glorious trial by jury: according to it a man is to be tried by his peers, that is, his equals. As fuch they enter the box, and as fuch they fhall give their verdict; the officer of the Court who has them in charge is fworn that he will not fuffer them to receive meat, drink, or candle-light, or indeed any thing that might give an undue weight, until after the verdict.. It requires no argument to prove that a fimilar practice in St. Stephen's chapel would render it as pure as the King's Bench or the Common Pleas. In this event, party also would have a more correct ftandard of right and wrong than the authority of a leader. With the aid of the fcales the moft illiterate and ftupid would be able to ascertain to a drachm the real weight and tendency of every measure. They would be able to know to a fingle barrack, a fingle place or penfion, whether there was too much in the fcale of the Executive and too little in that of the Legiflative. In fhort, the members would always be able to compare and adjuft with the utmost precifion the prerogative of the Crown and the privileges of the people, and fo take care that the one did not preponderate against the other. JUSTICE. CONVERSATION OF THE NEW SECT OF J'IGNORES, AT AN OPPOSITION SHOP IN PICCADILLY, THE [From the Times.] new humour which has broken out among the oppofition bloods is called the "J'ignore ;" and at the favourite Library in Piccadilly, about half a dozen of these Dilettanti were not knowing and doubting every thing, at the moment the Gazette Extraordinary arrived, and announced the fignature of the Preliminaries. The converfation is fo curious, that we fhall give it word for word. A very clever gentleman read the Gazette, confiftin of five lines minus two words, for the benefit of the audience; after which a yawn-general enfued, till it was interrupted by Lord W. R.-M. OTTO! Oh, true; that's the Neapolitan minifter. But who's Lord HAWKESBURY? Have you got the red book? Mr. C. S.-Portdonne-don't you know he is Secretary to the Treafury? Lord W.-Ah, true; these men are fo unknown to the country! But it has turned up peace then? I never thought it. Mr. Jon-What, have we been at war then lately? Col. M.-By G-d it's a great while ago, then, for I never heard of it; perhaps before Mr. Pitt refigned. If it had been any thing new, I must have known of it. -- Mr. Robf. By the way, who's Chancellor of the Exchequer now? Col. M.-Lord NELSON. Did he make the peace? Where's the Gazette Extraordinary ? Oh no, it's one Addifon, or Addington, that's Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord NELSON must be Chancellor, you mean. Mr. R. do not mean any thing, for I proteft I don't know their names. It's a fhame to know fuch names; all I know is, the country don't know one of them. This Mr. Addifon was a captain in the Berkfhire militia. Col. M.-They fay the Lord Chancellor is a very gallant fellow, but a great deal too dathing in his perfon, Was Mr. ADDINGTON ever in Parliament? Don't you remember him Chairman of the Ways and Means? Mich. Ang.-Upon my word, gentlemen, you furprife me; but it would be very important to recollect that that these men, whofe names you fo properly never heard of, have had the audacity to conclude a peace.. Do you know they have given up more than I can tell you? Yes. What is it? Mich. Ang.-Sir, they have given up the Neutral Code, the Law of Nations! Col. M.-Where's that? Mich. Ang. They have given up Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope, Egypt, and the island of Malta. Lord John.-The Ifle of Man ? Mr. C. S.-No fpeeches. We all know it is a ruinous peace if they concluded it. Now do inform us who they are. Can any body tell us the names of the delinquents who have made this abominable peace, that we may get them by heart, and hold them up to the execration of their country? Col. M.-Did you mean that M. OTTO who dined with us in Portland Place? Lord W.-It's he to a dead certainty. Let's go and call upon him. [Here four of the miraculous fet off for information, and the others harangued against Mr. Addison's abilities to make a peace, and abufed his colleagues, as will be tranfcribed into the oppofition papers.] THE MEN UNKNOWN TO THE COUNTRY. [From the fame.] IN the courfe of fix months the men unknown to the country, the government of which they dared to accept at a moment of domeftic calamity and defpondency of which there is fcarcely a parallel in history, and which at the fame time was engaged fingle-handed in a war with France, Spain, Holland, Ruffia, Denmark, and Sweden, have obtained a glorious victory in the roads of Copenhagen, of which they profited to con clude clude a definitive peace with all the fovereigns of the Baltic. The next thing the unknown men did, was to gain three glorious battles on the plains of Egypt, and to fecure two great fortreffes at the angles of the Delta. They foon after made a convention with the defeated enemy, by which the capital was furrendered, and twelve thoufand of the invaders evacuated the country. Not contented with this, they befieged the only fortrefs that remained to the enemy, until the laft Frenchman capitulated. The provinces of the Turkish Emperor our ally, were delivered, and our Indian empire once again intrenched and manned upon every frontier and extremity. During all this time, these unknown fellows, after pacifying the Baltic, had kept fo ftrict- a blockade upon every port of Spain, Holland, and France, that they could but obtain one important victory at fea, becaufe they would fuffer only one hoftile ficet to get out! It is true, that they blew up the two three-deckers which carried the Spanith Admirals, but they covered the French Commander with glory, as he only loft three shipsof the line in the battle. But what is ftill more audacious is, that while these tranfactions were publicly carried on, and duly announced, the unknown men were labouring at a negotiation for peace, of which the most known and the most knowing were equally confident that there did not exist the fmalleft probability of fuccefs. But as nobody knew them, it was impoffible to know with how much addrefs, zeal, temper, and ability they were wickedly working at it, until they finally fucceeded, and had the effrontery only 'other day, to declare fuddenly they had done the bufinefs !!! It cannot be denied, that these unknown men have justly incurred the contempt and hatred of all whom they have thus confounded by their unprecedented impudence impudence and unmerited fuccefs.-That their crimes are unpardonable, we do not deny, and we hope they will be conftantly pilloried in the Morning Poft.-Fiat juftitia! We have no plea to offer in bar; but the cuftoms of nations are as various as their languages. In Athens they erected altars to the unknown Gods! PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION. [From the fame.] A SUBSCRIPTION has been propofed and begun at a bookfeller's in Piccadilly, in favour of the induftrious and diftreffed dealers in abufe, falfehood, and perfonality, who have been fuddenly reduced to poverty by mifcarriages in trade, and the artifices of perfons un known. It is fet forth upon oath-"That the unfortunate fufferers aforefaid, did, at a prodigious expenfe, and at the risk of their capital, employ a great number of labourers in the moft dirty, dangerous, and disgusting work, at the rate of from eighteen pence to four and fixpence a day; and in the fpeculation and contemplation of the great and public difficulty of the negotiations, they omitted, upon the recommendation of the emiffaries of these perfons unknown, to manufacture any peace-goods; but fabricated, on the contrary, nothing but bales, or volumes of war-ftuff, which now lie unfaleable in their warehouses and preffes; whereby the petitioners are in great peril of starving, there being no demand for thefe wares. "And whereas they have been forced, at a great and heavy lofs, to fel great part of their commodities to grocers, paftry-cooks, and others, who have taken advantage of this their calamity, to new-clothe their fugarloaves and fpices with the best printed, callendered, and hot-preffed productions of the celebrated manufactures of Billingfgate and Grub-ftreet:--and whereas the |