how happy fhould I be," "Bother!" fays Pat: why, neighbour John, Be all your fenfe and manners gone, The devil fhould pick me limb from limb, Who caus'd our fhame and forrow." "Patience, "Patience, dear brother," John replies : I wish 't were done to-morrow!” AMEN! HOW TO DISPOSE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS MR. PITT'S STATUE. WE [From the fame.] Ecce iterum Crispinus. E have already informed our readers of the postponement of the ftatue of Mr. Pitt, and of the fortunate fuggeftion which has relieved the managers from the confufion and perplexity in which they found themfelves; namely, to lay out the contributions in Confolst. How animating and characteristic to transfer this great man's image from perifhable ftocks and ftones to those immortal ftocks which increase in ftature continually! London! thou firft commercial city in the world, whence but from thy fapient brain could have fprung the noble and mercantile idea? But, although the decifion be well known to our readers, we confider ourselves bound to minister to future hiftory, by relating all the particulars that are known of this great tranfaction. We always thought it but a weak objection, that, if the ftatue were erected in a public place, the Jacobins and Windhamites would join in uncouth union to pelt it to pieces as if there were no vigour in the metropolis, no Clerkenwell Baftile to terrify, no Governor Aris (himfelf a fubfcriber) to punish; no East London militia, under that great foldier the Lord Mayor*; or artillery company, under their equally * Sir John Eamer, Knt. and foldier. + See page 244. great great commander, Alderman Le Mefurier, to watch the facred effigy. Night by night would they have guarded it, and the evening dew would have been to them as the dews of the Treafury. Every gale would have fmelt of a contract, and every fhower reminded them of a bonus. But why fear the Jacobins and Windhamites? Do the Jacobins then imagine, that a great mind like Mr. Pitt's can change only once with exifting circumstances? Or do the Windhamites really fuppofe that he will never deliver Europe any more? The nation fhould fhake off thefe foolish ideas. Is not the Windhamite L-d Sr chairman of the birth-day feaft of this great deliverer of Europe? Are not the Grenvilles and Alr. Windham himfelf to be prefent? and ean it, be imagined that they are about to drink confufion to their leader, or to pull down his ftatues and his altars? It is no lefs abfurd to fuppofe that the ftatue of fuch a fubject fhould give offence to the royal mind. If there was a difference on Catholic concerns, was it not fpeedily buried in difcreet oblivion, under the tender. anxieties of Mr. Wilberforce? Can any loyal breast admit, for a moment, that any real difference fhould exift between the Throne and the defender of all thrones? If there exifts any appearance of coquetry, or even of distance between them, may not reafons of ftate fufficiently account for it? May not Mr. Windham, who once declared that he fupported Mr. Pitt because he was a bad and a very bad Minifter, fupport him now when he is known to be a good one? And is Mr. Pitt fo determined an enemy of war as to resist the city of London itself in their pious endeavours to procure one? We conjure the city not to be afraid. The royal confcience is in good keeping. The Windhams and the Grenvilles will again acknowledge their great patron. A neceffary war fhall not be wanting. Alter "Alter erit et Typhis, et altera quæ vehat Argo The helm fhall again be placed in the hands of the deliverer of Europe. Already we fee the Gallic chief yielding to the predominant genius of Pitt. Already he co-operates with him in reftoring the civilization of Europe, in exalting the Crofs and the Crefcent, the Pope and the Mufti. ages as But there were some reasons against erecting the ftatue at prefent, which feemed to have more weight: for example; it was confidered that while a man is alive his fhape is fubject to change; " and what could be more abfurd," as Timothy Curtis very properly obferved," than to exhibit a man to future lean as a whipping-poft, when perhaps he may yet fatten, and quit the ftage at laft in a dropfy?" With regard to the nofe alfo (which has already been fo much handled), it was argued, that it would be impioufly fetting bounds to the power of Nature to fuppofe that it could not alter. It was poffible, they faid, to imagine a nofe ftill fmaller than Lord Alvanley's, and, though not a redder, yet a longer one, than Sir John Anderfon's. In like manner Mr. Pitt's might, in courfe of time, acquire more dreadful whelks than it now exhibits, or (to ftate an extreme cafe) fall off altogether. The ufual claufe in life infurances, that if the party dies by his own hands, or the hands of justice, the contract is at an end, has in this cafe been generously difpenfed with. It was calumniously reported, that most of the fubfcribers wished to have their money back. A few, undoubtedly, thought it would be as well in their own pockets as in the three per cents; but they had not confidered, that if it was once returned, all fecurity for the future would be completely at an end. The only plausible objection to the stocks was the probability that |